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UK Allowed 10% Nigerian Visa Applicants ‘Indefinite’ Stay Incorrectly

UK Allowed 10% Nigerian Visa Applicants ‘Indefinite’ Stay Incorrectly

United Kingdom Border Agency (UKBA) Chief Inspector John Vine says visa applications at UK visa office in Nigeria were wrong refused by ‘disregarding or misinterpreting’ evidence. UKBA made also a “serious error” in granting ”indefinite leave to enter the UK” – rather than the usual 27-month limit to  14 visa applicants out of 134 applications reviewed [...]

June 16, 2012No CommentRead More

UK Apply Online Service Unavailable on June 14

June 14, 2012 No Comment

United Kingdom Border Agency (UKBA) has announced scheduled maintenance of “Apply Online” service 18:30 on Thursday 14 June 2012 and 02:00 on Friday 15 June 2012. The applicants trying to access the service from within UK may experience some disruption in the Apply Online services between 18:30 on Thursday 14 June 2012 and 02:00 on Friday [...]

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Nineteen UK Visa Fraudsters Busted in Bangladesh

May 31, 2012 No Comment

Bangladesh police has busted a group of nineteen UK business visit visa applicants who provided forged business documentations and false bank statements to support their visa applications. The operation was jointly conducted by the Bangladesh police and UK Border Agency in Dhaka. The group was attempting to get UK business visa to attend the Boishaki [...]

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Maintenance of UK Apply Online Service Scheduled

May 26, 2012 No Comment

United Kingdom Border Agency (UKBA) has announced scheduled maintenance of “Apply Online” service on May 26 and May 27, 2012. The applicants trying to access the service from within UK may experience some disruption in the Apply Online services between 04:00PM on May 26 and 10:00AM on May 27, 2012 as result of the system [...]

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New UK Visa Application Centre in Bangalore, India

May 23, 2012 1 Comment

United Kingdom Deputy High Commissioner Ian Felton inaugurated a new visa application center in Bangalore, India. The new visa application centre will facilitate the Karnataka residents wishing to enter United Kingdom for studies, business or vacations by expediting the visa issuance process in 10 days. Ian Felton said at the inaugural ceremony, “This will be [...]

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Get Prepared for Long Delays on May 10 due to Strike of UK Immigration Workers

May 9, 2012 No Comment

UK immigration workers will be joining their hands with other public sector workers who are planning to go on strike over the dispute of pensions on 10th of May. The planned strike is a bad news for the visitors arriving in UK for the Olympic Games in London on the day of strike. Most of [...]

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This VIP Service will Help to Avoid Long Delays at Heathrow Airport

May 7, 2012 No Comment

Travellers entering United Kingdom through Heathrow airport in London are frustrated for standing in queues for hours before they can go through the immigration controls. However, if the traveller has £1,800 to pay the price tag of a VIP service at the Heathrow airport, then long lines just become imaginary. The VIP service entitles the [...]

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e-Gates at Heathrow Airport for Fast Enteries during Olympics

February 9, 2012 No Comment
e-Gates at Heathrow Airport for Fast Enteries during Olympics

The UK Border Agency is going to install e-gates facial recognition technology at Heathrow airport in a bid to quickly clear the entries for the upcoming gala event of London Olympics 2012. Initially, the technology was planned to be installed on five terminals but the UKBA reduced it to just Heathrow which is set to [...]

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Visitor Visa Processing For London Olympics 2012 Starting From the New Year Day

December 27, 2011 1 Comment

United Kingdom (UK) plans to start processing visitor visas for 2012 edition of Olympics with effect from January 1 simultaneously in its all immigration centres across the globe. As the Olympic and Para-Olympics Games are going to be held in England in the coming summer , the demand for UK visa is likely to surge [...]

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