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Re: Why Many Nigerians Still Face Visa Rejections Despite Meeting All Requirements by luminouz(m): 9:08am On Jun 05, 2025
able20:
Mr. Don't forget that the Foreign Embassies are monitoring events in Nigeria
The president of a country determines the approval rating, not the governors

In the USA, Russia, China and Europe, they don't talk about the governors.
Nigeria has a weak, Clueless and corrupt President
They know that Nigerians are running away
Nonsense
Re: Why Many Nigerians Still Face Visa Rejections Despite Meeting All Requirements by Image123(m): 9:14am On Jun 05, 2025
Bad reputation like cultism and scam, and a notoriety for overstay.
Re: Why Many Nigerians Still Face Visa Rejections Despite Meeting All Requirements by daveP(m): 9:21am On Jun 05, 2025
Rubbish reasons given here.

Its is all at the jangilova of these guys. They wield such power. That's why many go spiritual too. They just see that intuition as a means of control. If you travel well in the last 3decades you'll know this.
Re: Why Many Nigerians Still Face Visa Rejections Despite Meeting All Requirements by Wealthoptulent(m): 9:22am On Jun 05, 2025
all western COUNTRIES are battling overwhelmed Immigration status, the MITIGATION for the CONTROL atm is REJECTION and DENIAL if u don have 80% LEGIT VALUE REASON to be granted

Re: Why Many Nigerians Still Face Visa Rejections Despite Meeting All Requirements by able20(m): 9:27am On Jun 05, 2025
luminouz:
Nonsense
. You people call it nonsense abi?
You voted for a Clueless president and you want to runaway to another country, haba! Tinubu commissioned a non existenting 30km Coastal highway and Scammed the people he supposed to serve
Re: Why Many Nigerians Still Face Visa Rejections Despite Meeting All Requirements by UncleBabafemi: 9:28am On Jun 05, 2025
helinues:
Here we go. Reasonable number of the bank statements being used by the travellers or travelling agents are edited one. I know about this
I promised you a job right?
Re: Why Many Nigerians Still Face Visa Rejections Despite Meeting All Requirements by helinues: 9:29am On Jun 05, 2025
Kaycee9242:
Where did you get this your data from? Lagos to Abuja is not less than 40 minutes no matter the circumstance
grin wink

Are you talking from experience or just your thoughts?
Re: Why Many Nigerians Still Face Visa Rejections Despite Meeting All Requirements by Niok: 9:31am On Jun 05, 2025
helinues:
Account statement is mostly the major cause for visa denying. People think they can present edited bank statement when the embassy can confirm from your bank
that’s not true
Stop saying rubbish
Re: Why Many Nigerians Still Face Visa Rejections Despite Meeting All Requirements by nwirinedu(m): 9:32am On Jun 05, 2025
With respect to your laid down reasons, the primary reason is because VISA application is a racket operated by the foreign countries. Slots are very limited, remember we are competing with other countries in the world.

Countries with no refund policy are the greatest beneficiaries as it improves their GDP and cashflow , as long as we have desperate applicants these countries will continue smiling to the bank.

We have a choice to stay and fix our countries so that we wont need to go to other countries that paid the ultimate price to fix theirs or keep dashing them our hard earned money.

It pains me when I read stories of Nigerians who sold houses and businesses worth billions to go abroad to pick apples on a farm. The VISA racket is the new form of transatlantic slave trade only this time the slaves ship themselves and pay their transport fare.
Re: Why Many Nigerians Still Face Visa Rejections Despite Meeting All Requirements by 004gist: 9:34am On Jun 05, 2025
helinues:
Here we go. Reasonable number of the bank statements being used by the travellers or travelling agents are edited one. I know about this
Ok.

But why do u love supporting APC.
See how our people are suffering
Re: Why Many Nigerians Still Face Visa Rejections Despite Meeting All Requirements by helinues: 9:37am On Jun 05, 2025
004gist:
Ok.

