Travel › Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedures Part 6 by Mroriginal: 10:44pm On Jun 08, 2023 |
Hello mama, has the baby's BRP now been successfully applied? Viola2017: Ok. Yes the baby can stay for 6 months but according to her, she was told that the baby has to be in another country before applying for his brb. I will keep us updated if there are any positive changes. They just arrived last week of march |
Travel › Re: Living In The UK: Property,Mortgage And Related by Mroriginal: 10:13pm On Jun 08, 2023 |
Just to avoid repeating what the others have said, it might also be best to hold and spend a little time visiting those countries you guys are considering to live whenever on annual leave or planned short breaks. Just a sample case of Australia - you cant say you are scared of crawling things in Australia if you haven't even been there. Also, Buying a property you might not even like in a place you don't even like/considering leaving might not be the best idea. Although some say its easy to rent out your place while living in another country, i have heard cases of how much of a headache it can be. We are probably on the same boat - a family of 4, however we are planning to leave after naturalization next year. All we do now is just travel to places we would like to live and move when fully ready. ( Pearlyfaze: Good afternoon Elders,
I need advise on certain decisions especially as regards the proposed 8years Skilled Worker Route to ILR. This proposal is currently causing riot in my head. We planned buying a property in the next 4-5 months paying the 25% deposit. But the riot in my head is not letting us arrive at any conclusion. We have options of moving to either Australia (But we Dey fear crawling things), Canada on Work Visa or Ireland but none of this can start fully until my wife finishes her study by first quarter next year.
I know some of my rants here are unrelated but please I want to know what you gurus honestly think. |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Mroriginal: 7:54pm On Jun 07, 2023 |
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Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Mroriginal: 12:54pm On Jun 05, 2023 |
Don't mind them, until one enters USA before they realize there many other paths to greencard. Even if its 10 years, its better than 8 years of micromanaging life fto even add that there is vast difference in middle class household disposable earnings in Aus & U.S in comparison to the UK. hustla: 8 years with betterrrrrr pay and weather, Ill take that without thinking twice
Of which, there are routes for nurses where you can quickly get green card  |
Travel › Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedures Part 6 by Mroriginal: 6:13pm On Apr 23, 2023 |
Hi Mama, were you expressly told by the immigration entry officer at entry that baby can't apply for BRP within the UK? I will be applying shortly for baby BRP once we get back to the UK. When we applied firstly late 2019, we didn't ask anyone at entry we just entered and applied and got baby BRP. feddy27: I'm back to the UK, let's see how it goes...thanks for the heads up |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 2) by Mroriginal: 7:39pm On Apr 09, 2023 |
To add to this, i have also invited parent in-law's with no bank statements from my side and theirs and approved first time. Lexusgs430: If you have a transaction of £200 per month, to the person you're inviting..........
That £200 pcm, stops whilst the person is with you ....... I say again, it's all about the approach........
I invited my parents and in-laws, with less than £100 end balance....... And none of them ever got rejected.......
So I say again.........🤑😁🤣😜 |
Travel › Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedures Part 6 by Mroriginal: 8:11pm On Apr 05, 2023*. Modified: 10:43pm On Jun 08, 2023 |
Hello mama, has the baby's BRP now been successfully applied?. Viola2017: Ok. Yes the baby can stay for 6 months but according to her, she was told that the baby has to be in another country before applying for his brb. I will keep us updated if there are any positive changes. They just arrived last week of march |
Travel › Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedures Part 6 by Mroriginal: 5:17pm On Apr 03, 2023 |
@Feddy27 fyi Viola2017: Please when was this? Someone just came back to Uk with her new born and was told that for the child to get BRB, that they need to apply outside uk. So they are looking at traveling to Nigeria or back to US and then apply for his BRB |
Travel › Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedures Part 6 by Mroriginal: 11:04pm On Apr 01, 2023 |
Hello, this was Oct 2019 and we applied for baby BRP after entry in the UK in Feb 2020. The BRP was issued in the UK. Didthey allow the baby that you said came back to the UK in and for how long? Normally US citizens can enter the UK for 6 months. Viola2017: Please when was this? Someone just came back to Uk with her new born and was told that for the child to get BRB, that they need to apply outside uk. So they are looking at traveling to Nigeria or back to US and then apply for his BRB |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 2) by Mroriginal: 9:32am On Feb 19, 2023 |
Adebayo82: Please can somebody share with me the link to apply for AMEX credit card. |
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Travel › Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedures Part 6 by Mroriginal: 1:29pm On Jan 24, 2023 |
All the best and safe delivery. feddy27: God bless you 😁 you won’t understand the relief this answer brought. I’ve been thinking and searching online but I needed to hear from someone who has a first hand experience. Once baby is here, I want to leave in 2weeks😀 |
Travel › Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedures Part 6 by Mroriginal: 8:59pm On Jan 23, 2023 |
I get your point alot of people i asked also said we needed to apply for the dependent visa before coming back to Uk but we couldn't apply so we just had to come in to apply for the dependent visa and when we got to the immigration, it was no big deal really and the officer stamped us in with no worries. So i guess we all just overthink these stuffs really. feddy27: Oh great 👍 thank you so much ! This brings a lot of clarity. I was worried they would say parents have resident permit and why is newborn coming just with passport . Thank you for this. You are now my guide 😀 |
