₦airaland Forum

Dirpetaner:
Sir, did you receive collection mail from VFS or you went directly without receiving collection mail?

Cashmadam:
Applicant did not prove how her alleged income is generated. What sort of business does she do? What is the annual turnover and profit?

The VO claimed the sponsor does not have enough money (which can be contested).

The main issue is the applicant's financial standing. If she is really not doing much to earn an income, then just say she is retired or unemployed rather than claiming she is self employed without any tangible income to show.

I hope this helps.

Kwati:
Hello, thanks for the congratulatory message.
My dad and FIL are both employed so I provided the following documents for each of them:
1. Letter from their employers affirming their employment, which stated date of employment, salary, and position
2. 1 month Payslip for my dad (no payslip for my FIL)
3. Visa letter from my UK bank (confirming I am a customer, my address, date I opened the account, current balance, and minimum balance in the last 28 days)
4. My last 3 month employment payslips
5. Passports
6. UK Council tax and utility bills
7. Photograph of me and my dad
8. My wedding certificate and wedding picture of my with my FIL & MIL
9. Invitation letter
10. Sponsor cover letter, explaining the reason for the trip, with a breakdown of 2M Naira budget for each person that will cover return flight, maintenance, local inter-city travel, and miscellaneous; without accommodation cause I will accommodate them.
11. Immigration share code

As for my MIL, she is unemployed and does not own any business. Her only source of income is funds from family and friends, so for her application I included all the documents above without an employment letter and payslip.

Note: No bank statement was submitted by me or any of them (only submitted my visa bank letter and my evidence of employment income).

Thanks.

Cashmadam:
Applicant did not prove how her alleged income is generated. What sort of business does she do? What is the annual turnover and profit?

The VO claimed the sponsor does not have enough money (which can be contested).

The main issue is the applicant's financial standing. If she is really not doing much to earn an income, then just say she is retired or unemployed rather than claiming she is self employed without any tangible income to show.

I hope this helps.

Nchabuomo:
I would say roughly 4 days

abaskekere:
Hello everyone, please I have a worry.

Have completed biometrics and submitted passport to VFS, then later realised I did not add a scan of all the pages of my passport as it was a new one and all pages are blank, only added the data page to my self uploaded documents.

Please should I be worried about this? Any responses will help, thanks

Cashmadam:
Applicant did not prove how her alleged income is generated. What sort of business does she do? What is the annual turnover and profit?

The VO claimed the sponsor does not have enough money (which can be contested).

The main issue is the applicant's financial standing. If she is really not doing much to earn an income, then just say she is retired or unemployed rather than claiming she is self employed without any tangible income to show.

I hope this helps.

Cashmadam:
Applicant did not prove how her alleged income is generated. What sort of business does she do? What is the annual turnover and profit?

The VO claimed the sponsor does not have enough money (which can be contested).

The main issue is the applicant's financial standing. If she is really not doing much to earn an income, then just say she is retired or unemployed rather than claiming she is self employed without any tangible income to show.

I hope this helps.

Iamshy:
Hello Madam ,

Please I need your help as I am almost in the same situation now. My mum is devasted and I feel like I have failed having applied for her twice and she was rejected. Please I need help with this 3rd one. I would appreciate it if we could contact outside of here by dropping my email address meedah_malik@yahoo.com. She is a petty trader with non registered business so now , I feel it’s easier for her to apply as unemployed because the business is unverifiable through proper documentation. I am also thinking of applying with a new account while I deposit to her monthly allowances , my dad would also deposit there which will be declared in the cover letter . Me and my husband would be fully sponsoring . How much do you think is best for us have in our opening balance and subsequently shouldn’t go below that amount even after spendings on bills and the likes. All these are just my suggestions as to what might help as I don’t even know if I am right. Also if she is starting a fresh account with clean ups just including my monthly stipend , my dads allowance and her outflow of groceries , will she be asked where she kept the money in the previous application ( this is me just thinking out loud lol…May God not forsake us )
Please help me ma’am

Ejooooor 🙏

HaneefahRN:
What do one input please in a situation where there is little difference in salary paid every month like 3k difference, how does one know what to input where the visa form asks how much one earns after tax. For example if salary one month is 296,400 and another month 300,800, it fluctuates based on deductions. Also, does a sponsor need to provide payslips or bank statements is enough?
Thank you

Cashmadam:
To be safe, pick the lowest monthly salary reflecting on the payslips and statement you will provide. It is better to under estimate than over estimate. Your sponsor can provide payslips and bank statement. If payslips are not available for whatever reason, then bank statement should be okay.