But why do u love supporting APC.
See how our people are suffering
What's the correlation of your question with this thread about travelling?
Re: Why Many Nigerians Still Face Visa Rejections Despite Meeting All Requirements by Kaycee9242(m): 9:43am On Jun 05, 2025
helinues:
grin wink

Are you talking from experience or just your thoughts?
I started traveling from Lagos to Abuja by air since 2014 and we mostly spend up to 55 minutes on air, I just intentionally put it at 40 minutes for you. Now tell me the source of your information or else I will start doubting the things you say on this forum. Even Lagos to Owerri that is closer is not less than 45 minutes
Re: Why Many Nigerians Still Face Visa Rejections Despite Meeting All Requirements by HenryWilliams(m): 9:44am On Jun 05, 2025
helinues:
Blame the travelling agents too. Sometimes the documents they present for their clients are just pure rubbish.

Imagine being in a full plane travelling to another country and like 20+ Nigerians was deported from the same flight for using either fake visa or fake documents
Yes. Fake documents also play a role .
However quota is what they use for less desirable countries
India and China use more fake documents than we do..yet their rejection rates are lower than ours generally.
Re: Why Many Nigerians Still Face Visa Rejections Despite Meeting All Requirements by Kaycee9242(m): 9:46am On Jun 05, 2025
helinues:
grin wink

Are you talking from experience or just your thoughts?
Re: Why Many Nigerians Still Face Visa Rejections Despite Meeting All Requirements by Kaycee9242(m): 9:48am On Jun 05, 2025
helinues:
grin wink

Are you talking from experience or just your thoughts?
For you to even mention 30 minutes shows you have not traveled by air before
Re: Why Many Nigerians Still Face Visa Rejections Despite Meeting All Requirements by 79733139(m): 9:53am On Jun 05, 2025
Mr Man, you have not entered plane from Lagos to Abuja, so stop saying what you don't know. Lagos to Abuja is officially 55 minutes (sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less), I took Ibom Air from Lagos to Abuja 15th May (last month).


helinues:
grin wink

Are you talking from experience or just your thoughts?
Re: Why Many Nigerians Still Face Visa Rejections Despite Meeting All Requirements by Originalsly: 9:56am On Jun 05, 2025
Hmmm ... unlicensed travel agents .... are there agents licensed to fill out visa application forms? ...or this is done by lawyers? Almost all th points raised do not apply to Nigerians only but by other nationalities as well. From programmes I've watched on the topic one can meet all the requirements... but the decision depends on the interview ... if the visa officer is convinced the applicant will not stay in the US. Visa officers are well trained to look for a number of pointers that can indicate the applicant is not truthful but also the applicant may be saying one thing but it doesn't match what the visa agent has written on the application. We will always be heavily scrutinized .... and even more with the present US administration that has blocked or severely restricted issuing visas to certain countries. One of the reasons for the ban or restriction is when more than 15% of those granted visas overstay. Are we in that group? ... we all can figure it out. Why are we not blocked? ... because the US makes a ton of money from application fees ... it makes economic sense to have us keep applying.... why they will now increase the denying.
My thing .... if you have a sound secondary school education you should fill out the visa application on your own. Everything is spelled out in detail. The visa agent you go to may very well be a primary school drop out and I'm sure have caused many visas to be denied. Las Las .... if you're not White ... if it's not an emergency... this is not a good time to be applying for a US visa .
Re: Why Many Nigerians Still Face Visa Rejections Despite Meeting All Requirements by Originalsly: 9:58am On Jun 05, 2025
.a.
Re: Why Many Nigerians Still Face Visa Rejections Despite Meeting All Requirements by helinues: 10:18am On Jun 05, 2025
79733139:
Mr Man, you have not entered plane from Lagos to Abuja, so stop saying what you don't know. Lagos to Abuja is officially 55 minutes (sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less), I took Ibom Air from Lagos to Abuja 15th May (last month).
Duration was adjusted after the major airline disaster involving Boeing. It was initially 25-30 mins or so.

Even at that, you are not disputing the duration with Ghana even with the adjusted duration.

How long is the flight duration from Lagos to Abuja and Lagos to Accra?
Re: Why Many Nigerians Still Face Visa Rejections Despite Meeting All Requirements by Naijaprosper: 10:32am On Jun 05, 2025
Eriokanmi:
Leadership plays a good role. Take it or you leave it. People got approved much more during buhari-led administration than now. Ask those who travelled to usa, UK and Canada during that period. Some mistakes were even overlooked. From.may 2023 onwards, applicants who had more than enough documents got rejected, including some of those who had been traveling before.

