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Jamesclooney:
That’s not the point sir! I don’t care about public or private system. What was available to me in Nigeria vs what is available to me now? This was what led to the debate on Twitter on healthcare systems. Lord knows, where I will want to be if I need dental care for example. Or the kid I saw that sprained his ankle in school and was in A&E for hours on end. Even paracetamol they didn’t give this boy. Almighty “triage” didn’t prioritize the schoolboy even with the swollen leg for many hours. I know where I’ll rather be if I was the injured school boy.

There's also private healthcare in the UK that will allow you to see a doctor and get a procedure you need pronto. That's what you must compare with private healthcare anywhere else.

Jamesclooney:
It’s not just my opinion, these are cold hard facts. It’s not failure to impress me, its inability to access basic medical care because your case is “not bad” enough. Let’s call a spade a spade. If this was happening in Naija or another developing country, we will call it out and not hide our head in the sands. Part of the reason I’m complaining is because I knew what it was (and what it can potentially be). I have personally spent time in A&E from 2pm to 10pm. They’re reports on waiting times across NHS trusts and the trend is bad, very bad. Piers Morgan even called out Rishi Sunak during his last interview with him. Why can’t we do the same? It’s a mess, makes no sense to defend the indefensible because “Naija healthcare system is bad”. It’s not a competition of what’s better than Naija, if that’s the case, then Rwanda or other African countries are better. My point, which is what the OP was saying is have your backup plan if you think NHS is all that, God forbid you’ll need them and they fail you. Then you’ll either go private or book a flight abroad. Let’s not even talk about dental care. SMH

If you spent 2PM to 10PM waiting for medical assistance in an A & E and you're still alive to write about it today, it proves the point that your case wasn't an emergency, and that the HCPs were right to prioritise other patients over you following their triage.

fatima04:
This is becoming really rampant now and in addition to what others have provided, i will advise applying for administrative review to Home office at least to raise the ban (if successful). Unless you were also aware it was a fake COS that you used.

They (home office) also need to create a system to verify COS reference numbers for future application.

Thank you to the people that are abusing the system and making it more difficult to genuine applicants by day.

That's not necessarily the only circumstance in which a review would not be viable.

Even if you didn't know the COS was fake, but you got it by paying someone or similar means, there won't be a case.

The burden the OP will have is to show that they legitimately applied for an advertised job, sent in their credentials, did an interview, got an offer, did pre-employment checks etc. before being issued the COS. It would be very easy for OP to prove if they did apply legitimately because there'd be an email trail.

Ibro99:
I would say ask for sponsorship 3/6 months into the role after gaining good understanding of the role and proving you are useful. At that point, they would rather sponsor you than hire a new person but if you say it now they may begin to weigh their options and may find alternatives. This is what I did and I got sponsored last year.

Also, if they don’t at least you have got the experience and can start shooting your application elsewhere. All the best.

This is the best thing. At band 7 most NHS Trusts will gladly sponsor so from about 6 months in, begin aggressively looking for another role at that band (or even higher) while talking to your Trust about it as well, and you'll almost surely get another role with sponsorship or be offered it at your current Trust.

Tolzeal:
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Is that ground rent or really annual service charge?

Service charges for maintenance of common areas around the estate like playgrounds, etc. Many times, councils will refuse to adopt roads and other spaces in the estate as well for a variety of reasons so they'll need to be maintained by the residents.

For houses, there won't be ground rent since they are freehold.

I could have sworn that I saw a question regarding taking on additional work on the Skilled Worker visa here at some point overnight but it seems to have disappeared now.

Anyway, the guidance on the Gov website has definitely changed, seemingly clarifying that not only can you run a business while on the visa, you can take on additional work even in a role that's a different occupation code from your sponsored one as long as you don't work more than 20 hours/week at it. I spotted this earlier in the year but couldn't find any actual legislative update to that effect (and still can't), but the guidance change is very clear.

I'm attaching a screenshot showing what the page looked like from 2020 through early this year (from Wayback Machine) and what it says now.

Zahra29:
Alarming for who though? If anyone should be alarmed, perhaps black Africans who have one of the lowest proportional home ownership of any ethnic group. However I don't think there's cause for alarm. With hard work, good business sense and better community cohesion, I'm sure these figures will rise.

Despite sending the 'best and brightest'. Lol.

AnonymousAdmin:
Wow!
Too late for me I guess. Looking at the process, time, and most especially cost, I will focus my hustle on Trainee roles that will accept my BSc and MBA from 9ja! I've spent a lot money and time on professional qualifications for the purpose of career switch. I thought I could use apprenticeship route with my WASSCE
Thank you for the advice!

