EmmyKing86:
Hello everyone.

I noticed a few pages ago there seemed to be some confusion about ILR 10 years route, so I would like to share my positive experience.

Date of Standard Online Application: 31/08/2021
Payment Debited & Confirmation email received: 31/08/2021
Documents Uploaded via UKVCAS website: 14/09/2021
Biometrics submitted in person (Cardiff): 15/09/2021
Complex Letter: NONE
Received positive decision email: 17/12/2021
Received BRP: Waiting.


I accumulated the following visas during my 10 years stay: Tier4 student visa (5 years; 1yr Master's, 4yrs Ph.D.), Doctorate Extension Scheme (1yr), Tier 2 skilled visa (4 yrs).

For ILR long residence route (10yrs), you can fast-track the decision via the super-priority payment (extra £800) opened at 1 am (yes, after midnight). I would have done this but was not aware of the 1 am super-priority opening.

For me, it was imperative that I switch from tier 2 to ILR as soon as possible. I have always not really fancied my stay in the UK dependant on my employers or any other party. There are several instances where individuals and their families had to relocate back to Nigeria/other countries because they lost their jobs, company went bust e.t.c. and could not get another sponsor. A lot of people fell victim to this, especially during the pandemic.

A little bit of advice for those who recently came to the UK and are seeking permanent residency in the future is to plan accordingly. Start small and gradually grow big. As you may all have read from people's experiences, it's really not easy particularly for those coming with family on tier4 students visas. I cannot overemphasize cultivating the habit of saving and financial discipline as an application to transfer to another visa category or extend your visa is quite expensive. Also, put into consideration the cost of living e.t.c. Please, don't be too quick to spend lavishly while giving people back at home any kind of false impressions. Again, there are people who had to leave prematurely after making extravagant purchases due to losing their jobs and being unable to find another one on time.

Wishing you all good luck and all the best.

Wow, I am just seeing this, quite insightful. Emphasis on "savings".

Dear all, the PSW doesn't count towards the five years PR route but counts towards the ten years route to PR. Am I right?

Blessing for this bro

Chreze:


Great stuff. Check YouTube

https://youtube.com/c/SheldonEvansx

And

https://youtube.com/c/JRNYCrypto

Go to the pages of these two guys. Watch their intro to crypto videos. Then in order not to spoil this tread, you can create one crypto tread that we will all contribute, then I can tell you how I do my daily trading and the exchanges I use for trading as well.

NB: those YouTube links are just to learn the basics and have proper idea, you don’t have to buy the coins they talk about as some are paid sponsorship by some token owners. But they both have very good knowledge and I have found both of them to be good at teaching what they know.

My trading pattern is what I tried myself and it worked for me, I will tell you how I do it and you can try it too, I believe it will work too and if doesn’t work for you, you will tweak it a little to fit you like we all do.

Chreze:


Great stuff. Check YouTube

https://youtube.com/c/SheldonEvansx

And

https://youtube.com/c/JRNYCrypto

Go to the pages of these two guys. Watch their intro to crypto videos. Then in order not to spoil this tread, you can create one crypto tread that we will all contribute, then I can tell you how I do my daily trading and the exchanges I use for trading as well.

NB: those YouTube links are just to learn the basics and have proper idea, you don’t have to buy the coins they talk about as some are paid sponsorship by some token owners. But they both have very good knowledge and I have found both of them to be good at teaching what they know.

My trading pattern is what I tried myself and it worked for me, I will tell you how I do it and you can try it too, I believe it will work too and if doesn’t work for you, you will tweak it a little to fit you like we all do.

Bro

How do you withdraw your crypto Usdt to your British bank account.

Chreze:


Binance for long term coins and Gate for daily trading.

which one did you tie to your ink bank

Hello guys landed Southampton less than 2 weeks ago on a dependant visa,(wife in healthcare). Already applying for jobs and got a two interviews already at NHS but the salary is a little above 18k and its 8-4pm..Issue is we have a 2yr old girl. My aunt is suggesting I start with a night picker and packer hustle so I have time for my daughter during the day.

NB
Gone to find out cost of daycare 7am -6pm £250

Big question is should I keep applying for daytime office job and keep my daughter in daycare or start off with picker and packer jobs till we are fully settled.
My wife work timetable has no nights till March + I'm a certified data analyst with few months experience back in 9ja..

