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Alore:
The gurus in the house - especially justwise and ekpotek; may God bless you so generously for your priceless assistance here.

Kindly spare a thought for me on this:
1. I had no plan of a UK travel this year at all; but I got an invite to the UK for an immigration briefing towards a possible permanent stay in another country .
2. Due to its suddenness, the only way is to get a loan to fund my travel which will definitely show up in my acct statments.
3. I want to apply for a 3 day visit using the super priority process because the conference date is just next week - that's about 530k.
4. Can I honestly explain the bulk deposit that will show up in my acct that I borrowed it because the invitation came at very short notice?
5. My monthly salary is up to 500k from a permanent employment, though my expense monthly is as much! I only have savings of about 1m in a cooperative & pension of about 11m. Would submitting their statements count positively for me?
6. I intend to manage my expenses by staying with a relative in UK and staying for just 3 days. Will a budget of about N600k fly for me?
7. I'm married with children. I have only travelled to one Schengen country once and twice to a neighbouring West African country.

Thank you for your time as I humbly await your advice and counsel.

Youngee34:
Thank you so much sir, God bless you for your help.

But I've been searching and applying to all the companies I know, its not been successful, most of them require me to be in uk before even application.

What I really think I should do is to get the visa first and get there and find a suitable place to apply for internship or even do a voluntary work.
But I really want to know the chances of me getting visa if I do this, and also is it still visiting visa I should apply for or tourist?
And also want to visit my brother and my mum.
I will be sponsored by my uncle I'm living with in Nigeria, whom we both share the same surname.

Please I really need help...THANK YOU SO MUCH SIR

justi4jesu:
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Endlessgrace:
I just stumbled on this thread and it kept me entertained for about 2hrs. Asking people to stay clear of Uk because of its unattractive immigration path is not being objective. I came down to the UK about 6 months ago and i knew what i was getting into before i made that decision, did all my research and still went ahead (Justwise, remember me?). My first job here is with an insurance company that is also a tier2 sponsor and 4 months after got another job with an ad company that has offered me a full time job upon completion of my Msc. Its not all gloomy as we paint it, i did my research thoroughly, applied for a course where I already have years of work experience in Nigeria and started applying to tier 2 sponsors (even for part time job) immediately i got here. This is to help someone that its not all gloomy as its being painted, you’ve got to be focused and work your butt off, trust me my daily life is not a walk in the park but i push because i had a goal from the onset and no nay-sayer is going to deter me and that is yielding good results.
Ire ooo.

LaudableXX:
This thread was earlier locked by Justwise, but he later re-opened it so that one of his acolytes could share his experience, which falls into the 2% bracket, cited by other respondents. It doesn't matter. It still does not change the fact that the UK is a bad choice for students who wish to study and acquire work experience, after their studies. The UK policies are quite clear on that. All this attempt to whitewash the current reality isn't going to work. There are better alternatives for international students, in other foreign countries outside the UK.

Youngee34:
Hello everybody, I am really grateful to you guys for this amazing platform. May God bless you all.

Please I have some issues as well.

I'm a 400 level Engineering student of University of Lagos.
We are obligated to do 6months industrial Training(Internship) second semester starting from may.

Due to the fact that my mum stays in UK and my brother is doing his masters there, I want to do my internship in uk, since accommodation or welfare might not be a problem.

But now, the problems I have now is i don't know how to go about it.

Please can anyone just give me a good advice.

My brother is ready to write me an invitation letter, but I still need to know the necessary steps required so as to guarantee my chances of doing my internship there.

Thanks in anticipation

dserious:
@Justwise, kudos for the great work moderating these threads. However, i would say this insane request for PMs is partly your fault. I remember back in 2014 when you started banning people from sharing info freely on the US thread. You stated that "agents" were taking advantage and making money off nairaland. This may be true but unfortunately, hoarding of information will only encourage more PMs.

