Amachukwu Innocent's Blog

 Having a visa vignette embossed on your passport is not a sure guarantee that you would successfully clear immigration and customs when you travel abroad. The Nigerian passport is regarded as ‘high-risk’ ranked together with countries like Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Yemen. It is only wise that extra caution and preparation is put in place on your part to ensure you cross borders hitch-free. I will provide some very useful tips from my travel experiences for you to consider for border entry whether in America, Europe, Asia, or the Pacific. 1. Have the documents used for your visa application handy. Borders are characteristically tense and immigration officers do not make it any easier. Border control officers can request for certain documents and if you do not have it, you can be subjected to a removal process or outrightly denied entry. In Slovenia, the immigration officer kept me for over one hour just to confirm my itinerary from all the countries I had visited in Europe. In Jap...

Today I would like to share some tips on how to travel the world by getting just one visa – a student visa. If you are yet to land a permanent residency permit or citizenship, a UK, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, or any top country (South Korea, or even China and Japan), student visa can be your ticket to conquer the world. The tips below are based on the assumption you have landed one of the aforementioned countries’ visa. 1. The first 3-4 months once you land with your student visa is the most important. This is the time to be intentional about your travel plans as Embassies are more likely to approve visit visas when you have more years left on your student visa. Once your student visa is less than 3-4 months to expiration, chances of visa refusal increases. By the first 4 months in the UK, I had applied for my American, Schengen, and Canadian visa. Remember, that a post-study visa, whether it is for 2 or 3 years does not demonstrate you have strong ties to a country an...