abuwidad:


Check staffordshire university, but hope you got good work experience if you've been out of school for long

Thank you please someone with other university please

Goof morning all, any update on TLS Ikeja on date..?

Thank you.

What about if it is not assisted service?

duchess90:
Hello

There are lots of sample consent letter on Google but here's on that was done by someone on Nairaland. Fine tune it to fit your circumstances and remove bits on Covid

2. If it is assisted service then go with original copies of the documents stated on your CAS

3. Dependants will need to include proof of relationship for your spouse marriage certificate and other evidence of marriage. for kids birth cert. Don't forget your evidence of maintenance

To make it easier, go through the thread and look out for people's timelines and documents submitted to make your list


Cheers

Congratulations

Covidiott:
visa alert!!!

Standard visa application

Family of 2, Husband Main applicant.

IELTS- February 2022
Admission- Northumbria Uni London campus April 2022
Unconditional offer after £5500 tuition deposit May 26th 2022
TB- June 15th IOM Abuja
CAS Granted - 30th June 2022
Visa Application- July 2nd, 2022.
Biometrics for MA & Dependent TLS Abuja: 15th July 2022
Collection mail for MA- August 1st 2022
DHL Delivery- August 4th 2022 with vignette looking pretty In passport.

Collection Mail Dependent- August 4th
Awaiting Dependent passport to be delivered via DHL.

No NSF.

uchihak:
I have a question. Please how long can u give an estimate on when it takes most schools to update student record after paying initial deposit through Form A

This is depending on the school, how fast their admission team is/the volume of applications they're getting. But usually it can take one day to a few weeks.

For some schools you can pay deposit, have the payment confirmed and get your CAS all within 48 hours.

Paid on 6th of June using black market. Applied for Cas on 20th of June. People who applied on 15th July got CAS

NaughtyBrainiac:
Were you the one that delayed in making payment or delayed in providing some documents?

Masters77:
Got deferment mail this morning informing me I have been automatically moved to resume in January. This is after almost 3months of running POF and the mental stress. I wish everyone still waiting for CAS from Derby good luck.

There was no empathy in the mail they sent. They made it look like it's no big deal but knowing what we know here, they f**ked up

if you are on Budget January is better .16months in the uk plus 2 year PSW

Hello guys


TLS V.I works on Saturday right? I am looking at getting there 7am for walk in. I know I will wait.

Chiamaka206:
I have my CAS now but I don't know the next thing

After CAS, the next thing is to apply for your visa using your CAS. However, there are other requirements you need to add to your CAS for the visa application.

1. Your Tuberculosis test result has to be uploaded for you and if you have dependants, they must also have their results ready because it is needed

2. Your POF statement: This is the financial proof of your tuition fee balance+9 months maintenance fee for yourself. If you have dependants, then it must be added too. This has to be in your account for 28 days and you can use the print out within 31days of printing.

3. Prepare for your IHS and visa fees: This is paid in dollars, pounds or euro currency but most people pay in dollars. You can pay with anyone.

All these documents are standard documents you will add to what is stated in your CAS that you used to secure admission to then apply for visa.

Other documents are individual dependent.

Goodmorning all, please is the passport validity for dependent application 3months or 6months ? Thank you.

Masters77:
Paid on 6th of June using black market. Applied for Cas on 20th of June. People who applied on 15th July got CAS

They owe you an explanation, a genuine one at that.

Have you sent them an email?

You are their customer and they should treat you well.

Chiamaka206:
What is the total money I will pay for the visa? Will I be able to stay in the UK after I finish?

IHS for yourself and other dependants if you have.

Visa fees for yourself and other dependants if you have any.

IHS: $881 ( 1 year)
Visa fee: $454

There can be slight differences in the visa and IHS fee. Also IHS fee differs depending on length of your program.

Kuvalis:
Send me your contact and I’ll help you.

