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Jamesclooney:
It’s a legit document. I don’t need to check any website. Here’s a redacted version of the sample.
I’ve confirmed from ex-colleagues in Canada, this is what they use.

Okay. This is good. You should get it and submit it.

I believe 30-odd quid is a very small amount for the potential premiums savings you'll get with a 13 year NCD.

Jamesclooney:
Read my response in my previous post. It’s an authentic document. Ask folks in Canada, they use it. Everything is not fraud fgs. I only asked an innocent question if it’s applicable in UK, and the answer is clear to me…NO. I don’t have record of all the 3rd party insurance coys I used over the years, if not I would have gone directly. But posters couldn’t stop themselves from assuming forgery was the case here (wrong). Lazy stereotype. We need to do better especially when we demand more from others.

Do you have a link to the FRSC website or any other official communication where this document is discussed? Something to the police character certificate, passport, etc?

I haven't said it's forgery. It's you who's seeing allegations of forgery everywhere and I can only wonder why.

Jamesclooney:
It’s not forgery — it’s my real driving experience in Nigeria, without making a single insurance claim. The verification is done from FRSC head office Abuja. Why you would think of the negative instead of reading what I wrote, I would never know. My question is it acceptable for UK insurers as proof of NCD?

From your OP: "I know someone who’s asking for 65k to prepare the authentication and record document from FRSC."

1. The questions are: Is this 'authentication and record document' listed anywhere on the FRSC website or in any official communication from the commission?

2. Are you going to be applying for and obtaining this document from the FRSC directly? Will you be obtaining FRSC receipts and other documentation from this person?

These points are important because even if you scale though the mostly automated signup process and get a policy but insurance claims adjusters challenge your NCD when you need to make a claim here in the UK, you'll need to prove it beyond saying 'somebody on Nairaland said...'

The answers to those questions should indicate why the person you quoted said what they said, and I daresay, they'll also give you the overall answer to your question.

Hopefullllll:
Hello , did you say two years? please is there a link that I can read further on this ? I'm interested as well.

Yes there was an HMRC lawyers (G7 grade if I recall correctly) role open recently that stated this explicitly but some others don't. For instance there's a Government Legal Department one open now for 'qualified lawyers' but I know someone who got in as a Nigerian lawyer and is now working on qualifying here via the SQE. You can apply for that one, and just keep searching the civil service jobs website for 'lawyer' and related keywords, and keep an eye on the results.

3greatnations:
Good morning family.Please I need suggestions a family member is in process of changing to PSW visa looking to relocate to an affordable city in England with plenty work also she has law background so please some where that will be easy to get law related jobs too .Thank you

They can apply for civil service roles covering legal (many employ you with your Nigerian LLB/BL and give ~two years to convert), compliance, GRC etc. It's mostly dependent on what their prior experience is.

adekzy:
He's not acting sanctimonious, your reply was rude, unhelpful and condescending to say the least.

The goal of asking questions here to learn from people that already toll the path, making it easy to avoid unnecessary mistakes.... And if you can't help a situation because you don't know you either wákà pass or you don't belong here in the first place.

Hundreds of direct helpful have been shared here without anyone sending us to a wild goose 🪿 chase on Google.

I type in peace ✌️

You are right.

missjekyll:
They asked Do you need sponsorship now or will you need it in future?
Unless he is planning to leave the UK when his PSW expires, the answer to this question is yes.

No. The answer to the question is yes only if he is definite he is going to still be with the company in 2 years.

The question is about sponsorship from that specific company and role.

humbleprof19:
Hello house, please i need your opinon
Should i answer ‘Yes’ to the question

“do you now or will you in the future require immigration sponsorship to work”

Or i should just go with ‘No’ for now so it wont affect my chances

What visa are you on?

If it's PSW or any other where you wouldn't need their sponsorship to start and for like a year, I would answer 'no'.

Edit: just saw that it's PSW. Definitely answer 'no'.

Many companies use that question to screen people out so answering yes might mean you don't progress to interview at all. It's not lying either, because you have two years and you've not said you want to be with them or even in the UK after then.

The key thing is to get to the interview. Once you're in the role, it'll be much more straightforward to get them to sponsor or to find a role that'll sponsor you after getting experience in your first year or so.

I've seen both happen with quite a few people.

elengine:
Continue to speak grammar. You go explain tire. Just go back and read your response again and put yourself in the shoe of the person that asked the question. I have realised from experience that, no question is stupid when it comes to immigration. Please let him ask and I repeat again, kindly ask any question if you are unsure. Nobody can provide fake information here and people trust the information they get here which is why they are comfortable to ask. Ask ohhh it is life and death matter

Ok

missjekyll:
Anybody can ask anything on here. We always answer politely.

