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mistamash:
some one told me its dangerous to travel by road that i might loose my life,

That makes sense. So, if you're travelling by air, then, your passport will be required, but visa is not required.

You don't need a visa to travel within the ECOWAS (Economic Community Of West African States) region, and in some cases, your passport is not needed, but you might encounter some bribe-seeking checkpoint officers who would want you to prove your nationality by your passport or you do so by money

lovelynk:
Hello all,
my parents,51 and 56 years old just won the 2011 visa lottery to the US,Alone.They did not include any of us their kids.
actaully my big sister ,i and kid brother are over 21 so we arent eligible,but my younger sibblings are teenagers and eligible
Now both parents are not educated,my mum only finished secondary school while my dad did not finish.I very much doubt their capacity to go bak to school in the states.
again,our family has faced some financial hard ship in the past years wt business going downhill,but recently things just started looking up a lil bit for us.
Now considering all these,their age,education ,business and in particular the fact they might neva go bak to school,is it advisable they make the move?

Well, i don't think the main concern is about the fact that the parents omitted the children information in their application because, that issue might not come up before the parents are disqualified.
   Now, winning a visa lottery is not an automatic qualification for the visa, one has to meet every eligibility which includes: Education (and if you are not educated, you must have a certified) Profession, Prime age and Transparent honesty.
   Bear in mind that we are not talking about visiting or tourist visa neither are we talking about asylum application, but we're talking about immigrant visas. Therefore, the US embassy will likely disqualify anyone of such calibre for fear that such immigrant might not be useful to their country rather, they will more likely become a liability to the US government and resort to public funds.
   The programme is intended for young useful and contributing class of people, not aged ones with questionable information

denzel2009:
My sister just collected her DV lottery and narrated her experience that she was scared when they refused a couple with their kids after paying around 600k visa fee. Just advise your parents to keep enjoying their lives in naija,its not even easy for young people to survive overseas these days not to talk of old people.

Assuming your younger ones were added,they could have risked going ahead with the processing for their benefit.

What visa fee would cost 600k, is that a visa for Mars planet or for the moon?

agenta999:
hello nairalanders, i want to know if i can travel with my permit of stay from Spain to Dublin?

Dublin is not a country, but Ireland is.
   And the answer to your question is, NO. Ireland is not a member of the Schengen agreement states, therefore, you need a visa.

olubunmi80:
@vicjustice. please can i know when this 10 year ban started ? i mean when they introduced it. thanks

That was introduced somedate in July 2009

shanktang:
Get a uk visa in three weeks very very authentic no scam
if interested call this number07041824906 or 07033463366
if u do not have genuine business to go to the uk to do please do not call.

Just see what joblessness has turned this guy into.

Hi, Funky.
Yes, this might seem funny to those who aren't very familiar with Benin City; Go there and see for yourself, i trust you, you'd write more than i've written.

topsys:
Dear all,
Please I need advise on visa details on Irish visa requirement I don’t know if
I should apply for a visit visa or a tourist? Cos I have a family who his married to an Irish there and I can
Sponsor my self i think i have around 500k will going on honey moon with my husband please I need
Advise on what to do, and documents to submit.

500K, Is that in Euro or Dollar, or, perhaps Pounds Steerlings?
   Please, pardon my arrogance, but i'm concerned that if you're talking about Naira, this amount would barely be enough to buy yours and your husband's ticket, or, is there something you want to explain?

   Ayo, i hail o!

Nice photos, this is the same Benin city where the passangers in my car had to disembark several times to minimize the weight of the car and enable it cruise through some dusty streets with random potholes and gullies. It wasn't my intention that i had to pay some mechanics/Panel-beaters to raise the shock-absorbers/Springs of my car to prevent the car base from hitting high grounds whenever the wheels role through potholes. And yet, in many cases, this extra measure is not enough, Sometimes, passengers just have to get off a car and walk for some 50 or 100 metres until they get to a part that isn't so bad and then, get aboard the car again. One just needs a tractor or at least, a 4x4 cruiser to move within the city.
   Could you also upload some photos of the streets of Benin? perhaps you can start with the streets around Okhoro, Upper Lawani and Upper Mission areas.

gandoki1:
Hi all,

i just got admission for a post graduate diploma in the uk by distance learning. i have to attend a 2 days compulsory residential workshop at the begining of the first module in september. from what i've read, the category of visa i'll be applying for is the student visitor type.

