Egbons in the house.

Please has anyone invested in Gtbank Dollar fund? According the advert they offers over 8% interest rate. That's far better than you can get in any UK bank, it can even out perform S&S ISA.

The fact that it is dollar dominated mean offers additional protection to the naira rollercoaster madness.

bigtt76:
Should we be scared or the usual rumour mongers at work? In the letter is mentioned 3 years ILR which doesn't make sense What do you think?

The letter is fake.

Also the letter only mention Leave to Remain not Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) they are two different things.

ecolime:

I must have missed this part out.

But it's not possible to save all the £900, he should be able to do £600. The Masters option looks more like it then.

It's very possible. Over 80% of Nigerians that travel to the UK, didn't have scholarship so they are not getting the free £900 per month. Yet worked to pay their living expenses and part of their tuition. It all depends on his spending habit. In his case he doesn't have to worry about tuition fee just to work to pay his living expenses.

ecolime:
Would have advised you to go for the Biological sciences programme, but what's the point in travelling out for Masters and be back home to square one?


Take the software engineer role, develop capacity and you will be in a better position to get better international jobs soonest.

This is not the best advice. Since his offer is fully funded with a stiped of £900 per month, which as at today is over 1m. He can decide to save all the stipend while doing parttime job to offset his living expenses. At the end of the master program he will be sure of £10K in saving which is over 11m all within one year. It will take him ages to save that in Nigeria while on 200k salary.

At the end he has a UK advance degree and lot's of savings, that's a win win

Akorkor:


Proverbs 13 24 Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them.

Do you have a data of any children who grow up in care homes as a better person? If you do have please convince me. I can say, teenagers in Nigeria are better behaved than UK

I don't understand what you mean by carehome and how it's relevant to this topic? My argument is that flogging and beating a child is not the definition of disciplining. There is a whole lot to parenting and training a child than just beating, and there are more productive way to discipline a child.

Teenagers don't join gang because their parents didn't discipline them. One major factor that influence this is the socio-economic background, even neighborhood with high gang related crimes are low-income neighborhood, the same is also true in Nigeria. If you go to urban slums in Nigeria or any poor neighborhood, the rate of teenage crime is unprecedented both children of pastors that grew up under constant beating/flogging they will simply outgrow the beating and show you shege.

I don't have the data about how unruly teenagers in UK are, but I have seen 1st hand how teenagers in Nigeria can be unquestionably corrupt and evil. You might not have witnessed it if you live or grow in middle-income neighborhood.

I so much would've love to use myself as an example, but I still be nobody. one day when I'm finally successful and accomplish, I will write a book about the darkness I lived through. How I grew up habouring a princely inner darkness. Bought my 1st gun (a Russian mini Beretta 2.5mm) at the age of 16, almost got convicted by age 24 despite growing up in a very religious home under strict upbringing.

samsmokey:


All these children that UK government will not let you discipline. Back then I remember a class mate being brought to Nigeria and “abandoned”. He spent about two years with his uncle, during that period the reforming😉😉 he received.
When he returned to the UK he was a completely changed being.

I don't think discipline has anything to do with beating/flogging a child, we have that in Nigeria yet the rate of cultism particularly in low income neighborhoods is staggering. Can you say teenages are better behaved in Nigeria compared to the UK due to the training they recieved?

Nigerians need to unlearn the habit that beating a child equals disciplining the child.

Viruses:


If this story is true and the police were truly involved, if the govt. is able to use this to uncover fraud, will the victims be given another jobs or asylum seeing that they helped investigation?

No, Asylum is not something you give as a form of compensation and it's not the duty of immigration officers or police to give jobs to immigrants. The license will be withdrawn, the visa canceled and the victims expected to leave the country with immediate effect.

jagbasneh:
Good morning guys, please i need some clarification on this questions.
1. Tier 2 visa holder came to UK with 7months old baby, if the baby is put under benefits it is fall under public funds.
2. About to have another new born baby in UK, if the new born baby put under benefits it is fall under public funds?
Thank

I assume by "put under benefits" you mean claim child benefit? YES! Claiming child benefit is public fund

Agbekehorla:
How can one go about renewing Nigerian passport in this UK. It expires March 2024. Is it too early to renew. Ancestors pls reply. Thanks

It's rather too late than early. If you apply today you will probably get a date in November or December and after your Biometric you will need to wait additional 3months or so to get your passport, which means if you apply today and you are lucky you will get the new passport by February or March 2024.