To Poster, go to gov.uk and search health and Care Visa. Applying for visas is easy, you should be done in no time.

Lol. Two things:

1. I wasn't impolite. I responded and gave actionable advice. I even suggested keywords instead of just saying 'go to Google'.
2. If they follow my advice, they'd get where they need to be in two clicks. Yours would take three, and involve more time and uncertainty.

Your being sanctimonious to me might feel good, but it's actually not helpful if you don't prompt people to learn how to sort basic things out. Think: Will they come on Nairaland every time they want to apply for something in the UK? In asking people for such things, won't they be at risk of being given false information when they could simply do basic research and find the info they need?

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?

Literally search Google for "health and care visa application", oga.

cbn4main:
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

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.

Iruobe1987:
it's stated that the changes to care worker's dependent will be implemented as soon as possible next year, does that mean spring?

Will likely be earlier. Maybe even January. The ones where they're planning for spring, they specifically said so, so one can imply this is not one of those.

Plus, 2024 is an election year and this is a hot topic where the government is facing lots of pressure from the public and inside parliament to take drastic action.

hustla:
I'm convinced if they ask some people to sacrifice their siblings to the UK government so they can continue to lick home office's behind, they will willingly do it

So, if I had some mental health breakdown during my course, or life happened and I didn't graduate with good grades, make them fling me away abi?
After paying nearly x3 what home students pay with 0 student loans or support from the same government.. Abi?

I hope its sarcasm sha but just Continue

Exceptions don't invalidate general rules. By this your logic universities should not award grades because it's possible some of the students doing badly have mental breakdowns. Same thing at work - no performance reviews because mental breakdown. Does that make sense to you?

More to the point, it's clear that the policy is just in idea stage and hasn't been fleshed out yet. I know that in the current dispensation people have the opportunity to appeal every decision both at the uni level and also when it comes to dealing with the Home Office, showing mitigating circumstances etc., so I'd expect similar provisions here.

hustla:
It makes 0 sense

As long as the student passes and has not done any malpractice, and has not defaulted with attendance or fees, it should not be the business of the school or home office

Na them know sha

No. It makes sense.

First, it's in the country's overall interests to ensure people do well in their universities because graduate outcomes affect the ranking of the universities which in turn affects the reputation of the general education sector and thereby impacts the economy and other aspects as well.

Also, from an immigration perspective, it makes sense for the country to want to ensure that only 'high quality' graduates are retained in the economy so they can get a better ROI from each person who's let in as they'll be better educated and can thereby contribute more via work, innovation etc etc. Cynical? Yes, but logical.

In addition, it makes sense for the students because it'll discourage some unis that are essentially degree farms where there's little concern about how students perform as long as they come pay the fees. Some of those unis are really only selling CAS, in my opinion, but that's a topic for another day.

It shouldn't be a problem for most though - after all it has been agreed that Nigeria is sending its 'best and brightest'. I'm sure they'll all make distinctions and graduate in flying colours, policy or no policy. Abi?

hammed71:
so after Canada where again

Nigeria, where there's no racism and there are only low taxes, and no drastic policy changes or IHS fees to be paid.

bigtt76:
I have a railcard but the only times I've been specifically asked to present it had been at the instance of the black rail commercial team members.

They usually go around asking everyone, or on some services they simply don’t ask anyone.

I used the train A LOT until very recently and I have been asked to show my railcard by a variety of people, with the vast majority being white. The one time I had an issue with loading up the app, the black rail guy just told me to get it sorted because I’d likely be asked when exiting the station I was getting off at.

What does that prove though? Nothing.

The plural of anecdote is anecdotes, not evidence.

Attempting to extrapolate individual experiences to cast a group of people as having any particular character (whether positive or negative) always leads to nothing but prejudice.

hustla:
Any source or link that explains this?

It’s not correct. ILR eligibility is calculated based on time that a person has worked in the UK, and their salary over the period and at the time of application. Number of employers is irrelevant.

https://www.gov.uk/indefinite-leave-to-remain-tier-2-t2-skilled-worker-visa

Poanan:
I am asking a simple question. The question is when how are you planning to leave?

Your response above doesnt look like a time frame.

Your question is an irrelevant one.

Classic red herring fallacy.

missjekyll:
They did inherit a vibrant economy and have now run it into the ground.
Everything hinges on funding. If Westminster does not fund the devolved governments, there is very little they can do, even with the best will in the world.

Its even more shameful that even with the most funding of the 4 nations, the most people, this is the mess the tories have delivered in 13 years.

You didn’t say anything about Wales.