This has to stop here

duchess90:
Hello
Divorced in Jan ( is that the decree nisi or absolute)
How long has he known this new GF
How is he suddenly ready to adopt his GF's daughter?
I agree with the other person that says it screams desperation and in my opinion his chances are slim
Apart from that the single mum has a lot of work to do before getting her daughter's visa
Cheers

Good day and thanks for the good work you're doing here.

Please, I'll need your advice concerning this.

I was finally able to do something about my tuition payment, and I'm sure it'll be dropping this month of August. Unfortunately, I had not started my POF counting, hence I won't be able to meet up with resumption date of 27th.

Now, the course does not have a January start date (it's Education) and the school is saying they can defer me till August 2023.

I want to send them a mail to allow me join through online classes till I am physically present by September. (The timetable states we have several weeks of theory classes before going for placement by October)

Am I being too pushy or have UK schools stopped online classes for late "resumers"?

Lesson for others: If you have hope your tuition payment will go through, please gather your funds together and start counting for your POF

ZiggyMr:
@Duchess,
1. When ukvi send NSF mail, do they send it to email address on Visa application?

2. Paid mail done says decision made on MA application but 2 dependants are still awaiting decision. Does this call for concern?

Tension dey high o

Hello Duchess and other Gurus,
Kindly see my questions.

Many thanks for this write-up, it was helpful.
But ,what if an applicant doesn't perform well at the Pre-cas questionnaire or credibility interview (God forbid),will the school refund the initial tuitIon deposit paid? What should we expect and prepare for the Pre-cas interview.kindly put me through.

NaughtyBrainiac:


Hello Chiamaka and others that need this,

Let me make your work easier.

1. You apply to schools using:

a. Your first degree certificate ( BSc or HND)
b. Transcript
c. Biodata page of International Passport
d. CV
e. Referees
f. Statement of Purpose

2. You are offered Conditional admission or Unconditional admission ( Conditional in most cases).
For Conditional, you will be requested to provide some additional documents in order to get Unconditional offer. e.g Official Transcript, Scratch card to confirm your WAEC Engish Language grade online etc

3. You will make Tuition deposit payment if you are okay with the school. This can be done via form A or by paying using a domiciliary account debit card. Form A is cheaper but takes between 3 weeks and 10 weeks. For a Tuition Deposit of £4k, you can save up to N900,000 if you use form A.

4. You will go for Tuberculosis Test at IOM. There is Lagos center and Abuja Centre. The cost is N57,800 for 11 years and above. N21,320 or so for children below 11 years.

5. There's something called Poof of Fund. This is your Tuition Balance + Living expenses in the UK.

Living Cost for London:
Main Applicant is £1334 × 9months
Dependant is £845 × 9months

Living Cost outside London:
Main Applicant is 1023 × 9months
Dependant is 680 × 9months

Let's calculate POF for a student outside London with Total Tuition of £14 and Tuition Deposit of £4k.
Remember that POF is Tuition Balance + Living Cost
£10,000 + £9207 = £19,207

To get the naira value, you use the OANDA currency converter. Just search OANDA on Google.

Using an OANDA rate of Let's say 510 naira per pound, we have 19207 × 510 = N9,795,570. You can approximate your POF to be N11,000,000.

This means that you must maintain a minimum of 11m in your account for at least 28 days before you apply for visa.

6. After Tuition Deposit Payment is confirmed by the school, the school issues Unconditional Admission Offer after you must have provided required documents.

7. You begin CAS process by undergoing Credibility Check. This is a check conducted by the school to confirm if you are a genuine student.
Some schools call it CAS questionnaire, Some call it Pre-cas interview etc

8. If you provide satisfactory responses, you will be issued a statement or document called Condition of Acceptance for Studies (CAS). This is somewhat the most important document in this journey. It is what shows that a licensed school is sponsoring you to school in the UK.
[b]If your responses are not satisfactory, you will NOT be issued CAS and your admission offer will be withdrawn (you will be given more than one attempt)

9. Visa Application.

You will be scheduled for biometrics( Not visa interview) after filling the online application form and paying IHS and VISA fees.
IHS is Insurance Health Surcharge for your health insurance while in the UK.
IHS is £705 for one year per person
Visa is £363 per person

There are 3 centres for biometrics capturing in Nigeria. Abuja TLS, Ikeja TLS and VI TLS

10. Travel to the UK after visa is issued.

This is a summary of A-Z process. Sleep don dey catch me, I wan go sleep

Yampotatocarrot:


Good day and thanks for the good work you're doing here.

