JaySterling:
Please, what is a good monthly salary, a good opening balance and a good closing balance

elengine:
Happy Sunday everyone. My rent will expire by May 6 and I gave a notice to my landlord on March 7. Now this man has come to display 'a to rent' signpost in front of my house. My question- is this legal even though I have not moved out.

miidae:
Good day everyone Please I need your honest advice My husband is on a student visa which will expire Sept 2025, he came in sept 2023 and I joined him 27th of March, 2024.
When I got here hubby said I shouldn’t bother looking for my job here because I won’t get sponsorship that he already has a care job for me (got my brp on Wednesday and awaiting NI)
I have over 7yrs of experience in QA/QC in pharma, my last roles was QAM, I got the offer fews weeks before traveling which I rejected.
I edited my CV to UK format and applied on job sites like indeed and LinkedIn. I got interviewed by some agencies and companies (I have one interview next Monday with a big pharm coy).
Each time I get interviewed the last question is do I need sponsorship my answer is always yes as suggested by hubby.
I’m just tired, he said sponsorship is the real deal
Is it possible to get sponsorship in my career line?
Do I take the care job as suggested by hubby?
Do I stop applying?

Bigkenny:
I am filling out the UK visa application for a sister who is planning to go to the UK for a short vacation with her husband, but she has no marriage certificate. The sister and the husband did only the traditional wedding. The only thing they have are wedding photos.

Under the relationship status, should I put married for her or an unmarried partner?

Also, she doesn't have a good bank statement. Her account balance is about 150k naira, but she said the husband's account is good (she said his bank balance is 10 million naira and $9600 in his domiciliary account).

Can she use her husband as her sponsor?

They have a daughter together who is studying at the university. The husband doesn't need a visa to enter the UK because he has a Panama passport apart from his Nigerian passport. Their daughter is not traveling with them.

They owned a house property. The C of O is in the husband's name.

How can I help her package this application?

Meogom:
So there's this stuff people at my work place claim, about £140 pounds tax relief for washing your uniform, they said I could apply for it too. I've gone through it and I tick all the boxes, but I don't know if it's public fund and if I'm entitled to it. Make 140 quid no go purge belle. Please does anyone know about it and am I safe to go ahead with it.
Note: I'm on skilled worker dependent visa

MeinKampf:
@justwise and other gurus, I just got my P60 and I need someone to interpret it for me whether I qualify for a tax refund or not. Or someone that can just explain to me how to study and analyse it. Thanks

LaXxOnebody:
You can call the UKVI helpline but you wont get any help. They're one of the most inefficient call centres in the UK (personal experience and experience of others).

You'd need to send an email to complaints@homeoffice.gov.uk and copy public.enquiries@homeoffice.gov.uk. You'd then start getting holding messages.

It's probably Atlas messing with you. You can read about it here - https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/faulty-71m-home-office-it-system-causes-immigration-errors-and-leaves-staff-sobbing-2943859

Good luck!

Zahra29:


A lot of this resentment stems from public opinion that asylum seekers are chancers who are living it large on the state with free accommodation and benefits and doing nothing but going shopping and popping out babies.

And who can blame them if this is the narrative being put out there on Facebook and the like.

missjekyll:
Ahem ....cough cough that egalite whatever led them to try to stamp out local cultures in their overseas colonies inorder to form the population into "Frenchmen" . It didnt work.
They should have studied the Roman Empire. Rome governed with a light touch however Empires have an expiry date and even they eventually fell.

Very interesting discussions here today.

missjekyll:
If anyone can just turn up and claim asylum,then the asylum system is working just as it should. Its up to the courts to decide whether they have a right to asylum. We know that 75% of our asylum seekers do have a good case and are granted asylum.

The reasons for choosing the UK are immaterial to be honest. Those 2 countries you mentioned take in even more than we do. so many choose to stay in mainland Europe. The few who decide to make the perilous journey to our shores must feel strongly connected to the UK.
I doubt it's the 7 pounds and Bibby Stockholm aka plague city that's the main motive.

Zahra29:


I think most feel that the UK is less racist than France, some have family members here and there's also the language barrier in France.

But it's increasingly very difficult to get under table work here with the new immigration rules that stipulate fines of over £20k to
employers and landlords found to be harbouring illegal migrants.

The only businesses willing to take that risk imo are criminal enterprises or slave masters that take full advantage of people's desperation and pay them peanuts with zero rights.
Businesses such as restaurants, car washes and others get raided on the regular by the home office via tip-offs etc

missjekyll:
You can work. They are not allowed to. Thats a foolish policy enacted by the labour government.

Let them work while their claims are going through the courts. the country gets the tax and doesn't have to support them. The asylum seekers have a sense of purpose and more money for themselves. Its a win for everyone.

