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anusule:
apple pie with custard!

Anu

Yum yum, but I prefer apple crumble with custard.

Mr Popular

I have previously answered questions here on the implications of submitting
company accounts in support of an application for a visa. Essentially the ECO
regards a company as a separate legal entity from your sponsor and a company
resolution is required which confirms the directors are willing to use company
funds to pay for your education.

Please trawl through this thread for a more detailed response. Sorry I don't have
the time or inclination to go through 20 odd pages right now.

One factor you should all be aware of is that certain countries are visa mandatory for the UK.
e.g Nigeria, whilst other countries like South Africa do not require visas to come to the UK
for a visit.

To some extent Immigration Officers treat those with visas differently. Those with visas are at an
advantage as the assumption is that all the checks necessary have already been done by the ECO.
Those without visas are often (not always) scrutinised more intently.

I'm sure the majority of students here granted UK student visas were hardly asked any questions by
immigration on arrival. That is because all necessary checks would already have been done.

Mrpopular:
@mrpakati, Thank u for your prompt reply.
You asked if the ECO stated in the letter of refusal that he had made efforts to contact the school about how genuine the letter was?
[b]well, the ECO did not state if he made efforts to contact the school about how genuine the letter stating my fees was, i am sure he did not , because if he did he would have been told that the amount there was correct.[/b]I am still waiting for u partner akolawole to reply to my problem.
So mrpakati, i m glad you think i have a good case,so if i appeal, what documents do you think i should submit to help with my case?
Can i file an appeal myself from here without hiring any Lagos lawyer , because i can see you guys do not advocate for such

The ECO is under no obligation to contact your school, sponsors or any other third party.
The ECO can in certain circumstances use his discretion to do this but he/she doesn't have to.
The obligation is always on the applicant to provide satisfactory evidence.

I feel your pain.

How old are your kids?

Is it not possible for you to travel with him on the odd occasion?
For example his two weeks in Dallas could have been a family holiday if
it didn't interfere with your work or the childrens schooling.

You can re-apply at any time.
The six month thing is just a myth.
However, there is no point in re-applying
unless you can address the reasons for the
first refusal to the satisfaction of the High Commission.

chichimma:
Two people out of the hundred and something were actually fraudsters and the others were wrongly prosecuted, humiliated and even send home just because they did not have papers. Just because they wanted to have some fun and went to a show. A hundred and something people against two is not worth it . The major of Amsterdam could not even say if they were hard criminals (the brain behind the 419 scams or just petty ones). I guess that the 419rs are laughing their teeth out.

Really cannot see the point you are making here. If they didn't have papers then they are in the country illegally
and that is breaking the law, so they deserve to be sent home.

@sko

I need your assistance too.
How much will you charge for
someone like me to regularise
my illegal status in the UK?

DEEBOY29:
Nairaland users in the house,
i submitted my application last week but there was no document showing that i made any accomodation arrangments with the school,but i submitted a cousins letter of support and mortgage statment,page of passport showing residence permit,his house is in london,while my school is in scotland.hope that won't be used against me.although i submitted an email showing i had 20%scholarship,and letter of sponsorship from my company.

You appear to have given theHigh Commission the perfect excuse to refuse you.
Exactly how do you intend to attend school in Scotland if you live in London. Duh

@Salsera

Are you in the UK?

Ako

I found out you are a Chelsea fan. Na true?
Believe I know go foot ya bill. You better approach
Abramorich for a loan. .

If you guys do decide on somewhere for Sunday
let me know. I think your e-mail addie is here somewhere
so I will e-mail you for the details.

Funky,Mr P and Ako

I would suggest that if you guys want to meet on Sunday go ahead
and do so I really can't promise I would be able to make it regardless
of where it is. Although if you do finalise arrangements for this day do keep me in the
know just in case I find a way. September would be better for me
though I appreciate Mr P would have returned by then.

So Funky who do you support?I hope say na Man U. I was at the inter game
at Old Trafford earlier this month. It is near impossible to get tickets for most
premiership games unless you are a club member of some sort. If you want to see
a live game and aren't too fussy a lower league team would be easier. For example
I often watch my local club Crystal Palace. Though there ground is no theatre of dreams,
more like a den of nightmares, it makes an interesting afternoon out.

Funky

Sorry for not replying to this thread previously.
I assumed there was nothing to read on it
when I first saw the heading which is just a dot.

As for a meeting which you and Ako are trying
to organise that Will be difficult for me until
later in September. Precisely after the schools
return. I am looking after my pickin and never
no where I am from day to day.

If you are still around in September no problem, especially
if you are in Mitcham which is not a million miles away from me.
Maybe if the others are agreeable Croydon shopping centre would be ideal.

Anyway keep me informed.

Sorry about your travails with Vicjustice.
You both contribute immensely to the site
and it is a pity things have degenerated between the two
of you. Can you both perhaps find a way of resolving things
between you and then put the past to bed?

10 years ago I won a substantial amount on the UK lottery.

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The dome or now known as O2. Located in Greenwich, London.

funkybaby:
you are right. it is always the same questions on issues that have been dealt with. i get bored sometimes myself. i am doing good. still in uk. presently in luton, tomorrow i will be in birmingham. what part are you?