If you have a BSc and MBA you can explore masters degree (Level 7) apprenticeships.

On the whole though, if you're not on an employment-linked visa I think getting entry level roles in your desired field is the approach with the highest potential. With your academic background plus the experience, you should be able to job-hop into increasingly senior roles, especially if your BSc and MBA are (or can be linked) to the current career.

Jamesclooney:
Hi all

Is £195 annual service charge for a new build excessive ? Does it mean it would have to be paid in perpetuity? Is there any developer that doesn’t charge this fee? Thanks

Not excessive. Some properties have twice that. Developers usually grade the fees upward depending on the price of the house so the larger and more expensive houses in an estate will pay more. 195 is lower than most I’ve seen, personally. It has usually been between 200 and close to 400.

Yes it rises annually in perpetuity, and it can be increased by the management company (the devs usually contract a separate company). Usually your agreement will state that the estate residents can take over management or hand it over to another company after some time but from reports, that’s usually difficult and most states don’t bother because of the hassle.

wallg123:
Relevance is subjective. What’s relevant to me might not be relevant to you.

Ah, but you were asking me MY opinion.

Okay sha.

wallg123:
What’s your view or take on this ?

How is this relevant to anything I've said?

wallg123:
If totalitarianism is working for China and in turn helps in developing 3rd World countries, I’ll encourage it globally. After all the “freedoms/ liberalism” we enjoy in the west is subjective. One day you are free and the next day your freedom would be coned offensive to the establishment…

Then encourage it globally. That's the beauty of freedom of speech. Only if you If you live in the UK or the West generally and other countries with similarly liberal societies sha. If you live in China and try to criticize the party or promote a multi-party democracy where people get to choose their representatives and actually have a say in policy, you'd very likely end up in jail or in a 're-education' camp.

More to the point, the key here is that it's irrelevant what you or I think because the migration figures are speaking Loud and clear that thousands of percentages more people want to move from China to the west than those who want to move from the west to China. There's no debate to be had on this point - the West is the most desirable location to migrate to. QED.

It appears to me that the idea of living under totalitarianism is a lot more attractive when it's an abstract theory than when it's something you experience day in day out.

Gerrard59:
For societies to prosper and develop, there are certain factors involved:

- Right to free enterprise
- Protection of private property
- Democracy or a semblance of it
- Ethnic/religious/racial dominance.

The last part works perfectly well for China as it is disproportionately Han Chinese. So, the term "totalitarian" sounds misplaced as the system works for them. In my books, so far there is economic prosperity, whatever political system a country desires to have as preferred by the majority is acceptable.



I think we as black Africans even have a moral right to live in the West considering our histories. BTW, the West isn't doing us any favour as we are taxed for our labour and time. So, it is a mutual alliance. When the West is tired, they put up barriers as we have seen recently. [b]The belief that the West is generous with allowing us access to its territory simply for humanitarian purposes does not follow. I[/b]t is strictly economics, and we should acknowledge it. Nothing goes for nothing. We are dealing with people who propagated capitalism.

As for criticism of China, as a black African, I find it very odd. Why should people who have not built a functioning society criticise those who have done so? People who cannot ensure adequate distribution and stable electricity are advising those who build nuclear power facilities on how to generate electricity? It is like me advising Dangote on how to make and spend money. E no make sense to me. A Swiss criticises or lectures China? Fair deal. A Nigerian doing the same is appalling.

1. Totalitarianism has nothing to do with ethnic dominance in this case. It's about the political system and the degree of control that the government has on people's lives, from how many children they are allowed to have to what they are allowed to post. People getting disappeared simply for being Muslims or Christians, getting imprisoned for doing a cartoon of the premier etc. There are regulations everywhere but the sheer scale of Chinese ones is unmatched. As much as free speech has become controversial in the west recently, it's still orders of magnitude freer than China and that's another fact.

2. I never said anything about generosity. I don't consider morality or sentiments when discussing geopolitics. It's always about incentives and interests, and always has been. I agree fully the West benefits from immigrants in terms of tax, skills etc, but that's irrelevant to my point about how the West is the best place for immigrants to flourish.

3. I disagree about history granting anyone a 'right' to migrate anywhere. The Fulani, Oyo, Bantu, Benin empires and others in Africa and around the world were all expansionist and also practised all the same colonisation and slavery that the Brits did. It wasn't morality that made them stop short of conquering other parts of the world. There's a lot to be said on this specific point but perhaps another day.

4. Again I think you're missing the context of the discussions here. I haven't seen anyone just randomly begin lambasting China - it has always been in the context of a comparison with the West as to where anyone would rather migrate to. To your point though - if you believe that as a black African you shouldn't be criticising developed countries, then how come a lot of what you say is criticism of Western countries which are some of the most developed?

