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Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Goodenoch: 4:26am On Apr 10, 2024

lavida001:
I swear Lord Lugard knows what he saw before making that statement.

Your low self-esteem is pathetic.

So because of a fraud of less than 100k you're referencing Lord Lugard?

Search Google for the biggest frauds and see who's there. Few, if any at all, of the top cases have anything to do with Africa.

I just hope this is not how you live your life in reality - believing that Lord Lugard was right that something is innately wrong with you, because it would severely impact your horizons o.

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Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Goodenoch: 5:00pm On Apr 03, 2024

Mamatukwas:
Quick question my people. The transfer fee your charged for a balance transfer card is prorated over the zero interest period yes? Not charged up front?

Also is 3- 3.9% transfer fee charge too high?

No o it’s paid upfront at the point of transferring the balance from the other card, then there’s no interest as long as minimum payments are met for the period specified.

Edit: from looking at this it appears that the fee will be added onto the balance being transferred, so I guess you can say it’s pro-rated since it’ll be paid off alongside the original balance:
https://www.moneysupermarket.com/credit-cards/what-is-a-balance-transfer/

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Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Goodenoch: 7:40am On Apr 02, 2024

missjekyll:
While i cannot speak for other churches ,catholics do not teach that Muslims will go to hell, if I remember correctly. That would be arrogant,wouldnt it? I still remember catechism.
Just to correct the records for anyone reading.

Obviously, he did not consider them offenders.(remember how he wouldn't condemn the adulterous woman) He saw them as people with not irredeemable flaws.

This gentleman made some homophobic remarks on Facebook which he said were based on his Christian beliefs. University expelled him.
He won on appeal 5 years ago. But his new would-be employer found the case and terminated him which is what this new case is about.

If I findout my doctor has recently expressed racist anti-immigrant views on Facebook, I would be looking for another doctor no matter how much he swears he is not biased.

This is still poor, strawman logic.

You're choosing to focus on an irrelevant point because at the end of the day the the Catholic Church still considers some people sinners. The crux of the issue - should people be prevented from taking up jobs in any place where they might interact with people whom their religious beliefs categorise as sinners?

It's a simple 'yes' or 'no' question but we know you'll prevaricate and not actually answer it because doing so will expose how dangerous it is to insinuate that people cannot be bankers if some of their customers will be people they disagree with religiously; and the same for bus drivers, nurses, lawyers, and every other profession that involves human interaction.

Also, can you spell out exactly what his 'homophobic' statements were? Just because you tag '-phobic' to something doesn't mean it is genuinely offensive, untrue or a valid ground to violate someone's free speech rights, especially when a court has declared that he did not break any law, or did you miss that part?

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Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Goodenoch: 7:34pm On Apr 01, 2024

missjekyll:
He is going to lose this case. He is going to have gay clients. How is he going to support them if he feels they are "sinners"?
Can they trust him to be professional in his dealings with them?
I am a Christian too and I accept everyone because i ve been commanded to. Jesus made no exceptions to"love your neighbour as yourself" . He also regularly interacted with the worst offenders of his day . I cannot do anything less.

What you're saying is illogical.

Christians believe Muslims are going to hell and Muslims think Christians are going to hell, for being unbelievers/heathens etc etc.

Does that mean Christian doctors should be banned from treating Muslims or Muslims should be banned from treating Christians on the basis of a blanket assumption that they will be unable to treat them well?

Even the example you're citing doesn't gel with your claim. Did Jesus interacting with offenders mean that he didn't consider them offenders?

I don't share the guy's views but the argument he's making about the profound discriminatory effects this will have against religious people is valid, and as we have seen time and time again policies like this that start always extend into more thought policing and fascism down the line.

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Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Goodenoch: 7:13pm On Mar 31, 2024

Atk1nson:
Probably sounds offpoint but why will she not want to return to Nigeria?

The UK is not heaven and living here as an overstayer is probably a hard life.

Even deliveroo, you wont be able to do in peace without fear of being snitched on.

Btw what has the dependant being up to or is it a minor?

Given the ease of wanting to become a baby mama, one can probably speculate on the kind of dependent.