1. i can afford to pay my tution fee and also buy my flight ticket before visa application, I've also paid for 4 nights in the accommodation provided by the school. i dont have an employer presently. i just finished the NYSC programme. my spouse is my sponsor and she has a very comfortable and steady income in the oil and Gas sector.

what other things do you guys think i need to put in place. pls feel free to ask me any question. i'll be much obliged to answer. thanks!

Gone are the days when visa applicants are required to buy flight tickets to support their applications, but now, it is no longer a requirement because, (unlike before) economic class tickets are not refundable. So, i do not encourage you to buy flight ticket prior to visa issuance because, you do not want to risk forfeiting your ticket, do you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8lGT6RCkKU

buccaneer7:
FIRSTLY MAKE I LAUGH

why i laugh be say people nor gree notice your post because them don tire for 9ja talk. what is your point in here now sef? then i rebuke this kind passion you have for your country nigeria way give you right to dey insult all of us,

[size=15pt]my brother i am not cursed ooO. i am enjoying my life in asia and eupore[/size],

SECONDLY- this is the recent pix of my state in nigeria and friend posted them to me. this shows that we are moving forward

look below

Oh yeah!? You're enjoying your life in Europe and Asia? I should have known that Asia and Europe are parts of Nigeria?

   And oh, you have some beautiful photos of Benin city? Then, enjoy this video in the link below too:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8lGT6RCkKU

afulstop:
@all:hi guys!, here is wot my friend recounted to me o,, she went for her app/interview at the us consul on the 21st june and was granted a visa!she told her hubby out of "too much joy". The nxt day her hubby showed her 2 letters.1) a query letter he wrote the day before to the us embassy telling them they granted tht visa by mistake and should reverse the decision before printing any visa sticker.2)a response frm the embassy asking for the full details of the applicant. Her hubby told her to stop jubilating as she was yet to recv her passport. She picked up her passport frm the vfs office and there was a visa in it!!!she got a 1 month visa annotated with the details of the wedding in nyc!.she is super thrilled and her hubby is probably still in shock(lol).

With that allegation report (by her husband) advising the embassy that his wife is a potentially dangerous visitor, i doubt a visa could be issued in such circumstance. Are you sure of this update, did you see the visa, or perhaps the husband never really sent those emails?

yvyy:
@ Vicjustice ,THANKS FOR your COMMENT.CAN SEE U are KNW all.

am very young and highly educated and work in a high financial firm.so if i typed texas in error when i knw fully well that what i was to type is u.s.a and so wt.?who isn't without some typological error? u of course.can see u r so perfect ,hey but am not ok.

OK, I'm really sorry, i didn't know you're young and highly educated and work in a high financial firm.

yvyy:
@ vicjustice,its none of your bizness since u r not a naija. am asking those in Nigeria.not u in Afghanistan.thanks anyway.and by d way if it wasn't English ,hw did u understand to reply.

Don't be mad, i was just not impressed that someone who knows how to use computer could talk about a visa for Texas: My apology if you're an elderly woman, but if you're a young person like i imagine you are, then, i'm utterly disappointed and i urge you to try and do better because, with your knowledge about the USA, i don't see how you can pass a visa interview. No offence

yvyy:
How Do I Get Visa For Texas?
got a vacation invite for texas dallas for i and hubby but i dnt knw d steps to take?any help on hw i shld start off?

