Anniebam:


One thing with SA visa, they are very consistent with giving silly excuses for rejection . However in this instance, you applied for VFS visa, from my observation, the decision is made by VFS not High commission, so therefore your appeal might not make any difference. However, if you are keen on going to SA, you can just re apply because ordinarily the appeal is time wasting. I actually find it funny that you even went as far as going to the high commissioner office because what exactly will your going there achieve when you applied for VFS e visa?
Just as someone stated, decisions are now made at Abuja not Lagos but that is mainly for paper application not VFS. Just correct your lapses and re apply, you might be lucky.

Thank you for your comment.

My visit to the High Commission was because the reason for the rejection was that "The Applicant should report to the High Commission for Statement Verification". Besides, I reached out to the same VFS via several un-replied emails, and also went there physically, but was turned back from the gate by an unreasonable security guard.

Correcting the lapse as you said, can you advise on what exactly the lapse(s) you think may be the reason for the Visa Officer to say an Applicant should go to the High Commission for Bank Statement verification, and how do you think, this can be addressed using the eVISA route for re-application.

Thank you for your comment.

What could have been the meaning of the reasons they gave for the rejection. I felt, this is not an objective reason "my layman opinion".

Tryhard:


They don’t allow people to gain access to that high commission at all. You should have contacted the VFS for procedures since they are the middle men to the high commission. You’d call & ask how you should go about it. I don’t know why these HC people don’t respond to mails. It’s so sad! Plus the HC at Lagos don’t do anything visa, it’s the one at Abuja that is currently issuing visas at the moment. Even if you apply at Lagos VFS, they will forward it to Abuja that day using UPS

My experience with the SA eVISA:

My wife and I applied for the SA Single Entry Visit VISA through the VFS eVISA route, and our applications were rejected. I am still trying to make meaning out of their reasons, though, and I will be glad if experts in the house can assist.

I was the primary applicant, and my wife was the secondary applicant. I submitted my statement of accounts for PoF, which has sufficient funds in Naira and USD for the two of us, and the reasons we got were:
1. Primary Applicant: I should report to the High Commission for the verification of my statement of account
2. Secondary Applicant: The PoF provided was not in the Applicant's name, even though she is not the Primary Applicant/Sponsor.

What I did after the rejection letter:
1. Sent an email to Appeal to VFS and copied all other SA High Commission-related email addresses stating with more than 7 reminders, but there was no single response.
2. Visited High Commission in Victoria Island with the hard copies of my Statement of Account - I met with the Security guards, and I was told that the staff of the SA High Commission has stopped working from the facility for some time. I was told they mostly work from home and sometimes work from VFS. I got an email address of a member of staff of the commission for follow up, and the 'fellow' refused to respond to all my emails.
3. I also visited VFS Lagos with the same documents, since they said I should report with the statement of account for verification and the hostile security guard at the gate did not want to reason with my request to access the compound so I could speak to anyone representing the SA Commission for the said verification. He was screaming at the top of his voice - "we don't verify statements of account, here", na so I turned back to my house ooo, it is not by force to go to SA.

I want to know if anyone has a similar experience and what I could have done as I still do not understand the reasons we got for the rejection.

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drafrican:
Well many things can go wrong with an application
1) if they think your financial standing is not ok ( in their mind o)I.e bank statements income vs hospital bill.cash inflow outflow,sudden increased activity etc
2) ties to your country in your case where did u plan to stay with relatives or an hotel ,what does the relative do in America if it's hotel is ur budget feasible.
3) a lot goes wrong with filling the form they have a way of asking the same question in a different format.
4)your travel history prior to marriage,your named relatives wud be checked before ur interview
5) finally American embassy is the craziest followed by shengen they can deny your visa for no sensible reason in fact they can give you a visa without looking at any document maybe it wasn't your lucky day.if everything is in order you still have time you can reapply and what reason was ticked on the rejection paper/slip
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Thank you for the response. I am still wondering what exactly the reason was.
1. No document was requested for to objectively check our financial status (Statement of Account, Budget Spreadsheet ...)
2. We would be staying in an hotel we have pre-booked online and the address was imprinted on the form we submitted.
3. No error I know of on the form, everything was vetted.
4. We both have travel history prior marriage. DH schooled in the UK, DW has been to Duabi twice for vacation.
5. Reason: Denial under Section 214(b) means that you were not able to demonstrate that your intended activities in the US would be consistent with the classification of the nonimmigrant visa for which you applied. (We applied for B2 VISA oooo)

House I need your help.

We were at the Consular today with wifey and our application was denied, abeg Gurus in the house what did we not do right for this refusal. Our transcript is below:
VO: Passport please
DH: Handed over the passport to the VO who was typing for about 10seconds
VO: Why are you going to the US
DH: To have our baby and vacation
VO: What do you do?
DH: xxxx at xxxx
DW: Bleep at xxxx
VO: How long have you been there:
DH: 18months
DW: Almost 2years now
VO: Have you both traveled before?
DH: No
VO: Typed for a few more seconds and told us our application is not successful.

We need advise please as DW is already 24weeks gone.

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