Lexusgs430:
NB : Lesson from this scam - : [b]I am withdrawing all big deposits from all my children's accou[/b]nt (I no fit shout)........ 😜🤣😭😂

Thanks for sharing, Chief. My madam received a call from someone claiming to be from her bank on Thursday or so. She shut it down pretty quickly but it appears these scammers are trying it on more and more nowadays.

I'm going to send a message to people I know to beware. It's not common for funds to be recovered to congrats to your family.

Gerrard59:
Well, in a way, I can understand how it is odd to criticise a country or alliance when one lives in that area. But as a black African, I don't see why I should steer away from the Chinese or join the Western criticism of China considering Africa has a lot to benefit from China than from the West. Also, history is important as the Chinese have NEVER colonised or brutally enslaved or slaughtered blacks in any form. In fact, the first encounter the Chinese government had with us was constructing a railway in East Africa with their rudimentary knowledge. Till date, the relationship has remained the same - trade - and practise your culture the way you want.

It was not the Chinese that butchered a mass number of Namibians or plundered and murdered Congolese or enslaved millions of Kenyans or raided Nigeria of resources while aiding and betting corrupt rulers, some of whom were installed to serve their interests. Isn't it surprising how no one in the West does not criticise Paul Biya of Cameroon but does the same for the folks in Niger and Burkina Faso?

In summary, no one likes the black man, most especially the black African man. So, it is important to focus squarely on what benefits us rather than do follow follow for wetin no concern us. If the West has a China problem, that is their business, not ours. Just because they have such does not mean we should have it. Africa does not and should not have a China problem. It is in our best interests to trade and do business with the Chinese according to the terms we agree with the Chinese. Anyone who does not like can move to Mars!

This is insightful and I agree fully. Just to point out that the conversations here as far as I have seen haven't really been a criticism of China in the sense of saying Nigeria or Africa shouldn't do business with them or shouldn't learn from them, but rather in the context of where one would rather live, based on their relative societies/laws.

It's not a criticism to say China is totalitarian. It's a matter of fact. There's a single party with decisions made centrally about all aspects of people's lives. Criticism is extremely frowned upon, to the point that if you were in China and you said the things you said about the West here about China's oppression of the Uyghurs; for instance, on Weibo, you'd very likely end up in jail if not worse. Despite all the negative things the West inflicted on Africa, I am sure that there's nowhere else in the World where an African today can migrate to and have as much opportunity to succeed academically, financially, career/business wise and even politically, as in the West.

There are a lot of problematic aspects of living in the West, but most people would rather live there than in China because of the societal and economic liberalism it affords. That's also not an opinion but a matter of fact - migration trends show that clearly that Western countries are the most desirable locations for people to relocate to globally.

The point is ultimately not that the West is perfect or that it shouldn't be criticised - I don't think anyone has ever said that here. It's that the criticism ought to be fair, and that when comparing it to other countries, it shouldn't be a case of comparing the worst of the West with the best of China or whoever else.

kwakudtraveller:
Lol I said some people on the thread sound like her yet you are looking for me to respond to her. It was a full stop statement. For a lawyer, you sure are lacking in the comprehension department.

Clearly a waste of time engaging you as all you’re good for is playground insults. My bad.

kwakudtraveller:
Okay Koonbey, if the shoes fit 🙃

Lol. Of course it’ll be a diversion from you, not anything that actually responds to her.

kwakudtraveller:
This is how some of you on this thread sound. Lol

https://www.independent.co.uk/business/british-ingenuity-not-colonialism-drove-uk-growth-says-kemi-badenoch-b2537530.html#

And people like you sound like typical ad-hominem lovers who resort to insults when they lack concrete logical arguments to counter what someone has said.

Read what she said and articulate responses to her, or is that too hard for you?

Cyberknight:
Well spotted.
And there is unlikely to be any such thing as the NHS Central Intelligence Unit. Someone has been watching too many films and that's the extent of their imagination.

There are people whose job titles are Central Intelligence Leads in the NHS Counter Fraud Authority so it’s highly likely there’s a central intelligence unit. An example: https://beta.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/G9076-22-6070

Regarding the grammar, the person who wrote that email is almost certainly a band 3, of which the requirements would be GSCE and basic computing skills, so it’s not unusual to see errors in emails at that level in my experience.

On the whole it seems pretty authentic to me, but who knows?

As I was saying about playing the ostrich -

https://archive.ph/jZzms - Crackdown on graduate visa ‘being used as back door for asylum’

Restrictions incoming for the graduate visa route, apparently.

lavida001:
Same here in the uk and USA.

