How to get a Visa

I've spent a couple of days this week trying to organise the documents and paperwork needed to get my visa renewed for another year. All the hoops that need to be jumped through to get it are quite ridiculous. For instance Before I can apply for my multi entry visa I must first get my residence permit renewed. But you'd think that logically before you apply for resident status you'd have a visa right?

Well the residence permit costs about US$350 which is rather a large sum, and once you have that you can apply for the visa which we were charged NGN 16,200 for (that's about US$115 or GB£65). These only last a year so you can see the amount of revenue this generates. I can't understand though, why the Multi Entry visa doesn't equate to the Residence Permit, as you can't have a one without the other, they should just be built into the same document surely!

Well anyway, other than that I've worked on the prototype web interface a bit more and worked on my OU courses. I've still got a problem with Microsoft Internet Exploder messing up the layout, and I'm thinking of installing Mozilla Firefox on all PC's that will use the interface, that way I can stop worrying about this issue and move on to something else.

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