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Travel / Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by cbn4main: 6:33pm On Mar 08
Schoolhike:



Lots of factors, maybe someone within the team with Lower grade was also interviewed, that’s just one, can’t continue to list them out, also lots of candidates jostling for one position, etc just continue and never get tired at least you are getting interviews (more chance), some aren’t getting any.

Being placed on the reserve list means you are worth giving the job, continue and soon you will be back here to share success story.



Thanks for the reply. I appreciate
Travel / Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by cbn4main: 6:32pm On Mar 08
jesmond3945:
many interviews mean one thing. You are about to get the job.

Thanks for your encouragement
Travel / Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by cbn4main: 7:35pm On Mar 07
Elders in the house,
I don tire to do these civil service interviews. So far more than 6 done ( I got on 2 reserve lists for EO and HEO roles).

What exactly do they really want? How can I secure an offer? What should I do differently?

I speak quite well and confidently during interviews. I structure my answers to the behavioural and strength questions quite well.

I will appreciate any word of advice 🙏

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Travel / Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by cbn4main: 5:00pm On Feb 13
LaXxOnebody:
I was put on the reserve list in March 2023, Im still there. Followed up a few times.

Honestly i dont expect anything from it again.


Nawao. Thanks for the reply
Travel / Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by cbn4main: 9:22pm On Feb 12
Gurus in the house. I have got the TFL customer service assessment (i passed the onlinevtest) coming up.

What should I expect on the day please?
Travel / Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by cbn4main: 9:22pm On Feb 08
hayesconcept:
It might be a week or months. You can only be in reserve list for a maximum of 6 months. I was also place in a reserve list for an EA role in November but later secured an higher grades with another government agencies and I went with them. They later contacted those on reserve list in January. I wasn’t later contacted because I withdrew my application immediately I secured that better role.
Ok. Thanks for the reply.
The guy said he was placed on the reserve list for 12 months. He has to be patient then. I advised him to be searching for other roles too.
Travel / Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by cbn4main: 4:27pm On Feb 08
Zahra29:


If this is a sponsored role, he will need to have a skilled worker application submitted before the 4th of April, or the role will need to meet the new £38,700 income requirement
It is not a sponsored role. The person is a dependant already on a HCW visa.
Travel / Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by cbn4main: 2:06pm On Feb 08
Joyglo:
Goodmorning my people. Please oh how much does it cost to do an eye test? I have a friend complaining about eye problem

I did mine at Boots. £29.

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Travel / Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by cbn4main: 2:04pm On Feb 08
Elders in the house.
Civil service just put my friend on the reserve list for an EO role. I want to ask on his behalf, how long should he expect the actual appointment?
People who have been on the list, how long did it take b4 you were appointed?
Travel / Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 9 by cbn4main: 11:21am On Feb 06
So, the whole of February 4, this thread recorded just one post ? This is serious!!. How quickly things change.
Currently, the Oando rate is a whopping N1,613. In mid 2022, it was as low as N490 at a time.

This is a huge lesson about life. Time waits for no one indeed.

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Travel / Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 9 by cbn4main: 2:14pm On Jan 29
tommee:
Hello Gurus,

Please i got the below e-mail after 2months of waiting for my child dependent visa, i did not submit any financial document from lagos state government does anyone know how to respond to this. The financial document document submitted was from fidelity bank but fidelity was not mentioned in the email. please guyz i need your professional touch.


The UK Decision Making Centre is currently assessing the application submitted by the above named. We are unable to conclude the application at this time as we require additional information.
When considering an application we may decide to make verification checks of the evidence you have provided to help assess whether you meet the requirements of the route under which you are applying. Under Appendix Finance paragraph 2.1(a), we must be able to make satisfactory verification checks in order for the financial evidence to be considered.
We have tried to verify the financial documents you have provided from LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT, however have not received a response from them. If we are unable to verify the documents with LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT then I am unable to consider them towards you meeting the eligibility of Appendix Student. If you have alternative evidence that shows you meet the finance requirements, please submit it to the email address below within 10 working days. Any submitted evidence must meet the requirements set out in Appendix Finance and Appendix Student.
If we do not hear from you or from University of Derby within 10 working days, your application will be considered on the information available to us at that time. If you wish to submit any further evidence to: Sheffieldstudentteam.docrequestsInternal@fco.gov.uk quoting your application reference in the subject line. Please attach the document directly to the email as we are unable to access links to files hosted on sites such as Dropbox™ or Google Drive™. Please also include a translation of the document provided if it is not in English or Welsh.
Please note we are unable to receive emails and documents which are over 25mb in size. If your documents are over this limit, please send them over multiple emails to ensure we receive your documents.



So sorry about this. If you are sure you uploaded a bank statement from Fidelity bank and not Lagos statement as stated by the UKVI, then you do not have anything to worry about. Just reupload your bank statement and follow up on your bank to respond to them. Please, attach a well detailed cover letter Letter explaining that you did everything right in accordance with the rule.