First of all, you're not writing in English, anyway, i'll suggest you get a visa for Oklahoma or Liverpool

seedord247:
Hi house,

I really need your advice, October last year i'm eager to move out of the country and secure a good future, i ask a friend of mine how do i do it since a novice in this , my friend introduce me to an agent in ikeja, they ask me what country did i want to go i said uk, and the Man said i will need to pay 50,000 naira for registration fee and 400, 000 naira for the visa not including the traveling ticket. i pay the reg fee and half payment of the visa which is 200,000 naira out 400,000 naira, as times goes on i didn't hear from them, until dec 31 2009 they call me that i should come and submit the document myself which i pay almost 20,000 naira for the visa at the uk visa submission center at oregun ikeja, after 2 weeks they call me and said the visa is ready for collection we went there and i was refuse.

I was denied just because they call the bank of the person i'm visiting and what they said is that, the bank didn't release her statement of account and i how did i get it. The agent said i have the right to appeal, he would take care of the appeal and i should not be worried about it, he said in the next two month my visa will be out. I call him on Jan 20 he said he has summit it since that time i have not hear anything from the embassy neither him and whenever i tell my friend about this he always calm me down saying that the visa will still be out that i should patient and i know he's part of them.

I need your advice on what to do regarding this, it's almost 5 month gone now no visa and will my 270,000 naira just go like that?

Tunde.

You're another victim of a harmless looking scam. Please, do not bother to appeal the visa refusal nor re-apply for a UK visa until after 10 years because, if you do, you'll only waste more of your money as you've been given a silent ban from entering the UK for 10 years.
   This is the way these self acclaimed travel or visa agents make their money. They promise to provide the needed documents and charge clients a lot of cash for them; then they actually provide the documents but, though the papers may appear original, they are never from genuine sources hence the embassy confirms them fake. A naive visa applicant now happily goes to apply for the desired visa which will definitely be refused and the subject is penalised by recieve a secret ban from entering the UK for ten years.
   The visa agents have just made cool profits at the cost of their client's banishment.

seedord247:
Hi house,

I really need your advice, October last year i'm eager to move out of the country and secure a good future, i ask a friend of mine how do i do it since a novice in this , my friend introduce me to an agent in ikeja, they ask me what country did i want to go i said uk, and the Man said i will need to pay 50,000 naira for registration fee and 400, 000 naira for the visa not including the traveling ticket. i pay the reg fee and half payment of the visa which is 200,000 naira out 400,000 naira, as times goes on i didn't hear from them, until dec 31 2009 they call me that i should come and submit the document myself which i pay almost 20,000 naira for the visa at the uk visa submission center at oregun ikeja, after 2 weeks they call me and said the visa is ready for collection we went there and i was refuse.

I was denied just because they call the bank of the person i'm visiting and what they said is that, the bank didn't release her statement of account and i how did i get it. The agent said i have the right to appeal, he would take care of the appeal and i should not be worried about it, he said in the next two month my visa will be out. I call him on Jan 20 he said he has summit it since that time i have not hear anything from the embassy neither him and whenever i tell my friend about this he always calm me down saying that the visa will still be out that i should patient and i know he's part of them.

I need your advice on what to do regarding this, it's almost 5 month gone now no visa and will my 270,000 naira just go like that?

Tunde.

Dear Tunde
   You're another victim of a harmless looking scam. Please, do not bother to appeal the visa refusal nor re-apply for a UK visa until after 10 years because, if you do, you'll only waste more of your money as you've been given a silent ban from entering the UK for 10 years.
   This is the way these self acclaimed travel or visa agents make their money. They promise to provide the needed documents and charge clients a lot of cash for them; then they actually provide the documents but, though the papers may appear original, they are never from genuine sources hence the embassy confirms them fake. A naive visa applicant now happily goes to apply for the desired visa which will definitely be refused and the subject is penalised by receive a secret ban from entering the UK for ten years.
   The visa agents have just made cool profits at the cost of their client's banishment.

Newest:
Hello NLders, had this opportunity to travel to UK but not for a very long tym, only 2months visa was granted, but the probs it that i don't want to come back to Nigeria in haste, i want to live there and do some odd jobs till i could get all the necessary papers needed to be a free Immigrant, can any1 help on that?
Thanks

This is the original post that explains what you are.

