{"id":81,"date":"2017-04-25T19:58:46","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T19:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madhousenaija.com\/?p=81"},"modified":"2017-04-25T19:58:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T19:58:46","slug":"nigerians-can-now-get-uk-visa-day-application-uk-embassy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"Nigerians Can Now Get UK Visa On Same Day Of Application \u2013 UK Embassy\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The British government has announced a special service for Nigerians which enables them get their UK visa on the same day of application.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">British High Commissioner, Mr. Paul Arkwright disclosed this on Monday at the 40th anniversary of the Nigerian British Chamber of Commerce, NBCC, in Lagos.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Mr Arkwright while speaking at the event said that the British embassy has made provision for visa applicants in Nigeria to get their visa on the same day or within five days of application.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He noted that the embassy as part of its special services has reduced the maximum turnaround time for all classes of visa application to 15 days.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cWe have introduced a same day visa service \u2013 at a cost \u2013 for visas in Nigeria.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cWe have also introduced a service that means you get a visa within five days, at a lower cost than the same day process.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cOur turnaround time for all other visas is 15 days.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThe key thing, however, is that all visitors to the UK, whether they are from Nigeria or anywhere else, must respect the law and the length of time their visa says they can stay in the UK.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cIn 2016, around 140,000 Nigerians applied for visas to the UK. Of those that applied for student visas, 90 percent were successful.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cFor those that applied for other visas, around 70 percent were successful.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThere are as many as 250,000 Nigerian nationals or dual Nigerian-British nationals living in the UK at the moment.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cSome claim the total Nigerian diaspora in the UK is well over a million. We want Nigerians to come to the UK. They come to do business, to study, to see family and to invest in our economy.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British government has announced a special service for Nigerians which enables them get their UK visa on the same day of application. British High Commissioner, Mr. Paul Arkwright disclosed this on Monday at the 40th anniversary of the Nigerian British Chamber of Commerce, NBCC, in Lagos. Mr Arkwright while speaking at the event said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[90,93,94,95,92,91,89,88,96],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","category-news","tag-application","tag-british","tag-embassy","tag-nationals","tag-nigeria","tag-special-service","tag-uk","tag-visa","tag-visitors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}