Six stages, start to residence card

Stage 1: Consultation and eligibility check

One structured session covering your goals, qualifications, finances and family situation. We work out which route fits, whether the timing is realistic, and what the obstacles specific to your case are.

You leave with: a clear yes, no, or “yes but not this year”, plus your calculated proof-of-funds requirement and an honest total cost across official fees, third-party costs, funds you must hold, and our fee.

Stage 2: Written plan and engagement

If you decide to go ahead, you get the plan in writing: chosen institution or family route, the full document list in the order it must be done, who is responsible for each item, cost lines, and target dates.

Why in writing: so you can hold us to it, and so nobody can later claim something different was agreed. Our fee and its payment stages are part of the same document.

Stage 3: Admission, or relationship evidence

Study route: nostrification of your WAEC, NECO or degree qualifications, then applications to your shortlisted institutions, through to a confirmed acceptance or enrolment letter.

Family route: confirming your sponsor's residence status and qualifying period, then assembling the relationship, accommodation and household income evidence.

This is usually the longest stage and the one with the most waiting on third parties. It is also where a case most often reveals that it needs to be re-planned. Better to find that out here than at the Embassy.

Stage 4: The document pack

Legalisation and sworn Czech translation in the correct order, criminal record extract, accommodation confirmation, compliant insurance, and your financial evidence, assembled and checked as a single file rather than a pile of separate errands.

This is the stage that decides the outcome. Before anything is submitted, the complete pack is reviewed against the Embassy's current published requirements, document by document.

Stage 5: Embassy application in Abuja

Appointment booking, form preparation consistent with every supporting document, fee guidance, and interview preparation so that nothing on the day is a surprise.

You attend in person and give your own biometrics. That is a legal requirement and there is no way around it, but you will walk in knowing what is in your file and why, and able to answer questions about it in your own words.

Stage 6: Decision, travel and arrival

While the decision is pending we track validity windows so nothing expires, and respond to any request for further information within its deadline.

On approval: visa collection, travel planning, then the arrival obligations: Foreign Police registration within roughly three working days, biometrics and your residence permit card at the Ministry of the Interior, health insurance transition, and a bank account.

If the answer is a refusal: we go through the stated grounds with you and give you a straight assessment of whether re-application or appeal is worth it. We do not pretend a weak case is strong, and we do not charge you to reapply into the same refusal.