In some circumstances, they gave Nigerian applicants some considerations and fair-hearing during Buhari's administration than now. People got call from the embassy to send more documents, etc.

I stood as a guarantor for a married lady who was going to meet her husband in the USA. She applied as a student. I gave her a statement of 5m naira and the VO told her the amount was too low, compared to the embassy's requirements, asking her if she could get another sponsor that had enough funds. We thought they won't look at the statement. My story always sounds fake to many nay-sayers but let God judge me on this if it's a lie. She said yes and the VO said she should take back her documents, now gave her a 221g form and asked her to respond in a matter of days. We gathered up the money and built up the same account to 15m naira, this was in 2019. I was the one that took her documents to the DHL office in isolo for submission as instructed by the VO cos her job dodnt allow her. Her visa was approved.

When you have a decent leader in place, you get some considerations and reconsiderations as citizens, booth home and abroad. These people know us more than we think we know ourselves.
This could also be because Trump is now in power in the US. Not just because of who is in power in Nigeria: I read today on nairaland how foreign investors are coming into our manufacturing space.

I would be very surprised if this government doesn't do well.
Re: Why Many Nigerians Still Face Visa Rejections Despite Meeting All Requirements by Penboy: 10:35am On Jun 05, 2025
Does dependent visa still get rejected biko?
Re: Why Many Nigerians Still Face Visa Rejections Despite Meeting All Requirements by CyracksMrBlogger(m): 10:49am On Jun 05, 2025
MT:
You guys fixation on the Presidency is insane.

What about your Governors who collect monthly allocations on behalf on the State?

Or the State assemblies who walk in lockstep with the Governors to siphon and share state funds?


It’s only the President that is your headache when you have bigger monsters destroying your country.
it's because the president is not from their tribe
Re: Why Many Nigerians Still Face Visa Rejections Despite Meeting All Requirements by Thunderfayamods: 10:54am On Jun 05, 2025
Must we travel?
Re: Why Many Nigerians Still Face Visa Rejections Despite Meeting All Requirements by Eriokanmi: 11:00am On Jun 05, 2025
Naijaprosper:
This could also be because Trump is now in power in the US. Not just because of who is in power in Nigeria: I read today on nairaland how foreign investors are coming into our manufacturing space.

I would be very surprised if this government doesn't do well.
It's not about trump. Trump took office only late last year. The poor trend started in the last quarter of 2023, from US, to Canada, to the UK and Kemi Badenoch's vow to cut it down(don't forget she's not speaking alone). I was just laughing when reading the Nigerians reactions about Kemi's message. They're writing the scripts for her to read out. It's not her making. Visa refusal is not same experience with other nations though some were partially affected due to destination countries' internal immigration policies. Germany refused a lot of Nigerian applicants last year alone.

I'm a realist and a lover of Nigeria. That's why some of us came back and never regretted the decision we took. But the news of investors coming isn't true as portrayed. I wish it was true. None of his overseas business meetings had yielded any singke fruit so far. He wanted to visit Qatar and they said he's not welcome . After some diplomatic chit-chat and rows, they now said he should come. Is it those ones that are ready to come in? They claimed they promised to, let's hope they truly will.

With the spate of the unabated insecurity in the land, where the entire family of 11 citizens are being massacred and perpetrators are still at large, my brother, if you were a foreign investor, would you come to our country? I first saw the news on BBC and quickly came on nairaland to read more about the benue massacre. You see! They see us before or more than we see ourselves.

Foreigners know about Nigeria than we think. If everything was OK, you don't need to advertise, they'd be the ones applying for our visa in droves, same way we want to visit best and safe countries for whatever legit reasons. Did America or south africa market their countries to us before applying for their visa? No! It's because we, the foreigners have researched about them. Can you go to Yemen or Afghanistan to invest? Its because you've researched about them and you see news coming from their nations.

