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Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by Coolhaywhy(m): 1:13pm On Jul 19
@giselle237

Many thanks for your feedback.

Appreciate.
Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by OILOFGLADNESS: 1:16pm On Jul 19
blackboy2star:
Hello House.. Please I need help.
I am trying to pay TLS for weeks now using my four different cards and always return unsuccessful. I want to pay for self services with FLEXI cos the application is for three of us, Myself, wife and daughter choosing IKEJA submission center.
Below is what's showing on TLS after logging-in now on my application and that of the other two.
Please what to do and how can i contact TLS over this?



I am having same challenge, please how did you resolve this

i tried several times but same thing, i even tried prime time , Infact it stated transaction successful and afterward it say blocked
Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by hardeybissie(f): 1:55pm On Jul 19
mekanta7:

I got my passport with my visa delivered today.

Hi, please when did you resubmit your passport?
Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by OILOFGLADNESS: 2:01pm On Jul 19
Dear Gurus

Please i have been having challenges with booking appoint ment
even wen i selected prime time,
The transaction will be Then it will show transaction bloocked
No debit either in my account,

Please help
Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by OILOFGLADNESS: 2:22pm On Jul 19
OILOFGLADNESS:

Dear Gurus

Please i have been having challenges with booking appoint ment
even wen i selected prime time,
The transaction will be Then it will show transaction bloocked
No debit either in my account,

Please help


see the screenshort

Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by PremiumTrends(m): 2:39pm On Jul 19
Good Afternoon, @cashmadam, @gurus

I applied for my visa on Wednesday and attached my POF, my POF was 36 days, but my POF is expiring today which is Friday, would it affect my chances of getting a visa?

Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by OILOFGLADNESS: 2:57pm On Jul 19
@cash madam
@gurus

Can we make payment for visa appointment on TLS platform with naira card

IS there any means to contact them for appointment and then make payment on arrival

I am really frustrated , i have been trying to book the this appointment since monday


Please assist me
Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by OILOFGLADNESS: 3:56pm On Jul 19
Also at what point am i supposed to upload my document for TLs biometrics
Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by Hershaby(f): 4:45pm On Jul 19
abubakar123olat:
This is taking too longe Please what kind of visa category is this ? Or is it a dependant visa
Dependant Visa
Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by arikk001: 5:44pm On Jul 19
Good evening Giselle. Thank you for your brilliant input. I love your brutal yet honest responses.

However, it's true that I earn 84+ as a civil servant.
It is also true that my husband sends me ₦250k as monthly allowance for upkeep. Out of this money, ₦40k is expended for both our daughters monthly upkeep and the remaining balance ₦210k is left for my own personal upkeep.

It is also true that my tenant paid me 490k annual rent to my account ( the tenant rented that place last year April and renewed the rent this year April). I submitted receipt given to the tenant, tenancy agreement and the property deed of assignment and change of ownership from my State Housing and Property Authority bearing both me and hubby's name was attached.)

In the extra information, I explained these funds in my statement and these are the only funds that enter my account and where I do all my normal monthly expenses as I don't have any other cash income asides these monies.
But I explained also that I had 1 landed properties owned soley by me and 2 owned jointly by my husband and I.

I also submitted 2 of my husband's personal savings accounts statements (Naira and Pound Sterling) showing earnings from his business, his company Registration Documents and CAC certificate (his company is also active on the website).

I also submitted my marriage certificate, all my kids birth certificates, our family pictures and explained that I wasn't traveling with them and would come back to them after my vacation.

I also submitted copies of my 6- months expired UK visit Visa in 2013 and my student visa in 2015.

As for travel Intentions, my husband was supposed to be my full sponsor as he had promised to sponsor me to visit the UK again since I hadn't visited the UK after my studies in 2015. But I thought that I could also show that from my own personal savings, I can take care of some few extra expenses that come up during the trip that was why I put ₦500k in that section.

So please what I want to know is that, where did I get it wrong? My salary account shouldn't have reflected my allowance from my husband and my rent or what? How should I have explained my allowance and my rent income part because you said my mention of these incomes with my salary in my application made it looked fake or confusing and made it them weary. How else would I have presented my personal finances of which my allowance and rent are part of my reality? Because even if my salary today increases, me and my children's allowance from my husband will not stop neither will my rent. So what was I supposed to do or how would I have presented it better? Or I shouldn't have just mentioned only my salary and exclude these other regular funds and told them my husband would sponsor me a 100%? I really don't understand this whole finance/economic part of the visa application and what the ECO expects from me fully.

