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Zahra29:
It only impacts foreign workers, not those on family visas for example.

It's very likely to impact all skilled workers who haven't already applied for ILR.

It won't be retrospective on those who already achieved ILR after 5yrs or those who apply for ILR before the changes come into effect.

The govt made a similar change to the ILR qualification period in 2006, increasing it from 4 years to 5 years and people on HSMP ( the former highly skilled visa) had to get a visa extension of 1 year to achieve the new 5 year requirement.

Incidentally, it was also a Labour government that voted in and implemented this change.

Asking because I know people who are yet to apply as they are waiting to be eligible or save the money required. So this changes will hit many families badly.

Lexusgs430:
Settled status was 5 years, Kemi suggested 20 years, Keir is implementing 10 years..... Slowly, slowly..... They would get to 20 years....

Once they throw conversations in the air, not too long after, implementation occurs.....

Still waiting for the full details..will this affect new applicants or those already in the UK.

Cyberknight:
Somewhat bizarre, I agree, but we'll find out the details of the government's planning tomorrow. The government will probably have to bail out some of the universities, like the Scottish government did with Dundee. We'll know tomorrow if they've made the political decision to absorb a quantum of job losses in the university sector and the potential loss of votes from that sector and the communities they support in order to try and win some votes from possible Reform voters.

More of interest to those of us on visas is the proposed extension of ILR eligibility to 10 years, except for those the government deems useful to the country. Intended to head off the so-called Boriswave from gaining ILR in 2026. Most likely NHS doctors, nurses, IT folk et all will make the cut, care workers obviously not. All will still have to be legislated and worked out, but it'll definitely all be in place by early 26 at the latest to nip the Boriswave in the bud.

Interesting times ahead. Plans B, C and D beckon.

Totally agree with you regarding bailing out some universities and it will not be a one off thing, the government has to do it yearly else some universities will have to close down.

It will be really sad to introduce any policy that will affect those close to achieving ILR . Families already struggling to raise money for visa extensions so the last thing they need is more yrs added to that.

Zahra29:
I'm thinking they might not bother with any PSW changes afterall as their plans to scrap visas for low skilled work sort of achieves the same purpose after the 2 year period. We'll see tomorrow

This is just knee jerk reaction by the government and it will backfire because the UK needs low skilled workers and they need foreign students badly, cutting off any of these will comeback to hurt the British economy.

If they bothered to interview visa applicants then immigration figures will drop.

Zahra29:
I'm surprised that Labour is allegedly proposing to make changes to the PSW route when that is pretty much the one area that the Tories left alone in their immigration reforms.

We'll get the full deets tomorrow but I hear that the PSW may be extended from 2 to 3 years. However, reports are that it will also be restricted to graduate level jobs - so a bit of a mixed picture.

It should be good news for students though if they have an extra year to explore post-study opportunities.

That makes things even more difficult, how will that work? They need to get the job first then apply for PSW? Interesting time ahead...universities are about to face a serious hard time financially

Zahra29:
A big day for Labour tomorrow with their Immigration White Paper expected to announce a raft of tough new measures on immigration.

Other reported measures include changes to the PSW route, changes to the ILR route for some migrants and visa restrictions for some countries.

Labour sounding more like the Tories/Reform but they insist that these changes were already on the table before their local election defeat and that it's not just a ploy to win back voters.

That will hit universities harder, they are struggling already.

bigtt76:
Yes, thats correct. They have a mobile app too

Thanks..yes i downloaded it already

Lanruze:
Which shoe my brother.

I major in this subject as a first degree to Msc and currently PhD.

If it his calling let him get proper tutilage and education on activism.

They pleaded off the radar for his release from the EFCC chairman and he came out and in less than 48 hours warning them on what allegations to level against him.

People like you na him go lead am into fire.

From who?

bigtt76:
I had the account with them before I relocated but I think if you download their app you should be able to register an account with them. I wasn't in Nigeria when I got the account. Good thing is you get a virtual account you can transfer funds into and it updates real-time.

Ok, is this their website ? https://www.arm.com.ng/

OMEGA009:
This e-diot doesn’t still know the meaning of “alleged”. The EFCC can post your picture as long as it has alleged before any crime and you’re being charged with that crime in court. He didn’t even say a single thank you to his useless fans who risked life and limb to protest his release, he’s busy chest beating and proposing friendship to an organization that he has insulted time and over again. Anyways, like I’ve said before, VDM is a butterfly that thinks it’s a bird.

