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Ishilove:
Your boyfriend is a wise person. An elaborate wedding doesn't guarantee a successfully marriage, case in point the 1980 wedding of Prince Charles and Diana. Over 1 billion people tuned in to watch the wedding ceremony, Lady Di wore a gown that cost the budget of a small country, world leaders attended etc

Today where are they? Charles is with Camilla and Di is 6ft under.

My point is this: if your man wants a small wedding then compromises. Forget all these 'once in lifetime event so it must be elaborate' nonsense. Wedding and marriage are very different, and you should focus on the forever after, not one day owambe.

In addition, God steps into a marriage the day brideprice is paid, the rest are just ceremony. In short,you can imagine my shock the day my mum told me that in our hometown, once a woman's brideprice is paid she moves in with her husband. The wedding day is the day brideprice is paid and other traditional rites are performed. No elaborate ceremony of unnecessary noise making.

She says it is when she came to Lagos that she heard of 'traditional wedding and church wedding'.

My pastor always sounds it in our ears to get married traditionally and in court (to protect the woman legally). Leave church wedding because all that is just NOISE.

spikesC:
I met just one in the Engineering department. Hopefully we'll saturate that place before I get back


You've always been proactive in advising students to take up any internship no matter the pay. What happened

spikesC:
I worked at Facebook. Never say never

spikesC:


This our oga self

http://www.btgraduates.com/our-programmes/uk-internships/rewards-and-benefits/

[url]https://www.glassdoor.com/Intern-Salary/Facebook-London-Internship-Salary-EI_IE40772.0,8_IL.9,15_IM1035.htm?filter.jobTitleFTS=Software+Engineer[/url]

You can search on glassdoor or I can keep posting links all day

EZAKY:
Hello all, update on my settlement visa,
March 9th application submitted online
March 11th 2016 Biometric
May 25th a not straight forward email
Afterwards long silence, by june and july , my hubby and i started calling them, and did various escalations
in july escalation reply came that they were still working on it
August 12th my hubby wrote to the MP
MP called him two days later that they have contacted home office on our behalf,
August 22nd MP wrote to my hubby with home office response that the application is on active consideration and they were still checking our financial and personal circumstance. ( note no interview was done and no additinal documents were requested)
Sept 10th got an email from UKBI that a decision has been made
Another email from TLS on the 15th that passport is ready for collection
picked up same day
VISA GRANTED... yippee, i cant thank God enough
personally i think they forgot they forgot about my application but the good thing is regardless of that in the end it worked out for my good
Total wait plus weekends and holidays 7 months, total work days excluding weekends and holiday 130 days or thereabout
it was a long and stressful wait, but it ended in praise.
Habakkuk 2 :3 is the scripture that sums it up.

Benz101:
@justwise, yes the tenancy agreement is in my name and the council tax in my flat mate's name for student exemption. will it be wise to pay it? that will be pocket draining chai..

AdaNewbie1290:
What is going to be the content of this letter? Are you trying to tell the ECO that you forgot your own marital status? AM not comfortable with the letter but hey, it's your choice. Sometimes it's good not to complicate issues for yourself. Once an ECO begins to have doubts about a particular application, they begin to scrutinize every single thing, even the unnecessary ones. I don't know if people write "divorcee" in their marriage certificate in Nigeria. But then again, what do I know. I may be wrong. All the best.