Do you still think it's too early to apply ?

Focus99:
Goodmorning house.

I will like to know if GP does family planning and also if one is expected to pay for this service.

P.S: do not advice me to make do with c**d** cos it's painful during s*x plus myself and hubby not ready to have a baby now.

Thank you

They are called GP (General Practitioner) for a reason. Talk with your GP and they will refer you to the appropriate personnel.

hustla:





I have dulled it. Got a date in November. Passport expires in Jan. Didn't know it's that terrible

Do you know when I'll be able to get it after capturing?

3-4months after capturing

hustla:
..About to pay for my new passport application but the old one is yet to expire (expires Jan but I heard its good to start early)

Can I proceed with the payment without issues?

Mine will expire in March Next year, I applied and paid in May and just did my Biometric capture 2weeks ago.

SamReinvented:
Abeg, is there anyone here who applied for NG passport since May and has received it? Mine has been in production since forever and the collection date on the slip was 29th June.

Is there a sure number to call or a email to carryout a follow up?

Relax and add additional 2months to the date initially indicated collection date. Passport processing is now taking 3-4months.

Unfortunately there is nothing you can do about it, just relax and wait it out.

Schoolhike:


Chat gpt plus (the free version is also good but not as reasonable as the paid version ($20 monthly)

Microsoft Bing Chat - free

Claude Ai - free

Google bard - free

I use all, to have different perspectives on a subject matter but mostly use Gpt plus

(With AI, less time spent in understanding complex concepts/matter, issues, code, quick summary of, pdfs, webpages, YouTube videos instead of spending hours watching, etc )

Can you please confirm if gpt4 can generate diagram or sketch? I don't want to subscribe only to realize that it's not able to do it.

Abeg make una put mouth for this abeg.

A sub £40k consulting role in the UK (sponsored and yet to spend 3months with the firm) and a P3 level role with UNDP, salary $93k but duty station is Mali 🇲🇱.

Which do you advise and why?

deept:


The application should be fine. Attachment to Nigeria is her education as supported by a letter from her faculty on a letter headed paper. Just deal with the financial part, no pump the account, let the account show inflow and outflow of a typical student and if there is any significant deposit, put an explanation with evidence. And reduce the one month to say 2 weeks...

Unfortunately education alone is not a good enough ties to Nigeria, considering that she has families in the UK. She is unemployed and have no source of income and to cap it up, she is still quite young.
The rule of the thumb is to treat every application as a potential "immigration risk" until to applicant successfully proves otherwise.

The sudden £500k credit looks suspicious, and normally she should have submitted 3-6months statement.

What you should have done is to make a monthly payment of 100k into her account for 3-5months label it as her upkeep. She will declare it as income of 100k per month from family for upkeep.

This will show that she has enough money back home in Nigeria and not a potential economic migrant.

jedisco:


Go to page 86 and see the origin of 'black and brown'. After that, you could raise it up again.

A win-win I see.

Let me break it down for you. This is like your boss taking from your salary to pay for the road trip of your work colleagues. You then call it a win-win cos you were also on the bus and that you alone paying for the whole trip prevented everyone from contributing their fair share.

This move means that immigrants are left poorer (cue inflation) irrespective of whatever salary increase they receive just so Brits can have more in their pockets. This creates inequalities. Read through polished 'right sounding statements'

No your analogy is incorrect and a misrepresentation of the actual situation.

