HAKKINS:
do you even need a visa to get to nigeria,i cant laugh oo


i tink d person who compile dis make a mïstake.

Dude don't get it twisted, you sure need a visa if you are not from west Africa

9. Nigeria

This visa requires a lot of paperwork. In addition to your hotel booking confirmation, you'll need to provide bank statements and a letter of employment. You'll also have to make three separate payments: the first to the Nigerian government (which is done online when you fill out your application form); the second to the Nigerian High Commission (which can be done only at the post office as a postal order); and the third to the visa application centre when your application is submitted.
However, you can't do this yourself because the Embassy doesn't deal with applicants directly. You'll have to use a visa company instead – but at least that takes the hassle off your hands!

10. Sudan

Although the visa process itself isn't very complicated, yet again, you'll be required to provide a Letter of Invitation approved by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sudan. This letter can take a month to get, so you need to plan well in advance
You'll need to apply for the letter via an authorised travel agent, but the majority of travel agencies in Sudan are very relaxed, so getting hold of them can be difficult. Prepare for quite a wait when it comes to your Sudanese visa application.


source:http://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/news/10-of-the-worlds-hardest-to-get-visas/ar-BBsq9eS?ocid=spartandhp&page=1#page=1


I don't know if I should be happy or ashamed for Nigeria making this list.

cc:Justwise
cc:lalasticlala

.7. Thailand

If you're from certain countries such as the UK, US, Canada, Australia, you can stay in Thailand for up to 30 days without a visa. But if you're planning to stay longer you'll need to apply for one. The application process isn't complicated if you are applying for a single entry visa.
However, if you want to travel in South East Asia and go in and out of Thailand more than once, the list of documents you require to submit with your application becomes endless. Amongst other documents, you'll need to provide flight tickets, an employment letter and bank statements for the last six months showing at least £5,000 in your account continuously.


Waiting times at the Embassy should also be noted. It can take a couple of hours to submit your application as the Embassy is exceptionally busy. It can then take the same amount of time to collect the passport once your visa's been issued. So you'll need to take a couple of days off work.

8. Chad

Though not necessarily a top destination, this is up there with the hardest-to-get-visas. For UK applicants, Chad's nearest Embassy is in Paris. Although they do accept postal applications, they have no standard processing times and you'll need to call them regularly to check if the application has been processed.
However, they don't speak English at all, so you'll need to speak good French or know someone who does. The application form itself is also only available in French. You'll then need to arrange a courier to collect the passport from the Embassy, which can be tricky to coordinate. Allow at least 3 weeks for this application to be processed.

3. Russia

By introducing biometric applications, Russia made getting a visa a good deal harder. You have to go in person and submit your fingerprints and facial image when you apply – and for obvious reasons no agency can help you to do this! You'll have to first find a visa centre or Embassy that will process your biometric application, and then secondly get yourself there and cross your fingers that the queue isn't too big that day.
Before you can start your visa application, you'll need to get a Letter of Invitation for Russia, which must be issued by a travel agency that's registered with the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Be very careful filling out their online application form. One mistake – even a small one – can lead to delays or even rejection. Visa agencies like Visa Machine can help you with your invitation and application forms, so check them out if you feel you want a helping hand.

4. Turkmenistan

This country remains one of the most closed in the world. You can only get a tourist visa if you're joining a tour or have hired an individual guide and booked all of your hotels in advance.
Like Iran and Russia, you'll need your tour agency or guide to arrange a Letter of Invitation with the immigration authorities in Turkmenistan before you can get a visa. This takes two or three weeks and isn't guaranteed. After that, if your application isn't rejected, you can expect your visa application to take another two weeks.

5. Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan has numerous public holidays, especially throughout the summer when Embassies and many of the immigration bodies will be closed for up to a week at a time. This can really slow down the process of getting a visa
There are a couple of tourist visa options: the standard tourist visa issued by the Embassy with a processing time of two and a half weeks; or an electronic visa issued by authorised agents of the Azeri Ministry of Foreign Affairs with a processing time of four to six weeks. Although the eVisa takes significantly longer, the application is done online, so there's no need to part with your passport.

