₦airaland Forum

Jamesclooney:
Baba shift enter Canada thread abeg.

You’re not the guy you think you are. Other people on this thread, don achieve pass you, but na you proud pass (on top faceless forum oo 😂). You don’t have monopoly on “wisdom” or whatever you think you have upstairs. Every small thing, “mental rigmarole”…”I can’t imagine seeing life through your lenses”. Free advice: Stop pontificating!
You too, I hope this is not the brain you want to use in Canada? If not those Indians would mess you up.

Saccharine:
Jedisco if na boasting, boast dey go, I'm loving it as it gingers me like crazy! Don't know about others but I love to read about accomplishments and people doing well for themselves . I always look forward to your canny updates.

There's posts here for everyone..misery club, boasters club,humble club, rich club, poor club, striving club, riffraff club, oyibo can't do wrong club,Nigerians are evil club.. No problem, just concentrate on the posts that fit you, me, I fix my eyes on the posts that give me life

Una just too funny

Goke7:
So this is really who you are? Doing cheap blackmail like Mtn (everywhere you go) 😂

Jakpon:
Which Burkina Faso? Una go just dey cap wetin no make sense. Why don't you leave Nigeria and relocate to Burkina Faso.

Those ibos advocating for a military take over in Nigeria, should first start with their five south east states. Let them remove their Governors : Alex Otti, Hope Uzodinma, Charles Soludo etc, and then appoint Hausa officers as states administrators. Let's start from their first

Jamesclooney:
Oga please shift.

For someone who claims to be so “accomplished”and “winning “ , you brag a little too much for an anonymous platform. If it was LinkedIn or IG, maybe I would understand. But sorry for you, I’m not easily impressed (as I suspect others maybe too).

Enjoy your new found life/thread (Living in Canada - Life of An Immigrant).

I hope they enjoy the benefits of your superior perspectives.

Shalom!

Jamesclooney:
You’re missing my point. In the previous post you kept going on and on about how you’ve contributed to UK more than others etc. Almost like you were doing the UK a favour…and my question was why did you decide to help UK? Why not help Cameroon or Zambia or Lithuania?

We all know the answer why…exchange of value. You had a skill and they offered you a job/immigration pathway. Had it been there was no opportunity, you’d have sat down in country of origin and forcefully contributed especially in the medical field where your skills are desperately needed.

So spare us with the whole, you’ve contributed so much blah blah blah. It was an exchange. Nobody forced you into it. Now the gig is up for other Nigerians/would be immigrants coming behind us…jungle go soon mature.

jedisco:
Is this supposed to be a threat? The stuff you spew.

Let me ask - exposed on what? Exposed that when the UK badly needed skilled labour I offered my services? Exposed that I gave over half a decade of my life in service of the British populace? Exposed that I was a significant net contributor by a very wide margin throughout my stay? Exposed that I decided to invest in Britain rather that take that to competing nations? Exposed that I continued the Lords work elsewhere? Exposed on what exactly?

Whether it's by nature or nurture, the more you type, the more it becomes obvious that we do not think alike. I can only thank God for wiring my brain differently from yours. Can't imagine what it feels like to see the world through your lens.

I'm sure if I came here calling myself 'third worlder', chorusing how something is wrong with the black man or narrating how I lower my gaze when being spoken to, you'd have called me a visionary.

lavida001:
Let’s get this straight being a net contributor doesn’t put you above anyone ok, everyone contributes to the pot in different ways. So get off the high horse and touch some grass.

Not everyone measures their life in houses bought or cars offered, and not everyone feels the need to parade their gains publicly like you constantly attempt to force it down our throats. You talk like people should be wowed about your gain. Talk about I bought a house. Oh I was offered 300k car as I arrived. Guess what most don’t care.

If that Dr Pepple guy was not dragged , he might probably be on x bragging about buying a house two weeks after landing in the CA . That ‘I’m better than the next neighbour mindset is exactly why some people look down on care workers, call others riff raff, or shame their career. Owing to them arriving when things were easier or had better information beforehand.

Keep the petite bourgeois performance to your family and your inner circle. And no carry am enter CA. I trust those ones dem go drag you. Your target audience isn’t here.

I will continue to say if you like bag phd, surgeon the western world will continuously see you from a reflection of your home country/ skin. Until we develop our ancestral home only then we can be free. ILR oo citizenship oo, West Indian ooo push comes to shove they will summarise us all in one shopping cart. And you need to get that global citizen ideology out your head there is nothing like that and we all know where we came from.

