Two weeks. She had traveled before to SA though, like 6 years ago.

Mine is still pending though and it's about 5 weeks already.

xpress101:
Congratulations how long did it take?

So we re-applied immediately after this denial and she has now been given the VISA. Multiple entry and 90 days.

Documents resubmitted were:
-Invitation from my brother who’s a resident stating he was sponsoring the trip and included all his docs and 6 months statement
-The filled request form and her own account statement.

Sammurano:
Please how did you go about this appeal? Did you have to pay for another appointment? Or you just went to VFS with the denial letter and you were allowed in? Please anyone with these answers can also assist. So my mum was denied for same reason of bank statement not valid for 3 months and now we have even gotten statement for 6 months.

Documents submitted were:
-Invitation from my brother who’s a resident stating he was sponsoring the trip and included all his docs and statement (we didn’t include my mum’s statement because he was sponsoring the trip, could that be an issue?)
-The filled request form and her own documents.

Please how did you go about this appeal? Did you have to pay for another appointment? Or you just went to VFS with the denial letter and you were allowed in? Please anyone with these answers can also assist. So my mum was denied for same reason of bank statement not valid for 3 months and now we have even gotten statement for 6 months.

Documents submitted were:
-Invitation from my brother who’s a resident stating he was sponsoring the trip and included all his docs and statement (we didn’t include my mum’s statement because he was sponsoring the trip, could that be an issue?)
-The filled request form and her own documents.

Toks7:
As educated by and well to do Nigerians with legal businesses, a legal means of income and livelihood. We are yet to realize to what extent these other fellow Nigerians giving the country a bad image outside of the country as tarnished the general image and the stigma that comes with been a NIGERIAN. In this context I’m referring to the drug dealers and yahoo boys in SA. Coupled with that this present administration as even made matters worst. Every embassy sees every Nigerian as been desperate. Now I was in SA in late 2017 on a medical visa I was there for a duration of 2weeks. When I was discharged from the hospital I went on a sight see and I was astonished as to how developed they are over there and how far behind Nigeria is. I returned to Nigeria went by my business and my company, I own a Real Estates and Fintech company. I have a travel history of Germany, Ireland, UK, Switzerland and France. So last month I decided to visit a Nigerian doctor and close friend he’s a citizen in SA because he as been in SA for a very very long time, right from the late 90’s and early 2000’s. He wrote me an invitation coupled with every other details. I printed my bank statement from April 28th to July 28th I had an opening balance of 13.5m and a closing balance of 5.5m in my personal account, I submitted at Lekki on August 13th with all other necessary documents, my house and my business legal documents and ownership and every other thing else. I also printed my previous medical visa from 2017 my entry and departure at OR Tambo at the exact time. I even left their country earlier than the time they gave me to stay. My fellow Nigerians from august 13th that I submitted two weeks later my passport came back to me august 31st and I was refused and ticked under “Bank statement not valid for three months” and I was like that as to be a joke right??!! April 28th to July 28th that’s a 3months statement. So my thoughts were maybe because the consular officer meant a 3months calendar bank statement. So I reprinted the same documents I used in applying the first time and I included a copy of the refusal paper showing bank statement not up to 3months, went to my bank printed another bank statement from June 1st to September 1st and I had a closing balance of 4.3M. Tuesday September 7th went to the same Lekki center and I submitted the same documents and every other thing I used I applying the first time along with my previous medical visa in 2017, my newly printed bank statement and the copy of the paper refusing me saying my statement was not valid for 3months. The same documents, the invitation from my doctor friend, his ID copy my home and business documents . Printed everything out as I did the first time and I could recall at the VIP section one of the guys said to me “oga you were here some weeks ago dey didn’t give you ni” I said my brother Naso I see am oo!! They said my statement was not up to 3months and he said argh!! They just wanted to refuse u ni and he told me categorically it’s now a who you know thing with the SA consular as they refuse legal and legitimate people and grant visa to omoh Igbos with drug carter tentacles in SA. For Christ sakes my business as a legal and active building I run a business here as much as naija is terrible I don’t plan on foregoing my business and starting from the scratch in another mans country let alone an African county although I don’t see SA as every other regular country. Those guys are way ahead for Nigeria. My point is I was very angry when the guy told me this.I was Damn sure they wouldn’t have no excuse to refuse me this time. So I submitted September 7th and my passport came to me this morning and underneath the white paper other “ Host’s ID copy certification unclear” Omoh I was so pissed when I saw it like what the hell mahn!! This people are really taking a piss. How is the same ID copy of my doctor friend which I used in applying some weeks ago all of a sudden it’s unclear to them. How?!!! Like how! It’s not like they said the ID was fraudulent or such person doesn’t exist in SA. Id copy unclear the same copy I used in applying some weeks ago, then I just realized truly it’s now a matter of who you know with SA cos in every aspect I should never have been refused the first time, the statement was 3months. Right now I called my doctor friend told him I’m no longer coming as I won’t be played on my intelligence anymore. The SA consular is taking a piss and I would rather Forego visiting him till further notice. Below are the copies of the first refusal and the second refusal I got today. Oga justwise if you are still on this platform please what is your say on this?? Because I have followed this forum for years as every other forum on Nairaland.

Help o People, Any update on this verification process by UI? Status is on hold here too.

Hi, Please did you end up using CES?

follyAug:
Thanks