Once you've applied for your visa, there's no way of checking the status or influencing the processing times. So expect to hear absolutely nothing for a fairly long time – as if visa applications aren't stressful enough!

6. India


India has recently introduced an electronic E-visa as well as its standard tourist visa. Whichever you choose, the application form needs to be filled out online, and it's a rather long and often frustrating process.

On certain browsers, you won't be able to fill out your employment details, on others you might not be able to pay. And so on. All of the payments are processed by the Bank of India and if their system is down (which happened in January for a week) there's no alternative way of paying for your visa, which means it's impossible to apply for it.
E-visas are occasionally rejected. If that happens, you'll then need to submit an application for a standard tourist visa at the Embassy. It's significantly more expensive and requires your passport to be submitted to the Embassy along with another application form and a few other documents

Nobody likes rejection, but if you're planning on visiting these countries you might have to prepare for the worst...

1. China

Chinese Embassies are getting increasingly strict when it comes to visa applications. The Embassy will require a long list of documents including flights in and out of China and a hotel booking confirmation for every night of your stay.
If you're planning to stay for 30 days or less, they'll generally issue your visa without any problems. But for stays longer than that (and/or if you're visiting sensitive areas like Western China), you'll also need to provide a detailed day by day itinerary of your trip.

2. Iran

Iran visas have never been straightforward, but the process is now harder than ever. Before you start thinking about your visa application, you'll need to get an authorisation code. This is really a pre-approval of your visa by Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), but it can take up to a month to get – and has to be applied for by an official Iranian travel agency in Tehran.

If you are from the UK, Canada or US, you'll need to hire an MFA-approved guide for your trip and provide their details when you apply for your visa. Once you have your authorisation code, Iran now requires all visa applicants to apply at an Iranian Embassy in person and submit biometric data. With no Iranian Consulate in London for the timebeing, that's quite a challenge if you're living in the UK.
Ladies, don't forget to wear a headcover in your passport photo; if you don't, your application will be rejected

ohakskid:
Please who has done number 2 and 3.

hehehe, I just popped in here and saw this.

Ignore 2 if you already have your bachelors. And for 3, if you have your jamb slip no problem.
NB: if you don't have a background in computer science or mathematics, don't waste your money sending your documents. Because you will not be admitted.
I also hope you can program (JAVA), if yes, stress it on your motivational letter" na expo i dey give you so "



Goodluck!!

ogagaejay:


This is totally true, the courses are so easy here to be candid, but the problem will be you as a student, when you miss one class just one class, the chance of failing is already 70 percent. And you have to do much work to get by. I am very certain of this because I saw it in this semester exams. I don't know if the lecturers know those who doesn't come to class and those who does , which I am sure that they don't. But they seem to always fail. Maybe it is magic.

bros.. What are you studying if i may ask ? Course are very easy ? hmm na wah ohh!! In my school, all written exams are 90mins with about 5 questions which you have to ans all and each question has sub-questions. You call that easy.
Then you have oral exams, where la cream la pour doesn't work, because you won't be asked definitions or applications of system.
You are given a real life scenario, you then have to solve it with the approaches you have learned. God help you, if you did la cream la pour.

Eke40seven:

Unfortunately, my landlord dey charge me extra for keeping someone for a period of time.

Hi, guys wey don tey for Deutschland, I am having a bit of an ish with my landlord. Have anyone ever experienced a situation where one might need to pay extra cash to your landlord for housing someone for 2-4 weeks?
I want to be well advised before I make my move? Is this legal?
Whats your experience?
P.s. this may not be applicable to those in student hostels....
Advice needed..

Eyah sorry ohh!!!... so you mean if i should ever visit Munich you can't host me for a week.....na wah ohh.

