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Rachael
Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:20 EDT
Visa to Egypt
Can anyone tell me how to get visa from Lagos to Cairo,in other for me to collect my visa to Lithuania.Please
FATOKUN OLAWALE
Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:42 EDT
VISA
I AM A FOOTBALLER OF 17 YEAR OLD.
I WAS INVITED FOR A SERIES OF TRIAL BY MESSI FOOTBALL ACADEMY AL-ASSIOUTY.WHAT ARE THE REQUIREMENT I HAVE TO COME WITH TO THE EMBASSY?
IT WILL WILL TAKE HOW MANY WORKING DAYS FOR THE VISA CONFIRMED?
Max Eze
Thu, 16 Sep 2010 06:30 EDT
Enquiry about the International youth conference holding in Egypt
Pls my name is max. I wish to confirm if truly this conference is real.Below are some of the details. Please your timely reply will enable me complete my registration before the acclaimed 25th deadline.

You indicated in your registration for the International Association for National Youth Service (IANYS) 9th Global Conference on National Youth Service that you would submit your payment via purchase order. Please find attached the completed purchase order form for your registration payment. Please review and reply to this message with a confirmation that you intend to complete your registration by paying the fees outlined in the purchase order form. By replying to this message, you confirm that you are the person named in the registration or their authorized representative, that all the information is true, and that you agree to pay the total fees listed in the attachment.



Upon receipt of this confirmation, we will send you the information on how to transfer your payment through bank wire transfer. Please be advised that your registration will not be confirmed in our system until payment is received. Participants are NOT allowed to pay the registration fee upon arrival. Your registration is only pending and will not be confirmed until ICP receives your payment via wire transfer and sends you a confirmation email.



On behalf of ICP and IANYS, thank you for registering for the IANYS 9th Global Conference on National Youth Service! Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or concerns about the Purchase Order process or the Conference.



Thank you. We look forward to seeing you this October!