I dont think anyone should have public money until they ve paid into it. 5 years is a bit much though.

abuhusna1:

The law is statight forward as long as you are not 18 before your residence in the uk is 7 years you are entitled to regularisation. No Jupiter can send the child out of uk after 7 years as he or she is entitled to private right. Many people had regularised their status this way cos as soon as the child gets regulariaed the parent use their child's status to regularise.

Boyhood:
Saw this on fb and I wish to ask can one actually open a foreign account from Nigeria? Could this be a scam advert?

jedisco:


The kneejerk reaction by consumers who are speculating is not the reason we're here. Rather what they're doing is a consequence of past macro events.

When CBN was rapidly issuing short-term TBs at rates well over 10%, did we bother to ask how the government will generate revenue to pay back? We all knew the revenue of the government was in decline and the only way they'd pay back was to print more naira yet we kept quiet and enjoyed the largesse.

When DMO and MOF kept issuing eurobonds at rates of close to 10% and coming back to boast that their oversubscription means there is confidence in the market, what did we say? We said the professionals know better. Same forex that foreign governments borrow at negative rates.

Blaming the masses is similar to blaming the victims of the train attack for being kidnapped. Let everyone protect their wealth as they see fit so long they are not committing a crime.

davide470:
@Aaaaarghmed,

France does not deport unnecessarily. Those people serve a purpose in the grand scheme of things. Police hardly ask for your ID except you are suspicious, or behaving in a strange & uncanny manner around public places.

As an unregistered migrant without papers, you are alienated from the society. You can't open a bank account, rent an apartment, access free healthcare (except red cross) or get a reasonable job.. that alone is stylishly meant to force you to leave.

ojesymsym:
I was almost beginning to believe that the dependency on oil will really end or reduce soon until this Russia Ukraine war started then I realized that the west is still very far from heavy reliance on fossil fuel. Even if they remove the vehicular need, there are many other areas that guzzle fossil fuel.

Kikistar:
Thanks for the response. Self-employed - I run digital services as a freelancer. Working on my CAC. What other document(s) do I need?

rebless:
Hello house

It seems France and schengen countries are not really popular with Nigerians cos I notice this thread is not active at all.

What do you guys think of any propose application this December considering the new COVID 19 variant ravaging Europe and the world at large?

pol23:
N.B: This is a question about Austria Schengen visa.
I and my wife applied for Austrian Tourist visa since 22nd of October.... and till now we're yet to get any response...
Reason of visit is for Christmas Holiday.
We're first time visitor to Europe.
Just wondering if anyone have an idea of what's going on.
I've sent several email with no response to their embassy.
N.B: I'm asking on this thread because there's none for Austrian Tourist and I actually read this thread to for required documents....

Thank you

esdajo:
Thanks. The address is written on the refusal letter but how do they expect an English-speaking person from an English-speaking nation like Nigeria to appeal in french language? I have appealed in the past against a visa refusal at the German consulate and it was entirely in English language. Is this a deliberate attempt to frustrate the whole process or what? Has anyone here appealed against a French visa refusal and what the language of the appeal?

makforex:
Good evening my pple, pls someone should help me, my international passport ll be expired March 8th 2022, I want to know if I can use it to apply for French visa on December and use it to travel on February, 2022?
As my renewal passport is not yet ready for collection for the past 2 months.

jedisco:


Also, similar to my reasoning earlier, it's good to see our VP question banks regarding mortgage...

If there was one industry in Western, I believe does hold the potential to lift at least a million Nigerians out of poverty with far reaching implications for the state, it's the mortgage industry...

Lets take a well paid FG young worker for example... If that person wants to own a home today, they'd need to save for at least 2-5 yrs to buy land. Then they process papers >>> look for an architect to draw a plan >>> pursue approval >>> look for a builder >>> take the next 10 years trying to build an apartment block by block ... All this while, the person is at the mercy of the builder/architect as its not his field. Also, the well established builders are not willing to get bogged down on a single house for years I've seen well earning families struggle for over a decade to build their house. This impacts heavily on their disposable income for things like holidays e.t.c during that time....

Now compare th above to another system where Julius Berger discusses with the government for land title, builds standard apartment with facilities leveraging on the economics of scale, and put these up for sale. That same young civil servant goes to his bank and gets a loan of 75 million at < 3% interest (which he could realistically payup over his career), buys that apartment in a good area with a proper title, pays a little amount monthly (which most times is less than what he'd have paid as rent), has loads of spare cash for other things... With time, if the price of the house appreciates, he could even sell it, pay the bank their loan and have more money to go for a bugger one...

The government benefits with such a streamlined process... Building laws are adhered to, things like ground tax e.t.c are paid, with the right database, the government can target certain groups to support e.g first time buyers can pay little or no tax e.t.c...