Make me understand like a 5 year old please. Thank you. Sorry for the inconveniences


giselle237:

This might be where the problem lies.
The eco specifically said in the refusal letter that you have not portrayed a compelling financial picture as well as personal circumstances… everything looks wishy washyyy
Originally you can not afford the trip. This is true. Because you earn 84k
You then now tried to combine all manner of incomes to boost your financial position inorder that the ECO will give you visa, but instead they either got confused or saw this and were wary.
I mean why combining 84k + personal income from husband + mysterious rent of 490k which I presume is annually…
The financial picture will make anyone skeptical
Then again you said you will sponsor your trip with 500k and another money from your husband.
They have seen that you never had money of your own in the 1st place to afford this holiday as your personal circumstances too low.
Then to make matters worse… you just feel like vacationing and shopping in the UK, they expect you can go somewhere else with this lack of stable financial resources and do not necessarily have to come to the UK to vacation or shop.
I don’t think reapplying with all the join join is necessary except your husband can confidently sponsor your trip and has a very good financial picture. OR
You make your own money and have better personal finances and retry
Perhaps if you also have kids you can present their own side of the story and say they will be staying back.
How much does your husband earn monthly and did you provide his own financial statements to them perhaps to convince them that he is more than an odogwu and you would not go to the UK to become a liability and seek recourse to public funds?

If you did not provide his financial picture including his bank statements, payslips, evidence of the origin of his funds and think they will rely on your word of mouth and him transferring funds to your account…. Then no
Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by OILOFGLADNESS: 7:01pm On Jul 19
OILOFGLADNESS:
Also at what point am i supposed to upload my document for TLs biometrics


@Giselle pls respond cool cool cool
Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by OILOFGLADNESS: 7:02pm On Jul 19
OILOFGLADNESS:

Dear Gurus

Please i have been having challenges with booking appoint ment
even wen i selected prime time,
The transaction will be Then it will show transaction bloocked
No debit either in my account,

Please help

@giselle Pls advise
Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by Cashmadam: 8:03pm On Jul 19
PremiumTrends:
Good Afternoon, @cashmadam, @gurus

I applied for my visa on Wednesday and attached my POF, my POF was 36 days, but my POF is expiring today which is Friday, would it affect my chances of getting a visa?

Visit or Student Visa?
Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by eniola1010(m): 8:04pm On Jul 19
pls i sent you a message on nairaland
Brunobia:

Biometrics June 28th
Passport picked up August 3rd.
6 months Visa approved .
Exactly 5 weeks.
Ikeja TLS.
One UK denial. One UK approval. One US denial (all declared).

Documents submitted: Payslips, bank statements,  appointment letter, letter of introduction from work, promotion letters, work ID card, family pictures,  pictures of my first UK visit, letter of IV and passport bio page from sibling, bank reference letter, no landed properties or businesses.

Little back story.
I had POF saved up from Canada waka and just impromptly decided to apply for UK tourist visa while waiting for Canada to shake body. I'm a civil servant.  Monthly take home less than 150k. Account balance over 10m. So I was skeptical if I would be given the Visa. Good thing is my statements were in order, no huge deposit at all but even at that I would say it's God that handed me this Visa even though I used spouse and kids as home ties.

I didn't submit any itinerary. No paid mail as well. And I used an agent mostly because I hadn't discovered this UK travel page till it was time for my biometrics appointment. I had thought that due to the high volume of UK applications from Nigeria this year, It would become like USA Visa appointment that only agents could access dates for applicants.  My first two UK applications were done by myself but that was pre-buhari when our naira debit cards could pay Visa fees.

I give God all the glory.

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Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by Cashmadam: 8:05pm On Jul 19
OILOFGLADNESS:
@cash madam
@gurus

Can we make payment for visa appointment on TLS platform with naira card - No

IS there any means to contact them for appointment and then make payment on arrival - No

I am really frustrated , i have been trying to book the this appointment since monday - Sorry. Probably a glitch in their system


Please assist me
Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by Cashmadam: 8:10pm On Jul 19
arikk001:
Good evening guys. I've been a silent reader here. I applied for UK visitor visa 6 months on 26th June, and I just got a refusal mail.
Please I need the guru's in the house: Cash madam, Giselle, etc. to please look into their reasons and tell what they mean Honestly. Because I really don't understand the reason.

Thank you

Sorry about the refusal.

Main reason: your salary is considered too low. The main issue is your salary.
Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by Cashmadam: 8:12pm On Jul 19
Coolhaywhy:
Good day Gurus,

Please am currently worried with respect to my bank statements and how to go about it as I plan to apply for UK visit visa soon.

I currently have Naira (salary account) and Dollars account. The funds in the dollars account is way more than what I have in my Naira account. As a matter of fact, I don't have up to 400k in my Naira account but have enough in my Dollar account to cater for the proposed trip. I earn roughly 600k monthly but have my funds saved up in Dollars which is also made up of random funds I get from other secondary sources.

Please advise me on which account to tender and if I can tender both. Incase am to tender my salary account, would the current balance not be an issue?

Please.

Use both. Your salary account is mostly to show how much you get every month. The balance should be healthy but should not be a show stopper in your case.
Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by killaskillz: 9:03pm On Jul 19
Any update?

fortunes01:


Thank you my mind don come down now.
Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by OILOFGLADNESS: 9:48pm On Jul 19
[quote author=Cashmadam post=131043226][/quote]


Thanks for your response, but the amount was stated in Naira

i didnt mean the VIsa fee, The TLScenter Service fee when booking the appointment


Sorry i just have to clarify

Thanks
Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by arikk001: 9:53pm On Jul 19
Even with my additional regular monthly allowance from husband and annual rent income, and the fact that my husband is sponsoring 95% of the trip, it's my salary that became the problem.