Please, I'll need your advice concerning this.

I was finally able to do something about my tuition payment, and I'm sure it'll be dropping this month of August. Unfortunately, I had not started my POF counting, hence I won't be able to meet up with resumption date of 27th.

Now, the course does not have a January start date (it's Education) and the school is saying they can defer me till August 2023.

I want to send them a mail to allow me join through online classes till I am physically present by September. (The timetable states we have several weeks of theory classes before going for placement by October)

Am I being too pushy or have UK schools stopped online classes for late "resumers"?

Lesson for others: If you have hope your tuition payment will go through, please gather your funds together and start counting for your POF

Only if you use black market to pay your deposit you will have such guarantee, otherwise wait for your form a funds to reach the school, before you can make a concrete deceison on POF. remember you have another waiting time for CAS.
Because there are no longer covid restrictions in the UK, lectures and assessment are returning to pre-covid era. online classes may no longer be possible except the course is distant learning on its own, though some lecturer may decide to record the class and put it on Blackboard. that is if you are lucky.

Munamoqel:
if you are on Budget January is better .16months in the uk plus 2 year PSW

Hi, please can you please explain why it will be 16 months instead of 1 year if he applies for January intake. Thank you in advance.

Congratulations!!

Covidiott:
visa alert!!!

Standard visa application

Family of 2, Husband Main applicant.

IELTS- February 2022
Admission- Northumbria Uni London campus April 2022
Unconditional offer after £5500 tuition deposit May 26th 2022
TB- June 15th IOM Abuja
CAS Granted - 30th June 2022
Visa Application- July 2nd, 2022.
Biometrics for MA & Dependent TLS Abuja: 15th July 2022
Collection mail for MA- August 1st 2022
DHL Delivery- August 4th 2022 with vignette looking pretty In passport.

Collection Mail Dependent- August 4th
Awaiting Dependent passport to be delivered via DHL.

No NSF.

Please is there any how one can retrieve refusal letter in 2015 from the uk high commission.
School asked for the uk refusal letter in 2015 and I dont have it any more

Congratulations
I also pray that my husband will receive his collection mail before the end of today Amen

Covidiott:
visa alert!!!

Standard visa application

Family of 2, Husband Main applicant.

IELTS- February 2022
Admission- Northumbria Uni London campus April 2022
Unconditional offer after £5500 tuition deposit May 26th 2022
TB- June 15th IOM Abuja
CAS Granted - 30th June 2022
Visa Application- July 2nd, 2022.
Biometrics for MA & Dependent TLS Abuja: 15th July 2022
Collection mail for MA- August 1st 2022
DHL Delivery- August 4th 2022 with vignette looking pretty In passport.

Collection Mail Dependent- August 4th
Awaiting Dependent passport to be delivered via DHL.

No NSF.

Please who knows of any online dollar card that can be used to make payment for IHS. It's weekend already, and I don't think I can get a dorm card.

thelonehermit:


Hi, please can you please explain why it will be 16 months instead of 1 year if he applies for January intake. Thank you in advance.

Because the january session is structured such that you have 3 months summer holiday where you can work full time (June,July,August) ,at least for most courses.

thelonehermit:


Hi, please can you please explain why it will be 16 months instead of 1 year if he applies for January intake. Thank you in advance.

it take 12 months plus 4 extra to complete thesis .while September is 9 months

Kindly clarify that all these institutions you have listed below offered you admission on a Masters programme with just a 3rd class and no work experience at all or additional qualification?

enesty:


University of west of Scotland
London metropolitan University
Aberystwyth University
Swansea University
Bradford University
Bedfordshire University
They plenty. I got like 5 admission with a third class

HSalamanca:


This is depending on the school, how fast their admission team is/the volume of applications they're getting. But usually it can take one day to a few weeks.