ReesheesuKnack:
If a doctor like, let them have methuselah years of experience. If the ‘patient’ claims lack of sleep, distress, anxiety and mental health being affected. Mentions general body weakness. The doctor must give sick note.

😹

Exactly what I was going to say.

There's always the possibility that the symptoms are real, but even if the doctor genuinely believes the patient is lying, what’s the incentive to begin a fracas over a sick note? It’s not like the patient wants to take a bedspace or use facilities that the doctor would need to allot people triaged as being in more danger to.

Particularly because disproving the patient’s claims will likely require costly and time-intensive tests, all while risking being accused of not being sympathetic or something ‘ist’ depending on the patient’s demographics.

Goke7:
Very good, they are very liberal in separating families they will even go ahead by telling us how many children immigrants can give birth to or bypass courts of law for folks not to have legal representations on cases cos we are all hypocrites from Nigeria. Who am I to disagree with you? You are very right. I will continue to accept whatever comes my way, I never protested one day In Nigeria or spoke against corruption so why must I open my mouth here, who born monkey? I must act like a conquered slave here cos that's who I am after all.

As usual you have come with misrepresenting what people say to drive this your oppression agenda.

I never said you should not advocate for whatever. In fact, if you read my comment again, I said I agree that economic migration is a contractual issue, so clearly we all have rights and must protect them.

What I was calling out is your attempts to frame these measures as being unheard of, inhumane, and out of the norm of what countries (including our home country) put in place, making it seem as if the primary driving force for these policies is hate for immigrants or wanting to oppress migrants.

I know you'll still spin this as you want, but I'm just clearing the air for other hopefully more objective people.

Goke7:
How you feel about your home country has nothing to do with the Uk, if you think they are doing you a favour and you’re overloading their system, then good for you. It’s a country with very critical people and they always ask questions about everything and motive the govt does. If that’s what we really do back home perhaps Nigeria will not be where it is. Even the Brits themselves are complaining I wonder when some of us became the govt mouth piece to think whatever they are currently doing is in the best interest of everyone. You have even admitted that it needs to be stable so people can plan, is that not what some of us have been saying here? So what’s the stress

How you feel about your home country has everything to with the UK - in particular, how people view immigration and respond to it.

If in your own country there are impossibly high barriers for immigrants to come in and work or access public services, all while still paying taxes and various fees and you have never advocated for that to change, but you go to another person's country and you are casting their policies that are much more liberal despite being made more restrictive recently as inhumane, then it's hypocrisy.

Would you and your people back home tolerate the same numbers that you are saying are insignificant here? Not just from other countries o - even inter state and inter-region, do we not see even more stringent restrictions on 'foreigners' trying to get certain jobs/public offices? If you know all these but act shocked that Brits are being the same, then, again, it's hypocrisy.

You say they aren't doing us immigrants a favour, and I agree. But it's also on this thread that many (including you if I recall correctly) essentially said immigrants are doing the UK a favour and that the economy would collapse, and that 'what does the average brit even contribute?' So now that they are saying they don't want to do business again, why the lamentations?

Gerrard59:
Humans are tribal. That one is sure. Should there be war in Taiwan, Japan, and Singapore to an extent, will gladly accept Taiwanese as refugees. But none of those countries accepted refugees from Myanmar. Many applied to Japan, and she refused except for one prominent human rights activist.

Na why young people suppose understand the world for what it is, rather than what they should/expect it to be.

Thank you. Especially for the last part. Some people love the feeling of victim mentality so much they reduce everything into one ‘ism’ or the other automatically.

I was going to ask the OP if Nigeria got involved in supporting Ukraine the way it did for the West African countries in crisis following coups/wars.

profemebee:
that's why i stopped replying tbh..

not a single stat brought..just talk talk and hear say

No developed country was built on hear say and talk talk....that's why you have economic patterns and trends

You can't vibe your way to success or progress.. it has to be measured with defined OKRs

Have a great weekend everyone

I tell you.

And also the absurd guilt-tripping talking about "except you're not an immigrant".

So because I'm an immigrant I should close my eyes to economic and political reality and keep holding other people and their country to a standard that nobody; not even citizens; holds my own country to? Lol

Goke7:
The issue about undercutting local labour is false for Christ sake, can’t we all see from the stats shared so far that not many work visas are given.

Except you’re not not an immigrant why fall for this narrative of low pay which is the ignorance the politicians are feeding on from their populace. And as for Nigeria they made it difficult for us here so why can’t Nigeria do the same or don’t we know the law of reciprocity in diplomacy. Nigerian visas is one of the most difficult to get and e get why, call it shithole it’s what it is.

One amusing thing about you is how you always accuse people of being emotional but it's your responses that never contain any facts or statistics, and instead are heavy on hearsay and random gossip.