You’ve seen forced labour or child labour in a factory or other workplace in the UK?

Treadway:
stats indeed don't lie. If all the Chinese in the diaspora are put at 10million that is a whole lot less than 1% of their population of over 1.4b.

So the stats show they are not 'trooping out' as you put it, cos hey less than 1%....

In these kain discourse esp with India and China, we can't just be looking at the numbers without taking into account the sheer population of both countries. They have over 30% of the world's population so.....

See estimate of Nigerians in diaspora below.

Hope we can all see that the TRUTH is that Chinese are not trooping out as depicted.

This is pointless. The absolute number of Chinese emigrants is useless.

What matters is what proportion they are relative to the proportion of US citizens emigrating to China.

There were less than 1,000 American students in China in 2023, and this is up from 350 the previous year.

Conversely, there were about 300,000 - THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND Chinese enrollees in American schools, with 86,000 last year.

https://www.voanews.com/amp/bilateral-tensions-cause-the-number-of-american-students-in-china-to-plummet-/7404085.html
https://learningenglish.voanews.com/amp/for-many-reasons-fewer-chinese-students-attend-us-schools/7537255.html

That means a Chinese young person is hundreds of times more likely to choose to go study in the US than an American young person is likely to travel the other way.

Interpret that as you will. The figures speak for themselves though.

Zahra29:
There's a reason why many more thousands of Chinese nationals are fleeing to seek asylum in the US. In contrast, how many UK or US citizens are seeking refuge elsewhere?
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Lol. This is why I love statistics. You can sermonize all you like but figures will always tell the unvarnished truth.

Anyway, I’m sure they’ll soon come with more analysis to show why all the Chinese emigrating are mistaken.

Zahra29:
Good morning Goodenoch, you woke up and decided to drop 3 back to back hit comments😂 All very well said.

Thank you o. Sometimes on this thread I have to stop and wonder if people really believe the things they're saying or if it's just because we're online that they're refusing to see obvious truths.

toughest007:
Haba chief... On what basis and facts are you deriving this your hope that Ukraine would or could win the war? It would be a COLD ICY day in hell before that happens.

Putin doesn't look like someone that is ready to kick any bucket any time soon... All those talks are propaganda yans from the US/West.

Ukraine will lose the war, but Russia will also lose it and has even already lost it. What you're watching is just death by a thousand cuts.

They've gained some land mass but lost close to 500,000 citizens, mostly young men and tens of thousands of military vehicles and arms and the country is now receiving military aid from Iran. Their assets abroad are about to be seized to fund the continuous money being delivered to Ukraine. All while NATO has gained two more countries and doubled their land border with Russia all without a NATO soldier firing a single bullet. All they've 'lost' (or 'invested' depending on how you look at it) is money. Russia is incapable of invading anyone else now and poses very little threat to NATO, and will likely be so incapable for a long time due to their demographics and military being shot. Putin will keep talking about nuclear weapons but the whole world knows he'll never use them and NATO will also keep pushing the envelope by arming Ukraine with increasingly sophisticated arms but never cross the line that'll make him deploy them as well. They simply do not need to when they're cutting the country down to size very effectively with the proxy approach.

The morality of the war is irrelevant. The results are what matter for the people in both countries. When you ask yourself 'What has Russia gained?' and answer it sincerely you'll know clearly whether he was wise to start on this path in the first place.

jedisco:
You're trying to be clever by half. International laws and treaties covering assylum claims are clearly spelt out.

2.[b] I do not look down on those arriving by boats both in a personal or professional capacity and certainly do not get the vibe that folks here do. On a person note, I see many as hapless folks fleeing unlivable conditions in their home nations some of which were a result of misdemeanours by western states. In my professional capacity I have interacted with a number and treated thrm just like I would any other person infact I put in more time and effort with them as they are a largely vulnerable group. [/b]Any colleague who does differently should rightly be made to answer to their regulator.

Many are genuine but the vast majority are BS claims that are designed to take advantage of the asylum route for normal economic migration. It's not illegal (yet) but it definitely goes against the intent of the law and the public and governments in many countries have been clamping down on it.

You can choose to play ostrich and keep your head in the sand saying it's none of your business but you can't then begin moaning racism this and that when policies are implemented that disadvantage immigrants as a whole due to the (perfectly rational) backlash to the abuse above.

080bjaked:
I think that's somewhat circumstantial sha cos people steal from those they know so she can still claim it was stolen since (to the best of my knowledge), theres no UK law against not reporting a stolen item.

Lol.

Stop playing.

