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christaddicted:
Guys please help me,
Two months ago,an employer in Canada I met online gave me a job offer to working on site there in Canada. I took the offer after the employer made a mouth watery promise of paying for the visa & flight ticket from the company's account BUT I'll payback the expenditures by deducting certain percent from my weekly salary for few months.

But a recent happening got me confused when my employer's travel agent in Nigeria started asking for 150dollars which is requested from the lady at the Canada visa office as charges. What charges again? This demand came after a-month-of-processing of the visa. I contacted my Canada employer about this development, he said I should go on & pay that he'll refund me with my proof of payment when I get over there. I haven't paid any dime since this started honestly.
Meanwhile, the two documents required from me by my employer are; soft copies of the data page of my international passport & passport photograph only. My employer also told me he paid 3,000dollars for the visa processing under a month and could be refunded if I declare not interested. How possible?

Please experienced Nairalanders, is this a God's given opportunity or scam? Mature response will go a long way helpful please.

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Aikayval:
Okay, My school is GCU London, so I’m just thinking about the best option in terms of accommodation and the price range, so I can start planning. I’m coming in January

Goke7:
It's not a bad advice pls, folks are making unnecessary mistakes and getting refusal so you want people to keep getting denied?

I have said my own. Just concerned about the money people are spending and still getting refused. There are credible agencies out there that people can consult and get sorted. The kind of questions people are asking here shows they need help.

ndidibabe:
Are jobs available?

Gracious13:
@justwise and other gurus in the house... I want to ask on behalf of my brother in law...

He applied for a visit visa in 2017 and he was marriage certificate to someone else then ... Unfortunately for him, he wasn't granted visa due to some financial purposes (Unexplained Source bla bla)

He applied for student visa (Sept intake) and he got the visa already , when he was applying he was divorced, so his marital status on his visa application form was (Divorced)
He got his visa On the 14th of May ... He re-married 2 months after he has gotten his visa (July 2021)

He's actually in the UK now and he wants to apply for his wife to join him as dependant

The questions are:
1) is it important for his wife to include his husband divorce letter in her application?
2) Does the husband have to write any letter of explanation to the visa officer with his wife's application?
3) Does he have to inform the school his wife will be coming to UK as his dependant?


if there's any other documents to be uploaded with the application .. kindly help me


Thanks

mescanayo:
Nice explanation.
Pls Compare Uni Aberdeen and Bradford...
Pls in terms of student work, and probably school system or general.
Pls sir.

Aikayval:
Okay thanks for your response!
Another question pls, for housing in London , how much should one be looking at monthly? What’s the range? And are there cities around London where i can get cheaper rent ?

Aikayval:
But which city is then cheap to live?

keemo:
i think with my wife we will be able to work cos i still have to pay my 50% tuition and also considering the finances for the visa application also i can only afford for my wife at the moment. I hope applying for my wife alone wont raise a red flag? @justwise

keemo:
@justwise and other gurus please i am in the uk already but my family is still in Nigeria . Can i apply for my wife alone now while i apply for the kids later? thank you

ndidibabe:
How was life in Portsmouth?

sniperaz:
Oga, people have very different realities and experiences.

I've moved to the UK as a:

1. Being Single
2. Being Married with just partner
3. Being Married with a partner and child - (son)

I can tell for for a fact that the experiences are all very completely different and the hardest one was moving with my partner and a child. Even with my early on experiences in the UK, i still struggled greatly.
It got so bad I moved my family from Sheffield to Newcastle due to accommodation problems. This is even after a landlord kicked us out of the house because other people complained that the baby was not letting them sleep at night.
In case you're not aware, some landlords have instructed agents not to let out their properties to families with young children. Already it is difficult to get accommodation as a foreign student, now imagine a foreign student with a family...

I will not advice paying more to get accm, but if thats what you have to do to get your family sorted out, by all means do it.

OlaofPlymouth:
Please house, I’m stranded out in the cold In since 2days, any one that knows someone that wants a house mate, flat mate or room mate in Plymouth should please connect me this cold is freezing.

OlaofPlymouth:
Please house, I’m stranded out in the cold In since 2days, any one that knows someone that wants a house mate, flat mate or room mate in Plymouth should please connect me this cold is freezing.

Dammyope126:
@Justwise and all, I was the one who that shared my refusal letter some weeks back. I got very useful advice from here. At a point I wanted to give up but God came through. Got a new CAS and re-applied, decision came out positive in 7days. Thanks to everyone and particularly those that suggested I apply for a new CAS rather than AR.

All Glory to God Almighty.

humblemoi:
This is totally true. People need to be more strategic about moving otherwise undue desperation sets in. Offering to pay more for accommodation pcm not even deposit? Naah

Tolvin:
I wouldn't advise you to use one in my opinion. Get the required funds in a bank account then when you get to the university, you can present your loan to them.

Babababy:
Any reasonable person currently looking for accommodation in the UK at the moment would obviously understand the urgency, a lot of people have posted issues about getting accomodation. UK currently has a surge in obtaining accomodation and you are here telling people about conditions that exist 10 years ago.