How about this. You left your former boss because of reasons best know to you and approach a new boss, and the boss gladly welcomes you on the condition that you have to make a mandatory contribution to be able to join the company and enjoy all the benefits including the road trips, the initial money you paid will be directly towards improving the experiences and living condition of everyone in the road trip including you, you only pay the fee once and all new entrants are mandated to pay it. You have the option to reject the offer and go back to your previous employer but you chose to accept it and then accuse the employer of making you poorer

I am not in support of the increased fee (I personally will have to pay for it as well), but championing the narrative that the Brits are subjecting immigrants to unfair hardship and extortion is incorrect. The UK has successfully transformed the lives of lots of immigrants and they've accessed opportunities that they can only dream of in their home countries.

There are folks (mostly settled immigrants) who charges fellow immigrant £12k for COS, yet nobody is calling them out for it.

We live in a capitalist society and when the demand is high and supply is limited, the supplier will push the price up. There has been a record high immigration to the UK and they might as well use to opportunity to it's fullest, which is what any business man will do in that situation.

If you believe paying the fee to move to the UK will make you poorer, then by all means stay in your country and remain richer.

jedisco:


I did not infer.. only asked.

With tax thresholds frozen, there's a real fiscal drag and most people would invariably pay higher taxes. The question Zahra becomes, would you prefer the government increases taxes to fund the pay rise or would you rather black and brown immigrants pay?

The double taxation called IHS and visa fees may have increased with inflation... but an increase aimed at paying public sector workers higher wages has not been a matter of public discussion before. It's not like we never knew... it's just that there's now an acceptance of this fact.

I don't know why you keep stressing the black and brown like the policy is targeted at them only. The policy is targeted at immigrant/non-immigrant who want to leave their countries to come live in the UK whether black, brown or white the race is inconsequential.
And I think it's a win-win for even the immigrants because I personally will choose to pay the increased ihs fee, once and for all, than having my tax increase. Additionally even the immigrants working in those sectors also get a pay increase.

steadyMoving22:



Not your decision to make for others choice.

Not my decision to make How? I can't remember making any decision at any point in my message.

I only asked a question, to see if I'm missing anything. Cause I don't understand how having a 5 years US B1-B2 visa or a 1year Schengen multiple entry visa is a backup to UK residency visa incase the UK Bleep up.
Even with a 5year US visa the maximum you can stay with each visit is 6months and for Schengen territory it's 3months, and you are not permitted to work or take up paid employment during the visit.

Iruobe1987:



Is royal mail delivery fee required as well?

Yea definitely, you have to buy a prepaid envelope before heading for you capturing.

AirBay:


Which hospital in Birmingham pls? I have worked in the 3 hospitals in Birmingham and they always refuse to sponsor

Also what do you mean by maintenence is was not ticked?

During the visa/COS process, there is an option for the employer to tick that they will be providing maintenance fund for the employee. Which means the employee don't need to show proof of fund during the visa application process.

Goke7:


Very commendable, with the way the uk is running haywire, no matter the kind of visa you have it’s just advisable to get other visas. It’s what am doing too.

I don't understand what you guys meant by get other visas?

Having other visas (which in most cases are visit visa) will not save anyone from the UK immigration wahala if the time comes. You can't use those visas to immigrate or even work on those visas. I have a long-term US visa and Schegen visa (Swiss issued) yet they are absolutely useless for immigration purposes.

Except you plan to travel and then turn illegal immigrant.

Joyfuljoyful:

Hi. Do we pay this fee when we go for capturing or how do I go about it? I have capturing for this month and I don't know whether I am to bring along the £40 as cash or buy a postal order from the post office before heading for capturing.

Buy is from the post office

hustla:
Please o

I am trying to renew my passport (expires in Jan)


Is this the actual cost? Saw somewhre that I need only £20 for postal cost

Seeing something different on the websitr

Am I doing something wrong?

Yea, that is the actual price, you will still need an additional £20 postal order. I paid around $250 for 64pages 10years

HollyMadison:
Hi elders, please I need serious help.

Is there anyway a tier 2 visa holder can bring their sick mum to live with them or get nhs treatment?

Yes, you can bring your parents for medical tourism but you have to cover the cost of all medical treatment.

