Exbb:
Thank you so much for replying..
I will just leave the trip although my interest was a one month visa..
Also, do you think I need to change a job before I can visit my friend in the UK?

Visa no be clothe dem dey buy for market. Dem no fit give you only one month visa. 😄

The visas have a validity with the minimum being for 6 months.

If you are successful in your application you will be given a 6months visa. That's the minimum span they can issue..


As for changing job. That's not the problem.

Your biggest enemy is the foreign exchange rate. Cos as long as the naira continues to dwindle no job at your level will be enough. Not unless you plan to start earning around 1million monthly for the next 6months to be between now and when you apply in six months time. So I don't really see how changing a job will help unless maybe your boyfriend comes to your rescue

Thank you so much, this is heartwarming! I will gather courage and apply. I have been shying away since because of fear. Thank you so much

MamaEEE:
Dont you think you are a bit too hard on him or her with the manner at wish you are answering the questions... my first ever trip to the uk was fully sponsored without even submitting my account statement. And I got the visa...
But @poster every man with him head ooo.
Also a friends mum just got 2years fully sponsored also 5days ago, notthing was in her account.
My best bet, apply with what you have but reduce that 1month to 2weeks...Even if u get a refuser u try again and tarkle the lope holes Its not the end of life. Non of us here work for the home office so make we dey take am easy with acting like one...

Africankel:
It is now "I" and no longer "she" and "her"?
Lmao 🤣😂😂🤣

And he or she is a master for fake bank statement.. he/she was initially on the Canadaian thread and received 5 year ban for Canada for fake bank statement… now it’s UK 10 years again for same fake bank statement. Hmm

Exbb:
Thank you so much, this is heartwarming! I will gather courage and apply. I have been shying away since because of fear. Thank you so much

I like your spirit and I pray your aim is true. But what I told you back there was the undiluted truth. Maybe if you ask madam how she did her own she can help you as well.

this one loud lol

giselle237:

And he or she is a master for fake bank statement.. he/she was initially on the Canadaian thread and received 5 year ban for Canada for fake bank statement… now it’s UK 10 years again for same fake bank statement. Hmm

Exbb:
Because of my job I want to only stay for one week but I want a one month Visa, so within that one month I can choose any of the week to travel.
The job I do as an entry level, I feel the pay is okay for my level.
My friend was in Nigeria in 2022 and I have our pictures. He has been the one saying I should try before I start my M.sc application because my parents are saying I must get an M.SC or MBA before marriage.

The minimum for visit is sha 6 months. It will be nice if you go now before you do your masters. To help build travel history for subsequent applications.

Then again I hope you are not planning on doing the masters in Nigeria.

But nawa for you oh. Must your parents decide when you ought to marry.

Any UK schools still taking intakes for January admission?

Normally he will pay for my round trip air ticket. By the way he is Nigerian but have dual citizenship. I will stay at the family house. I want to just disclose that I work because I don't want the embassy to discover later that I hide some information about myself. Because the organisation I work with is sponsored by the UK government but the organisation is in Nigeria. I just want to show my statement saying this is my money, why he also attach his bank statement too as my sponsor for the flight.

Thegamingorca:


Visa no be clothe dem dey buy for market. Dem no fit give you only one month visa. 😄

The visas have a validity with the minimum being for 6 months.

If you are successful in your application you will be given a 6months visa. That's the minimum span they can issue..


As for changing job. That's not the problem.

Your biggest enemy is the foreign exchange rate. Cos as long as the naira continues to dwindle no job at your level will be enough. Not unless you plan to start earning around 1million monthly for the next 6months to be between now and when you apply in six months time. So I don't really see how changing a job will help unless maybe your boyfriend comes to your rescue

For my masters I am considering Canada, I don't want UK.
I have travelled to Tanzania and Kenya, I don't know if that is a enough travel history.
My parents have say over my life oh, they are my sponsor and they are strong Christian 😂
So when you said I will marry him from there and never come back, I laughed because my parents will never approve such marriage.

Thegamingorca:


The minimum for visit is sha 6 months. It will be nice if you go now before you do your masters. To help build travel history for subsequent applications.

Then again I hope you are not planning on doing the masters in Nigeria.

But nawa for you oh. Must your parents decide when you ought to marry.

PhD student and post graduate research student

trigar12:
I was told students will not be able to bring dependants to the UK starting from January, are there exceptions to this?

Exbb:
For my masters I am considering Canada, I don't want UK.
I have travelled to Tanzania and Kenya, I don't know if that is a enough travel history.
My parents have say over my life oh, they are my sponsor and they are strong Christian 😂
So when you said I will marry him from there and never come back, I laughed because my parents will never approve such marriage.

My contribution to this is that you should say that you are staying for a week just as you plan as it will even help your chances. Increasing your planned length of stay will only decrease your chances.

As someone earlier pointed out, the minimum validity of your visa is 6months so you don't need to increase your originally planned stay of one week to get that.

Also, it will be nice to declare your investments and savings so it also builds up your personal finances.

All the best!

