@bimbyabim information is very powerful... i was refused a UK visit visa in may, i acquire the service of an immigration lawyer who wrote the embassy on my behalf to review my application...
it took 15 working days before the embassy responded to my application but it wasn't successful again..
the post decision team urge me to work on the ECO decision of my first refusal and implore me to outline the concern of the ECO on my previous refusal.

in a nutshell, i will advise you to follow ekpotek advice and submit a fresh application and outlined the ECO concern on the refusal letter..

bimbyabim:
Good Evening house,this is my first time on Uk thread. I have gone thru several pages to see if any one has a refusal case similar to mine but didn’t see. I applied for Uk visa for my family sometime in Feb and my hubby being the sponsor. That wasn’t our first visa- we’ve had several Uk visas issued to us but we had a break (abt 8yrs)from visiting uk. Lo and behold for the flimsiest reason we were denied and slammed with No appeal and no administrative review.
We however heard That we can ask for a review becos it was too obvious eco probably got things mixed up. Now my request: @ justwise @frontpagelawyer and all the gurus in house, what email ad can I sent my plea for review to. Thanks for your response.

What was the reason for the refusal?

Please I need some info about the supporting documents to present for UK visit Visa. I got an invitation letter from my cousin and she’s sponsoring the whole expenses but I have close to 1.5M in my treasury bill, close to 100k in my savings account and I earn 69k monthly as a corps member. Please I need a guidance on the supporting documents to present and also ask whether I can add treasury bill amount as part of my savings when filling the form online because it will mature in November and am to travel in December. Please I need your responses ASAP. Thanks

Hello my good people. Please I need your help in preparing for a UK visit visa. My dream is to go to the UK to watch a football match and stay for about a week. The issue is that, even though I currently have up 4 million naira in my account, I don't have an official job. I invest in used cars and and sell for profit. I don't mind if I have to prepare my account for 2-3 months before applying. I just need your help and advise. Also I don't feel like I have a strong tie in Nigeria. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you, God bless.

okemoney14:
Please I need some info about the supporting documents to present for UK visit Visa. I got an invitation letter from my cousin and she’s sponsoring the whole expenses but I have close to 1.5M in my treasury bill, close to 100k in my savings account and I earn 69k monthly as a corps member. Please I need a guidance on the supporting documents to present and also ask whether I can add treasury bill amount as part of my savings when filling the form online because it will mature in November and am to travel in December. Please I need your responses ASAP. Thanks

If you care to read backward, many have listed the documents they submitted with or without sponsorship. Sure you can add the TB, provided you can explain, as a corp member, with a salary of 69K, how you saved to buy TB of 1.5M.

Jaakeford:
Hello my good people. Please I need your help in preparing for a UK visit visa. My dream is to go to the UK to watch a football match and stay for about a week. The issue is that, even though I currently have up 4 million naira in my account, I don't have an official job. I invest in used cars and and sell for profit. I don't mind if I have to prepare my account for 2-3 months before applying. I just need your help and advise. Also I don't feel like I have a strong tie in Nigeria. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you, God bless.

You will need to tidy up your used car business. Register it and operate it for the next one year. Then your reason for travelling will not fly as you can watch the match on TV. Many sport fans how get UK visa to just go and watch premiership have solid financial and home ties with good travel history.

If you’re sure that your refusal was unwarranted e.g the reasons they gave for refusing you were unfounded then you can appeal for administrative review. Despite saying visitor visa refusals can’t be appealed if you have strong grounds and lay a complain (go through their complain page), you can be successful. My best friend got her refusal overturned after filling a complain. Took about a month but they overturned it.

bimbyabim:
Good Evening house,this is my first time on Uk thread. I have gone thru several pages to see if any one has a refusal case similar to mine but didn’t see. I applied for Uk visa for my family sometime in Feb and my hubby being the sponsor. That wasn’t our first visa- we’ve had several Uk visas issued to us but we had a break (abt 8yrs)from visiting uk. Lo and behold for the flimsiest reason we were denied and slammed with No appeal and no administrative review.
We however heard That we can ask for a review becos it was too obvious eco probably got things mixed up. Now my request: @ justwise @frontpagelawyer and all the gurus in house, what email ad can I sent my plea for review to. Thanks for your response.