My own issue is even with the child she’s proposing to birth. Imagine being willing to give birth to a child just for this purpose. Then the child will likely grow up in the streets, grow to join gangs due to no parental oversight as there’s no father and mother is working twice as much to earn half as much as she would if she were legal, ultimately becoming one of the feral gangsters dealing drugs and stabbing people around, and so likely end up in jail or worse.

Madam Jenny, you should have mercy on that child abeg. Go back and try again or try anything else other than this baby mama strategy. It’s not even likely to succeed, so you’ll likely just put the child through the worst life possible for nothing at all.

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Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Goodenoch: 12:12pm On Mar 30, 2024

dupyshoo:
I would have said the same thing but I got 1 year 30hr free childcare. I also did free Data science bootcamp.

For those that have access to public fund and are interested in cybersecurity, there is this government funded bootcamp that can give you 2 sans certifications (GFACT and GSEC).
Both training will cost about $12,000 if you are paying yourself. So, it is worth it. It is also widely recognised.

The bootcamps are very useful indeed, and just to add that ILR is not a prerequisite to get in.

The primary eligibility issue is having resided in the UK for the past three years and having right to work. No Recourse to Public Funds does not cover further education funding.

https://www.nulondon.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Eligibility-Criteria-for-Skills-Bootcamp-in-Service-Design-and-Management-1.pdf

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/adult-education-budget-aeb-funding-rules-2023-to-2024/esfa-funded-adult-education-budget-funding-rules-2023-to-2024

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Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Goodenoch: 1:29pm On Mar 28, 2024

hustla:
Didnt read all that but OK and may God help us

Oh I now see why you felt affinity with the statement.

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Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Goodenoch: 6:50am On Mar 28, 2024*

hustla:
Naija, everyone is just looting, no one is sensible enough to care about the future or even plan for it

Lord Lugard's excerpt about Nigeria and Africans still holds true several years after

I have taken some parts loosely below -

This is pseudoscientific nonsense.

The state of mind described here would be the same for any group of people with the same lack of education/exposure, and whose horizons and ambitions were limited as a result. People like Lugard said the same about indigenous people everywhere else from America to Australia, etc. It’s part of the MO of conquerors to dehumanize those they conquer to justify their actions. Civilizations like the Mongols also likely held similar ideas about how much better they were than the other countries when they ruled half the world, but now they’re a tiny inconsequential country.

People from the former colonies are increasingly occupying high positions in politics, business, professional fields and everywhere else in the UK and elsewhere, including an outsized contingent from Nigeria, so it’s clearly not about anything in the brain and about the society and the education, rule of law and other factors that keep people in line.

Much as I hate to cite colonialism, fact is that the forced mashup of several groups in Nigeria is a major reason for the inability to have a cohesive national front to tackle issues. Britain with just 4 ethnic groups has had civil wars among them, with the most recent just a few decades ago although they cleverly call it ‘the Troubles’ and not a civil war. Till just last month governance was paused in Northern Ireland because of underlying ethno-religious disputes under the guise of parties not being able to agree (although if it was in Africa they’d say it was ‘tribal warring). So isn’t it logical that Nigeria is struggling more? I don’t think that excuses the people in power and us as Nigerians in general but it’s important to put issues in context and not take to simplistic assessments just because they sound witty.

To be clear I’m not disputing your right to believe you as an individual ‘African native’ are far nearer to the animal world and do not have ambition and all the rest o - feel free to internalize and work with that, I’m saying it’s not true for the generality of Africans.

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Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Goodenoch: 4:42pm On Mar 23, 2024

BouharryArtikou:
Thank you to all who responded to my post below.

Please ehn, I have another question.
Now that I have recourse to public funds, does anyone know some that I can get? All my money haff finish. ILR application for a family of 4 finished all my savings.
We currently have pretax household income of 75k (50k + 25k respectively).

What benefits can I claw from the system please?
Man wan maximise everything ‘lost’ in this last 5+ years.

PS: please don’t judge me. I too suffer.

You Neva talk true - shebi your first port of call was where to go and cool off? You don spend money for vacation Abu lol.