So, i have to change plans for Easter then.
Anyway @EKE wetin happen to your whatsapp......... i don dey suspect you ohh

Eke40seven:

Had a Naija guy who was leaving for his exchange semester abroad for 6 months and was. Willing to rent out his studentenwerk partment for 220 in Freising but he is gone now.
Hold enough money, the greatest undoing for you will be not getting a studentenwerk apartment before coming over here. Munich is not a city for students (especially with only 8k).
You might struggle if you dont hold more than enough. Reach your coordinator if he can help arrange an emergency bed for you with the studentenwerk.

Please, make these moves ASAP. Private housing is very expensive and beyond the reach of students considering our budget of 670 monthly.

P.s You can PM me, I talked to someone and I might have something affordable for you in the short term.

Mr Eke, the house agent, Abeg i need bed and breakfast during easter , can u help me.........lol

ohakskid:

@eke40seven thanks for answern, you willll pass your exams in jesus name. Amen!! How about people with only german msc.

Only German Msc. bros run for your life ohh.... when i say run i mean it.
I have been down that route unless you brain is equivalent to Einsteins brain....lol.
You can try only German bsc before doing only German Msc.

Not to discourage you but give it a try and let us know how it is.


Reason for my advice is this.
You did your Bsc in English, all the technical terms in your field are in English including learning materials. If you study in German then everything will be in German.
Trust me English-German dictionary will be closer to your heart than your bible.
Your reading rate will decrease.
Difficulty reading up your modul slides... and so on.

Well like i said, you can give it a shot. You never can tell, there is always an exception to every rule, you may just be one.

Interesting stories from students in Germany.............. I really want to read more.

Language is the key to unlocking a financial stress free life in Germany.
There are loads of scholarship online which you can apply to. Try and join different groups on campus, mix with the locals and your life will never remain the same.

And for those going to bigger cities good luck, na persin wey wear shoe, know where e dey pain am.

ceemac:
Hello friends... While I an application form and a school demand I write other schools that I will be applying to, what do you advice? Should I write Superior schools or inferior schools to the one demanding?

@Hampy @Obiwann @Eke40seven @Williamso

RIP English
You better don't write any school oh. Please

LeoCruz:


my degree was in Electrical/electronics engineering. do u tink that will affect it negatively. cos am confused rite now. and please wen did they send him his admission letter so that I can know wat to do. possibly contact them.

Wow I see, I feel that may be the reason you haven't heard from them. You need at least the basics in computer science like data structures and algorithm, background programming knowledge: procedural and object oriented languages before you can be admitted so I was told. Because we were only 4 students who got admitted for winter session and we also happened to be the pioneering students.

I think you can write them and ask of your admission status . I will also try and ask the course coordinator when next we meet, what are the academic requirements for the program.

So far from what I have been learning, it not going to be easy if you don't have a background in csc or maths.

LeoCruz:


My bro no admission letter yet Ooo. still waiting on them and other schools I applied to (Bremen, Kiel). Meanwhile I already have one admission already, but it has tuition fee 2400 for three semesters. please u no wen Bremen will start issuing admission letters. am a bit worried due to time. though the course starts April.
#In God I Trust # team summer2016

Wow very strange, my classmate said his pakistani friend has been admitted, how true, i don't know.
As long as a you have a computer science background and your cgpa is above 2,7, you should be admitted.

LeoCruz:
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Sup! Have you received your admission letter from Bamberg ?

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Cindino20:


He is right...d cost varies from city to city...and depends on hw much the city subsidies the program..

In Bremen B1 is 372 euros....I dont think its that expensive in Bochum.