Good afternoon @Justwise

I applied for a visiting visa and I did my biometrics on 5th July. Till now I am yet to get a response concerning my application.

My question is that:

Is it necessary or overdue that I should contact them due to the late turnaround time.

If yes, how do I go about it? I meant is it by mail or a visit to the Lagos centre or i may have to ring them. Thank you.

Grateful assist

ekpotek:


No. The tracking you displayed shows that your application has been received by UKVI. You need to exercise patience until a decision is made, typically within 15 days.

My processing started on 5th July. We are in August, kind sir. Is this normal?

blueheart:
Good afternoon @Justwise

I applied for a visiting visa and I did my biometrics on 5th July. Till now I am yet to get a response concerning my application.

My question is that:

Is it necessary or overdue that I should contact them due to the late turnaround time.

If yes, how do I go about it? I meant is it by mail or a visit to the Lagos centre or i may have to ring them. Thank you.

Grateful assist

If you don't hear from them by this coming Friday then you can email them.

Aug8:
If you’re sure that your refusal was unwarranted e.g the reasons they gave for refusing you were unfounded then you can appeal for administrative review. Despite saying visitor visa refusals can’t be appealed if you have strong grounds and lay a complain (go through their complain page), you can be successful. My best friend got her refusal overturned after filling a complain. Took about a month but they overturned it.

Thanks for your response.
Yes am sure the reason for the refusal was unfounded cos the eco says Hubby under declared his earnings.
Pls kindly help with the site / complaint page so I can file a complaint? Thank you very much.

justwise:


If you don't hear from them by this coming Friday then you can email them.

Thank you for your timely response kind sir.

What is their email address, sir? Thank you

blueheart:


Thank you for your timely response kind sir.

What is their email address, sir? Thank you

Check the embassy website

ekpotek:


There is no option of administrative review for visitor visas. You are entitled to complain if you are disatified with the service, however, this will not change the decision. You will need to re apply and point out the mix up. Perhaps if you post the refusal, gurus here can help out.

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ekpotek:



What was the reason for the refusal?

Thanks @ekpotek and @justwise.
The reason: am not satisfied these docs( ref to hubby’s bank statement) evidence ur income. Though ur business exists but they do not verify ur personal income/ the funds in d account are generated from this employment. Incoming transaction is more than declared income. As such not satisfied he intends to leave Uk after d visit.

By extension me and my kids got refused.

If a business man has 1m incoming into his Acct does that mean d 1m is his income? No. That’s why I think the eco’s reason for refusal is flimsy.

bimbyabim:
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Thanks @ekpotek and @justwise.
The reason: am not satisfied these docs( ref to hubby’s bank statement) evidence ur income. Though ur business exists but they do not verify ur personal income/ the funds in d account are generated from this employment. Incoming transaction is more than declared income. As such not satisfied he intends to leave Uk after d visit.

By extension me and my kids got refused.

If a business man has 1m incoming into his Acct does that mean d 1m is his income? No. That’s why I think the eco’s reason for refusal is flimsy.

.Is your husband a business man and present his business account for you and your kids visa application?

justwise:


Check the embassy website

@justwise @ekpotex
Please what are the criteria and price for a fiancé visa UK, I've checked all these sights but they seem to avoid giving a straight answer. Please your assistance is appreciated as always

Aquaman84:


@justwise @ekpotex
Please what are the criteria and price for a fiancé visa UK, I've checked all these sights but they seem to avoid giving a straight answer. Please your assistance is appreciated as always

This is the link https://www.gov.uk/uk-family-visa

Good evening everyone. This is my first time of posting here. I have a partner who is British but quite older than I (not married yet), she had visited me twice in Nigeria and planned to bring me over to UK to live with her. She will be the main sponsorer. My questions are -
What kind of visa should I apply for?
What are my odd of getting the visa?

justwise:


.Is your husband a business man and present his business account for you and your kids visa application?

Yes. He presented buz account and his personal account.

please i need advise , i know sometimes they dont check account statements .I have company under name registered with CAC and i have 30million naira inside the company account and i am the only signatory BUT do not have more than 50 thausands naira in my personal saving account

can i apply using company account without my saving account .

blueheart:


My processing started on 5th July. We are in August, kind sir. Is this normal?