Benz101:
My greetings to All,

I am new here and got to this forum thanks to google. What great job all are doing in helping others. it's really awesome. I hope to get help here too. My problem is I live in a shared flat (2bedroom flat) with a student, and we registered his name with the council to avoid paying the council tax. I m in the process of applying for my husband's visa (spouse visa), I want to ask, do the ECO check if I pay council tax that is if I do not submit any letter from council as proof of address? I have other proof of address that I can use. my coucil tax is approx.£162pcm which is high for me to pay even when I get the 25% discount. I need your candid advise.

jude2rome:
Hello everyone.
This forum as been very informative for me after reading from the very page 1 to 198. All thanks to the gurus such as justwise, portsmouth86, lexusgs430 and a lot of others (pls don't be offended if your id is not mentioned). It took 6 days of careful eading and jotting of relevant info as if I was sitting for an examination. This really made it very easy for me to gather all documents required to file for my wife's settlement visa. However, I have an issue which to me, on a good day, is not meant to be an issue. The gist is:

I'm divorced, and got married in lagos - court, traditional and church marriages respectively. the issue I am having is that, on our court marriage certificate, my status was put down as Bachelor prior to the court wedding instead of divorcee. I own up to this mistake as I may have indicated Bachelor on the form when I completed it. A friend of a friend's wife settlement visa was denied because of this mistake, and he was informed by HO that his passport will be taken from him as they view his previous marriage as sham. Now, I have informed my wife to correct this mistake with the registry where we wedded. The person that wedded us has requested that my wife should see her. They also asked my in-law (who is helping us with the correction) if the embassy has seen the current marriage certificate, which they were told no. I do know that HO keep record of documents submitted. My wife had previously applied for visit visa three twice with the certificate and was refused visit visa base on other reasons, and not because of my status on the marriage certificate. I have advised my wife to be truthful by telling the registry that the embassy have seen the marriage certificate before. Now, they are making the whole thing to seem complicated as they are saying that if the embassy has seen this certificate, that there is not point of issuing another, instead they will write a letter addressing the mistake. I just want to ask will writing this letter be appropriate? We don't know what the content of the letter will be.In my opinion, it's meant to be correction of details where we apply for the correction of details, and they follow the process of issuing another marriage certificate with a letter advising the reason if need be. What do you think?

I read about some people asking what is been asked if you are to be interviewd. I came across this blog which I believe with help someone.
http://ukvisauk..co.uk/

spikesC:
The university would assist by sending job ads to you. They also organise job fairs with companies. But the surest way is to find one yourself



Yes, mine is very different so I wouldn't know much on standard placement pay. When I did my research, I found that top companies pay around 18k to 25k

lightheart:
Somebody that's not the real owner of the pictures? I'm sure there'll be real facts to back up such claim.

Or somebody that knows the real owner of the pictures, is what I was thinking of.

It is well. More wisdom to 'em damsels-in-waiting.

marauka:
Waow...its OK if that's the case. I don't need to over stress myself if that's the case. I would rather go for my one year and proceed in my career progression through other means. I want to use this medium to thank everyone justwise, spike c, Bourne ccsspatrick et all. I love you all.

lightheart:
Let's assume for a minute that those pictures are not that of the scammer. If she now takes it down, as most are advising, how will the real owner of the picture know his pictures are being used to hoodwink ladies?

marauka:
No justwise I can still change in UK and continue my studies buh when my visa expires, I would need to exit, get a new cas, pay the work placement fees and be issued a new visa just like spikec said or I can write school officially from here, get a new Cas and process a new visa to cover for the two years . Because my resumption is close, lemme get to UK and take it from there. Meanwhile I asked a question, who knows about their work placement? Is it something you can advice me to go for despite the additional cost that comes with it? Do you think I should take it or leave it?

chyima:
The same face but different cloth,I think so the believer connects

chyima:
Not at all,stopped giving him listening ear when he told me his mum wasn't feeling okay and I should support him ,the guy now blocked me

chyima:
Finally finally ,praise U 've been exposed,so u still do this ur scam,met this guy on believer connects chai,thank God I didn't go too far with you.
He was just too perfect to a fault,you must rot in hell with ur cartel,shameful death befall u