I know, that is why i said he should tone his voice down a bit.....lol

Besides, you guys should enjoy the other goodies of your cities na, Abi no be only una waka come?
Last year in my small town i paid just 62€ for B2.2.....

nevilbot:


I am paying dat at volks hochschule. Fees plus textbook and its a1.1 so dont come acting like i dont know wat im saying or doing

take am easy na, just say the price varies depending on the city....... but i no go lie sha that ur price too much 350€ fa

LeoCruz:


international software system science

oya na.. I hope u studied computer science or the likes, if yes, then good.
If you graduated with a 2.1 and and you have a background in computer science your admission is sure. Since you are from Nigeria, they may waive the English Requirement for you because i spoke with the program coordinator about it and told him, it's an insult for Nigerians to write IELTS, since English is our educational language. He told me it will be reviewed.
A little advice learn Java before coming ohh.... when I mean learn,I mean master the thing.

Anyway i look forward to seeing you in Bamberg. Its a nice and relatively cheap city but i must tell you, try and learn the language a little bit before coming. So you won't be like my indian class mates who are already frustrated and i want to transfer.

Obiwannn:

They can be so proud and annoying ehn.. The thing is that they feel blacks 1) dont know anything 2) are suffering, [i]when actually if we received the kinda education they received in their country, we'd be way smarter plus in reality [/i]dem even suffer pass us. Many of my Ogas don tell me not to take nonsense from them anymore... As Germans no dey send them, the only opportunity them get na to use you take shine, something they'd gladly do if u give them chance.

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The ones in my class na olodo dem be.... Desperate and hungry. Imagine, one of them asking me what are my plans after study, i just form big guy tell am say i dey go back Naija to develop my country, immediately the other one looked at me like a fool. I just ignored him.

There was this certain day they wanted to know me better and were asking me personal questions, like what was my final bachelors grade converted to German scale and my IETLS score and so on.... They felt deflated after everything, because i was miles apart from them.

The smallest one now asked me, why did i apply to Bamberg when I can attend bigger Uni, i just look am like mumu, its just so unfortunate that they are the only course mates i have. I for bone dem anyhow.

LeoCruz:
Goodmorning house. I just got admitted to study IT ENGINEERING at WEDEL. Meanwhile is an old private uni, with a reasonable tuition fee. The course in question is just started this winter with it's first intake. and the course is still expecting it's full accreditation, of which I have mailed them to know Wats up on that. Now my question is this ,
1) Do I have to pay the full three semester tuition before going to embassy. knowing that my school asked me to pay only one semester fee.
2) will this accreditation thing affect my visa processing.
pleasevguys I need ur advice. mean while am still expecting results from other schools like Bremen, UAS KIEL AND BAMBERG..
Wedel gave me two weeks to pay my application fee, inorder to keep my admission

which course did you apply for in Bamberg?

Obiwannn:
Azzin, na so I provoke one day shout for one of them for my class ehn...small thing remain we for set blow...
Yeye pipo. I don't take nonsense from any single one of them anymore now..
If dem do anyhow, dem go see anyhow.

Hehehehe i think say na only me. The ones wey dey my class can be so annoying, to the extent that they started making jest of me for learning the language, presumably they felt intimidated by that but me i no send ohh.
When i told one of them to explain some data streams technique, he just bluffed and told me its similar to data base management. I just mind my business jelely go meet prof for more explanations.
Then when I said i knew some machine learning algorithm because i did some basic AI during my bachelors, I became a laughing stock, like who learns AI and doesn't know database management.

Me i know send anybody again ohh. na only me waka come here.......lol

dolpaz:

Lol.. na your city nah..
Shebi I dey talk am since say this guy na Beebee5000, una turn deaf hears...
Whistles away ***

dude face your front.... I was only stating the obvious. You don't say you visited a town if you actually didn't tour or do some sight seeing.

Eke40seven:
I don catch this one, Beebee5000. I don open your yansh...
I was there for like 2-3-4 hours. I go chop, visit city centre, ask questions for directions, and follow the friend wey drive me visit a friend for a short while... See em head. I dey wait you for Munich for Christmas o.

i dey my room for xmas ohh but if you wire me small change or send me ticket i fit come follow you jolly xmas ......