If you still don’t understand what I mean by you will be exposed then google “petite bourgeoisie” it perfectly describes you.

Jamesclooney:
Just out of curiosity, why didn’t you offer your homeland - Nigeria - these amazing contributions? Why bless UK and Canada with your gift?

Goke7:
The problem is that some of our folks just want to force themselves to be accepted because we are naturally emotional and not transactional like westerners. The other day I saw a content creator intelligently analysing the benefits of having a passport from a western nation and how it opens us so many trans border business opportunities telling folks that’s how they should be thinking. If people can have this shift in their mindset then you don’t bloody care what the natives think or how they see you. Having that second passport is for your own personal ambitions and goals and not to become an ethno national or whatever is called. The people who sold you the passport are simply doing business with you and their expectations is that you think that way too.

lavida001:
If advocating for a better Nigeria makes one have inferior complex then im happy with it. You are what we call petit bourgeoisie and sooner or later you will be exposed 🤡

4ever1:
Exactly ,
This people even said a piece
of paper doesn’t make you British
We will always be third class in their eyes

olubams:
However, in the midst of all this for "proessionals", I am discovering that people on "streets" are really busy. A guy came to change my tires and oil change and charge $210 for less than 1hr job told me he still has about extra 3 other appointments as at 4:30pm. Guys who tow vehicles are charging $300 for less than 20Km trip etc.

Career pivot/flexibility is the way to navigate this trying period.

Zahra29:
Lol @ the bolded because the irony is only a few pages back, you were accused of being detached from reality yourself.

I guess everyone's reality is different.

WanderingChild:
I am afraid to say we are not really net positive contributors to humanity. You mention education? Do you want to compare the education in Nigeria with what you get in an m7 university? Have you seen any Nigerian university ever in the top 500 of university rankings? ASUU is on indefinite strike, have you heard about that in Europe or America or China or Singapore? Nobel laureate (don't even say it)? Field Marshall? Turing?

Goodenoch:
I saw this since when you posted it but I have found it difficult to formulate a response because I am genuinely struggling to understand how you felt comfortable saying all this.

People that entered via care route from Nigeria and non professionals who had a BSC sha and ‘ran masters package’? So…in other words healthcare workers and graduates who decided to emigrate to pursue economic opportunities just like you did but perhaps didn’t have the qualifications/opportunities you did?

You didn’t even think that by virtue of being graduates they have already attained higher qualifications than the majority of adults in this same UK?

And those are the people that you categorize as riff raffs because you happen to work at a university?

Their ring light behavior? What does that even mean? Is the percentage of immigrants who make videos up to 1% or even 0.1%? Even 0.00001%? How many Nigerians are on NIUK and what proportion do those that agreed about driver’s license form, from among the entirety of the Nigerian immigrant community? As a university worker you felt that was a representative enough sample size? Lol.

And how exactly do they act? Like stuck up pretenders who think they’re better than everyone else just because they managed to get a ‘professional’ job and so feel confident enough to denigrate the ‘average Nigerian’ at every turn? What does average Nigerian even mean

Lol . Man if you introspect a little bit more you’ll realize you’re not as far off from what you think an average Nigerian is as you might think, and I assure you that for all your pretensions the people you’re twerking for to show you’re ’not like the others’ see nothing but an average Nigerian when they look at you.

lavida001:
Could Dr pepple be thesame Dr on here that recently moved to Canada 🇨🇦 🤔 just thinking out loud and between I’m happy he was dragged.

WanderingChild:
@jedisco

It seems my response to you was hidden twice.

Good catch. Hopefully, I can return to my old account soon.

The issues you address re pension and property and your points are valid if and only if certain assumptions hold true. First, that policies continue to remain protective as they are without changing too much tomorrow to impact people. Second, that people can muster the financial strength to wrangle through the potential implications such as taxes and associated compliance that may exist. Third, that people have measures in place to ensure that on their demise, their estate can be fairly accessed by their heirs. I shall set forth to provide more details.