Travel › Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedures Part 6 by Mroriginal: 2:23pm On Jan 23, 2023 |
Baby came to UK with my wife on US passport as US citizens are are allowed in for 6 months, and then we applied for dependent visa in the UK right after. I think its better to just apply for dependent visa right after baby is back in the UK and not wait till the 6months lapses. feddy27: So good to know I have people on same mission with me😁 6yrs after, back to the thread again. Please did you need to do a dependent visa for the newborn? |
Travel › Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedures Part 6 by Mroriginal: 5:26pm On Jan 21, 2023 |
Its a long while already - 2019 but i can only remember its in the line of why are you here today, and she mentioned to renew her visa. Viola2017: Thanks a lot for your response. Please what other question was she asked? |
Travel › Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedures Part 6 by Mroriginal: 3:16pm On Jan 21, 2023 |
Just go there for the interview and mention you are there to renew. Same happened to my wife, she had a b1/b2 while living in another country before we moved to UK on tier 2 and she had to renew before birthing our baby in USA( Same reason as we wanted our baby to still have an american citizenship. She went to the London embassy and mentioned specifically that she wanted to renew her visa and she was granted as the VO could see she had visited previously. Also i think its good to mention you are there to renew specifically because my wife just went to the VO counter and the VO thought she was applying for the visa the first time till the VO mentioned, oh you have visited before and here to renew. B1/B2 is still same medical and visit so no need for you to over complicate things for yourself. Viola2017: Good afternoon all. I’m based in uk on a tier 2 visa with my husband and two kids(American citizens). Currently I’m pregnant and I will still want him/ her to have the American passport but I still can’t figure out the reasons to point out why I want to travel during interview because I have just applied for a medical visa. The visa I got initially was medical visa and I declared that I was pregnant and I wanted to birth my baby in the USA because of the poor health care system in Nigeria. Now I’m in the uk, I really do not know what to claim. Please I need your suggestions Thanks!!! |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 2) by Mroriginal: 8:51am On Jan 17, 2023*. Modified: 9:12am On Jan 17, 2023 |
If the cost of living in those other developed countries are higher and its a green grass syndrome, how come there is a wide margin of disposable household income per capita to the UK? It means they are earning way enough to pay their bills and still have a wider margin left. Or could it just be because some of them are larger economies and people are overworking( working beyond 35hrs/week? I want to believe UK tax system is alot beneficial to majority of people at the lower end of scale i.e low income earners. Just thinking out loud. Here is the margin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_capita_incomeTicha: After all, we're British and moved to New Zealand 5 years ago and we're now planning a move back to the UK. At this point, I'd happily move to the US for a couple of years sef but we will return to the UK.
In many expat FB groups, Aussies, Kiwis and of course Americans are trying to move to Europe aka UK because - lower pay yes but also, lower cost of living, shorter working hours, more annual leave, more worker and renters protections to name but the few benefits
Na green grass syndrome dey worry everyone. Plus the British are awesome at whinging. Complaining about how shit the UK is is a national past time. Sotay their nickname here in the antipodes is whinging poms! |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 2) by Mroriginal: 2:04pm On Jan 15, 2023 |
Rightly said, lets us not forget that its not only Nurses that are in the health care system, there are other allied health professions too. They all have the same burnout ratios with very low reward in the UK unfortunately. These workers are all moving out to where wages are higher and stress level is slightly reduced. So what happens is influx of workers from under developed nations - to the UK - then the ones who can continue the journey then move to countries they believe they can get higher pay and afford them better life for their family. Health care workers aside, even high end tech roles and other high skilled professions are all low pay in the UK in comparison to other developed countries. hustla: Was reading an article yesterday where a UK Mental health nurse left the UK and went to Australia. Said she was earning more selling ice cream to people as an attendant while waiting for her license than she earned as a full time nurse in the UK
it's really sad and weird..with all the stress and everything, they still earn peanuts .. Youtube now is full of UK nurses who have made the jump to US , New Zealand or Australia and are making way better money than they did in the UK with lower stress levels
Now, imagine they dont even have influx of nurses from Nigeria and other African countries, it would have been really mad
Something needs to be done about it in the near future of na collapse them dey look at  |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 2) by Mroriginal: 12:22pm On Jan 14, 2023*. Modified: 12:53pm On Jan 14, 2023 |
Very sad but true. One of the reasons myself and family are considering leaving right after naturalization. The immigration process is very expensive. Truth is immigrants contribute alot to the system. the sooner the immigrants also realize that the younger brits themselves are leaving the country. They only return when they are over 60's, to enjoy the pension and healthcare. Wages are low even with highly skilled jobs in comparison to other top economies, taxes are high, bills are high. May God help us all. Chreze: The UK government like to play dumb/busy on things that patterns to updating system or improving process, but smart when it comes to getting money off immigrants. When you think of how smart they claim and how they tend to act unaware to some things you can only tell it’s a selfish act.