Right now, when nairalanders come here for info and they dont get it, they quietly PM people with experience. The information is shared offline. Even the so-called agents contact experienced people from nairaland to get information. That same info is now sold to helpless nairalanders who desperately needs the info. This thread is not growing, naiaralanders are not getting info easily and the agents are making a lot of money off nairalanders. Your customers are now the victims. There are several of those agents everywhere now, I even saw one of them on instagram, advertising burden of proof - Phema/Nairaland proprietary document

So brotherly, the summary of my long epistle is for you to allow people freely share info here on nairaland.....doctor, hospital, accomodation everything should be here. You would be amazed how many agents come on this thread...when we ask questions here and no one answers, they pm us and offer the information to us at a price...

When you started this thing in 2014, the US thread slowed down for a while, it picked up because of the large number of people going to US to give birth....this your initiative will definitely stifle a small population thread like this..

Lemme go and drink water to cool down my anger jor......

Jplannet:
Please gurus in the house help me..i applied for visitors visa using PRIORITY service on the 21st of February, did biometrics on the 23rd of February and up till now I have not gotten my passport.i complained to tls via mail,they sent me a link to contact ukvi of which I did call ukvi and they told me a decision has been made since 1st of march.A friend of mine who did his biometrics on the 28th of February has gotten his passport 2 days ago and decision was made on the 2nd of march.my question is what do I do cos i dont know whats going on.thank you

Teegal215:
Hi All. I submitted my UK visit visa application (2years priority) at Ikeja . I was surprised to receive a mail from Sheffield that my application has been received by them. I thought all priority visit visas are treated in Lagos. Is this normal?

mcnero:
Hello Gurus in the house..@justwise and other good fellow...

Pls guys I need your help, I have completed d application form and also paid our (me & my wife) visa fees. We were directed to create an account with TLScontact which i did for both..

The question is how do I combined the application for both me and my wife...

Your good advises will really be appreciated...

Good Morning Uncle Seun (Nairaland),

Please why was this thread closed?

https://www.nairaland.com/4361854/nigerians-leave-uk-united-kingdom


There are many more controversial topics and images on nairaland.
Why is someone who claims to have admin rights trying hard to oppress some of us here?
This is cyber bullying!!!
I did not request closure...

It is stated and I quote
"Disclaimer: Every Nairaland member is solely responsible for anything that he/she posts or uploads on Nairaland."

This is were many Nigerians express their thoughts, opinions and REAL LIFE experiences.
Why should there be exceptions because somebody's ego is larger than life?

That person is into travel and assisting people go to school abroad. The person gets paid from it. That is why HE ensured the closure of my thread.

This is certainly not the nairaland I know...

If you can allow this kind of oppression to happen here where most people are anonymous, then there is a real problem...

mcnero:
hello Gurus in the house.@justwise and others...thanks for the good work here.

I tried booking an appointment for me and wify at VI center, i discovered that there is extra charges of 80USD added to the 129USD for a standard visa which now result to 210USD. as for the ikeja application center, no extra charge attach.

can someone pls explain this if they experienced same?

iyaaliyah:
Yesss, yess, visa granted! Thank you guys. Special thanks to @ekpotek @justwise. I appreciate. Special special thanks to God, hard work + his favour. Thanks guys.

akfaa:
Thanks to everyone that answered this question I posted. I contacted my bank in the UK and they stated that they will neither stamp the bank statements nor provide a letter of authenticity. I would have collected my ad hoc statement but I am in Nigeria now. Is there any suggestion on what else to do?

