Appeal following a student visa refusal for reason 5

Good evening @Andrew, thank you for your help as well as the entire team. Indeed, I have read posts here and there to assist me in compiling my file. Unfortunately, I have just received a refusal for the reason: The information provided to justify the purpose and conditions of the intended stay is incomplete and/or unreliable.

Is this due to an unfavourable scac opinion or is the reason elsewhere?

However, in compiling my file, I doubted my accommodation documents as I used a friend’s papers for 21m2 at a reasonable distance of less than 30km and under 1h30 by public transport. But perhaps the mix could have posed a problem for them.

Therefore, I was advised to change all my documents (a sponsorship by a guarantor with an Avi issued by SGCI Abidjan, the accommodation certificate by a livinfrance certificate) and to add a letter addressed to the head of visa applications with the subject: appeal against the refusal of entry for study.

I wonder if it is necessary to make an appeal letter against the refusal or a simple explanatory letter in which I recall that I made a first application that was unsuccessful and that I seek her kindness in this second application by justifying my means of subsistence.

Or what do you suggest?

Welcome @Nouryat

Forget the letter of « appeal against refusal of entry ». If you wish to make an informal appeal, my advice is to write an explanatory letter instead, but it should be written as if you had not received a visa refusal.

To read: Understanding the 7 reasons for a student visa refusal!

Best regards