Izapo travel agency

07/10/2024

Let's make your miles with smiles. And my advice every proses it's a journey. At the same time be willing to wait.

30/09/2024

UK dependent visa application process from Nigeria ; A step by step guide

The process of applying for a UK dependent visa from Nigeria involves several steps. A dependent visa allows family members (spouse, children, or other eligible relatives) of a UK visa holder or British citizen to join them in the UK. The most common dependent visas are for family members of individuals with work or study visas or those who are settled in the UK.

1. Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for a dependent visa, the applicant must be a dependent family member of a person who is:
- A British citizen
- Settled in the UK (holds Indefinite Leave to Remain or Settlement)
- A person with refugee status or humanitarian protection
- A UK visa holder (work, study, or other)

Categories of Dependents:
- Spouse or Civil Partner
- Unmarried Partner (with evidence of living together for at least 2 years)
- Children (under 18 years, or dependent adults in some cases)

2. Gather Required Documents
You will need the following documents for the visa application:

- Valid Passport: For the applicant.
- Proof of Relationship: Marriage or civil partnership certificate, or birth certificate for children.
- Financial Documents: Proof that the sponsor in the UK can support the dependent(s) financially without recourse to public funds. This may include bank statements, payslips, or sponsorship forms.
- Sponsor’s Immigration Status: Proof of the sponsor’s visa, settlement, or citizenship status.
- Accommodation Details: Proof that there is adequate accommodation in the UK for the dependent(s).
- Tuberculosis Test: Applicants from Nigeria are required to undergo a tuberculosis test from an approved test center and include the certificate with their application.
- English Language Requirement: For some dependent visas (e.g., spouse visas), the applicant may need to demonstrate English language proficiency unless they are exempt.
- Passport-sized Photographs: As specified by UK visa requirements.

3. Complete the Online Application
The application for a UK dependent visa is completed online through the [UK government’s official visa application website](https://www.gov.uk/apply-to-come-to-the-uk).

- Select the appropriate visa type based on the dependent category.
- Fill in all the personal and sponsor details.
- Pay the application fee and the Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS) (if applicable). The IHS allows access to the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) during the stay.
- The visa application fee varies depending on the type and duration of the visa.

4. Book an Appointment for Biometrics and Submit Documents:
Once the application is completed, you’ll need to book an appointment at a UK Visa Application Center (VAC) in Nigeria. The primary VAC locations in Nigeria are:

- Lagos (Victoria Island and Ikeja)
- Abuja

At the VAC, you will:
- Provide biometric information (fingerprints and photograph).
- Submit supporting documents (if not already uploaded online).

5. Attend the Biometrics Appointment
On the appointment day, ensure you arrive at the VAC with all required documents, including the appointment confirmation and passport. After submitting your biometrics and documents, the application is processed.

6. Wait for a Decision
The processing time for a UK dependent visa can vary, but it typically takes around 3 to 8 weeks for a decision. You may opt for priority processing to expedite the decision, but this comes with an additional fee.

7. Collect Your Visa
Once your visa decision is made, you will be informed about how to collect your passport and visa or whether it will be returned via courier.

8. Travel to the UK
If your visa is approved, you will be issued a vignette (temporary visa sticker) in your passport, which is valid for 90 days. You must travel to the UK within this period and collect your Biometric Residence Permit (BRP) within 10 days of arriving in the UK.

Additional Tips:
- Ensure that all the information provided in the application is accurate and complete, as discrepancies may result in a refusal.
- Check for updated visa fees and health surcharge amounts before starting the process.

: Am not a visa agent. This information is based on personal experience and research from the appropriate sources 🙏🙏

Compare visas to visit, work, study or join a family member already in the UK. How to apply and what the decision on your application means.

26/09/2024

Failures on visa applications should give u opportunity to revisit ur documents & move correctly in ur next application✅ NOT quit ur travel plans❌. But using all the exact documents u used in ur denied application to reapply again immediately, is a ❌

Travel agents we help with Visa application, tour guide, planning and selling transportation accommodation, insurance ,book transportation, hotel ,cruise and flights bookings ,plan for your vacation.Sell itinerary tour packages.

20/08/2024

What visa do you need let's make your miles with smiles....

05/06/2024

In visa matters of today, Proper Direction and patience is more important than speeding with too much money, especially with visas way u go use enter country way u go see work or get papers way go increase ur worldwide values. Many are speeding to the embassy with “as usual”. If you understand the number of people applying for visas at the moment, you will not even go to any emabssy with “as usual documents”. Denial rate is extremely high. Unless you get contact for visa assurance or ur God is bigger than. Secondly having all the requirements does not mean they will give you visa. Everybody going to the embassy has all the requirements before they were given appointments. All I am saying is “DO EXTRA” to your application before going for submission. E go help give your application extra value and remove you from the “as usual applicants with as usual documentation”. Lastly keep your mouth shut until your visa is confirmed and you have entered the country too. Sometimes na people una d tell about una jakpa plans d pray pass make una visa no come out…