Thank you so much for your feedback!
I am grateful.
Please when you said I should declare my investment do you mean I should attach my investment letter from the investment firm to my application? I have it handy

Again the fund I used for those investments I got it from dash( na give de give me) how do I proof where I got the money from because it was since when I was year 3

SPDAZZY:


My contribution to this is that you should say that you are staying for a week just as you plan as it will even help your chances. Increasing your planned length of stay will only decrease your chances.

As someone earlier pointed out, the minimum validity of your visa is 6months so you don't need to increase your originally planned stay of one week to get that.

Also, it will be nice to declare your investments and savings so it also builds up your personal finances.

All the best!

Exbb:
For my masters I am considering Canada, I don't want UK.
I have travelled to Tanzania and Kenya, I don't know if that is a enough travel history.
My parents have say over my life oh, they are my sponsor and they are strong Christian 😂
So when you said I will marry him from there and never come back, I laughed because my parents will never approve such marriage.

Nice African countries. They should count to an extent but only if within the last ten years.

Exbb:
Thank you so much for your feedback!
I am grateful.
Please when you said I should declare my investment do you mean I should attach my investment letter from the investment firm to my application? I have it handy

Again the fund I used for those investments I got it from dash( na give de give me) how do I proof where I got the money from because it was since when I was year 3

To be frank anything that will cause headache with regards finances or cast aspersions on the credibility of the funds you are putting before them should be properly ironed out.

Especially because this is your first application.

You are an employee making so so so salary and was employed with so so so amount to be received every month. You have so so so money in your account balance which should only be credited by your company's bank

Out of that money you earn every month, you spend so so so monthly leaving you with so so so disposable income monthly.

I have collected casual leave letter from work of 1 week duration and I am expected back on so so so date. I love my work and I was recently promoted to so so so position with a bump in my salary to so so so amount.

I intend to travel but my friend in the UK has decided to cover my accomodation and flight ticket. He is a medical doctor and a citizen of great Britain and Northern Ireland. Here is the breakdown of what I intend to spend during my stay:

like this Sef no still gel

[quote author=MamaEEE post=127239935]Dont you think you are a bit too hard on him or her with the manner at wish you are answering the questions... my first ever trip to the uk was fully sponsored without even submitting my account statement. And I got the visa...
But @poster every man with him head ooo.
Also a friends mum just got 2years fully sponsored also 5days ago, notthing was in her account.
My best bet, apply with what you have but reduce that 1month to 2weeks...Even if u get a refuser u try again and tarkle the lope holes Its not the end of life. Non of us here work for the home office so make we dey take am easy with acting like one...


Well said. Everybody's luck is different because no matter what we all say here, a little bit of luck is needed for visa application.

Thank you so much!
I travelled this year for those trip.

Thegamingorca:


Nice African countries. They should count to an extent but only if within the last ten years.

Wow! This is so helpful.
Thank you so much! Thank you everyone.. Thank you for sharing with me your opinion on my issue. I have been able to pick some vital information here. I'm optimistic that I will share my goodnews soon.

Thegamingorca:


To be frank anything that will cause headache with regards finances or cast aspersions on the credibility of the funds you are putting before them should be properly ironed out.

Especially because this is your first application.

You are an employee making so so so salary and was employed with so so so amount to be received every month. You have so so so money in your account balance which should only be credited by your company's bank

Out of that money you earn every month, you spend so so so monthly leaving you with so so so disposable income monthly.

I have collected casual leave letter from work of 1 week duration and I am expected back on so so so date. I love my work and I was recently promoted to so so so position with a bump in my salary to so so so amount.

I intend to travel but my friend in the UK has decided to cover my accomodation and flight ticket. He is a medical doctor and a citizen of great Britain and Northern Ireland. Here is the breakdown of what I intend to spend during my stay:

like this Sef no still gel

Hello everyone,

Today makes it 15 working days after biometrics done at TLS Abuja.
No email from TLS.
What should I do now?

Thank you

lolapeace:
Hello everyone,

Today makes it 15 working days after biometrics done at TLS Abuja.
No email from TLS.
What should I do now?

Thank you

What do you mean by no email? Have you tracked it? Is it visit visa or spousal visa or work visa? Have you applied before? Did you use agent?


Are you an agent

Thegamingorca:



What do you mean by no email? Have you tracked it? Is it visit visa or spousal visa or work visa?

It is visiting visa. On the tracker, it says "Application Received By DMC" - it has been at this stage since the day after capturing.

I'm not an agent.

Thank you

Thegamingorca:


To be frank anything that will cause headache with regards finances or cast aspersions on the credibility of the funds you are putting before them should be properly ironed out.

You are right, however, since the investment certificate will most likely date at least 2years back since she said she made the investment in her year 3, I believe it shouldn't cause much issues as it's evidently not done for the purpose of this application.

Also given that there is a column for her to input additional income, she can declare allowances from family and friends. This can prove source of investment funds and also as she earns about 190k and she doesn't spend much from it as she says, there must definitely be money coming from elsewhere that takes care of her expenses.