Nazgul:

The man is just worried that if you get married while in school, childbirth and other family issues might hinder you from concentrating on your studies, so to him it's going to be like a waste of his precious money. Cos what's the point of spending money to sponsor someone who might end up having 2 or more extra years? What kind of result would you come out with at the end of the day?

If you really want to get married and still go to school, you can meet him and iron out things with him. Promise him that you'll maintain a CGPA of not less than 3.5 per academic session. That if you fall below that, he can withdraw he's sponsorship. If he sees your determination, he'll go ahead and sponsor you.

I am more interested in knowing what happened that you are thinking of starting school at 29? I know our circumstances are all different, but if you really value education that much, why haven't you pursued it for the last 29years? And where is that your relative all those times ?

Nobody here will be able to give you the right answer, we don't know your personal circumstances, your motivation or even your suitor and relative's motivation.

Sit down, had a deep reflection on what you want for yourself and what you consider the most important to you and go with it.

mayowa94:
Hello
I just want to double check the info below;

As a student switching from Tier 4 to Tier 2 is there need to proof English language proficiency again?

There is an option to tick that you've submitted proof of English in your previous application

madamori9:


Hi heroshark, I noticed you mentioned shipping senators/traditional attires earlier. I'm wondering if you were able to successfully ship them? I'm actually interested in doing the same and would appreciate any information or advice you could share.

Nah. I have not been able to ship it yet.

Teedol:
I was trying to say this few weeks ago but couldn't put the words together the way you have done it, probably cos I was at work and doing multiple things at the same time. Where I live so many Nigerians are home owners and living good lifestyle with the same healthcare job some are always running down on nairaland.

I have a friend whose service user lives
with learning disabilities and complex care, he just told social service he will be terminating his contract with the said service user, they have been enticing him with a lot of money, yet this guy
wont accept. I know a Nigerian big bro where i live who just built/remodelled a healthcare home with over a million pounds, some of us got here few months back but lucky to roll with "the people that know road"

I don't think this is a fair comparison to be honest. You can't compare a business/service owner to an employee.

Why I do not subscribe to the idea of belittling someone’s job or means of income as long as it's legit, HCA is also one of the least paid occupation on the skilled workers list, you only need to earn circa £20k to be eligible for sponsorship. So comparing those who own care services with those who work as an employee in the care sector is not painting a fair picture.

The UK is a service economy and people who owns service/consultancy firms be it care, tech, recruitment etc are kings.

Lexusgs430:


Get cheap Ryanair or easyJet flight...... . Enter Germany to mark register, then head to France...... É don do abi.......🤣

You can tell, we are visa free citizens........😛

Do I need to enter the country that issued the visa 1st? My visa was issued by Switzerland 🇨🇭 but I'm traveling to Germany this Sunday and have no plans of going to Switzerland.

I was initially scheduled to speak at an event in Geneva but the visa came out late and I missed the event, so I no longer have a reason to enter Switzerland.

Solumtoya:


I have previously shared 2 Companies I have used here. I am trying a 3rd Company bringing in some Abacha and Ukwa Once they arrive, I will share my experience. My wife and her Mum keep sending local food so we're big customers of these companies.

Can you please reshare, I want to bring in 5 pieces of senators/traditional attires, do they accept it or it's strictly foodstuffs?

Adebayo82:
Good day my people. Please how can one response to a situation whereby child dependent visa expired before the new application was initiated. It expires on 13th of May 2023 and is not intentionally done but due to some financial difficulties. Currently, I'm on top of filling a new application to renew the visa for the children, and I got a stage in the application where is stated that provides "Evidence for not applying before your permission to be in Uk expired" what reason should i gives to convince home office.

The rule of thumb is to always tell the truth. The Truth Only, it can be whole truth or half truth.

If it's due to financial issues, state it but go further to explain if there is any exceptional circumstance that caused it (feel free to invent one here). Normally, you should've plan for it. but make a strong case.

Also point out why it's not feasible for the kids to leaven the UK upon expiration of the visa.