Jokes apart, with that household income I think it'll primarily the free (or subsidised?) programmes you'll be able to success. As I understand it most of the benefits are designed to be need-based and your income will take you above the threshold for most, if not all.

I recall someone saying on this thread recently that if you're doing well you won't even get any benefits after all is said and done, and that seems to be your situation.

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Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Goodenoch: 1:44am On Mar 21, 2024

ReesheesuKnack:
Read. The. Article. First.

These people don’t read. They’re the ones clickbait headlines are designed for in the first place.

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Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Goodenoch: 12:59am On Mar 21, 2024

jedisco:
Haven't read the article but many times headlines can be misleading.

Can you share a link to the article?

https://archive.is/Y1irF

Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Goodenoch: 4:34pm On Mar 19, 2024

missjekyll:
I am asking an honest question ,why is this different from Shamima? They are both citizens,born here. No other ties to other countries.

There are a lot of differences in the legal bases for both cases (contending that this guy was never a citizen vs withdrawing the ISIS murderer's citizenship) but in reality the two crucial words that matter are - national security.

If you look closely you'll see very clearly how the crimes they were involved in are very different in terms of national security considerations, which is the factor the law says the Home Office must consider in such situations.

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Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Goodenoch: 7:23pm On Mar 17, 2024

kwakudtraveller:
Lastly, your not seeing colour does not matter in the grand scheme of things. You are the minority race, and no matter how much you laugh with them and have them over for tea, to them, and as quoted by Femi Nylander "you will never be seen as more than a talking monkey"

Do you believe you are seen as nothing more than a talking monkey at your place of work?

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Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Goodenoch: 7:21pm On Mar 17, 2024*

Lexusgs430:
She only apologised and for another comment she made....... She was suspended from the party.......

Who stands for up for our brothers....... 🤔😉

If your sister also does wrong...... Call her out..... I don't see colour.......

Absolutely nothing she has said in the past justifies the vile comments that man made.

Beyond being insulting to her, the comments reflected prejudice against black women and women in general. If he had stuck to insulting her as a person, I wouldn’t object because people insult politicians everyday, but linking his hate of her to being black woman showed that he’s a racist and a potentially violent one at that.

None of the comments she has ever made approaches these ones in severity and I dare you to disprove that.

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Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Goodenoch: 7:16pm On Mar 17, 2024

kwakudtraveller:
Wow these people holding high ranks in government has caused the end of racism and they do not face racism on a daily basis. Fantastic.

You know, I like how people like you pick on one point just to move away from the main conversation to a different debate because they failed to properly read the back and forth and the reason why a quote was mentioned 🙃

Actually, it is you who is deflecting and shifting the goal posts of the discussion.

The point in issue which you raised was that by being a member of the minority race, one would always be seen as a talking monkey, and then someone responded saying that can’t possibly be true because people from minority races have risen to the very top of the society. And those are just examples, everywhere you look there are black CEOs, executives, ministers, MPs etc.

You’re now saying that despite that racism has not been wiped out, but no one said it has in the first place so what exactly are you rebutting? The point is that yes there’s prejudice but it’s demonstrably not as bad as you are saying it is.

PS. I agree fully that the comments were extremely racial and offensive and that there ought to be consequences despite the fact that he has apologized. I don’t know what those consequences can be because he’s not a public servant and his company is the one with NHS contracts, not him as an individual, and it would not be sensible to dispose of those if they were the best choice among competitors based on his personal views. I would boycott his businesses in my personal capacity if I could, however.

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Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Goodenoch: 7:11pm On Mar 17, 2024

ehizario2012:
In truth, do core racists see black Africans and say Chinese, Indians, Pakistani, North Africans etc as the same? Seems they have a special place in their dirty hearts for black Africans especially. Black Africans.

Is the discussion about core racists or about the average Brit?

Or, in other words, what proportion of the UK do you think are core racists?

Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Goodenoch: 1:03pm On Mar 16, 2024*

Congratulations Hustla. All the best!

Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Goodenoch: 1:03pm On Mar 16, 2024

fatima04:
My growing fear about this country especially with kids frequent bullying. Recent case in point that makes it feel we are moving years backward is the Tory donor that *feels like
shooting* a black woman

That wasn't what he said though. Not even close.

Doesn't change the fact that the fellow is insane and his comments were completely racist.

Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Goodenoch: 11:05am On Mar 14, 2024

NezzyMike:
He did and it keeps ringing in my head on this forum...I no fit enter mortgage without being
stabilized first like they did. Life on social media is always dec£itful, nobody fit pressure me

It’s your decision to take it as a negative thing.

The fact of the matter is that the statement is fundamentally accurate. Paying rent is not bad in itself because you’re paying for a service but it doesn’t grow and doesn’t benefit you beyond that month and so it’s right to describe it as dead money.

If you choose to let someone stating that pressure you into depression that’s your own problem. Others will choose to let it motivate them and that’s to their own benefit.

Same way people go on LinkedIn and say they feel depressed while others go on the same LinkedIn, get motivated, connect and find ways to boost their careers.

Don’t shoot the messenger.

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Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Goodenoch: 5:03pm On Mar 12, 2024

ehizario2012:
He is Nigerian, that's a fact that cannot be denied. His action has not added value to us, and we must condemn it. Other nationals might be doing it, but doesn't mean we should overlook this. The wife might have frustrated him, but violence has landed him in more trouble. Simple.

I never said he should not be condemned.

Do you sha. If you like, go around carrying the cross of every random misdeed perpetrated by any Nigerian immigrant.

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Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Goodenoch: 3:40pm On Mar 12, 2024

ehizario2012:
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/thanet/news/amp/church-pastor-who-preached-daily-on-facebook-jailed-for-beat-303205/

It's people like this that are giving Nigerian immigrants a bad name in the UK, it's crazy. I know spouses can suddenly develop unimaginable characters (including cheating) when they get to the UK, but domestic violence is never the solution. It's better to let the marriage gradually degenerate (while arranging plan B) and disintegrate eventually rather than be forced to go violent.

This has nothing to do with Nigerian immigrants, and you should react very strongly to anyone who attempts to make it look like it does.

What's the responsibility of the community of Nigerians in the UK with what this one man did? Is there not a huge amount of domestic violence in the UK by all sorts of people from all countries?

I'm all for taking responsibility to fix up as a community where necessary but this one man and his madness is his personal problem and no justification for anyone to give Nigerians a bad name.

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Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Goodenoch: 7:29pm On Mar 08, 2024

LionInZion:
Another option is to send the reference number to the person. If the station has manned ticket booth, your friend will only have to show the staff there the reference and they'll print the ticket for them.

This is the best option. Those machines reject cards seemingly at random sometimes and I imagine that risk is higher with foreign cards. So your guest doesn't get stranded.

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Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Goodenoch: 7:21pm On Mar 07, 2024

Samguine:
I applied through Germany two weeks ago. Tourist for 3 days. Got multiple entries, 3 months. You can try them. Avoid France (too many applications due to Olympics in the summer and Italy (historically difficult to get).

For interview date, it will be hard to get generally. I used a bot and got a date within 5 hours. However, it was prority and it cost me an extra 90 pounds or so.

Good luck!

Which bot please?

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Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Goodenoch: 11:28am On Mar 07, 2024

ehizario2012:
These amounts are actually exorbitant if true.

If true bawo. See here:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-68421359.amp

Nigerian source: https://punchng.com/employers-reject-fgs-expatriate-employment-levy/?amp

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Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Goodenoch: 4:32am On Mar 07, 2024*

lavida001:
1 Nigerian government that is not able to cater for his citizen is the one you are in support for camping and feeding other country.

2 Also how much is visa fee for Americans compare to what we pay here.

3 All i'm saying his we should be entitle to public funds. Maybe not during 1 year of study but as soon as you on graduate visa you should have the right.

1. Lmao. That wasn't the point and it's kind of sad that you missed it, especially in light of my last statement in that post. Anyway, the UK is also having issues catering for all its citizens, which is something some here (the "the UK cannot do without us" cadre) never cease to highlight when the company reports recession, slow growth or when the education industry is suffering.