UKVI is making plenty of mistakes on people's applications these days. I can assure you that you are not alone on this.
Travel / Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by cbn4main: 11:59am On Jan 27
solid3:


Pls did you send her own account statement? Because I want to apply for a family visa, I'm sponsoring my wife, she's working and earning salary, do I have to include her account statement?
Yes I did. But her balance was not up to 200k
Travel / Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by cbn4main: 6:41pm On Jan 25
farnet:
Please people, has any of the below happened, and what are the implications?

Parents applied for Graduate visa and couldn't do so for the kids, all less than 6years old, because of fund.

Particular questions
1. Is there anyway it affects or will affect the parents visa?
2. In what specific ways does it affect the children?
3. What if the family doesn't have long term plan living here. Looking at moving elsewhere in near future. Does it matter or wouldn't it be a waste of scarce money ( let's say that have it) applying for children that won't be needing a brp for anything or right to work?

Travel / Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 9 by cbn4main: 7:15pm On Jan 18
Osadeba1:
Hello good morning house 🏠, please who fly with Qatar recently and how much was the cost of an extra kg, 'i mean 1kg' is how much?

Before this FX hike, in August 2022, I was charged almost 70k for like 10 to 15k excess luggage.
Paying for excess luggage is more expensive. Avoid excess luggage if u can. Otherwise, pay for an entire 23kg extra bag online and fill up your bag with food stuffs. It's cheaper.

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Travel / Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by cbn4main: 1:42pm On Jan 15
EJIOGBENIMI:

What does that mean actually and what figure is good?

The rate is quite high but so long as you clear your balances before deadline, the rates won't apply to you.
Travel / Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by cbn4main: 1:03pm On Jan 15
giselle237:
online price is always cheaper than the airport price

Thanks for the reply
Travel / Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by cbn4main: 9:35am On Jan 14
lavida001:

It’s the UK they have built a reputation for themselves over the years. Student will still come for study’s. And mind you the money they have made from student this past 3 years will be put back into their economy. In a nutshell they will find a way. They always do.

Which money are you referring to please? The one they have planned to use to fund the NHS? 😃 😊
Dey play

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Travel / Re: UK Skilled Worker Visa / Health And Care Worker Visa / Qualified Teacher Route by cbn4main: 9:13am On Jan 14
Good morning elders. Please who has travelled to the uk from Nigeria with Kenya airways? How much was charged for extra luggage? Did you pay in Naira or dollars at the Airport? I want to decide whether to pay online or at the Airport
Travel / Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by cbn4main: 9:08am On Jan 14
Good morning elders. Please who has travelled to the uk from Nigeria with Kenya airways? How much was charged for extra luggage? Did you pay in Naira or dollars at the Airport? I want to decide whether to pay online or at the Airport

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Travel / Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by cbn4main: 8:52am On Jan 14
Good morning elders. Please who has travelled to the uk from Nigeria with Kenya airways? How much was charged for extra luggage? Did you pay in Naira or dollars at the Airport? I want to decide whether to pay online or at the Airport.
Travel / Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by cbn4main: 1:21pm On Jan 13
Thegamingorca:




It's still better than paying for flight to and fro to Abuja or Lagos and still pay for hotel grin
Exactly!!! Just enter N100 keke to presidentia hotel, do your biometrics and go awz. 😃 😊 😀

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Travel / Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 9 by cbn4main: 9:30am On Jan 12
Gam22:
Hello guys, please what happens if a person mentions a previous visa refusal but doesn’t get the month or year correctly? Does this affect your application? It’s something of 10 years ago

Secondly what happens if one mentions different date of parents DOB from what he mentioned in a previous application from Years back. Does it have major consequences?

For your second question, during my partner's student dependant visa application, I erroneously inputed January as the mum's month of birth. When we were switching visa, I inputed the correct month. Now, I applied for the mum's visit visa, she got it approved.
I think the information you gave in the last visa application is the most relevant and would be used for any decision making.
Travel / Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by cbn4main: 11:07am On Jan 07
jedisco:


Not necessarily.
Ran into a similar issue when I needed to extend my visa for a few weeks befor moving on to another role.
Once the COS for the extension was issued, the new company I was eventually moving could not issue a new COSuntil I had used the last one. They kept encountering an error and I had to tell them why that was.

Bro, does one need another COS from their company to apply for a visa extension assuming their 3 years SW visa is about to expire?
Travel / Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by cbn4main: 5:05pm On Jan 04
brainhack201:
Hello everyone, My mum visit visa was just refused yesterday. I stated on the application me and wife are the one sponsoring her and we attached our bank statements with savings of £3k for her needs.
She's a petty trader though, she sell in a very small scale which I mentioned in the cover letter attached.
The money in her bank statement is mainly money I sent her every month or weekly for upkeep and other allowance.
Please we want to put in another application for her as soon as possible, if you anybody can point me to what I need to do correctly to avoid another refusal please.
We really need her to come because my wife as to resume work as her maternity leave is coming to end very soon.
Any help will be appreciated guys.
Thank you. I attached the refusal screenshot In the post.

I'm so touched by this refusal because my spouse's mum's visa was just granted recently (first time traveller).