Newest:
Hello NLders, had this opportunity to travel to UK but not for a very long tym, only 2yrs visa was granted, but the probs it that i don't want to come back to Nigeria in haste, i want to live there and do some odd jobs till i could get all the necessary papers needed to be a free Immigrant, can any1 help on that?
Thanks

Now, you want to be smart by claiming that the original 2 months that you wrote was a mistake, but you aren't smart enough to change the term that suggests that you actually meant 2 months when you said [s]"but not for a very long tym"[/s] or, is two years visa not for a very long time, is it "only"?

Newest:
. . . and as a matter of fact i wont be the 1 to finance the trip, its a cousin, his just taking me there this tym cause there's what he needs that can not be shipped or send to him, but he doesn't know about this my plan also

Here, the person responsible for your trip is a cousin, but in the post below, he has transformed into another entity

Newest:
Cant be cause its a 2yrs thing and he happens to be a family friend and besides like i said its not my 1st tym

Your cousin eventually became a family friend? What a super-cousin.

Newest:
If i may say may fins needed to be edited on thier, the only thing i was concer about when i was about to start the thread was how to get my answer and again for your information the Visa as not even been granted but the last tym i went it was on a 2yrs trip and am sure this not gon be less than that

OMG, see tackle from behind, lol

A liar without good memory will always look silly. Didn't you say you were given a 2 months visa = 2 years visa, and now, you said "the visa has not even been granted"
Well, like Siena remarked, "No need to apologise - the only person you're making appear to be foolish is yourself. . . you're less than credible with each '"correction'" you make"

webrichy:
Hello House, If you are interested in traveling abroad to work, then you have reached the best contact around in Naija. Firstly, we can procure visa to virtually anywhere in the globe at an affordable cost.
(1) We will get you a 5 year work permit.
(2) $4,000 monthly payment package
(3) You don't get to pay a dime until Visa and work permit is secured and verified.
(4) Price is affordable.
(5) Visa is guaranteed.

Before some of you start making rubbish posts, be assured that I'm not a fraudster. I live in Abuja. We can meet if and when you are interested. My name is Richard. My mobile number is 08038687418. My email:richynoble@gmail.com In Abuja, you can reach me at Belagio Hotel, Behind Beverly Hills - Wuse II or Chida Hotel Jabi. Before you start wondering, We own the Hotels.

[size=99pt]BARAWO!!![/size]

Pennywise:
. . . Having said that not all Nigerians toiling in the UK are from poor background. Some are actually from wealthy homes (maybe not cash-wealthy). . .

Gentleman, i beg to differ.
   And while i acknowledge the fact that "not all Nigerians toiling in the UK are from poor backgrounds", i do not accept that a person from a wealthy home would intend to illegally "do some odd jobs" to survive, except two things are responsible: either he is a false someone or, he is an irresponsible person/a prodigal child.
   It is not a sin to be from a poor home (afterall, many people from poor homes become rich with reasonable determination), but it is something abhor to exaggerate one's financial or social stance; there's just no need for self pomposity

Why do you guys waste so much time and energy responding to the Poster, can't you see that he is a lying dreamer?
   He claims to be a regular traveller to the UK, then,  that means one thing; he should be from a wealthy home.
So, then, a person from a wealthy home now intends to illegally "do some odd jobs" to survive, this explains two things: either he's a false someone or, he's an irresponsible person (who would most likely put his cousin into trouble).
   And by the way, what nature of commodity or article that would require only a human courier because it "can not be shipped or sent to the owner", is that not a controlled substance in the form of you know, expensive powder?
   Finally, this guy claims to have a 2 months UK entry clearance, does something like that exist? Those of you who know about the UK would know that the UK does not issue any visa shorter than 6 months.
   I reckon this guy a time-waster.

Newest:
Hello NLders, had this opportunity to travel to UK but not for a very long tym, only 2months visa was granted, but the probs it that i don't want to come back to Nigeria in haste, i want to live there and do some odd jobs till i could get all the necessary papers needed to be a free Immigrant, can any1 help on that?

