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A Nairalanders Experience Applying For Belgium Visa Via VFS Global by agofineboy: 5:25pm On Aug 22, 2019 |
Thinking of applying for a Belgium Visa? Well, this is a nairalanders' experience This is the warning I wished I read or knew of before making the disastrous mistake of applying for a Belgium visa on the 5/7/2019. The day started as a normal Friday, Early Morning by 8:30am, I was already at the VFS Global center in Lekki where the Belgium and some other schengen Visa applications are made. As I couldn't get an appointment for France, I opted to apply for Belgium since they are both schengen countries. A summary of my travel history, I am not a stranger to international travels in fact I have traveled and lived in the United Kingdom for over 8 years and have long running travel visa with the U.K., I have traveled to the USA and then some African countries on vacations. So by every standard, getting a Belgium visa should at least not be an issue. Well this I thought when I applied however it is shocking that 1 month and 2 weeks after my application for a visa to Belgium, I have not received even a decision and I have been calling VFS Global who I think based on my opinion and findings are complacent about my plight. I have been calling all the Belgian embassy numbers available to me on the internet ad even on one occasion I called Belgium home office as I read that they decide visa applications to tell them to just release my passports that I don't want to travel again only to be told that I have to get a reference number from their embassy in Nigeria as the reference number given to me by VFS Global is fake. Please anyone who has any contact to the Belgian embassy or any information on how to get my passports back should please advise me. I don't want to travel to Belgium again. Please just deny me the visa and release my passports. I missed my travel to the United Kingdom on Saturday the 17/8/2019 simply because I made an error of even thinking about applying for a Belgian visa. Pleass post your advice in this thread as I will be reading everything to know the next possible solution. |
Re: A Nairalanders Experience Applying For Belgium Visa Via VFS Global by agofineboy: 5:25pm On Aug 22, 2019 |
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Re: A Nairalanders Experience Applying For Belgium Visa Via VFS Global by majamajic(m): 5:27pm On Aug 22, 2019 |
sir , are u banned too from walking down to lekki , go to the office u handed over your passport and simply lay down your complains and collect your P , why the calls ? 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: A Nairalanders Experience Applying For Belgium Visa Via VFS Global by Young03(m): 5:36pm On Aug 22, 2019 |
I have no idea of all these things 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: A Nairalanders Experience Applying For Belgium Visa Via VFS Global by WorkSmartEdu: 6:11am On Aug 23, 2019 |
Things don't work that way. He would just be wasting his money by going back to the application centre because the passport has been posted to the Belgium embassy. But this is sad and ridiculous... 2months to get a Visa feedback? Haha Belgium! majamajic: 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: A Nairalanders Experience Applying For Belgium Visa Via VFS Global by cj4humanity: 12:00pm On Aug 23, 2019 |
Let's face the facts. Belgium doesn't want Nigerians anymore. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: A Nairalanders Experience Applying For Belgium Visa Via VFS Global by Thegamingorca(m): 8:44pm On Aug 23, 2019 |
cj4humanity: Ha 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: A Nairalanders Experience Applying For Belgium Visa Via VFS Global by Erasmus666: 12:02am On Aug 25, 2019 |
agofineboy: From my experience, the Belgian embassy hardly responds to phone calls. In fact most of the time their number is switched off. However they respond to emails quickly. You can reach them at abuja.visa@diplobel.fed.be Tell them about your situation and quote your full name and passport number. If possible upload a scanned copy of your passport if you have one. Sorry about all the stress. It is well. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: A Nairalanders Experience Applying For Belgium Visa Via VFS Global by Erasmus666: 12:25am On Aug 25, 2019 |
I Erasmus666: I should also mention that the reference number given by VFS (LAGO/...) is only meant for tracking the location of your passport via VFS’s website (which you can do here https://www.vfsvisaonline.com/Global-Passporttracking/Track/Index?q=shSA0YnE4pLF9Xzwon/x/DkngnsuyV06lOAvm8bxUnGJJuvKsIkLE4ykj+VjhbSUGz8qSJSq+XMAJCjUks0tMQ== ). So I highly doubt that the embassy let alone the home office in Belgium will recognize it. The number that they recognize is your visa application number which you can only get directly from the Belgian embassy. That’s probably what they meant when they said that VFS’s reference number is fake and you should get one from the embassy. They were probably thinking of the visa application number and not the reference number given by VFS. If you want to get the visa application number, the instructions on how to do so are here: https://nigeria.diplomatie.belgium.be/en/travel-to-belgium/visa#7 (see point 5). Start by tracking your passport through VFS’s website to know where it is in the first place and then send an email to the embassy. All the best. 1 Like 1 Share |
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