Eke40seven:

You failed to add that when you go to the shopping mall, you stand there for hours praying you don't buy urine in place of ororo, or liquid detergent thinking its body soap.... And for the love of God, you hardly come by a product with English translations. Yeah! I understand thses things limits you.
You miss a lot of opportunities because of the language, i could have gotten an accommodation for free (in place of some little services) but couldn't get it because of the language barrier, ( a room in a flatshare here in nothing less than 400-500 euros by the way if you are lucky) landlords are choosy based on langauge, etc
Yeah! Staying in Munich can save you a lot of stress, its what they call "multi kulti" they almost all understand and speak English although they will always tell you "Nein/ja, ein bisschien" but same cannot be said of the outskirts, in fact their bavarian accents are so hard, it break stones. Although people here are EXTREMELY nice and helpful.
[size=14pt]I have been to Bremen, Hamburg, Leipzig, Berlin, Oldenburg, Bamberg, Hannover, etc all recently, may be in some i spent only a few hours[/size], and i can fully relate what victz and crowns2 are saying.
For prospective applicants, please learn as much as you can, you don't know where you might find yourself, even in places where English is widely spoken, its absolutely important you can speak or understand what is being spoken.

lie lie you only passed through Bamberg. Spending time at the train station doesn't mean you have visited the city...........Mr EKE

Eke40seven:
Daughter, I hope you received my reply? Be a good geh, eh!

IF you apply smartly and correctly, it's possible. I have close friends who are living testimonies, currently breathing the German air.

Mr EKE.. i will arrest you if you don't take your time..................

agarawu23:
which one be azimo again?

Is it trusted and how do we go about it?

Yes it is. That is what i use. use google na

agarawu23:
yes, he is my friend.
He told me about it too so I think the best thing is to open account or use someones account to try it (that's if you have confirmed it).

Western union exchange rate of euro is 209 while the black market is close to 280 just imagine the difference

But don't because of that not to send money o
Send them money for xmas o so that they can pray for u

Use azimo, it's better than worldremit and western union.
the exchange rate of azimo is 250 compared to worldremit and western union.
The receiver is paid same day you make the transaction.

It's tested and trusted.

Degovmob:


@Obiwann, PhD in Germany and some European countries might be different. Try the UK,the US,Canada,Australia and New Zealand, then it wouldn't beat your imagination again why someone will want to go to Germany on self funding. Considering that one doesn't have to pay tuition fees and that there are scholarship opportunities while doing a PhD in Germany, I still consider it worthwhile to start with self-funding and then work hard to get scholarships or a teaching/research assistant position.

If I started my PhD in the UK after my MSc in 2012,I would be paying 9000 pounds per year in tuition and spending around 7000 pounds per year in living expenses. But in Germany, there's nothing like tuition fees. I also feel it is better to start with the self-funding and try very hard to impress the professor so that he or she can go for the external funding for me. At the moment, I have not worked under the professor before,he or she doesn't know my capabilities now and might be reluctant to work on getting a fund.

Check out Humboldt, Maybe they give out scholarships for PhD. I only know of post doc.

Zeeblamj01:

If u are highly skilled then of course. The company/firm does the process.

Even highly skilled, there are lots of bureaucracy and bottle necks experienced.
You only see one in hundred who get employed from Africa in Germany, except you graduated from a German uni or any European Uni.
But with your naija Pali forget it.

Bhorbymills:
can't someone enter on a short stay visa and look for job and maybe the work can process work permit for someone ??

Yes that can only happen, when you can fly to space from Nigeria

AZUH:
please someone help oooo , i have a friend who is a German , i asked him to help me to come to his country to do business but he doesn't know how to help. please where can he get me an invitation letter in Germany? can he just write any letter and send it to me asking me to come ?any money involved in getting an invitation letter in Germany ? please help me .God bless.

Your Friend in Germany doesn't know where he can get you an invitation letter and he is German.
Dude why not come out straight. You story no follow
So i think most people may ignore your post.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQXnGgsg61g

Hilarious Satire