Someone has shared official stats to show you work visas have hugely increased. You're still insisting not many visas are given.

Now I've outlined the very high barriers to foreigners working in Nigeria, you're bringing in random name-calling. How is that relevant? The point is that all countries are protectionist about their local workforce - even ones that aren't as globally desirable, so why are you acting shocked that the most desirable ones are putting similar restrictions in place?

In fact the UK's restrictions are substantially less than Nigeria's, so the key question is why are you constantly attacking the UK as if they are doing something unheard of?

Resurgent2016:
Not necessarily a cost issue. With 3-5k, you can sponsor a candidate for 3-5 years (amortized, that is 1k per year or thereabout). Most of these candidates would accept an offer at the lower end of the pay band, potentially saving the company up to 10k a year.

If the government is looking to truly improve productivity and drive cost competitiveness in the economy, it should be removing the bottlenecks keeping immigrants out of these sectors. Rather then government threw another spanner into the wheel leaving the field (healthcare and NHS) that is likely responsible for most of the work visas.

I have experienced it firsthand, so its not much about the stats this is the reality on the ground.

See how many immigrants are making waves in innovative sectors in the USA and compare it to the UK. In the UK, you would probably need to be at least in your first generation or have spent decades to have that kind of opportunity.

Why can't you see that the bolded is the same thing Zahra29 was saying about how it leads to undercutting of the indigenous labour force, which is the government's primary constituency? If migrants are consistently willing to accept lower salaries, the companies will pay less and hire those which means salaries for everyone will reduce.

Are you then surprised that there's pushback by the local population?

This thing is not a moral issue like many are trying to make it seem. It's an economic and political issue. The Brits don't want more immigrants. Whether you think they are right or wrong in that is irrelevant. The government has to pander to them.

And besides is it not the same thing in Nigeria? Do you people know all the hoops a foreigner has to go through to work in the country? From the STR visa to the expatriate quota application (which only companies with N100 Million minimum share capital can get) to the CERPAC. Why does the Nigerian government have all those restrictions - does it not want to grow the economy?? /s

Resurgent2016:
The UK system is largely rigged to keep many immigrants, particularly from developing countries working in fields they consider "undesirable" rather than competing with them. I reckon one of the reasons for the anti-immigrant sentiment is political but also immigrants moving into typically non-immigrant fields. Many recent immigrants did not come in as economic migrants per se, they were well-to-do and came to continue their career in the UK.

I have had a situation where HR seemed offended and hesitant to give me a matching pay raise that matched an offer I received elsewhere even when my boss insisted they match it so I stay. My boss had to sit through every negotiation meeting to ensure HR did not scuttle it. Never had any issue with HR and had very limited interaction, can only imagine she was offended my new pay was much higher than many of them particularly since I was an immigrant.

Your boss - Is he/she an immigrant?

Strata1716:
She doesn’t frustrate me anymore, that ended a couple of weeks back after I stood my ground and refused to be bullied. Looking for an apartment is a whole lot of stress also rents are higher than it was when I moved in.

What if she does something to harm you? Physically or by telling another lie to police or other services to implicate you?

I hear what you're saying about the stress of moving out but I honestly believe that doing so is the best and safest option for you in the circumstances, and the landlord is being reasonable as well - they don't want to risk further escalations in their property.

As Ticha has said, you can challenge the notice, but it'll likely cost a substantial amount of time and effort that's best channeled doing the things she said - asking for an extension and seeking a good reference etc.

toughest007:
Don't be responding emotionally.

You're the one being emotional and sermonising about what is right and moral and whatnot.

I've spoken exclusively based on the law. You do you.

I pray the OP gets someone to take the matter up for him because it's people who don't have anyone that can do that, whom landlords like that love to oppress.

toughest007:
Don't really want to sound insensitive but I would say it the way it is...

You are right. The impression I deciphered from his narrative was that he was like a day or two late and would pay like the next day. If he had paid around that period, things won't have been this ugly.

Its foolhardy to intentionally owe a LL rent cos some blokes on a faceless forum asked you not to pay when same LL has a commitment to pay mortgage on the property. Few days have ran into weeks!
.

It’s not foolhardy to refuse to pay a landlord who comes to remove your door after a couple of days delay. If the OP doesn’t make her suffer for what she did beginning from not logging his deposit as required, the door removal and all the other things, I’d be very disappointed and she would have been very lucky to have gotten away with it only because she chose a soft target.

hayesconcept:
You can work full time with students visa once you have completed your degree. But you can’t take up permanent position in any company with student visa. It’s against the law.

Please show where this is stated.

Edit: seen on the UKCISA page shared above. I didn't know that. Thanks.