So as it is, even though my husband will sponsor me 100% without me spending anything for the trip, they will still deny me visa because of my low salary?
It is well o. Na wa. Na to pray make God change my financial situation be that from now on o
Cashmadam:


Sorry about the refusal.

Main reason: your salary is considered too low. The main issue is your salary.
Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by giselle237: 11:18pm On Jul 19
arikk001:
Even with my additional regular monthly allowance from husband and annual rent income, and the fact that my husband is sponsoring 95% of the trip, it's my salary that became the problem.

So as it is, even though my husband will sponsor me 100% without me spending anything for the trip, they will still deny me visa because of my low salary?
It is well o. Na wa. Na to pray make God change my financial situation be that from now on o
Annual rent income??
490k divided by 12 , means 40k extra every month…
Please na this income is negligible.
Plus allowance you collect from ur husband… you would still spend from it…
So your disposable income is maybe around 150k even after all this combining…
That plus the trip is not essential in their eyes… you can go to other countries - over 190 others are there to vacation and shop, it must not be UK that is why they have also told you your intentions are doubted.
After your travel hx in 2015, looks like you have not gone anywhere else.. no travel history too to make them even say they want to close their eye and manage your circumstances. On a balance of probabilities they would not take a chance on you because it is risky.
Yes the prayer is necessary or let your husband sponsor you to another country as well and come back to them, they would understand better that it is truly your intention to just go for holidays after all you have gone somewhere else and really now want to visit the UK again.

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Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by abubakar123olat: 11:41pm On Jul 19
One thing about UK visa is that once they you are going to be coming for interview decision is always which state did you applied and also did you submit a cover letter ?


Hershaby:
Dependant Visa
Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by mekanta7(m): 1:56am On Jul 20
hardeybissie:


Hi, please when did you resubmit your passport?
Sbould be around 30th june or 2nd of July.
Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by hardeybissie(f): 3:35am On Jul 20
mekanta7:

Sbould be around 30th june or 2nd of July.
Thank you
Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by fortunes01: 3:38am On Jul 20
[quote author=killaskillz post=131044002]Any update?

No o!
You?
Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by killaskillz: 5:57am On Jul 20
Nothing as well
[quote author=fortunes01 post=131046863][/quote]
Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by festyflash(m): 7:36am On Jul 20
@giselle237

Good day to you

I have some questions to ask about a visiting refusal letter of January 2024. I will like to send to you for you to peruse and give advice as I will be applying for student visa soon

Do accept my email request I sent
Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by bukkylink(f): 8:36am On Jul 20
Good morning gurus in the house,
I have been a silent readers for years.
I am about completing my application from but I need clarity
1. I currently earn in US$ my salary is paid into my Nigerian Dom account. I have my bank stment and payslips to back this up. Can I present only this dollar statement as my source of income without needing to support with a naira account since I am living in Nigeria.
2. I organise 100k monthly contributions therfore, I receive money into my naira account from different people up to 1.2 million monthly which I transfer to the recipient accordingly. This same naira account I use in receiving money when I change dollar to naira from aboki. Can I use this account as well or it might complicate things
Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by Cashmadam: 9:27am On Jul 20
bukkylink:
Good morning gurus in the house,
I have been a silent readers for years.
I am about completing my application from but I need clarity
1. I currently earn in US$ my salary is paid into my Nigerian Dom account. I have my bank stment and payslips to back this up. Can I present only this dollar statement as my source of income without needing to support with a naira account since I am living in Nigeria. - Yes
2. I organise 100k monthly contributions therfore, I receive money into my naira account from different people up to 1.2 million monthly which I transfer to the recipient accordingly. This same naira account I use in receiving money when I change dollar to naira from aboki. Can I use this account as well or it might complicate things
- the contributions will complicate things. I suggest you use another account for the contributions effective July then run your Naira account for 6 months before you apply.

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Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by Cashmadam: 9:29am On Jul 20
OILOFGLADNESS:



Thanks for your response, but the amount was stated in Naira

i didnt mean the VIsa fee, The TLScenter Service fee when booking the appointment


Sorry i just have to clarify

Thanks

Sorry. I mixed things up. Yes, you can pay for their services in Naira. It's most likely a glitch in their system. Try again. Very late @ night.
Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by drakkke: 3:04pm On Jul 20
Please guys I need your assistance. I already submitted my application for student visa, I'm awaiting biometric. I have one visa refusal for South Africa last year, but I didn't declare it before I submit my application. Please guys what can I do remedy the situation? Will it affect the visa decision?
Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by Jolene474(f): 4:08pm On Jul 20
You can’t have a refusal just last year and not declare it. Not a good call at all. I don’t know if they can see database with South Africa, but if they do, it’s a really huge deception issue for them I believe, not even 5 or 10 years ago.

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