Thanks

Are you sure you're talking about the UK? I've seen many UK visas, but i've never seen any that is valid for as short period as 2 months. The standard tourist/visit UK visa is for 6 months, how come you stated that you were issued a 2 months visa even as a regular traveller that you later claimed you are?

Springrise:
@Justwise      why do you have you have to insult me because I'm marketing what I do, I gave my office address, phone number, I did not ask the person to pay into my account. is nairaland not for networking. Oga always find the truth.

I can't be dubious and give you my office address to come for enquiries. Its true bad apple spoils good ones.
this is the break down of the cost. student visa fee = almost 50k, tax clearance certificate processing = 10k, statement of account = 40k, company registration certificate = 35k. consultancy fee of 15k.

I hope you now understand why I told you to register in a school first before employing my service. I studied @ South Chelsea College London. please follow me on facebook. yomi osho

And as for you fool-harden thief, i expected you to hide yourself and come out with a new username after Justwise has exposed your nonentity, but for you to have returned with these lousy explanations and trying to save your faceless being with them, it explains just one thing; you're just a desperate masked face thief.
  Who are you pauper to provide bank statement or any other documents for visa applicants?
  You deserve to be banned from this site, [size=99pt]THIEF! [/size]

A man who puts it upon himself to kill every mosquito until mosquitoes are eliminated in his village will only succeed in exhausting his own strength and strategies.
  Dear Justwise, you have really tried in combacting these predators, i was once like you until i realised that there is almost no need to counter them since they are like mosquitoes (you kill one and three are coming up), so i think you can only control the ones in your own house, but you'd need the entire community to combact the mosquitoes in the whole village.
I've come to realise that anyone who is dum enough to fall for their devices deserves to loss his hard earned money.

Olamipopo:
They will give you the visa since you won it,

You don't have to give advice according to what you think or what you assume to be the case rather than what you know to be the logical basis of the practical protocols.
   Winning an appeal does not mean winning the visa, it simply means that the original reason/s for refusing the visa has been overturned and the application will be given a fresh assessment owing to more facts or evidence to support same.
   

. . .but you need to provide financial and maintance fee

?  I have never heard this language before

so you need to build your account before they call you , Money in the account is very important. So get this done

Having money in your account is not what is most important, but the origin of the money as well as the transaction details. A bank statement that is acceptable must display serial activities in which transactions follow in logical order or a recurrent patterns: anything short of this would be considered money lodgement which is an express ground for visa refusal.

centsays1:
i have heard a lot about Ecuador, how good the country is, don't know if all i heard is really right, can any one with useful information please update me before i make a move

I also read somewhere that Fiji gives 4 months visa to Nigerians free, how true is that and how good is the country?? please a good reply would be appreciated.

Peace to all Nairalanders

When a visa is not required of you (as a Nigerian) to enter into a country, that doesn't mean that you're automatically allowed to enter into same; you would be subject to immigration questioning and scrutiny in a way that it would be obvious that those who travelled to the country with visas are far better than you who think you're visa free. In many cases, Nigerians are detained for many, many hours pending investigation with series of phone calls before being allowed to proceed; and yet many are not allowed into the countries if the immigration officers are not satisfied of their intentions, their capabilities or their credibility: And from every indication, you seem to be the kind of people who go to these countries and breach the terms and condition of the visa-free policy (such as by overstaying the allowed time) thus making it hard for genuine visitors.

[quote author=Omo_Tier1 link=topic=463406.msg6220955#msg6220955 date=1276625250]Thank you for your reply, I never over stayed in th UK at any point in time! The ECO out of thin air alleged that I over stayed. The administrative reviewer did upturn that decision anyway and He said that should never have been used to refuse the application in the first place.

I find it strange the way the application has been handled! Is there no other channel I can use to express my grieviances? Besides, I would be honest with you I am not all despirate to go to the UK, but I am furious at this act of criminality being carried out by the UKBA staff in Abuja! I have read so many of their wicked acts on the internet before and I thought they have changed overtime, but no it appears they haven't![/quote]Those who know something about the UK embassy will surely agree with Dancewith's suggestion, hence i should also encourage you to spare the energy that you intend to use for expressing your "grievances" over their "criminality" and channel it toward your new application.
  You don't seem to realise that these guys are done with you and your failed application, and that no matter what emails or telephone correspondence you make, it would only be as good as watering a dead plant.
  Make a fresh application and do just what Dancewith said.