Sincerely,

Tanisha Humphrey

IANYS Intern

Innovations in Civic Participation
Olaopa Rotimi Matthew
Wed, 15 Sep 2010 14:03 EDT
I want transit Visa
Am Rotimi Olaopa I want to visit my Wife in Cairo before am living for my Studying Country by November is there any way i can get 4 days transit Visa,.,,,? here is My mail Box +2348184143714...will be happy if i can get through
Awenlimobor S. A.
Mon, 13 Sep 2010 07:57 EDT
Ill treatment from Egyptian Immigrations
REPORT ON ILL-TREATMENT BY EGYPTIAN IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS AT CAIRO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
On Sunday, the 29th of August, 2010 I Mr. Sylvester Awenlimobor born on March 3rd, 2010 with Passport number A02270xxx embarked on a journey to Cairo, Egypt for the purpose of going to the Lithuanian embassy in Cairo for a Visa interview.
I was granted admission at the Kaunas University of Technology in Kaunas, Lithuania on the 8th of August, 2010 to undergo a Masters in Management programme with specialization in marketing. Lithuania does not have an embassy in Nigeria, and the only embassy the country has in Africa is located in Cairo Egypt.
The enrolment manager of the school, Neringa Narbutiene instructed me to go to the Lithuanian Embassy in Cairo (at 47 Ahmed Heshmat Street, Zamalek, Cairo). I sent a mail to the embassy to make an appointment and they replied saying they are expecting me anytime I get to Cairo. And so I got prepared and headed out to Cairo en-route Lithuania.
SUNDAY AUGUST 29, 2010
I left the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja, Lagos aboard an Ethiopia Airline (ET452 seat number 38D) at 1:42PM(Nigerian Time) that Sunday morning. The plane stopped at the Bole Addis Ababa at about 7:00PM (Nigerian Time) after which passengers bound for Cairo were moved into another Aircraft (ET900) bound for Cairo via Khartoum.
MONDAY AUGUST 30, 2010
I arrived at the Cairo International Airport in Cairo, Egypt at about 1:00 AM (Nigerian Time) with other passengers. Just before the Ethiopia Airplane landed all passengers who were non-Egyptians were given an information card to fill wherein our personal details as well as our reason for coming to Egypt were filled in.
Upon arrival, I was first stopped by a female official who asked me for my vaccination card and the data information slip given to us on the Ethiopian Airline craft. This I did and she thanked me, returned my vaccination card and directed me to the Immigration post.
While I was walking to the post, I noticed that there was no one at the post I was directed to and subsequently made to move to the other post that was already attending to passengers. As I made to move away, an immigration official ran to me and said I should come; he entered into the post and asked me for my passport which I gave to him.
He went through the passport and got to the visa page. He thereafter asked me for my reason for coming to Cairo, which I told him. I brought out a print out of the mail sent to me by the Lithuanian embassy in Cairo, and supporting documents from the Kaunas University of Technology (KTU). The Immigration official went through the documents, returned them to me. He was then immediately joined inside the post by another much younger immigration official who looked at my passport, uttered the words “Nigerian (Pronounced Neejayrian)” and requested that I go and sit at a waiting area at the far side of the arrival hall. I did not complain and went immediately to the chairs. I was there for about 5 minutes when a Togolese man came to join me. After about 5 minutes again a Gabonese girl came to join us. When I asked them why they were sitting here too, they said the immigration officials asked them to after collecting their passports.
When 30 minutes had passed and the arrival lobby was devoid of anymore passengers, I stood up and approached an immigration official who was passing by and asked him why I was still waiting when all other passengers had long gone. He told me to be patient that the passports of the three of us sitting there have been taken away for “scanning”. After another 20 minutes, the Togolese went to the customer service desk at the entrance of the arrival terminal to make further inquiries and there he was told that they knew nothing of our situation and that we should wait for the immigration officials to attend to us.
One Egyptian Immigration officer came to ask us if we had luggage to pick and I said yes, he collected the tags we had and my luggage was brought to me.
The sitting area is close to a wider transparent office where the “station chief” of immigration office is, and from my sitting position one could see the office and hear everyone inside as well as those inside also being able to view and hear those of us on the outside.
Inside the office were eight Egyptian immigration officers, with one sitting behind the desk looking like the higher ranking official. They were all eating from food packs apparently in preparation for the fasting that would soon begin. Then I started noticing them glancing in my direction and the constant use of the word “Nigerian” (pronounced Neejayrian). After about 15 minutes after the Togolese spoke with the customer service official, a young man who was clad in casual attire (red shirt and a black trouser) brought three passports and slipped them through an opening between the glass walls of the post where the immigration officials were and then walked away. Immediately they received the passports three of the immigration officials started laughing, one turned round to my direction and said, “Nigerian, you fly home” and thereafter made a hand gesture of a flying plane with a whistling sound to go with it. The immigration chief called out to the Togolese and threw his passport at him over the glass post and told him to go through the post. The Immigration officials asked that I and the Gabonese girl made our way into the glass covered office, which we did. Before the girl entered, her passport was thrown at her and one immigration official asked her to go away. I entered into the office and before I even greeted the immigration officials, the man sitting at the desk angrily requested that I should bring my “other passport”. I asked him to explain, that the passport I have is what is in his hand. One of the others took my bag from my shoulder and proceeded to searching it while another started frisking me. He noticed my wallet in the inner pocket of my jacket and pretended to be searching it. Inside the wallet was US$2800 (Two thousand eight hundred dollars) all in US$100 (Hundred dollar) bills and 100 Piastre a friend had given me from Lagos. The immigration official took out two notes amounting to US$200 (Two hundred dollars) and laughing out to the others said to me “we buy Ramadan food, Ramadan food”. He returned the wallet and put the two bills inside his own pocket.
I initially wanted to grab my money back forcefully from him, but remembered that they could turn it into something else, so I turned my attention to the higher ranking officer expecting him to call his ‘boys’ to order, instead he barked out at me, “Your passport fake!” “This not you” “where your other passport?”
I told him that the passport in his hand was my ONLY passport and that that was ME in the passport. He asked me if I had any other form of identification and I brought out my National Identity card (ED049293079, date of Issue: 07 April, 2005; Place of Issue: Abuja) from my wallet and gave to him. When he saw this he said “this one a new one”, “you forge this one too?”
He thereafter told one of the officers something in Arabic and they all laughed, after which one of them told me to follow him. He asked me to go and get my bags from the area where I had previously been sitting and then he took me into the security room at the airport.