2. A lot more than what you pay in the UK. I don't know the fees individual workers pay because I only worked with sponsoring companies but I know that expatriate permits used to cost 2,000 USD per year, apart from all the other fees. Now it has been increased to $15,000 (£12,000) annually for a director and $10,000 for other employees. And there's no healthcare included obviously, lol.

3.In what other country would you be entitled to public funds like citizens one year after your arrival in the country as a student on a non-immigrant visa? Anyway, you can always start a petition and if it gains enough signatures, parliament will be mandated by law to discuss it. Unlike certain other countries.

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Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Goodenoch: 4:11am On Mar 06, 2024

lavida001:
No forget to add “you are being rude” .

Thats all they know how to say.

Ukrainian who came here recently are e title to all the benefits but we that pay 16k tuition are not entitled to public funds 😭

People from Chad displaced by Boko Haram are housed in IDP camps for free at the expense of the Nigerian government while Americans coming to work in Nigeria have to pay visa fees, expatriate levies and support themselves. That means the Nigerian government is discriminatory, right?

—

The sort of poor logic one sees here regularly sef gives credence to certain claims.

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Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Goodenoch: 4:06am On Mar 06, 2024

Poanan:
an estimate is an estimate. anything based on estimate is based on personal opinion rather than fact. let them come up with real figures from ons.

Lol

Don’t be funny. An estimate from the UK government is the same as a random person pulling figures from the air based on anecdotes? Haba be realistic and honest please.

Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Goodenoch: 2:14am On Mar 05, 2024

ReesheesuKnack:
There is no source for this story. The Daily mail is not a reputable source. If the Guardian hasn’t reported it, it didn’t happen. End of story.

You honestly mean without Guardian reporting it you did not know that COS racketeering has been rampant among care home operators?

Lol. Lol.

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Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Goodenoch: 2:09am On Mar 05, 2024

hustla:
Their public sabi anything other than to complain and moan and bar hop?

Yet the country they built is the same one people from Nigeria are literally dying to get to daily.

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Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Goodenoch: 9:30am On Mar 03, 2024

hustla:
They wanted the association

Can assure you no Nigerian thinks about them like that

Lol. Be deceiving yourself. The same people who when they come into Nigeria even as ordinary people (not givernment reps like Kemi) get huge crowds following them around and governors and in AJ’s case even the president hosting them?

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Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Goodenoch: 4:17pm On Feb 29, 2024

Gift7428:
Graduate Visa

Is anyone in same shoes as mine?
I applied for graduate visa Jan 4th 2024 , they sent confirmatory email that they intend to make a decision by Feb 29th which is today

Everyone I know who applied with me and after me has received their BRP, in my case no email.
The only email I got from them last week was a link to pay for IHS for my dependent which I did immediately and sent the confirmation.

What is going on with my application and why is mine different?
Can I call them ?

Was there an error with paying for your dependent's IHS originally?

Anyway, your application period is from when you paid that IHS because they wouldn't have considered the application properly until that was received.

So, be patient. Nothing is wrong. You'll get it soon.

Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Goodenoch: 1:40pm On Feb 28, 2024

Oyi12:
Morning my people, I have come again with questions please. We recently got a care sponsorship and on the response from home office, it was stated that the applicant could work 20 hours on jobs on the shortage occupation list or the same sharecode. Does that mean that the person could maybe work as an IT or any job for 20 hours if it is on the shortage occupation?

Yes, the person can work additional 20 hours in

1. A job that's the same occupation code as the one they were sponsored for - so in this case you can take on another care role with another employer. OR

2. An occupation code that's on the shortage occupation list. Make sure it actually matches though, because it's not just any IT job that's on that list.

Find out if the work is in a shortage occupation by checking both:

the Skilled Worker visa: shortage occupations for health and education- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/skilled-worker-visa-shortage-occupations-for-health-and-education
the Skilled Worker visa shortage occupation list - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/skilled-worker-visa-shortage-occupations/skilled-worker-visa-shortage-occupations

Also, the shortage list is being heavily amended by April or so, so bear that in mind.

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