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Adunnishugar:
Hello everyone, (please this a lengthy read)
Although I’ve been a bit silent here, but thanks to this thread I got a lot of information to apply for my mum to come help me with childbirth and she was granted her visa last week, after one refusal for my graduation last year.

She applied as self employed but myself and my sister in the us sponsored her trip.



Please I have some new questions though.
As I mentioned, last year my mum, dad and little sister applied to come for my graduation and they were all refused. Now I’m about to give birth and I decided to apply for only my mum as I thought it would be more straightforward and also because their previous refusal was based on my dad’s application.
Now that my mum has been given her six months visa I want to start planning reapplying for my dad and little sister. I’m thinking of planning their visit for sometime in December. My questions now are;

1) I’m thinking of putting in their application for September ending. Will it be a red flag because I just applied for my mum in July?

2) my dad applied as self employed last year but they used an agent against my wishes. The agent really messed up his application. Now I plan on reapplying for him myself as retired, as his business has not been doing too well in the past year, he has been receiving allowance from my sis and I every month of a total of 400k

Please what documents will I need to proof that he is retired. And is it fishy that he suddenly retired within a short time frame?

3) when my mum applied she had her business, property, my dad and lil sis as home ties, but if I’m applying for both my dad and little sister they would only have property (for my dad) and schooling(for my sis) as home ties. Specially because my mum still has an active visa.

For more context
My dad was denied last year because his business was not active on CAC, also his business and savings accounts were a mess.

Lastly, the reason I feel the need to apply for my dad and sis this soon is because the proof of fund I used for my mum last month is still in my account but I would have need for it by October, and I won’t be able to build my account again for a long while.


Please I would appreciate any advice from experienced people on this thread and maybe others in similar situations can also learn from answers given, thank you

Congratulations on your mum visa
Please did you submit her bank statement since you mentioned she is self employed.

Cashmadam:
If she is left with 120K (for example), then, logically, she should not pay herself N100K. She is not expected to use the bulk of company money to pay salary/salaries. The truth is, if her business is not generating a lot, then she needs to pay herself very little as salary.

She is expected to pay tax on her income and company's income.

Thank you

Cashmadam:
She needs to seperate her personal and business transactions. Her business transactions need to go to a business account.

Thank you very much. I really appreciate
One more question I hope you don’t mind, Please I hope it won’t be a problem if she pays herself salary and she still has some amount left in her business account at the time she pays herself. For example at the end of the month after expenses she’s left with 120k in her business account and she starts paying herself 100k monthly I hope the remaining 20k won’t be a problem as to why she didn’t pay herself all the profit?
Also will she pay personal income tax on the 100k she pays herself as salary? Or the 120k profit she had in her business account.

GodGraceOnly:
Simply address why she was refused and reapply for her.

You can be her sponsor and still attach her own statement and business type

Include her pictures with your siblings in nigeria and your dad and also her marriage certificate. You can include some assets for her too if she has. Those things will serve as family ties.


Attach hotel and return flight ticket reservation for her too.

But the most thing to do is to address the reason for her previous refusal.

Thank you. But I would like to know about her business regarding bank statement. Because in her previous application I submitted her personal statement because she doesn’t have a business account. So the refusal you said I should address is what I don’t know how to address.
If you could kindly take a look at my write up and refusal to explain what I could do to me. I would really appreciate.
Thanks

tommaitwears:
Hi everyone please my mum Uk visit visa was refused earlier this month and I’m planing to reapply by November for my graduation. Please I would really appreciate if everyone can advise on what I could do in the next application.
Thanks

Self emoloyed
Annual income: 1.2m
Monthly expenditure: 50k
It’s a very small food business like catering service, like a local food shop in our streets.
Pls kindly find attached d refusal letter, every advice would be appreciated.

Please someone help me

Cashmadam:
Sorry about the refusal.

Your Mum's account and your presentation of the facts were all over the place.

You should not reapply in September unless you want another refusal.

If your Mum does any kind of business, ask her to open a seperate account for her business.

Send your monthly allowance to her personal account. Same amount, same time every month.

While you do that, ensure she keeps her monthly expenses to the barest minimum for the next 6 months.

You don't need 5k to sponsor your Mum. She doesn't need 3k for the trip. These figures are unnecessarily high.

Advise your Mum to pay all monies related to her business in the new account. She needs to run her accounts for 6 months.

Don't pay any lump sum into her account. If you need to give her a huge sum of money, send the money in tranches.

Beef up your savings since you will be her sole sponsor.

Good luck!

Please @cashmadam in this kind of scenario should she pay herself monthly into her personal account even though the business won’t yield d same amount monthly

gtwice:
Sorry about the refusal. I am in the same shoe as we speak. Have you been able to reapply ?

@gtwice please have you also reapplied what steps did you take before you reapplied?

julzz:
Hi everyone. A friend applied for her mum to attend her brother graduation in the Uk for this July but application was refused.

Her mum is a trader tejuosho market, and my friends husband is her sponsor for the trip and supporting documents were included below is the refusal letter, the fault on her part is she failed to include receipts or invoices of her mum business now she wants to reapply, is there any additional info/documentation to support this and what are chances of success if she reapplies immediately.
Please note her business is in thrifts clothing and sales in the market is mostly in cash, so her account is not properly run but she deposits via pos occasionally
Also attached are the documents uploaded also

Please kindly advise on what to do, thank you all

Please have you been able sort this out and reapply? I also have the same problem. Please I would appreciate your response.

tommaitwears:
Hi everyone please my mum Uk visit visa was refused earlier this month and I’m planing to reapply by November for my graduation. Please I would really appreciate if everyone can advise on what I could do in the next application.
Thanks

Self emoloyed
Annual income: 1.2m
Monthly expenditure: 50k
It’s a very small food business like catering service, like a local food shop in our streets.
Pls kindly find attached d refusal letter, every advice would be appreciated.

I would like to add that her total credits for d 6months is about 8m nd expenditure is about 7m because money we send to her and credit from her shop enters same account.
So my question is
1) should I tell her to open a separate account and do all those transactions there since the eco could not determine how much her income is from d job.
2) after transacting should she pay herself whatever is left into her personal account ? Which we her children would also send upkeep to? NOTE: she won’t be sponsoring herself in her visa it would be fully sponsored
3) paying herself her profit for the month I hope it isn’t bad cuz it only enters monthly so her personal account won’t be busy again?
4) in my next application, do I need to submit the two account statements or just d personal one

Hi everyone please my mum Uk visit visa was refused earlier this month and I’m planing to reapply by November for my graduation. Please I would really appreciate if everyone can advise on what I could do in the next application.
Thanks

Self emoloyed
Annual income: 1.2m
Monthly expenditure: 50k
It’s a very small food business like catering service, like a local food shop in our streets.
Pls kindly find attached d refusal letter, every advice would be appreciated.