Be aware that the number one priority of
Visa Officers is the Homeland Security, therefore, the first resort of
the officers is to google-search every applicant's name and to see what
comes up.
A lot of people have never google-searched their own
names and therefore, are not aware that in this age of internet social
networking, a simple entering of one's name and surname into a search
engine will produce numerous results whether related or unrelated to the
very person.
You might not yet be aware of what comes out of
your name when it is google searched: most of the featured results are
not of your own voluntary information.
Take a moment after
reading this article and Google-search your own name and surname, and
you may be surprised to see what comes up.
I know a Nigerian
someone who entered Ireland through the UK to seek political asylum, his
claimed was foiled by google search results that did not favour his
pleaded case and as a result, he was asked to leave Ireland: the point
is, this is a regular guy (who fits the profile of a nobody) who never
thought that anything about him could make it to google search.
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Visa
Officers are trained to look for a single reason why a visa should be
refused rather than to consider it for 99 other reasons. Therefore, for
those who hold the opinion that their visa applications had been
unjustifiably refused for what they consider "silly" reasons such as the
"three times monthly salary" issue etc.
It is true that budgeting an amount of money that is "three times your monthly income"
is actually not a good reason to refuse a visa application, yet this
issue usually comes into consideration when a visa applicant does not
have impressive amount of money as balance. For example, if a person
earns N200k monthly, and he budgets N620k for the intended trip while he
presents a bank statement with a balance of N650k, he stands a very
high chance to be refused for reason of the vast impact that the amount
of money will have on his account as it would take him more than three
salaries to recover the amount that he intends to spend for a short
trip, where as, a person who earns N120k monthly with an account balance
of N1.5M can easily get the visa if the application is reasonably
presented.
The formula.
Before applying for a visa,
look at how much you earn monthly, consider it against your account
balance and compare it to the amount that you intend to spend for the
trip.
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