First, we are no strangers to pervasive policies that have been enacted worldwide and historically. Throughout history, governments have restricted non-citizens' economic rights through wartime measures (where asset freezes and confiscations occurred during declared or undeclared conflicts), racial/ethnic targeting (where laws are coded as nationality-based but designed to target specific groups), economic warfare (with redistribution policies framed as correcting historical injustices), national security (post-9/11 measures and sanctions regimes), limited due process (administrative seizures without criminal convictions), difficulty accessing compensation (with long delays, inadequate payments, or no restitution), etc. These policies have consistently resulted in substantial financial losses, displacement, and long-term economic hardship for affected communities, with compensation efforts often proving inadequate or taking decades to materialize. It may be possible to argue that one is merely being over-dramatic, but seeing that one’s base nationality is Nigerian that has on the international stage be threatened with invasion and even designated as a “now disgraced country”, and that the next 2-5 sets of leadership over the next 25 years that will be emerging in most of these developed countries are going to be nationalistic with very extreme tendencies, I do not think it is safe for immigrants to invest their foundational wealth in these countries. Proceeds of such [foundational] wealth could be invested in such countries, but the base (or foundational wealth) needs to be mobile. I am essentially advocating for a tiered wealth protection strategy based on legal vulnerability. This is because during nationalism, or political shifts, non-citizens are legally vulnerable in ways citizens are not. Historically, the cycle is openness then crises then restriction then scapegoating then confiscation. I note here @jedisco that you hold British Citizenship. You have a protection that many immigrants may never have. This changes the dynamics for you.

Second, it is now becoming VERY expensive to maintain accountability as we migrate. The ongoing administrative and financial burden of maintaining cross-border tax compliance can indeed be so substantial that it effectively erodes or even negates the value of maintaining investments across multiple jurisdictions. This represents a different kind of “cost” than outright confiscation, but it is no less real for migrants. For US residents (GC holders and citizens), some overseas investments are tax inefficient (please this is not financial advice – just my opinion). Offshore Investment Bonds (deemed as Passive Foreign Investment Companies or PFICs), QROPS and ISAs, which although favourable from a UK taxation perspective, they are considered toxic investments in the U.S. U.S. taxpayers investing in Canadian funds may encounter PFIC rules that trigger unfavourable tax treatment unless handled carefully. Many overseas institutions will severe relationships with you once you acquire a US citizenship or permanent residency status due to the compliance burdens imposed by FACTA. Recent reforms including the abolition of the UK Lifetime Allowance, the removal of exemptions on Overseas Transfer Tax for some cross-border pension transfers, and the inclusion of pension benefits into inheritance taxes could all have considerable impact on finance planning. For many migrants, the economically rational choice becomes to liquidate cross-border investments rather than maintain them. This is not because of confiscation, but because compliance costs make them financially unviable. This represents a form of administrative confiscation through complexity, where the barrier is not a government seizing property but making it so burdensome to keep that disposal becomes the only practical option. Again, I note @jedisco that you are a PR in Canada. Unlike (rather than similar to) you, I hold a US green card which means my reality is totally different from what you may face. Another dimension for a dual national with a third PR like you. We may have similar bases (Nigerian and British citizenship, but our realities tax wise change at Canada/US route).

Third, there is a real vulnerability in cross-border estate planning that many immigrants face: assets held in countries where neither the deceased nor their heirs have legal status can become legally complicated, expensive, or even inaccessible to recover. For instance,
different countries have vastly different inheritance laws, probate processes, and requirements for foreign heirs. Some countries impose heavy estate taxes on non-residents, require local legal representation (expensive), or have lengthy probate processes that can take years. If heirs are minors living abroad, the complexity multiplies. They may need court-appointed guardians or trustees recognized by foreign courts. Also, there is the documentation burden that heirs could face. Documents need to be apostilled (I am assuming no translation since we are all English speaking), proof of relationship, proof of death recognized by foreign jurisdictions, and sometimes must physically appear in the country where assets are held. For young heirs or those without the resources to navigate foreign legal systems, this creates real barriers. We must not also ignore the fact that some investments like businesses, rental properties, or accounts with maintenance requirements can deteriorate in value during prolonged probate, especially if heirs cannot access them quickly. My argument here is that setting up international estate structures like offshore trusts, properly drafted wills valid in multiple jurisdictions, powers of attorney etc., can cost thousands to tens of thousands of pounds, which many working immigrants simply cannot afford while building their lives.

My caution is this: do not put your survival at the mercy of a system where you are a second-class participant. This is not paranoia. This is understanding the legal and political reality of being an immigrant, especially in an age of rising nationalism and resource competition.

