I usually don't post any topics on Nairaland but this story came to my attention and was so ludicrous I just had to share.


Now personally I have vowed NEVER to use agent(s) for any travel processes. From doing my passport to school applications and visas, I always do everything myself no matter how complicated the process is. I sometimes may end up doing it more than 3-4 weeks later just because i needed to understand the process first before getting started but the upside is that I have all information at my fingertips and don't expose my details unnecessarily. I even remember almost bringing down the immigration office in Port Harcourt simply because I would not part with a penny more than what was the official fee.

A lady i know (by proxy) was completing her student visa tenure in the UK and wanted to switch to the post-study 2-year visa. The home office responded to her application by asking what about the status of her dependent (husband/ partner). Being a single girl, she replied that she didn't have one but the home office insisted that there was someone on file as her dependant.

She had used an agent to carry out the entire process and went back to him to ask what that was all about. He denied knowing anything so she asked for more information from the home office. It was a this point that they gave her the 'dependent's' details including his name, picture etc. Confronted with this information, the agent had no option but to confess that after she had left, he had sold the dependant slot to a RANDOM PERSON who was now in the UK living there.

At this point, a normal person (aka ME) would have gone back to the home office with this information and a recording of the agent's phone call and thrown them all under the bus. After all I don't know them and they were ready to risk my future for their own gain. This young lady unbelievably agreed to take a letter of divorce and say that he was her former husband back to the British government. Needless to say both she and the guy (wherever he is) have been banned for 10 years and asked to leave the country.

Point being: DO NOT under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES part with your personal information to (just) any Nigerian agents. I understand that there may be a few reputable ones but in my opinion, the risk is just way too high to be sharing your information upandan.

My two cents.

Chosimba:
I usually don't post any topics on Nairaland but this story came to my attention and was so ludicrous I just had to share.


Now personally I have vowed NEVER to use agent(s) for any travel processes. From doing my passport to school applications and visas, I always do everything myself no matter how complicated the process is. I sometimes may end up doing it more than 3-4 weeks later just because i needed to understand the process first before getting started but the upside is that I have all information at my fingertips and don't expose my details unnecessarily. I even remember almost bringing down the immigration office in Port Harcourt simply because I would not part with a penny more than what was the official fee.

A lady i know (by proxy) was completing her student visa tenure in the UK and wanted to switch to the post-study 2-year visa. The home office responded to her application by asking what about the status of her dependent (husband/ partner). Being a single girl, she replied that she didn't have one but the home office insisted that there was someone on file as her dependant.

She had used an agent to carry out the entire process and went back to him to ask what that was all about. He denied knowing anything so she asked for more information from the home office. It was a this point that they gave her the 'dependent's' details including his name, picture etc. Confronted with this information, the agent had no option but to confess that after she had left, he had sold the dependant slot to a RANDOM PERSON who was now in the UK living there.

At this point, a normal person (aka ME) would have gone back to the home office with this information and a recording of the agent's phone call and thrown them all under the bus. After all I don't know them and they were ready to risk my future for their own gain. This young lady unbelievably agreed to take a letter of divorce and say that he was her former husband back to the British government. Needless to say both she and the guy (wherever he is) have been banned for 10 years and asked to leave the country.

Point being: DO NOT under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES part with your personal information to (just) any Nigerian agents. I understand that there may be a few reputable ones but in my opinion, the risk is just way too high to be sharing your information upandan.

My two cents.

Majority of the people using agents dont meet the requirements and need someone to help them “package “ the application. Others are too lazy to read.

With all the awareness on cos scam in uk by some agents. Some people still got scammed of over 300m naira in a WhatsApp group after they all paid for care cos. No matter what you say people will still go and use agents.

Coastmigration coast migration on IG using +234 9135062921 is a scammer and fraud. Avoid them