Unusual, but not unexpected given the summer rush and other factors.

frisky008:
Good evening everyone. This is my first time of posting here. I have a partner who is British but quite older than I (not married yet), she had visited me twice in Nigeria and planned to bring me over to UK to live with her. She will be the main sponsorer. My questions are -
What kind of visa should I apply for?
What are my odd of getting the visa?

Are you going there to marry her or just visit?

Johnokafor10001:
please i need advise , i know sometimes they dont check account statements .I have company under name registered with CAC and i have 30million naira inside the company account and i am the only signatory BUT do not have more than 50 thausands naira in my personal saving account

can i apply using company account without my saving account .

It depends on the purpose of your trip. Business or pleasure?

BlessPJ:
Good people in the house please I need your kind assistance. Am a federal government worker with a salary of 138,000, and run some other personal business not with a registered company name I want to know the documents required for UK Visitor visa or Tourist. Am 8 years in the job, am married with a kid, I have the following documents:-
Appointment Letter
Letter of introduction from my office
Closing balance of 1.7m
Letters of promotion
Landed properties documents
My building plan
Annual Leave letter from my office
Health insurance
Payslips for six months
Invitation letter ( not certain)
Hotel Booking reservation
Flight booking reservation
Marriage Certificate.
Please kindly educate me if there is any other document needed to add up for the application and if not with all this document what is the percentage that my application will be granted please.
I need your kind response.
Best regards.

Please your counsel is needed here

ekpotek:


It depends on the purpose of your trip. Business or pleasure?

anyone but i havent travelled out of the country before . i dont know if i should apply for business of pleasure.

Hello house...i applied for uk visit visa on 16th of july using priority service...till date, decision is yet to be made on my application and no email from UKVI or TLS yet...should i give them some more time or email them?...

Johnokafor10001:
anyone but i havent travelled out of the country before . i dont know if i should apply for business of pleasure.

It is difficult for me to help if you do not have a purpose for travelling. Because the document you will require for the visa application will depend on the purpose of the trip.

Hello guys,

UODATE:

-Wifey and son Applied: July 10tth
-Got notification for pick-up: July 30th
-6months visa for wifey issued: 27th July
-Son's visa application Decisiin notice: Not yet available (marked) on TLS

Please any experience or what you think may be happening? Thanks to all and gurus

ekpotek:


It is difficult for me to help if you do not have a purpose for travelling. Because the document you will require for the visa application will depend on the purpose of the trip.

im into transportation and motor parts , i want to go to there for that purpose i would love you to help me .

Johnokafor10001:
im into transportation and motor parts , i want to go to there for that purpose i would love you to help me .

If you have been in this business for some time and you have records of your previous transactions, put them all together and show cause in your application covering letter why you need to undertake the trip you propose.

Address specifically how this trip will be of help to you in your business and why you feel the expenditure of funds on this trip is necessary.

You need to give reasons for your departure from your previous way of doing business which apparently did not require travel as you have obviously managed well so far as witnessed by your accumulation of some thirty millions of naira.

Naturally you also need to pay heed to the other elements of successful applications which you can glean from a reading of this thread.

It goes without saying that in this current atmosphere only the most solid of reasons will get you a visa to undertake a business trip which you've never made previously for your business purposes, so ensure you put forward the most cogent you have.

Cyberknight:


If you have been in this business for some time and you have records of your previous transactions, put them altogether and show cause in your application covering letter why you need to undertake the trip you propose. Address specifically how this trip will be of help to you in your business and why you feel the expenditure of funds on this trip is necessary. You need to give reasons for your departure from your previous way of doing business which apparently did not require travel as you have obviously managed well so far as witnessed by your accumulation of some thirty millions of naira.

Naturally you also need to pay heed to the other elements of successful applications which you can glean from a reading of this thread.

It goes without saying that in this current atmosphere only the most solid of reasons will get you a visa to undertake a business trip which you've never made previously for your business purposes, so ensure you put forward the most cogent you have.

Na WA oo

How the man go decode this one now. Some people are wicked sha Hahaha.. Your explanation is at the Proficiency level