Jinix:

Submitted a visa application for my wife,son and i on 21/05/2011 and picked up the visa today. Took 2 weeks exacltly and was given 6 months visa.

Jinix:

Submitted a visa application for my wife,son and i on 21/05/2011 and picked up the visa today. Took 2 weeks exacltly and was given 6 months visa.

Ops E:

Guys,
Keep the good work you are doing here up.
Can someone tell me what is the waiting time at VFS office in Abuja?, what is the crowd like and how organised are the staff?
Is it possible for me to drop my application and submit my biometric details same day? I need this to plan my movement to Abuja next week.

Your response will be highly appreciated.

Advice On Uk Visa
« on: Today at 12:01:45 AM »

Would appreciate if people with recent experience of applying for a UK visit visa in the VFS centre in Lagos.

1. On submitting your application, do you pay the visa fees at the VFS office?
2. Do you submit the biometric details [finger print, etc] immediately or are you given a different appointment date.
3. what is the crowd like in these centres and how organised are the staff
4. what is the average waiting time for a visit visa application nowadays.

Kind regards

dejumotalks:

@Justwise, I intend to apply for a visiting visa to to the UK to go visit my wife(Post Grad. Student) July next month . The snag is dat her accommodation is in School.

I want to know if she can use dis as a place for me to stay during my visit or she should get an off campus accommodation OR I would have to make Hotel reservations?
I also want to know what Important documents she needs to get across to aid my application at the embassy.

I have the marriage certs, wedding pix, 1.5m bank statement and a relatively bouyant monthly income >150k.

PLease responses will be well appreciated!

U guys are doing a great job on this forum,

dejumotalks:

@Justwise, I intend to apply for a visiting visa to to the UK to go visit my wife(Post Grad. Student) July next month . The snag is dat her accommodation is in School.
I want to know if she can use dis as a place for me to stay during my visit or she should get an off campus accommodation OR I would have to make Hotel reservations?
I also want to know what Important documents she needs to get across to aid my application at the embassy.
I have the marriage certs, wedding pix, 1.5m bank statement and a relatively bouyant monthly income >150k.
PLease responses will be well appreciated!
U guys are doing a great job on this forum,

cretin:

i applied last yr, did everything same day. paid the visa fee there too, cost 500 bucks extra, the trick is to go very early, that way u can finish early too, remember to pay for the sms alert.
did mine in lagos

adeniyi7:

hi, ,,l went to invite my brother to my graduation in uk. is this family visitor or General visitor?

shithapuns:

sms alert cost n400 naira, they will notify you that your visa app has been received and also that your can come and collect your passport - they wudnt tell u if u were succesful or not in the sms.
submited mine on monday, got the sms on wednesday!, went to lagos on friday collected my passport/visa, i was succesful

dejumotalks:

@Vic thanks a great deal for the info, well appreciated. But may I ask ;
* Correspondence ? In what form cos all we do is BBMsnger and skype talk.

dejumotalks:

*Bank Statement for 6months?, She just got dere February and has not been working.

dejumotalks:

*Utility Bills?, She is school campus accomodation Hall of Residence where payment made is inclusive of their Bills.

dejumotalks:

*Letter of Consent?, From her or from school to allow us stay in her room.
Can u please help clarify this and what are other options.

Vicjustice:

   I can understand what you mean, but unfortunately you don't expect Visa Officers to show you same understanding without documented proof. It is important to be aware of the fact that Visa Officers are trained to have suspicious attitude toward applicants, and even marriages are suspected to be fraudulent until proven otherwise; therefore, if you don't have any evidence of communication with your wife, then you are just not prepared for the visa application.
 

Vicjustice:

   If she doesn't have any financial capability, then the attentions will be turned on your own financial status; and to be honest, i'm afraid you might have some problem here because, the 1.5 million naira that you stated you have is less than 6000 UK Pounds, therefore a Visa Officer might not want to believe that you're willing to spend your life savings just to visit your wife.

dejumotalks:

  So I need more than 1.5m in my account to apply for a 1week visit

As for accomodation, might just opt for Hotel Reservation, . . .

muami:

While I agree that evidence of subsisting relationship is a requirement, applicants from Nigeria can easily satisfy this requirement by producing thier marriage certificate and some wedding pictures because Nigeria is not among the countries for high risk iin terms of marrage documents. (high risk countries for arrangee marriage are india, pakistan and nepal).

muami:
I also disagree with this point. Under the point based system, the financial requirement to get a dependant visa is a maximum of £3600 if the school is outside of London (i.e 400 X 9 months) or £4797 if it is inside London (i.e 533 X 9) . It is therefore illogical for a visa to be refused in this case where the available amount is even more than that required for a dependant visa which has a longer duration.

Vicjustice:

   Nigeria is a very suspect when it comes to fraud, i don't know where you got your list from; ain't it questionable that you mentioned Nepal with the omission of Nigeria from the list?

Vicjustice:

   Now, deducting "the financial requirement of £4800" from his total savings of less than £6000 pounds, how much money would be left for him when he returns to Nigeria? And what if he decides to do some shopping whilst in the UK?

Vicjustice:

   Look, i'm writing this from experience and my knowledge on Immigration issues, not just putting down what is written in the requirement terms. So, you may encourage him to apply for the visa if you want him to loss his money; But i will confidently tell you that it would take a special miracle for a visa officer to issue a visa to an applicant whose life savings would be badly affected by a visit to the UK. Period

dejumotalks:

@Justwise, I intend to apply for a visiting visa to to the UK to go visit my wife(Post Grad. Student) July next month . The snag is dat her accommodation is in School.

I want to know if she can use dis as a place for me to stay during my visit or she should get an off campus accommodation OR I would have to make Hotel reservations?
I also want to know what Important documents she needs to get across to aid my application at the embassy.

I have the marriage certs, wedding pix, 1.5m bank statement and a relatively bouyant monthly income >150k.

PLease responses will be well appreciated!

U guys are doing a great job on this forum,

dejumotalks:

@Vic, Thanks for your responses and advise, very well appreciated. So what do u suggest please! How should i go about it? (Bros,Body no be firewood O )
And I would like to point that the 1.5m is definately not life savings just to put in the account as part of the criteria from posts I ave been reading so far.

anfanio:

Ops E,
No. The important thing is the name and address, you do not have anything to do with the figures(privacy), the commission knows how to get the information if necessary.