My thoughts though but you and other gurus can give more insight.

Exbb:
Thank you so much for your feedback!
I am grateful.
Please when you said I should declare my investment do you mean I should attach my investment letter from the investment firm to my application? I have it handy

Again the fund I used for those investments I got it from dash( na give de give me) how do I proof where I got the money from because it was since when I was year 3

Thank you so much!
Most of my allowances that I use for spending are from my friend, parents and siblings.
I don't touch my salary, so I am thinking of stopping my friend from sending any money to my salary account but to the second account I use for my expenses, this I believe will help reduce questioning of some credit alert not from my company. Again how do I account for inflow and no outflow inform of expenses if I use this approach?

SPDAZZY:


You are right, however, since the investment certificate will most likely date at least 2years back since she said she made the investment in her year 3, I believe it shouldn't cause much issues as it's evidently not done for the purpose of this application.

Also given that there is a column for her to input additional income, she can declare allowances from family and friends. This can prove source of investment funds and also as she earns about 190k and she doesn't spend much from it as she says, there must definitely be money coming from elsewhere that takes care of her expenses.

My thoughts though but you and other gurus can give more insight.

lolapeace:


It is visiting visa. On the tracker, it says "Application Received By DMC" - it has been at this stage since the day after capturing.

I'm not an agent.

Thank you

Did you receive mail suggesting the application and your passport had arrived at the DMC?

Exbb:
Thank you so much!
Most of my allowances that I use for spending are from my friend, parents and siblings.
I don't touch my salary, so I am thinking of stopping my friend from sending any money to my salary account but to the second account I use for my expenses, this I believe will help reduce questioning of some credit alert not from my company. Again how do I account for inflow and no outflow inform of expenses if I use this approach?

If you are also disclosing the other one. You could explain the funds are spent from there.

But then again, I cant in good conscience advice anyone to do that considering "the unknown can of worms" for questions this will no doubt stir-up.

Petty things like why can't you use the one in your salary instead of the other one? Suspicious of you not owning the money and all that. So abeg. Is it possible you use out of your salary for now?

And how much have you accumulated in there?
If it's more than times 10 of your monthly salary that one fit still be problem.

Thegamingorca:

Did you receive mail suggesting the application and your passport had arrived at the DMC?

Yes please. I had long received an email stating that my application has been received by the DMC.

Thank you

lolapeace:


Yes please. I received had long received an email stating that my application has been received by the DMC.

Thank you

Okay then you don't have any business waiting for them to respond. The passport is with them. Just keep calm and keep refreshing the tracking. Since it's 15 working days already, it should be moved back to vac this evening.

Or kukuma check the mail for anything they might have requested you to provide or to do.

Which bank statement did you submit? Cos sometimes dey might want to delay due to failure of banks to respond on time

Thank you so much.
I will not be disclosing my second account, it is my miscellaneous account.

If I get you clearly sir, please are you saying that I do something like this: Receive 190k every Month, spend or transfer 40k as my monthly expenses to my second account. Then I will state that the 40k every month is my monthly expenses? Even though I know I might not touch the 40k if I transfer it to the second account. I'm not disclosing my second account at all to anyone.
I only want to make the inflow and outflow in my account align and channel credit alert not from my salary for now to the second account. Do this make enough sense please?
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Thegamingorca:


If you are also disclosing the other one. You could explain the funds are spent from there.

But then again, I cant in good conscience advice anyone to do that considering "the unknown can of worms" for questions this will no doubt stir-up.

Petty things like why can't you use the one in your salary instead of the other one? Suspicious of you not owning the money and all that. So abeg. Is it possible you use out of your salary for now?

And how much have you accumulated in there?
If it's more than times 10 of your monthly salary that one fit still be problem.

Hello House,

please can anybody recommend cheap flight to manchester or london gatwick
date- december end to january 5th

Bolaadeogun:
Hello people,

Please I need assistance on how I can use courier service for passport collection. I did not opt for it during biometrics. Who knows the process to take

http://pos.tlscontact.com/abv_en/contact-form?type=services
This is the link we used for passport courier services when our passport came out.So click & fill up they will mail u after couple of days with how to make payment etc.

Exbb:
Thank you so much.
I will not be disclosing my second account, it is my miscellaneous account.

If I get you clearly sir, please are you saying that I do something like this: Receive 190k every Month, spend or transfer 40k as my monthly expenses to my second account. Then I will state that the 40k every month is my monthly expenses? Even though I know I might not touch the 40k if I transfer it to the second account. I'm not disclosing my second account at all to anyone.
I only want to make the inflow and outflow in my account align and channel credit alert not from my salary for now to the second account. Do this make enough sense please?
I

Yup that should suffice.

Please is there any way I can confirm authenticity of COS before going ahead to apply for visa, I was given one bit I dnt know if it's fake

Good morning all

Please who have an idea about this new rule set by the UK govt that before you board d flight despite having visa,u must apply for ETA something which i cant really remember the name

Do we know if the law has taken any effect?