RivuletStream:
@Giselle237

Today make 15 working days after my biometrics in Abuja. If I don't hear from them today, should I contact UKVI or should I wait for more days before contacting them? Please I need your advice. Thanks.

U can wait a little. They might send u a not straightforward email today OR maybe a decision email.. u can wait and see how it plays out cause I do believe they have a lot of applications at the mo’

twojul:
Please for those who chose self service do you upload your application form pdf and the checklist or do you print those out and take it as hard copy to the biometrics appointment.

No to uploading the checklist and application form. Just go with the checklist on your biometrics day

twojul:
Hello everyone,

I'd just like some advice before i finalize my application. I will be applying and getting my biometrics done at ikeja. I'll be spending a month in the UK in December and i'll be spending £2k pounds on this trip. (Is that too much or too little?)

Here is a list of my supporting documents:
1. Invitation letter from my friend who is a citizen.
2. My friend's passport data page.
3. My admission letter (i do not school in nigeria) showing date of admission and duration of course but not date of course completion. (However due to some reasons it's taking me longer to get my degree. Would this be an issue? If they calculate and see that i should have graduated last year although my uni has given my a letter addressed to whom it may concern saying i'm still a student – See number 4)
4. Letter from my uni saying I'm currently enrolled as a student.
5. A copy of my student visa expiring summer 2021.
6. Bank statement showing 2,600,000N. (This is my bank statement from my savings account and the money started accumulating from 350k at the beginning of lockdown and took 6 months to reach this amount. My parents decided to still give me my monthly student upkeep money even though i was in Nigeria. I didn't spend it because i was living free with them cos lockdown didn't let me go back to school. I hope this is okay and they won't want an explanation for these funds.)
7. Itinerary.
8. Birth certificate.
9. On a previous application for a study visa, i explained in my additional information that although my study was for 2 months, i had applied for other courses at other institutions and i would stay back to do those courses if i got accepted while in the UK but i obviously would not stay longer than the duration of my visa. I was granted the study visa and i'm assuming they read that clause in my application. I'm including the acceptance letters from those institutions in this current application to prove i was actually busy and not wasting time in the UK. I've now mentioned this previous study period and the clause i said again on my current application and also stated that i supported myself with funds from my parents whose bank statement i provided as supporting document on that study visa application. MY QUESTION NOW IS: Should i include those acceptance letters as documents in this current application and remind them of what i said when i applied for that study visa or i should just forget it because i didn't overstay that study visa.

Sorry for the long story and thanks in advance for the suggestions.

I would plan to spend GBP1200 instead. of GBP2,000.

RivuletStream:


I read here on this thread, some people who did biometric in Lagos 15 September received collection email on Friday 02 October

A friend went with his wife on Sep 15th, he got collection email on Friday Oct 2nd but the wife's own is not yet ready. Wife was denied entry to UK due to using work visa for tourist. Perhaps reason it's taking long. Anyone has a clue why? My friend collected his visa yesterday at Ikeja.

[quote author=Oshare4u post=94650966][/quote] did you mean, I must fill it , but someone said if I chose self service,I don't need to fill it , that I should submit it like that because I chose self service and upload all my documents on tls through E dossier . I will be expecting to hear from you soon. if I must fill it can I use pen? cos I have already printed it ?

twojul:
Please for those who chose self service do you upload your application form pdf and the checklist or do you print those out and take it as hard copy to the biometrics appointment.

For self service just go with the first page of your checklist, TLS Appointment and printed documents upload confirmation.

Tlscontact just sent me a pick up email

If home office did not send any refusal letter to you, it means your visa has been approved. That is the new norm.

flinton:
Tlscontact just sent me a pick up email

flinton:
Tlscontact just sent me a pick up email

Do you have any travel history?

Is there anyone who could not travel to the UK due to travel restrictions caused by COVID-19 whose 6 months visit visa expired during the pandemic that has reapplied and visa was reissued?

dehiero:

Do you have any travel history?

Nope, tier 2

royalmu:
Is there anyone who could not travel to the UK due to travel restrictions caused by COVID-19 whose 6 months visit visa expired during the pandemic that has reapplied and visa was reissued?

Yes, me and quite a number of people here

oyin000000:

Yes, me and quite a number of people here

You are blessed. I thought they would just ask us to return our passport for visa replacement. I will turn in my application when I am ready.

Has anyone here gotten a visit visa without any travel history before? I mean a virgin passport

dehiero:
Has anyone here gotten a visit visa without any travel history before? I mean a virgin passport

Visit any of the African nations to increase your chances.

LoyalRoyalty:
Visit any of the African nations to increase your chances.

Hmmmm how about a lagos>>benin >>Togo >>ghana by road

dehiero:

Hmmmm how about a lagos>>benin >>Togo >>ghana by road

By air is preferable.

LoyalRoyalty:
By air is preferable.

Why do you say so you get same stamps either by air or road . right

dehiero:
Has anyone here gotten a visit visa without any travel history before? I mean a virgin passport

Yeah. A travel history is good but not mandatory. Just make a good application

dehiero:

Why do you say so you get same stamps either by air or road
. right

Don't really know. If it's same stamp, then it's fine.

flinton:

Keep us updated

Update.

I got a mail from Tls today to pick up my passport. Biometrics was on 16th September at tls Victoria Island. Tier 2.

Hoping for the best.

Hi.

Please how do I make email enquiries with UKVI?

There had been no update from my priority visa application since last week.

dubaiprince:


Update.

I got a mail from Tls today to pick up my passport. Biometrics was on 16th September at tls Victoria Island. Tier 2.

Hoping for the best.

Same here

ss2020:

Its not TLS that makes visa decision. Its ukvisa. So I sent them a paid mail enquiry to ask why my passport was returned without a decision taken. Am awaiting their reply

Have you gotten any response from UKVI?

LoyalRoyalty:
Have you gotten any response from UKVI?

Yes. They replied my mail and said that they withdrew my application and ordered my passport to be returned to me

ss2020:

Yes. They replied my mail and said that they withdrew my application and ordered my passport to be returned to me

Did they refund you?

LoyalRoyalty:
Did they refund you?

No. They didn't refund me

dehiero:
Has anyone here gotten a visit visa without any travel history before? I mean a virgin passport

Travel history maybe good but not a deciding factor. Unlike Shenghen and Canada refusal letters, I have not seen UK visa refusal based on travel history. Get a watertight application and get your visa. We have seen many first timer's clinch their visa. I have seen people who for the fear of travel history sent their passport by road to Ghana to get stamp and claim unnecessary travel history. Many were banned for forgery. I also know of someone with fake Benin, Togo and Ghana border stamp returned in Heathrow en route to the US. Just package your application tight with good reasons to visit and show you have the finances with verifiable source and you will surely get it.

TheExalted:


A friend went with his wife on Sep 15th, he got collection email on Friday Oct 2nd but the wife's own is not yet ready. Wife was denied entry to UK due to using work visa for tourist. Perhaps reason it's taking long. Anyone has a clue why? My friend collected his visa yesterday at Ikeja.

Your Statement is not clear.... If you said the wife Visa is not ready.... and you went further to say ....The wife was denied entry to UK... can you please clear this.

ss2020:

No. They didn't refund me

That's bad.

Hello house good news from my side I got my visa today pickup from Ikeja after 8 attempt all glory be to Almighty God.

ashekmoney:
Hello house good news from my side I got my visa today pickup from Ikeja after 8 attempt all glory be to Almighty God.

You are a strong woman. Congratulations.