A student lands in the UK and spends two months in an Air BnB looking for suitable accomodation, meanwhile spending cash paying for alternate accomodation, but you are here saying people should offer lower than the advertised price, you think I want to pay more, like are you joking or something .
If accomodation was easy then why are people complaining about it.

Jack of all trades and master of none, no human has knowlegede on everything, we learn everyday and people grow by accepting their deficiencies. I have posted an agency page asking for offers and you are still here arguing about what I dont know.

The only reason I posted it is to help people with large families obtain accomodation faster, imagine a family of five paying for hotel accomodation for two months, imagine what they can do with that money instead.I met a family in Newcastle , they have been staying at an Airbnb for 5 weeks, the man was depressed. No one expects you justwise to have knowledge on everything, and when you encounter issues that you have less knowledge about, then try and learn from it, and not just start arguing blindly because you dont want to feel limited . A lot of people here are looking up to you for guidance , ego tripping is not helpful to anyone.

There is a current accomodation crisis in the UK and getting accomodation is hard at the moment, if you dont know then ask. People are struggling to get accomodation, people are bidding to get accomodation, do you think I have money to throw away by making an offer? I really dont undertand what you going on about.

The whole point of this place is to get direction on how to navigate current issues that effects schooling in the Uk,I know at least 4 people that made the same move as I did, and they are setteled now, after spending weeks in hotels looking for accomodation.

The United Kingdom opened up PSW and they have more applications this year than they ever had, there is three times more applications than they had last year, three times more people looking for accomodation, and obviously it has affected the real estate industry. Oga ,its not rocket science. sometimes I struggle to understand you.

Enraf:
The requirements is 28 days before submitting your application. Immediately you biometric is submitted at the VAC you are free to Utilize the money in that account.

Enraf:
Thank you @justwise I will keep you updated on this as things develops. I don’t have any doubts about the genuineness of the Agent and the landlord and the suitability of the house because I have a relative checked it up properly before payment was made. I will try to negotiate a suspension of rent pending when we are able to collect the key to the apartment.
Thank you

Venerable612:
If you didn’t identify that you are married on your Visa application- and her name isn’t on your application before you obtained the visa - you can’t bring her in as a dependent.

timojerry:
Good evening esteemed people

Please I just need clarification again. I know it's been said here but we've been getting conflicting information from outside

I've got kids all under 8 and they are my dependants travelling to England. Are my kids supposed to do the PCR test before they travel or it's when we've arrived that they are suppose to do the days 2 and 8 test.

I've read on the gov.uk site that kids under 11 don't need to do the test unless they are over 11 but I'm being told now that it depends on the airline that we book

Please those who have gone with their families and those who've got more knowledge on this, can you kindly help? I've already booked pre travel test for just me and my Mrs.

@justwise and everybody please, it's urgent

Thank you

Children
Children aged 10 and under do not need to take a pre-departure test to travel to England

Funmiladey:
I've been a silent reader for some time now, please can anyone enlighten me,what documents will be needed and the routine to go through if you want to apply as a dependant while the spouse is already in the UK.

Enraf:
£850 pcm
Yes I got a tenancy agreement

Tolvin:
Hi Guys, please how long does it take to receive IHS refund from UKVI after visa refusal? I received a decision letter on August 2nd and it's been over 7 weeks already. I have sent series of paid emails to them and they've not responded.

cc @justwise and others

fasa199:
@justwise

Please I intend applying next year to resume September and my international passport expires in December next year too. Do I need a new passport or I can proceed with the old one?

Enraf:
I need an advise urgently here. I have paid for an apartment for me and my family and rent has started to count meanwhile we are still here waiting for the visa and passport. I had thought we would get decision by 10th of September based on priority but now nothing nothing.
What are the options? Can I ask the landlord to suspend the rent counting for now? How do you think that could play out. I am also wary of the losing the apartment I know the kind work done to get the place. The rent has started to count from last week

Loveonthebrain:
What can i do in a case like this cause i have no clue. And i was going over sample refusal letters from online. Mine looks a bit different because the person that issued the refusal letter, signed his initials on it. The refusal letters i have seen posted have no signed initials. I'm so pained.

Juwon01:
Hi guys
Good evening everyone. I’m a silent reader on here but soon I’ll be coming to drop my testimony too. Please my husband changed his surname but he has his old surname on his international passport. Do we have to do a new passport of could he swear an affidavit to show he bears the previous surname?
I await favorable replies. Thank you so much guys.

Babababy:
The name of the form is make an offer form and not desperation form .

Babababy:
I am guessing you dont understand how making an offer works when trying to rent a place. I have attached a screen shot below , the agency name is https://secure.rentmyhome.co.uk/offers/5403 ,when you see a property you are interested in, you make an offer through them directly to the landlord and wait for a response. In this case the let was £875 and we made an offer of £950 and then you wait for a response.Several other people would also make offers at same time.

Thats exactly what I said, hope you get it now.