Circumstantial that the person who found your 'misplaced' ID also somehow found your work schedule and knew when and where exactly to work a shift you were due to work, without worrying that you would jam him there and call him out? Also after working, how did the person plan to collect the money for the shift? Or did the person just want to experience working in the NHS for free since the money would definitely be paid to the account details held for the female nurse?

I strongly suspect when Madam Peace's account is checked there'll be a pattern of previous shift payments having been 'misplaced' into Mr Okoye's account after payday, corresponding to what she was paid for shifts she ought to have worked.

This was arranged between the parties and they just got caught because someone noticed the photo was different.

toms55:
Chief , how does this LISA works? Say i intend to save up to 4k P.A do i have to save the 4k at once or i make a monthly contribution towards the £4k and which LISA account do you recommend

You can save it monthly or put it in at once. Doesn’t matter.

Check for the cash LISAs with the highest interest rates. Moneybox is good and has high rates last I checked. I think people have also recommended Trading212 here.

For stocks and shares, it doesn’t really matter as much because it’s the funds you buy that matter more and you can buy into most indexes on almost all the platforms. Since you’re asking this question I think it’d be better for you to just use a cash ISA. Stocks and shares LISA requires some more oversight and experience to deal with, plus if you’re planning to buy in the next couple of years, you’d best avoid the volatility.

MelaninGemstone:
Guys. Please I need advise

I went to UK on a 3 weeks vacation
At the port of entry, I got stamped in

I returned to Nigeria on Friday and I’m just remembering now that I was not stamped out.

So now my passport has entry stamp but no exit stamp

I’m in Nigeria already and I’m devastated. Please what is the consequence of this mistake ? Will UK Immigration still think I’m in the UK when I’ve already left

Will it result to them thinking that I have overstayed my visa ? Please help 🥺🙏🏾

Stamp is the least of things that UK immigration will use to determine if you have left the country.

As long as you flew out on a plane your name would have been registered via the flight manifest. There’s nothing to worry about.

If it was that important they wouldn’t skip it. I can’t even remember if my passport was stamped each time I’ve left the country.

aragbaboy:
It is not the benefit system that is bankrupting council or the government. Let the rich and the non-doms pay their fair share of tax. Let the government claw back all the fraudulent pay outs for PPEs. This is a target on the sick and disable. The Tories are out of touch.

Two things can be true at the same time.

The extremely wealthy need to be tax more, yes.

The benefits system need to be reformed to prevent abuse, yes.

It's way too easy to abuse the system today, and the stats I heard from the speech yesterday actually shocked me, particularly the one about people getting sick notes after assessments going from 20% in 2011 to 65% today. Are people three times sicker now than then? I think not.

Ibro99:
Thank you very much. Unfortunately I already opened an account. Would have liked to use your referral link.

Just to confirm please, if the stock dividend exceeds £500 for a tier 2 visa holder is that deem as a business with the need to complete a tax assessment?

Also, is that a violation of the visa rule?

Completing a self-assessment and running a business are two completely different things that'll never intersect in this specific context.

Investing in stocks is not 'running a business' so you can invest £1 Billion if you have it and make millions in dividends or price appreciation, and it won't be a violation of your visa rules.

Taxes for the dividends depend on your overall income and you pay tax on it as usual with income after you subtract your personal allowance (typically £12,570) and also subtract the £500 dividend allowance. How you will pay depends on how much it is - here's the HMRC explainer page. You can also call them. The link is in the page - https://www.gov.uk/tax-on-dividends

Youtube videos can also be helpful in breaking it down further.

Lexusgs430:
Someone I personally know brought a lady from Nigeria, he even encouraged me to do same(me wey be street boy, I refused).......

After the church, African store whisper enter the nanny head finish, she pulled a fast one on them.......

The case went on for almost 13 month's, after all said and done........


Husband was sentenced to 36 months, wife chop 45 months sentence..........

NB: If you love your sanity and freedom, don't ever think of importing a Nigerian nanny...... 🙄😂

Thing is - you're framing this as the 'nannies' are turning against the people who brought them over maliciously because they want to get ILR or because they've been whispered to, but the obvious question is whether those people were treating them fairly and in line with the law.

There's a minimum wage, and there are guidelines on worker conditions. Even failing to pay minimum wage won't generally result in the kinds of sentences in your example, so there must have been serious aggravating factors like those described in the article about the GPs - seizing passport, verbal and physical abuse etc.

People who know they can pay childminders, they can hire au pairs, and they can take there children to nursery, but want to import people (other than family who are knowingly coming to assist like grandparents) know what they are doing, and the focus should be on them rather than implying that the nannies trying to escape their yokes are doing something bad.