Comparing the age-old buying land and building to tge mortgage system is like comparing cocoa pods to its refined components like bournvita, chocolates e.t.c... The mortgage system can be an economic miracle...

But then, the CBN could help in kick-starting that process by encouraging/funding credit rating systems... When you have that, the banks know who they could safely lend to.... The construction companies can then get to work

mikeayus:
Hello guys, please i need advise from experienced persons here, my international passport will be expiring by Nov 2022. I want to submit applications to schools for Sept 2022. Is it advisable I submit this soon to expire passport or do I have to renew it first before applying to schools? I just want to be on the safer side. will be awaiting your kind responses. Thanks

ammierie:
Good evening,
My husband recently applied for the UK visa and got rejected.
The documents he submitted were his company CAC certificate and his personal bank statement where he saves money.

Please what do we do moving forward if he’s to re-apply.

Uzland:

Hello dear, we're both in the same situation. I've been posting questions regarding the UK Health and Care Worker Visa route here but haven't got any responses. It appears this thread may not be the right one for this new visa route.
Please let's all join hands and call upon @ Justwise to create a new thread specifically dedicated to the 'UK Skilled Worker Visa / Health and Care Worker Visa'. Thanks.

TheGuyFromHR:


This makes no sense at all.
So na because of rubbish details of backstabbing boy-girl sexual relationships and how someone snatched your girlfriend that all "Nigerians" should keep to themselves and shun all other human beings in the UK.

LutanFyah:

Solving the issue of insecurity caused by the herdsmen can be done in a couple of months if the president sees it as a problem. Banning Twitter didn't take days, sending soldiers to kill unarmed protesters didn't take months; the president can marshal out the same willpower and urgency in addressing the herdsmen in the language that they understand.

Technology transfer is not a herculean task if we put in the resources to get them. We have brilliant youths who can be trained in a matter of months to operate and service the machines.

We have good brains that can reel out feasible and thoughtful plans to bring food production to fruition. Our brother is in AFDB, our sister is at World trade headquarters and we have good heads inside the country.

We have been copying the west in many things,we can just go to people who have passed through this stage in nation building and copy their templates.


Willpower is just the problem we're facing in this country.

jedisco:


Our problems are hydraheaded like you say, but then it can be solved by starting from somewhere...or at least, not making it worse.

Regarding milk, trust me... If Nestlé wanted to start production here, they'd have done that long ago.... Already, one of the milk companies are doing it.... They buy directly from local farmers at rates much cheaper than international price... In turn, they give the farmers cheaper input and teach them how to milk the cows properly... The farmers no longer have to roam their cattle and make much more than if they sold the milk as fura locally.... Although it was on a small scale, the outcome was promising...

That we have a huge population is our leverage on these companies... If the cost of running their company and selling milk to Nigerians is not too high for them, then the cost of producing such here shouldn't be too high either. Or is their plan to perpetually import from Netherlands?
If not for such policy, by now MTN would still have been importing recharge cards and ShopRite (b4 leaving) would have been importing banana..

The issue is that all our policies resolve around banning this or that without thinking things thru... Most western nations achieve all these by just tweaking with taxation here nd there... Take ulez fees in some major cities for example.

The last macroeconomic policy of the CBN that made sense was them mandating banks to borrow out money by tweaking with the CRR... End result was that banks rapidly dropped their rates and started looking for eligible folks to borrow money... Pity it's not been built on..

jedisco:


Most countries with currency crises eventually did that... Argentina, Lebanon e.t.c. usually, the dollars in dom accounts are seized and forcefully converted to the local currency at the central bank rate.

CBN doing that will be going against the high and mighty of the society which is why I believe they've not done it.... So far, their interventions have been targeted against the poor or younger folks and they're at a stage where there's not much more they can target and folks are no longer buying their excuses. Fact is the average Nigerian might even welcome such a move and the defence would be to ask what folks are storing dollar for

But with all the little things they've done recently incl the e-naira, they're getting more desperate and running outta ideas... The arbitrage between both rates is now 30%. Sooner or later, CBN will be forced to make a big move which IMO will either be to end the dollar susidy on many items or go for dom accounts.... We already know how the market will react to the second option.

Donbrig:
We all know that things are not going smoothly in Nigeria, lots of challenges in every sector. But Nigeria has a way of disappointing those that have always predicted doom on her.

Nigeria's economy just recorded five percent growth in the second quarter of 2021, I am baffled nobody even shared the news here. Lets assume the news was a negative one, or Nigeria slumped into another recession, many would have shared it here without hesitation.

"Those who wants to reap the benefit of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it"

Lilly211:
Good morning house

I was going through the group and noticed some people said they got a call from embassy for brief questions (like phone interview) after biometric.

please!!! what are the question they ask ? Please kindly enlighten me. Thanks