You don't want to join the long list of people who have been banned from Europe for many years, do you?
  If you can't do a genuine bank statement of your own, then you don't have to do the fraud because, you can't do the time. Or can you do a ten years ban?
  You will only pay your money for it, but you can't succeed neither can you get away with it. Try it, and you will be caught and have yourself regretting it for life.

                                          [size=15pt]CORRECTION[/size]

"I need a fraud STATEMENT of ACCOUNT from someone to stand as my woe for my transition to a Ban. Pls I'll appreciate your assistance into the trouble. Contact; talk2sholape@yahoo.com"

goldylucks:
I must admit, What a pathetic story!!But being objective,[b]i know to even transit in d UK,one needs a visa called Transit Visa.[/b]I'm surprised she was allowed to board at MMA knowing so well she was going on BA which would by all means transit in London.I'm saying this cos once,in 2001 my elder sis and i were refused flying on BA even though our destination was New york but we were to transit in d UK.We were told we imperatively needed a transit visa.
Her's isnt dat different cos she still was yet to obtain her canadian passport so will still be given the same treatment that'll be given to a 100% nigerian.
My advice is that next time,she should make sure she gets her canadian P before any such traveling or better still get all the visas she needs.

[b]   NO, Nigerian citizens with valid Canadian Residence Permit or visa do not normally require transit visas to connect through the UK or any other European country provided they hold confirmed reservations for onward flight within 24 hours, and that they are staying within the transit hall of the airport. But if however situation demands that a traveller enters the country, then, it's up to the immigration officers to determine the traveller's eligibility. The immigration officers have to be satisfied that the traveller will comply with the terms and conditions of the temporal admission.


   And as for this woman, she is a Nigerian living in Canada and yet, she was refused a UK visa; doesn't this explain that there is something questionable about her?
   Look at it this way: a woman once sought a UK visa on normal ground and her application was declined, how would Immigration Officers now trust her entering the UK on circumstantial ground?
  The genuine fact is, she is not deemed eligible to enter the country as the officers were concerned that she would abscond and then give birth to her child in the UK.[/b]

afulstop:
Hi Nlanders,need your candid opinion/advice on this. My friend has a wedding to attend in new york in
august so she applied for a B2 visa to the u.s. She filled the online forms naturally and secured an appointment for her interview on the 21st of june. A couple of days ago while lookin through her email box she found a letter in the drafts folder. The letter was addressed to the us embassy lagos,the letter stated my friends visa application number and passport number .The letter also stated that the applicant is a fraud and if granted the visa will not return to her spouse.in shock my friend confronted her hubby cos he's the only other person apart from her that knows her email password.To her utter dismay, the guy admitted he had written the letter cos he did not want her to travel and left it in the drafts so she could see it adding that he had warned her not to apply in the first place but that she did not listen. Here is a man who travels to the states a couple of times a year on B1/B2 visa and his wife never complains or tells him not to go! My friend is thinking of going for the interview all the same saying that she can always use the visa some other time if not for the wedding she has to attend.I'm sayin she shouldn't attend the interview cos the embassy might act on the blackmail letter and deny her the visa. What do u think guys?

The US embassy will definitely act on the piece of information, and will take into account that there is something questionable about the applicant, therefore, it's definitely a refusal.
   Let the lady contact the embassy and cancel the application explaining that she understands that she's just been blackmailed. And now, contrary to your imagination that "she can always use the visa for some other time", except she is (for unforeseen reason) given a multi entry visa, she might not be able to enter the US especially when there's a change in the circumstance in which the visa was issued: But mind you, this is a more serious matter than we comprehend; the lady's name is now on red alert, and this might result in the embassy having the lady permanently banned (for life) from entering the USA.