Looking forward to your advise .. thanks alot

obalala:
Hello guys landed Southampton less than 2 weeks ago on a dependant visa,(wife in healthcare). Already applying for jobs and got a two interviews already at NHS but the salary is a little above 18k and its 8-4pm..Issue is we have a 2yr old girl. My aunt is suggesting I start with a night picker and packer hustle so I have time for my daughter during the day.

NB
Gone to find out cost of daycare 7am -6pm £250

Big question is should I keep applying for daytime office job and keep my daughter in daycare or start off with picker and packer jobs till we are fully settled.
My wife work timetable has no nights till March + I'm a certified data analyst with few months experience back in 9ja..

Looking forward to your advise .. thanks alot

If you get the job, 18k p.a. will provide you with a net salary of about 1,230 after tax.
Your childcare bill at 250 p.w will come out to about 1,000 give or take, less any extras to be paid. You and your wife can afford that on your joint pay.

My admittedly biased opinion (I'm very unsentimental when it comes to childcare, all my children went to 8 - 6 p.m. daycare from the age of 3 months and I never bothered to look into the possibilities of getting a relation/househelp to look after them at home) is take the job if you get it, and you guys pay for the childcare. Then you continue looking for a job as usual. In my experience, it's usually easier to get considered for a job when you already have one and are looking to move. You also kickstart your career sooner (and additionally start racking up time to count towards the so-called UK experience stuff). Nothing also stops you from pulling a nightshift somewhere (say 6 - 10 p.m.) after your madam returns from work.

The ultimate would be a WFH job for you so you can earn and save on childcare at the same time, but while looking for that, take the opportunity to put some formal work experience under your belt.

Secondly, depending on you (and what you were doing back in Nigeria), sitting indoors with a 2 year old all day in a small flat might not be the easiest of things to do.

obalala:
Hello guys landed Southampton less than 2 weeks ago on a dependant visa,(wife in healthcare). Already applying for jobs and got a two interviews already at NHS but the salary is a little above 18k and its 8-4pm..Issue is we have a 2yr old girl. My aunt is suggesting I start with a night picker and packer hustle so I have time for my daughter during the day.

NB
Gone to find out cost of daycare 7am -6pm £250

Big question is should I keep applying for daytime office job and keep my daughter in daycare or start off with picker and packer jobs till we are fully settled.
My wife work timetable has no nights till March + I'm a certified data analyst with few months experience back in 9ja..

Looking forward to your advise .. thanks alot

My only advice for you is .......... Get a night job ... ......

SirWellington:
Dear all, the PSW doesn't count towards the five years PR route but counts towards the ten years route to PR. Am I right?

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Hi hustla, please what pcr test did you pay for?

SirWellington:


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you are correct. It has been answered here before. It only count towards the 10 yr route

obalala:
Hello guys landed Southampton less than 2 weeks ago on a dependant visa,(wife in healthcare). Already applying for jobs and got a two interviews already at NHS but the salary is a little above 18k and its 8-4pm..Issue is we have a 2yr old girl. My aunt is suggesting I start with a night picker and packer hustle so I have time for my daughter during the day.

NB
Gone to find out cost of daycare 7am -6pm £250

Big question is should I keep applying for daytime office job and keep my daughter in daycare or start off with picker and packer jobs till we are fully settled.
My wife work timetable has no nights till March + I'm a certified data analyst with few months experience back in 9ja..

Looking forward to your advise .. thanks alot

I like where the HRGuy said "in my admittedly biased" opinion. That's because there is no right or recommended answer to your request for advice, all you're going to get are opinions.

I have 3 children, and I also looked after my children when we first arrived and I hadn't gotten a day job. No biggie, I still do it.
However, if I have one child like you do, I will put her in [affordable] daycare right away and take any day job that pays enough to cover the costs and leave me with something. I did not enjoy sitting at home during the winter months with 3 children, separating fights and getting homework done, only coming out in the evening when it was already dark to march off to a night job which I did not enjoy. I was unable to get anything much done in the day time or even get to know the new city I was living in, because marching 3 children around to the city to explore was definitely not something I had much energy for.