He did, he dedicated more than 30mins for that a lone. I know his haters like you are blinded to any good thing he does.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jiif2bKyXr8&ab_channel=VERYDARKBLACKMAN

HomoDroid:
Na so e dey take start. If you have all the time and energy to fight a Govt Agemcy, why not invest same energy to lift the underprivileged up, one by one? [b]Govt no be anybody's mate o! (2Cent, 2027 release)

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Why not do 1mint research about charities VDM does daily before typing this? VDM gives out millions to the youth to skill-up and you are here talking out of ignorant

bigtt76:
Ha 😳 10k every week? Sounds good really. I do mutual funds (money market funds) with ARM (any other funds manager also that offer such) and I think they offer more.

Did you do that from here through the bank app?

liftmeGod:
Please what is tuition fees for Post graduate in ARU university anglia Ruskin university

How much is deposit
Any scholarship
Payments plan

Please I need urgent information on this , because am currently applying online for Master

Have you visited the university website or contact the school?

Goke7:
The MAGA gang has said he’s a woke Marxist pope 😂. werey people dem

They also cried that he did not speak English language in his first address..they are now digging up his previous posts against Trump and Vance.

Zahra29:
What an eventful, memorable day! 🎉

- New Pope 🙌 ( First American!! Trump will be thrilled 😄)
- New trade agreement with America
- 80th year VE celebrations

Ignorantly though as the new Pope Leo XIV stands against almost all Trump stands for

oloyemeji:
Please which account number university of hull london
they use? i got this from the agent CEG UFP Ltd T/A CEG Campus Services

Contact Hull University through this email finance-online@hull.ac.uk to verify that bank statement

https://online.hull.ac.uk/how-to-pay

Pleat:
Not trying to spread unnecessary fear I’m just expressing myself.

Does anyone else double-doubt this whole schooling thing ?

After calculating my proof of funds today, I just froze. Sixty million? but my mind still spiraled into all sorts of thoughts like:

What if it doesn’t go as planned? What if I make this huge sacrifice and it doesn’t work out?

It’s not that I’m giving up I’m just overwhelmed.

Has anyone else felt this way? How did you manage to calm yourself down and stay focused?

Do you have that amount in your bank account right now?

Lanruze:
Not the gestapo style but the timing of the arrest.

VDM was already carried away and started playing "god" with his SM followership and platform.

Once he comes for you even without thorough investigation you are finished and once you are in his good books you are his followers toast.

Visits the social media pages of Nedu Wazobia, Reuben Abati (PhD), Abike Dabiri after he lashed out on them. Some are yet to fully recover.

Let him too see how sweet it feels to call people out.

So because he went after some people verbally and apparently some of them wrote a petition against him...he deserves the way they are treating him? Has Dee-one been arrested for all the insults and false allegations thrown against VDM?

VDM has not stollen from anyone, has not physically attacked anyone but have used his money to help the youth and communities more than ANY elected official anywhere in Nigeria.

They arrested him, locked up without charges or explanation regarding his offences.

The day VDM happens to you or you loved ones you have no moral right to complain.

Lanruze:
Dear EFCC,

I like the way you have handled this VDM case.

I am not a lawyer, but belong to the 1% analytical, objective and logical few that sees the need for the arrest of this character irrespective of the agitation and social media uproar.

In the fullness of time majority of those criticizing the EFCC would fully grasp the essence and signal of VDMs ordeal.


Irrespective of it's politicisation we see a generational correction that has been enforced and signals that elders need to be respected and restraint needs to be applied in public utterances.

Weldone EFCC and God bless you.

You like the way they arrested him with guns and face cover? Beat, collect his phone and password? Locked him up for days without charge or clear official statements?

Do you also like the way they handled Yaya Bello case?

Not a good offer if he really want them to leave

The US government is offering migrants who are in the country illegally a sum worth $1,000 (£751) and paid travel if they decide to leave the US.

"Self-deportation is the best, safest and most cost-effective way to leave the United States to avoid arrest," Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in Monday's announcement.

Those who take up the offer could one day be offered a legal pathway to return to the US, Trump told reporters the same day.

Since returning to office in January, the president has launched a major crackdown on illegal immigration - at times relying on controversial tactics such as the invocation of a centuries-old wartime law. Some moves have faced legal challenges.

Those who signed up for the "self-deportation" financial incentive would not be prioritised for detention by immigration officials, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a news release.

The DHS said a first "illegal alien" had already taken up the offer, receiving a ticket for a flight from Chicago to Honduras.

The scheme relies on migrants utilising the CBP Home app, which can be used to confirm that person's return to their home country, officials explained in their release.