When the immigration officer was taking me away, I asked him to let me call the Nigerian Embassy in Cairo, he said “me no speak English, you speak Arabic?” and then asked me for my Samsung E250 phone which he took even though there was no network on it.
The room was enclosed with chairs by the wall and a mat at the far end, and it was guarded by one elderly immigration officer. When I got in the immigration officer that brought me and the elderly looking officer exchanged some words while looking at my passport, even though they were speaking Arabic, it appeared the elderly looking officer was telling the officer that brought me that the person in the passport was me. It was at this point the younger immigration officer who brought me attempted mutilating the passport, trying to tear out the data page from the top. I shouted and then he stopped, barked out something in Arabic and threw the passport on the table of the elderly security immigration and left.
After about thirty minutes, the elderly immigration officer called out to me and handed me my National Identity card. He made a hush gesture with his index finger to his lips saying that I should not talk. He thereafter said “Me no let them touch you, no kalaposh (meaning handcuff) me gentleman, take your id card”. I told him that my passport was genuine, that I collected it from the Nigerian immigrations myself and that the officers there are trying to frustrate me. He told me if I knew someone in Cairo that I could call, but that his phone would be unable to call outside of Egypt. I had the number of the Marriot Cairo Hotel* where I had made a reservation on my phone as well as the phone number of the Nigerian Embassy and Lithuanian embassy. He told me to enter the convenience inside the room to call with his phone.
I tried the Nigerian embassy first and the phone rang on end without any answer, the Lithuanian embassy’s phone number rang and then went on auto answer telling me that the embassy would open by 9:00 Am (Egyptian time). When I was speaking to the Mayfair hotel he hurriedly rushed in and said someone was coming that I should return to the room.
The time was now about 4:00am (Nigerian time).
I slept for a while and when I woke up the elderly immigration officer gave me my phone with the same compromising gesture he had done when returning my National Identity card. I told him that I want to return back to Nigeria now, that I would pay for the next EgyptAir flight back to Lagos (since they flew more regularly that Ethiopian air) he said because my “Passport fake, Egypt air no good”. “You fly back to Neejayria tomorrow by three o’clock morning tomorrow”. “Ethiopia air come, you fly back to Neejayria. You change passport, visa still good and you enter Cairo”. I told him I needed to get in touch with my uncle in Nigeria or any other person at all so they know I am okay and alive since I was meant to have called when I got into Cairo. He said he had no phone on him that could call out of Egypt.
About two hours later another official (the immigration officer in casual who took the passports for ‘scanning’) came and asked me to pack my things that I am being transferred to another holding place. I took my luggage and followed him out of the terminal into another holding point. This holding point was close to the main administrative office and it appeared to be the place where all illegal immigrants were held. When I got there with my luggage the officer on post and the officer that brought me started speaking Arabic and I noticed the officer kept looking at the passport and asking the younger officer questions, but after about five minutes of their discussion, the officer on post asked me “this not you?”. I told him that that was me and that I do not know what the problem was. He shrugged and made his entry into his book, then asked me to write my name inside the book, after which the younger officer left. I was then asked to enter the holding room.
In the room where five other people; One was a Burundi national who was to be deported that day, the second was a Saudi Arabian by the name of Amir, the third was a Sudanese named Merighan Ismail and his wife, and finally a well dressed Egyptian man (who Amir alleged was being held for transporting cocaine).
When I came in I told the immigration officer on post that I needed to eat and drink water, as I had not had anything since morning. He said the fasting period was on and that I should wait. I told him that I was a Christian and was not taking part of the Muslim fast. He then instructed one of the cleaners to come and attend to me. When the cleaner came he said he can only get me water first, and that I should give him $40 (forty dollars) for two bottled water. I protested and told him it was too expensive, so he left and said when I am ‘really thirsty’ I should call him. I protested to the immigration officer about the price of the water and he pretended not to hear English, and in Arabic barked at me to leave his post. After about an hour, I saw the cleaner again and gave him a hundred dollar bill to go and buy the water. He came back with the two bottled water and nine hundred Egyptian pounds (EP580). I drank one of the Aquafina bottled water and kept the other. In this holding room, there were three separate rooms, a sort of sitting area and a toilet and bathroom. In the first room was the Sudanese and his wife, the second room was where Amir and the Burundian were staying and the Egyptian man was at the lobby sitting. I walked into the second room and greeted the other two occupants and sat on one of the beds, there I saw several inscriptions mostly by Nigerians that had earlier been held in here. One vivid one was by a certain Mr. Osondu who wrote “why do Egyptians hate Naija too much, Naija stop coming to Egypt”. There were several others inscribed on the walls of the room.
Dr. V.C. Ozebo
Wed, 8 Sep 2010 07:13 EDT
Visa to Egypt
I was asked to contact the consulate within two weeks, after an 'interview' with the Consular. on 31st August 2010. I hope this is not a smart way of denying me visa.
Sir, as a Lecturer with a doctorate degree in one of Nigeria's University, I'm not looking for an 'escape route', I am okay with my job and happily married with kids. I am only going to Giza,Egypt for an academic conference, which will last for 7 days. (18-24 Sept, 2010) Thanks.
Dr. V.C. Ozebo
Department of Physics, University of Agriculture
Abeokuta, Nigeria
Contacts: +2348066515057, chidioz2001@yahoo.com
paul john
Mon, 6 Sep 2010 12:29 EDT
information
how do i get a visa to egypt to obtain a residence parmit at the latvian embassy in egypt, what are the document i need to bring along, and how many day will it take to process it.


contact me............ adodouited@yahoo.com
paul john
Mon, 6 Sep 2010 12:27 EDT
information
how do i get a visa to egypt to obtain a residence parmit at the latvian embassy in egypt, what are the document i need to bring along, and how many day will it take to process it.
emi soji akinyosoye
Fri, 3 Sep 2010 08:27 EDT
information regarding egypt visa procedure
Dear Sir, I want to visit Egypt purposely for business. I will be grateful if you could let me know your procedure and visa fees.

gbengene5@yahoo.com
Dr.Sofowora Olaniyi Alaba
Thu, 2 Sep 2010 04:47 EDT
Visa to Attend An International(ICEMT) Conference
The ConsularGeneral,
I have been invited to Cairo to attend theICEMT conference that will come up on Nov2-4, 2010.Sir, May i know how much it will cost me to get a travelling Visa(6months) other requirements and your address in Ikoyi.
My Regards
Dr.Sofowora Olaniyi Alaba
Faculty of Education
Dept. of Educational Technology
Room 205
oasofowora@oauife.edu.ng or oasofowora@yahoo.com

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