I agree that it is tragic that this level of defensive thinking is necessary. But given historical precedent and current trends, keeping your foundational wealth only where you have full legal protection is prudent risk management, not excessive caution. I am not against investing in the UK for immigrants without settled status, I am saying foundational wealth should be in places where you have the most protection as a citizen. I must also note that we must appreciate seeing things from the perspective of most immigrants who may never acquire settled status in the UK or elsewhere and who may also not have the sophistication to navigate the complex realities involved in cross border management of investments.

Goke7:
The only small hope I see perhaps God willing is to allow folks still get ilr but sill ensure no recourse to public funds since all the headache is about benefits but that alone is already degrading but many migrants if not most won’t mind.

In all a new legislation or the courts may still be the deciding factor reason the govt still continues to say they are still consulting.

WanderingChild:
On the comical side (no harm intended), the birthing in the US thread on Nairaland literally died when trump with one stroke of the pen ended birth tourism for non-US citizens and PRs. It seems we may see the same for the thread on UK property. If people now have no assurance on their future status, it makes investing in property, pension, SIPP almost toxic for immigrants. Will you be paying pension for a future you may not be entitled to? Imagine people who have paid pension for 5 years and now have to emigrate elsewhere? What happens to the money sunk into the UK pension system? Imagine those who have bought property thinking they were on a path to settlement and now have to emigrate elsewhere. What happens to their property (someone says sell it)? Immigrants MUST be mindful of not allowing themselves become tools to enrich the Prince’s Trust and UK PLC. Deploy that resource in securing alternative options for yourself. Until you have that settlement, be very careful in making certain kinds of investments.

Goke7:
Some of us said this countless times here that folks should look elsewhere but we were told that the Uk is still the best. Honestly I celebrate folks who have since used the Uk as the stepping stone to other places. They are the original MVPs and the wisest.

Hardworking and legal immigrants are being mocked 😜 imagine those on care visas facing the possibility of 15 yrs not even the 10 years that was originally tendered meanwhile the smarter ones have used their care experience to obtain PR in Canada and will be Canadian citizens in just 3 years while their counterparts in uk are filling online surveys that may never make any difference. Anyway each man to his own!

babranancy:
My mum is 69 years and holds a uk visit visa. she came to the UK to visit me and fell ill so she was seen by the GP and the GP prescribed a medication for her. She went to the pharmacy to collect the medication but the pharmacist refused to accept her medication payment because she’s 69 years old so she’s automatically exempted from payment for her medication. I informed them that she’s on a visit visa but they refused saying that I should ask around and if I still want to pay, I can come later and pay.

Please what should I do?
Is she truly exempted from payment because she’s above 60 years?
I don’t want it to be that she’s using public fund and I don’t want anything that will affect her visa application in the future.
Please I need your suggestions. Thank you so much.

pansophist:
When you do not standard that even the lowest idiot can qualify, this is what you will get.
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I was in London early this year and I forking dislike that city. It feels so fake. White Brits are less than 30% of the population, and you will find more Asians than white people.

The Africans there are all lowkey beefing each other. Everyone assume you are a fresher, and from your accent, they already place you where you belong. Gangsterism is the new culture among black youth, and it is a miracle if your child grew up there and turn up sane.

Your 13 years old daughter can visit a doctor without your consent and get counsel, test, contraception and pregnancy advice. If your daughter escaped being a certify hoo before turning 18, break bottle for my head next time you see me.

Saner clime lol

Segun2222:
try and read history and leave all this story show us the ratio of successful foreign millatry intervention I argue on facts not based on your emotion show statistics of American military intervention, Iraq , Libya Afghanistan , Syria try using Google more instead of typing like you're in a beer palour

Goke7:
😂 the US treasury minister said na immigrants make beef expensive for US by bringing and importing diseased cattle through the South American border crossing. What immigrants cannot do or cannot be blamed does not exist

SpencerForbes:
I’m Nigeria, if it eventually reduces by N20,000, there’s still no guarantee it will reduce. They’ll rather make more gains than reduce it drastically.
Corruption in Nigeria starts from the grassroots.

aariwa:
Were you expecting anything good to come out of mandate failure other the ruination his bolekaja policies threw the country into? I never believed anybody that would be worse than buhari until tinubu proved us wrong

kingar:
My people are very local my brother.