05/06/2024

If your seeing this post and you are planning to do a visa, take your phone and Google “ requirements to get that visa” For Example if you want to go to Canada 🇨🇦, Google “ REQUIREMENTS FOR CANADA VISAS”. You need to start having ideas of what this travel things are all about. You can even create an account and start the steps to know what you are up against, Then you start gathering the requirements small small. Some requirements might need you to take your time and arrange it then u relax and take the time. Those days of rush rush visa applications are over due to the massive jakpa applications all around the world cos no be only naija people dey jakpa too. Sometimes the kind visa u want requires you to go write some exams in naija, like ielts dem or even do some short courses online or even enroll in language schools to acquire some language documents for a specific country visa, or even do some safety courses way the certification is verified worldwide. For some kind countries, if you wan rush enter with visit visas and you dey find work and u submit application and you get some kind certification already, na extra value to your CV. This visa it’s just about proper documentation and Baba God! I av seen people do jaga jaga documentation and application and dem still get the visa sef! Don’t go and reason that all this millions travel agents like me dey call for visa processing it’s the only way out, NO! if you apply on your own with arranged documentation to backup your travel application, you go get am on your own without spending mililions unless na student visa way be say u must pay part or full tuition before the visa go come or you dey run some kind visa category way no dey regular especially direct work visas way require a lot of experience and professional documentation. Aside that, if you want just jakpa on a visit visa, the only money most embassy dey collect na visa fees and no country visit visa fee is in millions. Goggle things and see for yaself. Make you no go dey reason say u must av millions before you can get a tourist visa. No be so ooh! I repeat! No be so!

24/05/2024

If you are travelling through Istanbul Airport and you have a transit period of 6 hours then, you are entitled to have a complementary meal at the airport. What you need to do is find the Turkish Airlines Care point and show your Boarding pass of next flight. You will be given a food Coupon. Go to the food court located in the airport and enjoy a heavy
Meal of your choice from any of the Shop. 😊

26/04/2024

The most overrated passport in the world goes to the USA.

Passport wey nor even make top 5.

People get this passport or green card and start feeling like they have conquered the world. US passport is good for living and working in the US. But for any other part of the world, you still have to apply for a visa a lot of times.

EU passports on the other hand are the PRIZE.

With an EU passport, you can live and work in 27 countries. As in one day, if you tire to stay Germany, you fit pack your bags and move to Spain. Nothing go happen. And in Spain, you will enjoy the same benefits as Spanish citizens.

With an EU passport, you don’t need a visa to visit the USA. Just an ESTA. You apply online, pay a small fee of $20-30, and you get three years to travel to the USA and stay there for up to 90 days at a time and for a total of 180 days in a year.

Get yourself an EU passport. Just anyone and then you will know what it’s really like to have passport privilege.

Source: Izapo travel agency

08/03/2024

Beware as the sky’s open for travel .
If you travel by air a lot, beware of over friendly chatty seat neighbours.

This is very sad 😭😭😭

The older lady comes and sits next to me inside the plane. She asked me to help her put her bag in the overhead luggage compartment. But a gentleman sitting across quickly came through. (I am not very tall and the overhead luggage compartment is something I try to avoid at all costs.

Immediately she sits down she strikes up a conversation. She was very pleasant and well spoken. So we chatted all through the flight to Dubai.

Suddenly, when the pilot announced that we were now proceeding to begin our descent into DXB, my good friend 'developed' stomach pains.
Me with my good heart, I pressed the stewards button, and the stewardess came to find out what the problem was. I told her my seat mate was not feeling well.

And this lady, she suddenly began to address me as 'my daughter'. The stewardess told me that there was nothing they could do except give her some painkillers and wait until we landed.

The pilot announced that we had a medical emergency on board and advised us all to stay calm. My new friend was crying and sweating like crazy. And she refused to let go of my hand... everyone assumed we knew each other.

So we landed at DXB and the same gentleman who helped put up her luggage in the overhead compartment removed her luggage. But as he removed the luggage, he advised me to distance myself from this lady and make it clear to the cabin crew that we were NOT travelling together. He was a godsend!

So indeed, the cabin crew came and asked me if we were related, I categorically told them we had met on the plane. I didn't know her at all. So we began to deplane and as I said goodbye she kept begging me to carry her handbag. I was so torn... but the gentleman looked me in the eye and emphatically shook his head. He passed me a note telling me to let the cabin crew handle her.

So I exit the aircraft and leave my 'new friend' to wait for the wheelchair and be handled by the cabin crew feeling very guilty.
As we waited for our luggage to come through, I hear this commotion.
My 'new friend' was running, trying to escape the cabin crew, having gotten out of the wheelchair! She left the stewardess with her handbag and just ran towards the exit with the rest of her hand luggage! Luckily the airport police were faster than her.

They got hold of her and brought her back in handcuffs.
This lady starts calling out to me.. my daughter... my daughter!.. how could you do this to me..... that's when I caught on.

She was carrying drugs and she was trying to implicate me!

Luckily for me, the gentleman who had helped her with her luggage came forward and told the airport police that me and her had just met on the plane. The police took my passport and asked her to reveal my full names if it was true we were travelling together.

By God's grace, I had not even told her my first name! I was still asked to follow the police to a little room where I was questioned extensively. Where did I meet her?... where did I board... where did she board. Etc... And my luggage was extensively searched and dusted for fingerprints.

They dusted all her luggage and my fingerprints were not found anywhere on her luggage or on her handbag!

I was let go with advice never ever to touch anyone's luggage either in flight or at the airport. So from that day, I don't care how much luggage you have, you will deal with it yourself. I will not even offer you a trolley to put your luggage on! Your luggage... your problem.... is my policy.
And if you can't reach the overhead compartment, and I am the nearest person, please call the cabin crew because all I will do is give you a blank stare and then look away!
A lesson to glean therein for intending air travelers.

05/03/2024