Here are the basic things I did:

1). Duration of visit was 2 months. I stated she was coming to spend time with her daughter who is about to give birth, to support her mental and psychological wellbeing (Note: you must use a very emotional and cogent reason for the visit).

2). I submitted a bank statement of £9,000 and proposed to support her trip 100% with £4,000.
Note: Your £3,000 savings is way too small. In the cover letter, you need to draft a budget (Flight, internal transport etc)

3). I stated she was a petty trader and a pensioner with a regular income (pension) and irregular income(shop sales). I uploaded pics of her in her shopa and retirement Letter.
Note: in your case, you need to be consistently sending her a particular amount every month to form a regular income for her. This is not compulsory but I suggest you do it to help her home-tie status.

Don't forget the MatB1 form, letters of consent from family members in Nigeria, church, her property documents etc.

Finay, If you read this thread extensively, I can guarantee you that your next application will be granted.
Just like someone advised, don't rush into reapplying.

Cheers
Travel / Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by cbn4main: 2:11pm On Jan 04
lightofjoy:
Hello, please I need to help someone apply for health care skilled visa since her CoS is out. She's in the UK already on dependant visa. So which is the right application link to use?

https://www.gov.uk/health-care-worker-visa/switch-to-this-visa

Use this link.

Cheers

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Travel / Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by cbn4main: 9:47am On Dec 27, 2023
Your passport is always scanned and thats the most important thing. The stamp you mentioned is just for your own record purposes and not even important bcs stamps can be forged. We have seen here, a visa denial, where a visa applicant forged immigration stamp and was caught. So you see, they have everything in the system.

jimcykhan:
Hi
Please how do the UK border police track immigration history. I noticed passport are stamped and fingerprint is taking on arrival. However, on departure there's no checks by border police and no stamp also on passport.

How do they track individual immigration history?

Thanks

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Travel / Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 9 by cbn4main: 8:42pm On Dec 26, 2023
Just look at how dry this thread is now. 1 to 2 years ago this place was absolutely rocking. YOUKAY IMMIGRATION POLICIES !!! Nawao!!

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Travel / Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by cbn4main: 4:33pm On Dec 26, 2023
Thanks so much. I appreciate.


Goodenoch:


Doesn't matter.

Continue using the cards responsibly and ignore the 'scores' on those websites. They're irrelevant to any credit application. It's your history of using credit responsibly that matters, and one year is certainly not enough to begin panicking.

What you need to keep track of is factors like hard searches, your presence on the electoral register, etc. A stellar credit profile will come naturally over time.

Travel / Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by cbn4main: 4:32pm On Dec 26, 2023
Thanks for the input.

ReesheesuKnack:



Your major issue is that you applied, and got credit cards via ‘herd mentality’.
You did not do even the most basic research into the workings of credit card vs credit file va credit history.


Don’t worry. Your scores will rise.
Travel / Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by cbn4main: 2:23pm On Dec 26, 2023
Elders in the house, I thought having a well managed CCs is a good way to building one's credit score. Why is my case different na? Here is my journey so far:

I and my partner arrived the UK in August last year. I tried to get CCs for both of us but were denied by AMEX, monzo and Lloyd's. Luckily for us, it didn't affect our Credit score. My partner is a full time worker while I was a student working part-time.
I decided not to apply again until last month.
My partner got accepted by two CC companies (zable and Capital one) while I applied for only Zable and got as well. Whenever we use the CCs we pay back latest after 1 to 2 days. We try to maintain a zero balance.

I recently checked our Credit scores on Transunion, they were OK. But to my greatest surprise, my partner's score on Experian had dropped by over 100 points within one month of using CC and reported a credit balance of just £28 out over £400 credit limit. While mine reported zero balance but dropped by only 1 point. My experian credit score remain Fantastic.

My question is, elders in the house, does it mean it's better not to have a CC? How would they drastically reduce my partner's credit score when im no get any due repayment (just £28 she spent and she paid back the next day or so ).

Make una help biko
Travel / Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by cbn4main: 10:50pm On Dec 22, 2023
I applied for my Mother-in-law in November, first timer. Her visa came out after 2 weeks

Baba19:
My people! How far? Long time, no speak!!! Reading up on the past few pages and it’s like people no dey come back to the oracle to give visa alert report like before.

All my guys applied for renewal back in September and got their visas within a week. What’s average processing time now for first timers and renewers?

One love!

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Travel / Re: UK Skilled Worker Visa / Health And Care Worker Visa / Qualified Teacher Route by cbn4main: 7:36am On Dec 10, 2023
Most jobs will require your Right to Work share code either at application stage or during documentation. With a visit visa, you wouldn't have the code.



LadyAmyy:
Hello everyone, Skilled workers in the UK, please I have a plan, but I would like to know if it's a good one.

Can one go through the visitor's route to secure a job and then come back to Nigeria to apply for a work visa, since switching from a visit visa to a work visa in the UK is impossible?

I intend to visit the UK next year and while there, I will be applying for jobs hoping to get sponsorship, that way I can come back to Nigeria and the company can issue me a COS.


Thank you.

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