Okoloba:
No.As stated earlier the decision to use the visa for childbirth was taken after the visa was issued and owing to what may be termed as misrepresentation informed my seeking advice from the forum.

akfaa:
I recently completed my MSc in the UK in November 2017. I was offered a studentship at another university in the UK for my PhD and I am hoping to start on May. My husband and son are applying as dependants so we need to have maintenance money for them as the studentship does not cover this. The maintenance money is in my UK account which I opened while I was in the UK. My questions are these
1. Can I use this UK account? The account is in my name but my tier 4 visa expired in January
2. Can I print an online statement and request a letter of authenticity from the bank, this is allowed under the UKVI policy, but is there any one who has done this and was successful?
3. Can I submit a stamped statement from the bank (which will be a scanned copy)

I am not very sure how to go about this. Pls I need your advice.

Thank you.

Chibuking81:
Please friends am looking for my daughter, she is 3 years ten months old. ( born on 4th May 2014)

Please if you come across someone that looks like her in any part of Nigeria, please notify me.

Her name is Chibugo Faustina Chibueze.

She know her name and School.

Her school name is Gospel international school Ahoada. She was on low cut on that 28th February 2018, been Wednesday, the incident took place.

It all happened on the 28th morning as she was going to school, her mother, that is my wife dropped her and her senior brother near the school compound as usual and left them, then at the entrance of their school compound, unknown man on black eye glasses stopped both of them.
He gave the senior brother money to go and buy biscuit, on returning back, he didn't see his sister and the man.
Today makes it four days we are looking for her.

Please should in case your neighbour buy a girl of that age in the name of adoption, please help me look at her properly, even in the motherless baby's home, if you see any resemblance like her please notify me.
I really need your assistance, I strongly believed that Almighty God will bring her back to me alive. Please share her picture on any available social media, until it get to those she is in their custody, and they will willingly send her back to me. I know that My God will do it.
My contact address is, St Peter Catholic Church Ahoada. Ahoada East Local Government Area, Rivers state.
Or call this number: 07064299061.
Please pray for my daughter Chibugo Faustina Chibueze, to be release, and return back to me.
As far as God Almighty live, I believe that he will in his infinity mercy return back my daughter to me soon, I pray in Jesus Christ name, Amen. Please pray for her.
Attached, are her pictures

Okoloba:
Hi Friends,
New on this great group.I kindly need advice.My wife and I just renewed our B1/B2 visas via drop box and have decided to go for childbirth. We have all the correspondences with the doctor which we obtained after the visa was issued and will receive a formal acceptance letter from the doctor after he would have received from our Nigerian doctor DW's medical history. We intend to pay our medical bills on receipt of the invoice from the doctor before travelling out.Accommodation is settled. However in view of the repeated counsel on this group that it is preferable to have a medical visa for birthing we are thinking of making a fresh visa application for a medical visa but the interview date may well be after our intended date of travel and DH maybe ineligible to travel due to closeness to EDD. It is said that an interview date may be expedited with genuine reasons? The alternative is to as some of us have done send change of intent letter before trip ,tell the truth at POE with all burden of proof and expect a favourable discretionary entry.
Kindly advise.
Thank you
I hasten to add that DH n DW both work in Nigeria n have sufficient ties to the country with other kids.

chilove02:
Hello All,

My apologies if I am not posting at the correct thread.
Please all I want is help from the honourable members of this powerful forum.

I got my leave to remain in April 2013(2 and half years) which expired in October 2015. I applied for a renewal 28days before the expiration of the 1st one and H/0 approved it but then it started in December 2015 to June 2018(2nd 2 and half years). So there was a gap between the expiration of the old one and the start of the new one. Now the rule is that I have to complete 5years on that route before I can apply for indefinite Leave to Remain. I forgot to mention that I am on the 5years family route(Parent of a British citizen).

I would be 5years in April 2018 counting from the 1st day my first visa commenced but because of the gap between my two visa's that now pushed the expiration of the 2nd card to June 2018.

My question is when am I truly supposed to apply for indefinite Leave, do I have to wait for 28days before the expiration of the 2nd visa which is in May or am I eligible to apply by APRIL 2018.

I dont know if I make sense with my tales.

Please I am calling on all the gurus in the house to come to my rescue.

Thank you all.