Cashmadam:
So sorry about the previous refusals.

I suggest you wait at least another year before you reapply. While waiting, start building her account - just as you have planned.

Send her monthly allowance to the account. Same amount every month. Same day every month. Just like a salary.

It would be good if your own account as the sponsor is also build up during the same period. You have have enough left apart from the money you will pledge to sponsor her. For example, if you say you will sponsor your mum with 1,500, Then you savings should be from 3,000, Anything less might be a problem.

Apart from money, her home ties are extremely important. Your Dad can serve as home ties. What else do you think you can use to convinve the VO that she will return to Nigeria? Is she taking car of any parent or grandchild? Other siblings? Is she involved in any religious or charitable organizations? You need to think hard and put a well written cover letter together to support her application.

Let us know if you need more information or advise.

Good luck!

Iamshy:
Good day everyone ,

For unemployed mum who receives a regular stipend of 150k from me and 50k from my dad monthly. The part on the application form that says how much is your annual income ; should I state it as 200k times 12 months which is 2.4 million naira or should it be written as N0 since she’s not in any employment just receives monthly allowances from me and my dad which is regular.

PS: , these allowances would reflect on her statement of account.
Also how much should I state she is willing to spend towards her trip…..

For a two weeks trip I am the main sponsor sponsoring her with £2k- is this amount reasonable enough?

Thank you all.

Iamshy:
Good day everyone ,

For unemployed mum who receives a regular stipend of 150k from me and 50k from my dad monthly. The part on the application form that says how much is your annual income ; should I state it as 200k times 12 months which is 2.4 million naira or should it be written as N0 since she’s not in any employment just receives monthly allowances from me and my dad which is regular[b]. N2.4M is fine[/b]

PS: , these allowances would reflect on her statement of account.
Also how much should I state she is willing to spend towards her trip…..Zero

For a two weeks trip I am the main sponsor sponsoring her with £2k- is this amount reasonable enough? 1,500 is okay

Thank you all.

Iamshy:
Hello , Thanks so much for your response.
Her current situation is she won’t be continuing with her petty business due to health issues. So how do I explain this in her cover letter of reapplication smoothly ? Best to leave her health status out of the story...
She has a land , proof of occupancy of my dad’s property where she currently stays , also my sibling back in Nigeria who is in school, letter from our mosque, and also letter of recommendation from a previous supplier of hers. She’s able to provide all of these . Then also , do you advise she uses a new account or the one she’s been using before. Let’s say I plan to give her 200k monthly , how much do you think is ideal for her start up balance to be assuming I want to submit her statement of 3 months. I advise you to wait and build her account. Due to the previous refusals, 3 months statement is inadequate in my opinion.

Thank you in anticipation.

HaneefahRN:
Thank you so much cash madam. When looking at monthly expenditure part too, checking her 3 months statement she spends like 60k from the account but one month as low as 10k due to having money spent from other source apart from the salary, I wasn't sure if putting the average which will appear lower won't be an issue. - You can add up the expenses for the months and find the average
Also is it better to fully sponsor or say she will be contributing a percent too? - Either can work.
This is for a young person coming to write OSCE exams

HaneefahRN:
Anyone with experience of this new VFS appointment enrollment please? I am only seeing dates for free standard assisted, I am not sure if this option allows self upload as I can't see any appointment category for self upload like TLS had.

freechukwuemeka:
Pls any extra charges for using Enugu vsf

ShindaraOla:
Good morning everyone, please my mum's visa was denied and I want to reapply again.
*Note* an agent helped with the application.
Thank you.

ShindaraOla:
Good afternoon everyone, I reapplied for my mum and she did her biometrics last week Wednesday, I received a notification from VFS for passport collection few minutes ago.
Please am scared.
Note* I did priority visa for her.

Focusfulfocus:
What are you scared of