Again, our Nigerian women dey try in many ways, and I'm no sexist bigot, but do not leave your madam as the sole reasonable earner for any length of time.

They will soon come for my head, so make I tune out first.

SirWellington:
Dear all, the PSW doesn't count towards the five years PR route but counts towards the ten years route to PR. Am I right?

Yes.

ukay2:


I have told friends with capacity for tier 2 sponsorship visa to work towards it than students visa.....most won't understand.

While should l pay to study when l can work to get paid...just to write medics exams and you get licence to practice with tier 2 sponsorship for you and your family.

Obviously not everyone is in the medical field.

Ticha:


It's hard work especially if in the hospital or nursing home. Physically demanding and can be monotonous. Quite a bit of personal care - washing, changing incontinent pads, showering where required, feeding including actually spoon feeding like you would a baby. For clients with mobility issues, there's hoisting in and out of bed, chairs etc. Some are bed bound, so there's turning the client to avoid bedsores as well. Emptying catheters, cleaning colostomy bags if any. Shifts can be long - breaks are very welcome and sometimes, that's all the break you get unless you smoke haha

On the other hand, some can be relatively easy where the client is mainly mobile and capable and needs supervision and guidance - ie reminding them to wash, brush, cut food into smaller pieces, cook for them, take them out for walks, appointments etc. This is also same for learning disability care as well. Although with learning disability, some of the clients can also exhibit violent and aggressive tendencies to include hitting, biting, spiting etc.

There's palliative care - end of life stage - where clients have a syringe driver in and are basically waiting to die so likely also nil by mouth, tube fed and maybe intubated and the support worker's role is to keep them comfortable. So there isn't much to do apart from sitting around and ensuring their comfort.

Nights vary in different places but day support is almost always harder - although you're also not allowed to sleep on shift at night but there can be differences and nuances in different providers. Some will have a sleep in person.

There's also support work for supporting children in care - neurotypical children and or those with LD as well. It's very very similar to a teacher/ parent/ guardian role. You do get lots of being sworn at, rooms thrashed, some fixating behaviour etc.

Support work will also have you despairing about humanity and oyinbo life in general. You get the see the best and worst of humanity and realise that wahala and family drama full everywhere

This.

obalala:


Big question is should I keep applying for daytime office job and keep my daughter in daycare or start off with picker and packer jobs till we are fully settled.
My wife work timetable has no nights till March + I'm a certified data analyst with few months experience back in 9ja..

Looking forward to your advise .. thanks alot

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Take the day job. Put her in childcare especially as childcare won't take all your income. She gets to socialise with other children (and build immunity by acquiring every passing cold), you both also get to know other parents and people in the area which can come in handy in building a support network too.

Ticha:


It's hard work especially if in the hospital or nursing home. Physically demanding and can be monotonous. Quite a bit of personal care - washing, changing incontinent pads, showering where required, feeding including actually spoon feeding like you would a baby. For clients with mobility issues, there's hoisting in and out of bed, chairs etc. Some are bed bound, so there's turning the client to avoid bedsores as well. Emptying catheters, cleaning colostomy bags if any. Shifts can be long - breaks are very welcome and sometimes, that's all the break you get unless you smoke haha

On the other hand, some can be relatively easy where the client is mainly mobile and capable and needs supervision and guidance - ie reminding them to wash, brush, cut food into smaller pieces, cook for them, take them out for walks, appointments etc. This is also same for learning disability care as well. Although with learning disability, some of the clients can also exhibit violent and aggressive tendencies to include hitting, biting, spiting etc.

There's palliative care - end of life stage - where clients have a syringe driver in and are basically waiting to die so likely also nil by mouth, tube fed and maybe intubated and the support worker's role is to keep them comfortable. So there isn't much to do apart from sitting around and ensuring their comfort.

Nights vary in different places but day support is almost always harder - although you're also not allowed to sleep on shift at night but there can be differences and nuances in different providers. Some will have a sleep in person.

There's also support work for supporting children in care - neurotypical children and or those with LD as well. It's very very similar to a teacher/ parent/ guardian role. You do get lots of being sworn at, rooms thrashed, some fixating behaviour etc.

Support work will also have you despairing about humanity and oyinbo life in general. You get the see the best and worst of humanity and realise that wahala and family drama full everywhere

This post is getting a lot of people banned for no reason, please avoid quoting it.