If Nigeria ever gets a good president (now or in the nearest future), believe me, over 50% will leave the UK. I would have said 80% but since I did not carry out any survey, make I leave am for 50%.
The country is a rip off, environment is not healthy, people get serious health disease/infection without knowing what they have gotten. Spend lots of money on electronics (dehumidifier, purifier n its likes) just to stay healthy and alive.
To be honest, if not for language and security I would have preferred India or South Africa to living in this UK (that’s comparing with Nigeria’s current state). |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 2) by Mroriginal: 8:51pm On Jan 06, 2023 |
I have done it before and specifically wrote Omugwo, they all know about it so there is nothing new about it. The more you think about these things , the more you over complicate things. Just go ahead and apply for the visa. koonbey: Have you done it before? Or do you know someone personally who has? |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 2) by Mroriginal: 9:48pm On Jan 01, 2023 |
Oga lexus, Equity appreciation and interest expectation has been computed. Short term over the next 1-2 years exit considering the interest rate against property appreciation, rental is works out better plus the flexibility of not being tied to a single location in the UK. Also, option of renting out a mortgaged property was considered but a residential mortgage needs to be converted to a buy 2 let before that can be done. so there are some limitations there too. That's the reason for seeking out savings option with an okay to high return/interest . Lexusgs430: Been mortgage tied ......... What does this mean .......
Can you compare the equity appreciation vs interest expectations........
Let's assume it takes 5 years to get your naturalization, you want to be paying your landlord's mortgage for 5 year's......... I say no more ......
We need some financial management lessons 101, on this thread............ 
Simply sell the house,when you want to JAPA*2 .......  |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 2) by Mroriginal: 7:09pm On Jan 01, 2023 |
Hi, a quick question please. Did you go with the date on your BRP or the date on your visa vignette? We have a case where our BRP date of issue is earlier than our Visa Viginette date. BRP date of issue is 17 Dec while visa vignette start date is Dec 30. Do we apply 28 days from BRP date or visa vignette date? T2 five year route. fatima04: Scenario below
Assuming you came on Tier 2 Visa and the date on your visa vignette from Nigeria is 1st November 2022 you can apply 28days before 1st November 2027 (which is 5yrs after) I.e 3rd of October 2027. Use the calculator link below or excel for your deduction to be accurate and in the case of 10 yrs route
https://www.timeanddate.com/date/dateadded.html?d1=13&m1=12&y1=2022&type=sub&ay=&am=&aw=&ad=28&rec=
Hope it's clear and I haven't confused you further . You cal also find more information on gov.uk with explanation on date and absences |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 2) by Mroriginal: 6:57pm On Jan 01, 2023 |
Can you please advise any other cash saving option with interest on par with inflation apart from LISA? Mostly for people who plan to leave UK after naturalization and do not want to buy a house and be mortgage tied. ukay2: For CASH LISA account holders, do not forget to get the £4,000 into it to get the free 25% ((£1,000) by end of tax year in 5th April 2023. This could be used to deposit for your first mortgage house. Husband and wife less than 40 years could open this account and save upto £10,000 each tax year until both reach 50 years when you cannot save money in the LISA account.
For STOCK & SHARES ISA account holders, do not forget to max out the £20,000 allowance per tax year, 5th April, 2023. When you max out the £20k in stocks and shares ISA account, you can keep putting more funds in your General Investment Account.
There are so many stocks that are quite cheap in NYSE...you can cherry pick good dividend paying stocks with dividend yields upto 6-8%.
Remember that profits from stocks and share lSA account and dividend payments from your stocks and shares ISA account are not TAXABLE....tax man doesn't look into these earnings
Slow and steady win in the market....
HAPPY 2023..... |