Monday 29 July 2013

Come November to pay £3,000 tourists visa bond before they are allowed into the UK

 From November 2013, Nigeria will be among the six listed Commonwealth 'high risk' countries whose citizens will be required to pay £3,000 tourists visa bond before they are allowed into the UK. The remaining five are: India, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

 The Uk government says it's not all visitors that will be required to pay the bond, just people they consider 'highest risk'; that is people who will collect visa and refuse to leave Britain or overstay their visa terms. Those paying bonds will receive the bond back, if they abided by the terms of their visa.

According to the UK Financial Times report last Friday, the UK Home Office say there's no going back as the scheme is their most effective way of tackling abuse in their immigration system. Nigeria and the other five countries account for more than five hundred thousand visa applications in 2012.

2 comments:

Ejike said...

The British are very selfish,anything that will not benefit them they dont hesistate to withdraw,left to me they will lose at the end of the day

Tom said...

They should bug off,is it the first timers,really this their announcement does not add up