For some schools you can pay deposit, have the payment confirmed and get your CAS all within 48 hours.

Who has used AccessBank form A here and what are the documents uploaded. Because I have upload all the necessary documents yet they still asking for more. Maybe I should just avoid that them.

In clear terms explain what you were engaged in. Were you buying and selling? you can mention that you were on an entrepreneurship Journey trading in ---------. You can detail why you started this journey. e,g you noticed that there was a gap in the market and you could meet the demands at a much cheaper cost on -------- products. you can end with the skills you gained during this period e.g you expanded your network, improved your product knowledge, selling skills and are now equipped to run a successful business.

No stories of grandeur, just plain, logical explanations.

Flemor:
Please house,
I got a conditional offer stating I need to explain the study gap between 2009 when I finished sec shld and 2013 when I got admission. I used those periods to hustle
Pls how best can I explain?

Check with Astropay

Resilient97:
Please who knows of any online dollar card that can be used to make payment for IHS. It's weekend already, and I don't think I can get a dorm card.

Dollylap:

My wife and I did biometrics on the 22nd and 24th of June respectively. My wife got collection mail on the 13th of July. No collection mail for me yet till dis moment. Waited for 10 working days, now on escalation days. May God have mercy on us�. The waiting is so frustrating

Same here. June 23rd. Vi tls 1 empty nsf for myself and two for my dependant. Had to escalate five days ago. I’m tired.

eyinju001:


After CAS, the next thing is to apply for your visa using your CAS. However, there are other requirements you need to add to your CAS for the visa application.

1. Your Tuberculosis test result has to be uploaded for you and if you have dependants, they must also have their results ready because it is needed

2. Your POF statement: This is the financial proof of your tuition fee balance+9 months maintenance fee for yourself. If you have dependants, then it must be added too. This has to be in your account for 28 days and you can use the print out within 31days of printing.

3. Prepare for your IHS and visa fees: This is paid in dollars, pounds or euro currency but most people pay in dollars. You can pay with anyone.

All these documents are standard documents you will add to what is stated in your CAS that you used to secure admission to then apply for visa.

Other documents are individual dependent.

With everything I have learn since yesterday. Is not CAS that I have. Is the conditioner admission letter. They say I should submit another personal statement. Will I need personal statement for visa too?

Good morning everyone thanks to everyone contributing to this wonderful thread….pls my question is this,my husband and I have started our journey to Uk on study visa and I’ll be going as his dependant he has received conditional offer already for Jan intake and he’s on the process to pay deposit in other to receive cas,but my question is that my passport will expire April 2023 and I heard when one wants to apply for visa the passport must be at least 6months to expiry…so I want to confirm how true this is so I’ll know if I should apply for another passport now before it gets to the time we’ll apply for visa….thank you

Elolam87:
Many thanks for this write-up, it was helpful.
But ,what if an applicant doesn't perform well at the Pre-cas questionnaire or credibility interview (God forbid),will the school refund the initial tuitIon deposit paid? What should we expect and prepare for the Pre-cas interview.kindly put me through.

Yes, Tuition Deposit will be refunded but Administration fees will be taken.

1. Why did you choose to school in the UK?

2. Is your course of study not available in your home country? If available, why the UK?

3. Which UK schools did you apply, tell us about your research into these schools.

4. Why did you choose the University you chose?

5. Why did you choose your course of study?

6. What relationship does your chosen course of study have with your previous Education?

7. What particular course modules are of interest to you and how do they relate to your future career plans?

8. Last Educational course, Date and what you have been doing since then?

9. What are your Post-study career plans? How do you expect this course to provide a return on your investment?

10. Tell us about your research into expected accommodation/living arrangements in the UK.

11. Tell us about your financial circumstances and how you are funding your study. Are you currently working ? Is your family contributing to the cost of your studies?

12. Tell us about your plans for supporting yourself financially throughout your study.

13. Do you have family in the UK already?

14. Do you plan to work in the UK etc