Visa
robbery: How British embassy defrauding Nigerians
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| British PM, David Cameron |
Though
the era of colonialism has gone, the British government through its embassy has
perfected another way to colonize Nigerians and defraud them of money which
runs into billions of naira and the strategy it uses is simple: it capitalizes
on the desperation of Nigerians to travel abroad to extort money from them on a
daily basis not minding whether the applicant is genuine or not.
Those
who have fallen victims of this high-wired fraud narrated that the embassy
without recourse to checking the applications, refused the visa on flimsy
excuses that they do not possess all the necessary documents needed and that if
granted the application there are no guarantees that they would come back to Nigeria
According
to one of the victims who occupies the post of assistant director in one of the
multinational companies (names withheld), in the course of renewing his visa
having travelled to UK on several occasions both on official and personal
capacities and in his bid to apply for a two-year visa, he got the shock of his
life when he was refused on the pretext that he wanted to run away from the
county even when all his documents were genuine.
He
narrated: “This thing is not funny. Having collected my N72,000, my application
was refused and what pains me most was their claim that I wanted to run away.
At my level why would I want to run away? To go and do what in the UK UK
Another
man, a businessman who was invited to attend an event in UK also got his application refused by the entry
clearance officer who simply stated that the man did not know why he wanted to
travel to UK
He
declared that it simply proved that they were not checking the applications
again but just printed any refusal letter that suits the ECO (entry clearance
officer) and the application fee paid gone down the drain.
Global
News investigation shows that these two examples are just a few among millions
of those Nigerians whose applications are refused without proper investigation
by the British Embassy to ascertain whether the application is genuine or not
and the status of the applicants, thereby treating every Nigerian like a
criminal.
An
expert disclosed that if the amount of money that Nigerians are losing to this
daylight fraud and robbery is calculated, it would amount to several millions
of naira on a daily basis considering the number applications being received
every day from different VFS locations where they submit their applications.
Using
these indices, if 1000 applicants are refused daily from the number of applications
received on a daily basis (though more than this apply for a six month short
term entry at a cost of N21,060), the total money generated on that day is
N21,060,000 and in 22 working days it amounts to N463,320,000 and in one year
it amount to N5,559,840,000 just for six-month applications refused.
For
a long term visa for two years, the application fee is N72, 900 and also using
the same 1000 applicants refused on a daily basis, the total money generated
daily is N72,900,000 and in 22 days it amounts to N1,603,800,000 while in one
year it amounts N192,456,869,000
This
fraud goes on and on depending on the type of application and other categories
is as follows:
Long
term valid up to 5 years…….N133,920 .00
Long
term valid up to 10 years……N193, 320.00
And
for settlement the application fee starts from N223, 020.00 to N499, 500.00
This
is the chain used by the British Embassy defraud Nigerians of their hard earned
.
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