MichaelUde:


I like where the HRGuy said "in my admittedly biased" opinion. That's because there is no right or recommended answer to your request for advice, all you're going to get are opinions.

I have 3 children, and I also looked after my children when we first arrived and I hadn't gotten a day job. No biggie, I still do it.
However, if I have one child like you do, I will put her in [affordable] daycare right away and take any day job that pays enough to cover the costs and leave me with something. I did not enjoy sitting at home during the winter months with 3 children, separating fights and getting homework done, only coming out in the evening when it was already dark to march off to a night job which I did not enjoy. I was unable to get anything much done in the day time or even get to know the new city I was living in, because marching 3 children around to the city to explore was definitely not something I had much energy for.

Again, our Nigerian women dey try in many ways, and I'm no sexist bigot, but do not leave your madam as the sole reasonable earner for any length of time.

They will soon come for my head, so make I tune out first.

Very very important point.

MichaelUde:


Yes.

Thank you

Gloriouscrown

Which one is PCR

Just got back from one covid test center now, 54 Gene or so

Cost is 39,500

Planning to use Randox for the day 2 test when I land.

hustla:
Gloriouscrown

Which one is PCR

Just got back from one covid test center now, 54 Gene or so

Cost is 39,500

Planning to use Randox for the day 2 test when I land.

Wow...that's cheap. I booked 50k for synlab
Thanks for the tip

Thank you for your response to my question

Gloriouscrown:


Wow...that's cheap. I booked 50k for synlab
Thanks for the tip

Its in Abeokuta, maybe that's why

There may be hidden costs though

hustla:



Its in Abeokuta, maybe that's why

There may be hidden costs though

Okay thanks a lot

obalala:
Hello guys landed Southampton less than 2 weeks ago on a dependant visa,(wife in healthcare). Already applying for jobs and got a two interviews already at NHS but the salary is a little above 18k and its 8-4pm..Issue is we have a 2yr old girl. My aunt is suggesting I start with a night picker and packer hustle so I have time for my daughter during the day.

NB
Gone to find out cost of daycare 7am -6pm £250

Big question is should I keep applying for daytime office job and keep my daughter in daycare or start off with picker and packer jobs till we are fully settled.
My wife work timetable has no nights till March + I'm a certified data analyst with few months experience back in 9ja..

Looking forward to your advise .. thanks alot

I was just wondering Obalala, since u are a data analyst why don’t u get a work from home job. It shouldn’t be difficult especially if you know your thing well

Happy new year in advance to Everyone.

More Wins for ALL.

Irenenwaka:


I was just wondering Obalala, since u are a data analyst why don’t u get a work from home job. It shouldn’t be difficult especially if you know your thing well

With a few month's nigerian experience .............

Raalsalghul:





Which numbers, care to expatiate?

Lol… number of those that the UK happened to their marriage

Lexusgs430:



With a few month's nigerian experience .............

Yes. If he knows his stuff, there are many data roles.

dustydee:

Yes. If he knows his stuff, there are many data roles.

From OP's explanations, do you sense a confident data analyst..........

This would not be a certificate employment role, but ability to apply learnt skills, within a presented physical environment...........

MichaelUde:


I like where the HRGuy said "in my admittedly biased" opinion. That's because there is no right or recommended answer to your request for advice, all you're going to get are opinions.

I have 3 children, and I also looked after my children when we first arrived and I hadn't gotten a day job. No biggie, I still do it.
However, if I have one child like you do, I will put her in [affordable] daycare right away and take any day job that pays enough to cover the costs and leave me with something. I did not enjoy sitting at home during the winter months with 3 children, separating fights and getting homework done, only coming out in the evening when it was already dark to march off to a night job which I did not enjoy. I was unable to get anything much done in the day time or even get to know the new city I was living in, because marching 3 children around to the city to explore was definitely not something I had much energy for.

Again, our Nigerian women dey try in many ways, and I'm no sexist bigot, but do not leave your madam as the sole reasonable earner for any length of time.

They will soon come for my head, so make I tune out first.

Good point.

Lexusgs430:


From OP's explanations, do you sense a confident data analyst..........

This would not be a certificate employment role, but ability to apply learnt skills, within a presented physical environment...........

Hilarious.