Babzilla:
You are really really dumb.
There is this chic with very huge boobs and people have used her pix to try and scam people I know. In fact I have seen her pics being used on facebook and badoo. So does that mean the real owner is guilty? SMH

marauka:
For the purpose of benefit to others coming after me, I wish to state that I placed a call to my school today concerning the issue i raised yesterday over work placement and extension of my visa, the school aligned itself with the submission of spicke c. They said that the decision to follow the one year placement should be done at the very beginning which is at the point of admission which will thereafter be reflected on my Cas. As I stand now, I either resume, declare interest in the work placement option which they regard as sandwich and later on leave UK to reapply for another one year or I change my admission entirely and forfeit my admission this year and wait till next year. Men and brethren, I am confused. Spike c, what's the work placement usually like? Lemme know if its worth it.

marauka:
Oh dear justwise I just love you

idrisaleo1:
Ok thanks fot the advice. But the truth still remains ban every other illegal suggestion or reinstate mine. And do u knw wat differentiates our leaders from this people, they accept their mistakes and move on , so don't be too big to realize that now. You neva know what u might be aiming at next...peace my oga at the top

spikesC:
Yeah, i know. Unfortunately, they've deemed changing to a sandwich degree as a change of course.
The most basic decision they made is, if you're not progressing to a higher level, you must apply from outside.

To enforce this new rule, my university insisted I must have exited the country and sent a proof that I did (POE stamps) before I would be issued a CAS.

I have attached an excerpt of the email notification sent out by the university.
And also attached the discussion between UKCISA and UKBA. The link is (http://institutions.ukcisa.org.uk/Info-for-universities-colleges--schools/Info--guidance/tier-4-compliance/2016/) and I just noticed you need to be a member to view it.

Izzystevens:
https://www.nairaland.com/2656320/usa-visit-visa-part-2 Pls direct your cousin here. It wld do him/her a whole lot of good.

spikesC:
No he cannot

It is sometimes possible to decide after arriving in the UK to add a work placement to your course. If you add a work placement and, as a result, need to spend longer in the UK, you will have to make another Tier 4 immigration application. The Home Office will treat you as if you are starting a new course so if you apply for your visa on or after 6 April 2016 you will not be able to start your course with a work placement until you have made your new Tier 4 application. You will have to make this application outside the UK because the Home Office says that you do not meet its definition of 'academic progress'. For these reasons, it is important that you discuss adding a work placement with your course provider as early as possible, and some colleges and universities might not be able to offer this option.

http://www.ukcisa.org.uk/Information--Advice/Working/Can-you-work#layer-5430

Tier 4 guidance, paragraph 306

There's also another link but my network is so bad I can't open the attached image in my mail box.

Finally, I am currently in Nigeria to extend my visa because I added a one year work placement.

gleaf:
Ok..thanks! Tho they said she will still go for interview with them packaging her

gleaf:
A cousin of mine wants to travel to US and some agents are offering her two years visa for 500k. I am really concerned, cos i dont trust most of these agents....she doesnt have good bank statement or supporting docs for the visa. How possible is this? They said she will pay when the visa is out...please do i support her move. Thanks

marauka:
I will most likely do so. Especially if I am placed in a good place for work experience why not

marauka:
Hi everyone. Please I need help. I have gotten my visa for one year and four months. At the point I applied for it, I wasn't aware that my course is two years lemme explain the first year is for academics and the second year is for work placement and its optional. Now my question is this, if I wish to go for the second year which is optional, how do I get my visa extended? If its possible to do, will I need to present any bank statement to that effect? Justwise, et al please help me before I leave Nigeria.

BiafraBushBoy:
You didn't understand the guy. in my school, we pay 50,000 per transcript. And if you need to apply to 3 schools, how do you pay 150,000??...

That's why we are looking for a way to get the transcript for Pre Application. So that when admission is successful, we can now pay to get it forwarded to the school in Germany.

Hope you get!!

idrisaleo1:
And will a university issue a transcript without being stamped? It is a must a university stamps transcripts even if it is meant for a vocational group. So advising to send there isn't more illegal than those explaining one should send to where they can get it. In a situation like this, you dont need to be deontological about it, let the end justify the means.