Nigerians now move to Benin republic to establish and live. I know 2 who recently set up tourism outeifts there. They'll book air ticket and summer packages for Nigerians. Naija will go there to board flights at good rates and amazing summar fares, compared to what Nigerian companies do. Flight here is more expensive than that of benin. All you need is stamp your passport at the border and enter cotonou, then fly. Cfa has left naira far behind, hope you know. It used to be a useless currency in africa.
Tinubu is only known for spreading propaganda.
Re: Why Many Nigerians Still Face Visa Rejections Despite Meeting All Requirements by VanuatuWycombe:
Kaycee9242:
Where did you get this your data from? Lagos to Abuja is not less than 40 minutes no matter the circumstance
May be when the plane no load from garage. The plane ✈️ fit dey so’le dey go. 😜😜.

Jokes apart, Abuja to Lagos is between 30-35 minutes.

Those pilots only don’t want us to know. More so, the time it takes to follow their protocols of taking off, climbing, approaching and commencing descend and landing, they tend to take it slowly.

If you are flying on a plane that’s leaving at 7pm, local time, and the airline has a policy of not wanting to stay longer in the air because of high night (from 7pm to 6am) charges, such pilot can cover Abuja to Lagos in 20 minutes, in a better weather and use the remaining 10 minutes for takeoff 🛫 and landing protocols.
This had happened to me, once, on a Dana Air from Abuja to Lagos.
Re: Why Many Nigerians Still Face Visa Rejections Despite Meeting All Requirements by peterboro: 11:45am On Jun 05, 2025
MT:
You guys fixation on the Presidency is insane.

What about your Governors who collect monthly allocations on behalf on the State?

Or the State assemblies who walk in lockstep with the Governors to siphon and share state funds?


It’s only the President that is your headache when you have bigger monsters destroying your country.
BUT YOUR PRESIDENT CAN SUSPEND or SACK THE GOVERNOR AS HE DID IN RIVERS STATE. That means the president should be held responsible for everything going wrong.
Re: Why Many Nigerians Still Face Visa Rejections Despite Meeting All Requirements by Davidlaw419: 11:45am On Jun 05, 2025
Citizens of other countries (whites) will have less than $200 in dia account but still be able to travel out .

But you have to have 70 million naira as a Nigerian (black man) to travel out.

Visa fees should be refunded if denied.
Re: Why Many Nigerians Still Face Visa Rejections Despite Meeting All Requirements by Eniolohunda: 12:18pm On Jun 05, 2025
False documents mostly. Often times Nigeria applicants depend on the agent that will give documents that they cannot even defend. The best for applicants is to study the requirements for the visa you need based on the reason you are traveling. The first time I was jetting out of Nigeria I didn't even have up to 50k in my account, and of course, the statement of my account revealed that I'm earning money from work steadily even though I'm spending, it was after visa issuance that work paid salary. And the second time for immigrant visa, money no kukuma dey my account and that was not in the requirements of the type of my visa, they could see I had an employer where I'm going. So not all visa requires you have millions in your account. But for student that claim to self sponsor must have enough money.
Re: Why Many Nigerians Still Face Visa Rejections Despite Meeting All Requirements by stacyadams: 1:16pm On Jun 05, 2025
REALretep:
[color=indigo] Until we fix this country, we will keep being a joke to the rest of the world
[/color]
How can we fix the country when we have the likes of hellanus who defends failures and continue to adore failures grin
Re: Why Many Nigerians Still Face Visa Rejections Despite Meeting All Requirements by Kaycee9242(m): 1:28pm On Jun 05, 2025
VanuatuWycombe:
May be when the plane no load from garage. The plane ✈️ fit dey so’le dey go. 😜😜.

Jokes apart, Abuja to Lagos is between 30-35 minutes.

Those pilots only don’t want us to know. More so, the time it takes to follow their protocols of taking off, climbing, approaching and commencing descend and landing, they tend to take it slowly.

If you are flying on a plane that’s leaving at 7pm, local time, and the airline has a policy of not wanting to stay longer in the air because of high night (from 7pm to 6am) charges, such pilot can cover Abuja to Lagos in 20 minutes, in a better weather and use the remaining 10 minutes for takeoff 🛫 and landing protocols.
This had happened to me, once, on a Dana Airline from Abuja to Lagos.
I think this is a rare case, I have never traveled from Lagos to Abuja in less than 50 minutes before, it's always 53 to 55 minutes. Even from Lagos to owerri which is closer is not less than 45 minutes in all my travels
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