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VISA ALERT WITH TIMELINE

June 6, 2024
I submitted application for Visitors Visa together with my wife. I submitted it online on the IRCC Portal

June 7, 2024:
I received Biometric Submission Letter for both of us. Note that I used my account to apply for my wife and I.

10 June, 2024:
We submitted Our Biometrics ar the VFS office in Abuja

******VERY LONG PERIOD OF SILENCE******

25 November, 2024:
Visa approved on the portal and Passport Request Letter as early as 5:30am

25 November, 2024 by 11:30am:
My wife and I submitted our passport at the VFS office in Abuja

27 November, 2024 at 2:45pm: We received notification of passport Collection from VFS.

28 November 2024 at 11:30am: We arrived at the VFS office in Abuja and collected our passport.

**I was given 10 years. My visa will expires in 2034

** My wife was given 2 years because her passport had only 2 years left before expiration.

Thought it was a very slow process that took us about 5 Months 3 weeks, the final result was worth it as I won't need to apply Canada visa again till 2034.

NB:
** It was our first Canada visa
** We Visited UK once last year and still have 2 years valid UK visa in our passports.
** We recently visited Australia in February this year (2024) and had a 1 year Australian valid Visa.
**We've also visited Turkey, Dubai and Maldives in 2022.

Hope this timeline can help someone.

Timeline.

Visa Category ...... 2 years standard Visitor
Document submission: 23/05/2024
Biometric Submission: 24/05/2024
Visa arrives UKVI: 28/05/2024
TLS Collection mail: 05/06/2024
Passport Collected with Visa: 05/06/2024

The whole process took approximately 7 working days. My wife got 2 years, I got 2 years and my mum got 6 months.

For me and my wife, this is the second UK visa. We first got 6 months last year and traveled to UK just once for a conference.

We got this visa now so as to attend the graduation ceremony of my Nephew from a University in UK. My mum who is 83 years old got the visa for her first try.