₦airaland Forum

Born2conquer:
Thank you to everybody, I landed safely to the UK on Wednesday evening through the kenya airways. Pretty straightforward, though they handled my bag roughly sha, lol. But in return, I kept ordering wines sha during the flight.

I booked National expresss before leaving Nigeria so I merely moved from thr immigration terminal to the luggage pickup area to the National expresss bus-stop that was going my way.

Fully settled in now in the UK. Na job remain now.


To everybody working towards getting the UK visa, getting in and settling in, I pray that May the lord make it easy for you.


Total money spent to get here: E choke. My budget first na around 10m when I started but hmmmm

10m can't take you. What can take you is 40m assuming your school fees is 12000 pounds and 10,000 for living expenses so you are short of 30m.

So now the real journey has began ... Get your CV ready and start applying for jobs instantly. Apply for NI today today so that by a week time u will have it.

Am hearing getting job in Scotland now is now easy than England what a twist of event... Scotland weh we de avoid then
Finally note that schools are under pressure financially as customers or rather say student did not take up required admission space last year September and this year we know only fewer people are interested in UK schools, so they are not being nice again.

@Justwise

Mindlog:
I switched under the field of psychology.

Can I pm you

Mindlog:
Do everything within your means to switch to skilled worker visa before your visa expires. Someone who was in a situation similar to yours had push to get sponsored skilled worker visa as her BRP was to expire Jan. 30th 2023 and she was resubmitting her dissertation in May, 2023. She switched as her Uni said they can't facilitate her student visa extension, she submitted her dissertation in May, passed and graduated July 2023 while on Tier 2 visa.

How can one switch apart from care where can one see COS.

What can it take for the government to go after this people?

IamDora:
Yes! As a Nigerian Blogger, Note this;

You should never have a business posting good and relevant news. Always make sure you're good and consistent at posting bad news or evil gossips about Celebrities, you'll thrive so much in it because that's what Nigerians Love to hear.

Good news don't excite them. Good luck

That's where you got to find it difficult

Brilliant

justwise:
Yes you are one of the beneficiaries and you source information from the student visa thread for more than a year now.

someone has asked you to rest.. If you don’t have anything to say

justwise:
You are obviously writing this out of ignorant, even if you start today till the next 20yrs you will never come close to what i have contributed to Nigerian students studying in the UK.

When PSW was removed in 2012 till 2019 when Boris Johnson reintroduced it how did universities survived? Number of international students significantly reduced but still universities battle it out and they will do the same this time around.

I can't help if you are struggling to deal with the truth.

Financially or the copy n paste or paraphrasing being done from home office Web pages?

All I see you are doing here in the travel section is your job and you are being paid for the job. You aren't doing it for fun.

justwise:
There is nothing new here, they have been here before and managed to scale through. Read the last part of your screenshot for a clue.

Sorry to say this; You never see anything good in Nigerian students schooling in UK. You never acknowledged the important roles Nigerianns students plays to the UK economy. To you UK are doing Nigerians a favour.

That's what you come hard on any complaints they make on threads in nairaland

I thought the court freed him then what are you now saying again

Imagine a University like Coventry getting over 42% of its total income from international student. Majorly from Nigerians and Indians student says alot.

justwise:
Your previous 2-3 posts were hidden because you are spamming the thread with the same screenshots without adding a word

I wasn't spamming rather I am emphasing the importance of Nigerians contribution to the UK education sector.

Just today financial Times released this please note that the analysis they used here is from 2023 data by the time 2014 data will be released it will shocking https://www.ft.com/content/9f5bdf46-41ae-450e-a625-117fd19865f4

Zahra29:
This is incorrect. UK home students pay their fees upfront to the university via student loans from the UK government. They then repay the student loan (which attracts a high interest by the way) when they start earning above a certain threshold. The same approach applies in America and some other countries.

Why do you keep bringing up what home students pay and the loans they receive? That's an arrangement between them and their government, the same way the Nigerian government subsidises certain courses in Nigerian universities for Nigerian students.

Why is he opp hiding my post. You can see that all schools are in financial pressure in the UK. They fell short way below their target in January intake.. CAS issuance was down 60 to 70% and they likely projected this to happen September.
That's why most schools are now being hard towards student to pay up their fees to be able to pay staff and meet other financial obligations

TWoods:
Let me ask, these schools didn't exist before Nigerians and Indians?

But authority websites are saying they could go bankrupt without international student.
Or do you know more to what they are reporting?

If they where existing before without international student it means that enrollment has dropped gradually over the year's from home studente.
Morealso you have to know that home students pays 5k, 4k or sometimes 7k while international students pays as high as 23k and this funds are immediate. While home students with pennies spread their fees over the years evn with Government massive support.

Most schools, graduate, spend years to pay fees to come get their certificate.

Zahra29:
Lol, you can choose to believe what you want. Doesn't make it true.

Perhaps one day you'll venture out of your bubble to other parts of the UK and hopefully broaden your experience, interactions and perspective.

You don't chose what to believe. Statistics are out there

Zahra29:
I am not degrading Nigerians, I was correcting the falsehood that most whites are not interested in further education.
My point is that if you don't see any whites in your university, then perhaps you need to take a look at the ranking and reputation of your school.
I know many Brits, personally and on a professional level, who are highly educated and qualified. Which demographic do you think occupies the boards and executive levels of most institutions in the UK? Or do they rely on immigrants to train and lead them?

