The United Kingdom (UK) have set up a service that would make the hassle of procuring and processing a visa to the country a lot less stressful as it can now be done with 24 hours.
This was disclosed in a statement posted on the British High Commission’s website yesterday August 10th.
According to the British High Commissioner, Paul Arkwright, he said while the service would obviously cost more, it would greatly improve the visa services provided by the UK to Nigeria.
“I am pleased to see the super priority visa service being launched in Nigeria. This comes with an additional cost but is designed to give greater flexibility to our customers and underlines our strong commitment to improving the visa services we offer.
“We expect this new service to be particularly useful for business. We understand that business opportunities and urgent requirements can arise at very short notice. We recognise this and want to facilitate such travel to the UK with this new super-fast service.”
The High commission added, “It is offered with our Priority Visa (front of queue processing five to seven days) and standard (15 days) services.
“The United Kingdom is the only European country to offer a visa decision in 24 hours.
“The Super Priority Visa Service is aimed at key business customers and those needing to travel urgently by providing a visa decision for collection at the Visa Application Centre the working day following submission.”
The process is said to cost £750 in addition to the visa fee and would be available to customers applying in the Abuja and Lagos visa application centres.