They described the offer as a "dignified" route, adding that it would cut the cost of deportations for the DHS. The average cost to arrest, detain, and deport a migrant currently stood at more than $17,000, they said.

Trump himself said the question of whether any given migrant would one day be offered a legal route back to the US was one of national interest.

"We're going to work with them so that maybe someday, with a little work, they can come back in if they're good people, if they're the kind of people that we want in our [country]," he told reporters.

The plan has also faced criticism. Adriano Espaillat, a Dominican-American congressman for the Democratic Party, wrote on X: "We don't bribe people to leave. We build a country where everyone belongs."

The president and his allies have touted their track record on immigration after three months in office, highlighting the fact that illegal crossings have dropped.

Border Patrol data showed a record low of just over 7,000 arrests at the US-Mexico border during the month of March.

Trump has also used an increase in detentions inside the country by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to argue that his plan is working.

On the other hand, the administration has so far not managed to deport as many migrants as promised, and courts have blocked Trump's attempts to end birthright citizenship for certain children.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2y02wpz7po

Visa applications from nationalities thought most likely to overstay and claim asylum in the UK could be restricted under a new government crackdown.

Under Home Office plans, first reported in the Times, external, people from countries such as Pakistan, Nigeria and Sri Lanka may find it more difficult to come to the UK to work and study.

Ministers believe there is a particular problem with those who come to the UK legally on work or study visas and then lodge a claim for asylum - which if granted, would allow them to stay in the country permanently.
A Home Office spokesperson said: "Our upcoming Immigration White Paper will set out a comprehensive plan to restore order to our broken immigration system."


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0wd75ne82o

Goodenoch:
What protests or shouts or anything have you done in respect of the country's issues?

Tally them up and list them against what the fellow in question has, and you might see why people are agitated about what happened to him.

I don't follow the guy at all and have a long list of reservations about what and how he does things, but I do know that his advocacy has been helpful for many people.

I follow him and i watch almost all his vidoes, yes some of the things he says and do is not my taste but considering his achievements within 2-3yrs of joining social medial.. i'm ready to overlook his other...side.
This guy fought for people with his money and legal team, paying many youths monthly to learn some skills, opening boreholes around the country, renovating schools, rescusing and returing young girls trafficked outside Nigeria..the list goes on. Why would i not support him?

OgbeniOptional:
I don’t understand how some people think in that country. What has GTB got to do with EFCC arresting someone illegally? Is GTB that stupid knowing how much damage it would do to them? Also, there is no protest or noise in unison about insecurity, none for the terrible economy, a Christian girl was murdered in the North sometime ago, there is no noise in unison but they can shout/protest when a hand touch someone with a name. It is just stupidity in my opinion.

Who is the only one speaking out against the killing going on in the country? VDM is not only speaking out he travelled to those villages last month to see the damage caused and give out money.

wonlasewonimi:
They are all stooopid. These are the distractions deployed every week so that they won't talk about Seyi Tinubu signing all contracts for the military, ministries and parastatals.

The last video VDM did before going to the bank with his mother was about Seyi and allegation of abduction and torture by student union president.

Lexusgs430:
Many ratels/youths, wants to see the end of GTB.......

GTB, needs to handle this matter with caution...... 😉⚠️

They went into damage control mode..releasing half barked CCTV in order to distance themselves…too late though

wonlasewonimi:
is it because of verydarkman?

Yes and other issues I have been having then VDM issues reinforced it.

Magnumproperty:
Naaaa you dey play no be me. Who be VDM? Make I ask you between Nnamdi Kanu and VDM who get mouth pass, who get followers pass? Who get sponsors pass? Who is braver? Answer those questions first. I wan see something

VDM is more relevant than any elected official anywhere in Nigeria....I'm not surprised that he got arrested by EFCC though because he called them out many times for their corruption. Next week VDM will be out and continue where he stopped. They will not shut him up...he will say even more and more arrest are loading...

Lexusgs430:
When BVN was originally launched, NIN number was generated.... Those generated NIN numbers, are no longer valid.....

Oh ok!..i got my NIN last yr and linked it to BVN

Lexusgs430:
Assuming your NIN & BVN, don't require any form of updating.......

Alat, by Wema would serve you nicely....... 😁😂👌

Branch is also very good, but they have regional lockdown on app availability and hate for apk installation........ 😁

What sort of updating does NIN & BVN need? Never knew that they need updating

Any Nigerian bank account one can open from here without having to travel home? The traditional ones are requesting for a lot of documentation… don’t want to repeat the process I went through with GTBank.

Wants to remove my money from GTBANK completely.