You don't have to put down others (especially with patently false statements) to make Nigerians look better

you can argue like made..
I said most and I repeat most don't care about MSc... Most teachers are from Germany, Russia, Italy, etc. No nack ur head for wall oh.

People that their government pamper and gives unemployment benefits that runs into thousands per year.

Without Nigerians and Indian and rest of people from EU, US they won't be able to fund their education without deficit or government support.
Some department will go into oblivion.

Their market depends on product from China.. Talk of anything shirt, shoe, clothes, pots etc unless high end stuff all comes from China. They don't really produced much.
But in care.. Health they are good
The Government manages their tax to run an efficient system but sadly ours loot everything


Even the visa stuff the government rakes in huge revenue to run the economy.

heykims:
Lol, u mean I have a comprehension problem?
I couldn't find the link sha.

No p brother but I would have interpreted it in a way you understand.

Believe me.. The new law target those coming in

Zahra29:
That's because the citizens target top rated universities, Russell group and the like, while most Nigerian and Indian immigrants typically look for the cheapest schools. Cheap and highly ranked are mutually exclusive when it comes to university education.

The UK is a classist system in many ways and the name and reputation of your university matters to most Brits and top employers. Go to LSE, Imperial College, Kings College, University of Birmingham, Warwick university ,etc etc and you will find many many "pure whites"

pure white abi... Whites from US, other European countries.
I know what I am saying. I am in the UK.
Most stops at BSC and their likes.
Remove all those international students and see those big names crying for funds

Stop degrading Nigerians..
The average UK can't bring huge chunk of money for a project.
Like in Nigeria. You see someone wakes up. Take 60 million to be building houses. Here what they do is to keep building credit score.. And you do that by buying on credit n never default throughout your pay date.
Who brings money to buy car in UK? For where.. Once you have good credit score.. Banks, auto shops will be begging u to come take a car . They might give you 20,000 pounds car and spread the payment over 20 years. You see someone paying 80 pounds in a month for a car

Talk of houses, school etc if you don't have a soft payment plans that runs into years... Then forget it.
This very reasons are why the universities are hungry for international students that provide immediate funds

Have you seen them all over the TV begging the government not to drive away foreign students?

Even the parliament acknowledged that foreign students brings over £41.9 billion to the UK economy each year.... I mean in a single year.. They can't achieve that with UK student that can't bring in immediate funds into the sector

Most of those students are from Nigeria, India, etc which they called their biggest market

DE play

heykims:
That's the reality chief, your dependants will have to leave if u get care sponsorship COS after April.

Share me the documents boss let me help you interpret it

heykims:
The policy clear states your dependants won't be covered if u get sponsorship after the policy is implemented this April.

Not really what I read. They can't chase your dependent when u get COS. Only target new entrants

TWoods:
I would hazard a guess and say you probably don't see them because you are attending a poorly ranked school that none of them would waste their money on. Somehow the UK has trained lawyers, engineers, doctors, and scientists... where do you think they are attending school? Oxford perhaps... which I doubt has a payment plan you can afford.

Big man piking don come.
Can I drop my aza
We rise by lifting others up

justwise:
So if 90% of Nigerians commit the same crime what do you do? Encourage and feel sorry for them when reality catch up with them? Organise pity party for them because they are victim of their own fraud?

. Stop playing...
Many schools here we even hold ur certificate and allow u to finish then only get certificate once you clear your fees.

Life no too hard but the weh u carry am for head.
Last last one naira no fit fall from your hand to take help anyone in need in that UK

ibinaboonline:
Hi it's me again. I getting ready to make that trip. Please can you help me with my planning? If we take off from Lagos at night, by what time would we arrive Cotonou? That's assuming GUO does night trips the way they do interstate in Nigeria. If I we take off in the morning, though, what's the typical time of arrival to Cotonou?

Cotonou is just 2 or 3 hours no need for night journey

All their thread hidden on nairaland

justwise:
20m is about £15K which is far less than what you need to study in the UK. Where is that money you presented to the embassy during the visa application? That is the point, you played yourself and now paying the price.

15000 dollars is about 24 million.

It's not easy to get that in Nigerian economy let's be frank.

Even me also in UK, I came with less than that but with flexibility in payment plan I de alright.

That UK thread you saw there booming do u think they have complete funds?
Ghanaian, Nigerians etc even Indians don't always come with complete fund. Since dependant was banned how far with the thread?
Like someone said.. Let them do block account if they are serious.

Finally it seems you have lost touch with reality Nigerian forgetting that over 90% now stay below poverty line.

AfahaAbia:
So why are you schooling then when you have noticed the citizens don't care about going to school? You think you will take their jobs. Nope!! UK citizens comes first before all of you.

Na Japa make we come here. Exchange rate ... Even if na cleaning or care anything
Or you think say we like book stop playing

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studyless123:
International students have the greatest impact on UK economy than any other country. I disagree that universities that initially accepted a payment plan can later change it during the session without consideration to the students. Do you realize many genuine students will be affected? Are you aware many institutions have a "need-blind" or "need-aware" admissions policy? Even locals drop out of school due to financial challenges.

To prove and to have is different. If the govt is serious let the unis implement a policy where payment of full tuition is compulsory or have a blocked account like in Germany. Not some gimmicks where you attract the students with a payment plan and later shift the goal post during the match. That's unacceptable and should be called out.

How many UK citizens de go school up to MSc
Enter their university you will understand that without Indians, Nigerians, Ghanaians, few Chinese are holding their university.

In my class no one British all are Nigerians except few Indians... No pure white