I'm in London, Croydon to be precise.

funkybaby:
@VOR
Oga,hello. its been ages since you were last here. trust you are okay.

Hi Funky I'm very much around. I just got a bit bored with advising people here.
A lot of the questions have already been dealt with and if the newcomers took
the time to read most of the immigration threads on the travel section they will realise
this.

How are you? Still in the UK? If so which part?

fawwyb:
Nigerians need Visa to enter South Africa, their goverment is firmly agianst visa freedom to Nigerians, regardless of whether new or old passport.

Why you just de parrot the ting wey I don talk already?

Vicjustice,

As his wife to be is English and they propose to settle in the UK.
He CANNOT  apply as an EU family member. He would only
be able to apply for this status if his wife was to settle or exercise
her treaty rights in another EU state.

Previous adverse immigration history, especially of the non-serious
kind is not necessarily a bar to the grant of a visa. Every case is
treated on its merits and I have certainly seen people being granted
settlement visas despite their questionable immigration history.

I can categorically state that Nigerians DO need a visa
to visit South Africa regardless of the purpose.
I doubt very much this will change with the introduction
of the new bio-metric passport.

Because a country is visa free does not necessarily mean every national
of that country will automatically be granted entry. One can still be refused
at the port of entry.

mizztee:
ADVICE NEEDED
I have just been refused a UK student visa.The ECO is asking me to submit substantial documents that my sponsor is truly my uncle. The truth is my dad is really my sponsor but he doesn't keep liquid cash; since the embassy wants liquid cash, i have decided not 2 use him. The man posing as my sponsor is infact not actually related 2 me.i have paid more than 50% of my fees(6000pounds).i'm thinking about re-applying immediately but the problem now is that what kind of document can i show that he's indeed my uncle.please urgent answers needed.
ps: i'm truly going 2 study and have no intention whatsoever to remain in their country.

You have admitted yourself he is not your uncle. So there are no documents you can
submit to prove what is not a fact.

mdsocks:
You guys have to understand that when you typing sometimes you tend to omit words not that you don't know it but you pronounce it thinking you have typed it , i think that's what's happening here.

True,only to a limited extent. The bobo never hear of proof reading?

BTW I thought this thread was a classic and that it had
long disappeared into cyber space.

D-BLOCK

Correct me if I am wrong but is that first picture in your
latest collection Broad St and specifically the place in the
fore-ground the site of the former MBHS?

Brownbaby,

Sorry to hear of your woes.

It would appear that you have been well and truly scammed by this "lawyer".
Are you sure in the first place that he is a lawyer? In order to give Immigration
advice in the UK he/she must either be registered with the Law Society or if not
a qualified lawyer the person has to be registerd with the OISC. If you wish me
to do checks on this I will do so in private.

Turning to your application and appeal. [i]From the information you have provided[/i]the reasons for refusing you were so weak that I would have expected you to win hands down at appeal.
As Funkymama said did this "lawyer" provide you a copy of: 1) your grounds of appeal and 2) a copy
of the final determination(i.e decision by the immigration Judge)?

Normally I do not give advice here on a one to one basis and that is why
my e-mail address is hidden, but I feel particularly sorry for you and if
you wish me to use my experience to see if there is a way forward for
you let me know and I'll see what can be done.

Oh and by the way unlike your "lawyer" there is no charge.

I believe that is the stadium in Suru-lere finally completed after god knows how
many years.

It is good for the Lagos State govt. to have this facility, hopefully it will be mantained.
The only pity is that it took so long to build. I don't suppose any changes were made to the original
blueprint because frankly it looks like a stadium built by the Chinese or Bulgarians from the 1970s.

salsera:
@VOR

why is it SOOOO hard for people to believe i'm being honest

I did NOT backdate any stamp okay??

and i am not going to WORK alrit, its my official leave and its barely 2 weeks

i'll check back through the thread to see if you posted about reapplication

Salsera

Apologies if you were offended by what I said. Hope you understand
it is nothing personal but I do not know you so I have to look at things
from all angles. The angle I was looking at and why I asked you the question is
that the ECO must have had some reason to disbelieve the endorsements in your
passport. However, if you are saying they are all valid then I guess the ECO is mistaken.

With regards to working in the UK. It was just a bit of joshing on my part, although
I do seem to remember you stating somewhere that you had a job in the UK babysitting
or something like that. So you do, as we say here, have form for illegal working.

I say thanks to the original poster for posting the pics.
We need a balanced view of what Lagos and indeed
Nigeria are really like.

The pics of Abuja and the skyscrapers in Lagos contained
on other threads here on the travel section do not represent
what the majority of people in Nigeria are going through daily
and they are a gross distortion of the reality.

We are too easily pleased as a people because we do not have standards.
A couple of skyscrapers here, a roundabout with nice flowers there, a governor
uses state funds to build a glorified shopping centre and holiday resort and we
begin to think we are living in paradise. Nonsense

swiftycool:
VOR
i just checkd it and it says valid from 17/07/07 to 31/03/09
Does that mean i could have left since 17th of this month?
funny i got the visa on the 18th

Exactly, you could if you had so wanted travelled anytime from 17/07/07.
Not to worry, you are still leaving in plenty of time for your course.

Good luck