The United Kingdom (UK) has announced the resumption of visa applications processing in Nigeria.
The decision was announced in a statement and followed the removal of Nigeria and 10 other countries from the red list.
The statement titled: “UKVI lifts pause on processing visitor visa applications”, also contains information for non-visitor visa applications, including student and work visas as well.
Part of it reads: “In line with the lifting of red list restrictions – following the UK Government announcement that from 4:00 am on 15th December, all countries who were on the red list will be removed – UK Visas & Immigration (UKVI) will lift the pause on processing visitor visas in all countries previously on the red list.
“Due to extremely high global demand, standard UK visitor visas are currently taking significantly longer than usual to be processed. UKVI is working hard to process visitor visa applications as soon as possible and sincerely apologizes to all our customers affected.
“Non-visitor visa applications (including student and work visas) are still being processed within published service standards and we are working hard to meet customer demand.”
It also added that ”Applicants will be contacted by the Visa Application Centre (VAC) when their passport is ready for collection. They should not visit the VAC until they have been invited to do so.”
