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Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Iruobe1987: 9:31am On Jul 10, 2023
heroshark:


Yea, that is the actual price, you will still need an additional £20 postal order. I paid around $250 for 64pages 10years


Is royal mail delivery fee required as well?
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by profemebee(m): 9:39am On Jul 10, 2023
i never add comments to this topic because a lot of statements are emotional and not data driven.. so no need

a lot of beer-parlor driven statements and arguments.. generalization is a scary thing.. people just come here and make all sorts of emotional statements..

the funny thing is Data will never lie .. will never take subjective bias.. Data isn't emotional either

You come to a country and want to tell them how to run their country

Even the most useless countries in the world have some form of immigration control to protect their citizens, economy and culture

Nigeria, with its red economical index scores and at one of its' lowest FDI moments still has immigration control.. our visa is also hard to get. i know about this personally..

We come from a country where one can't even do a simple task like voting in an election because the political leaders have said if you're not from a particular tribe, you will get killed or beaten if you appear at the polling booth ... common man.. and you're complaining about another country making laws protecting its own people?

Am i affected by the IHS increase or ILR being planned to be extended from 5years to 8years qualification? Yes i am..

But will i now use emotional arguments or beer-parlor talk about Immigrants contributing more to discuss this? No... when I know every country has the right to protect its citizens and control who comes in/goes out..


Lets focus.....



Peerielass:


Still a drop in the ocean compared to the number of white people working and paying taxes based on figures from the 2021 census.


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Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by profemebee(m): 9:45am On Jul 10, 2023
you deserve cold beer bro!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sweet cold beer..

rinzylee:
I'm tired of these headless arguments .

If we are tired of UK, then leave to another country.

No one forced anybody to come here.

The day you took that visa, you signed up for any "shit".

We can cry and moan, it is their country.

If we had it better... ..... .... 1 pound won't be 995 naira today.



Find your dream and purpose and give it the best of chasing.



Abeg @justwise @Ticha @Hustla @Lexusgs430 ... my credit card landed last week with £3k limit. Fear dey catch me to use the card. Abeg should I be worried
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Futurej: 1:23pm On Jul 10, 2023
Abeg give me your iptv plug🙏
Lexusgs430:



I am flawlessly clean....... My IPTV dey entertain me wella....... Over 80,000 channels, for under £35 per annum........ Show me a provider that can offer this service........ 😜😁
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Lexusgs430: 1:29pm On Jul 10, 2023
Futurej:
Abeg give me your iptv plug🙏


Send a message on whatsapp.......
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Akhat: 2:25pm On Jul 10, 2023
Please I need advice on how to handle this situation.
I am a student, and I work in a home. I have been away from work for 6 weeks now because I got internship role in an engineering firm. The internship is to last for two and half months. In order to keep my job at the care home and not break the 20hrs visa rule, I took a one month unpaid leave. It's 6 weeks already, and the care home has been calling asking me to resume. I told them I may not be able to resume immediately, that I have course work and assignmentz I need to complete. Please how so I handle this.
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by steadyMoving22: 3:07pm On Jul 10, 2023
lightnlife:
This oyinbo life ehn 😀

So dem dey get full name (Billy Sanders) and insurance for pets! 😂

Not sure I can get over this!


It's a usual practice with any other race tho.
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Zahra29: 4:58pm On Jul 10, 2023
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Joyfuljoyful: 5:44pm On Jul 10, 2023
Hi. Do we pay this fee when we go for capturing or how do I go about it? I have capturing for this month and I don't know whether I am to bring along the £40 as cash or buy a postal order from the post office before heading for capturing.


heroshark:


Yea, that is the actual price, you will still need an additional £20 postal order. I paid around $250 for 64pages 10years
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Peerielass: 6:37pm On Jul 10, 2023
Joyfuljoyful:

Hi. Do we pay this fee when we go for capturing or how do I go about it? I have capturing for this month and I don't know whether I am to bring along the £40 as cash or buy a postal order from the post office before heading for capturing.


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Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Viruses: 6:41pm On Jul 10, 2023
Joyfuljoyful:

Hi. Do we pay this fee when we go for capturing or how do I go about it? I have capturing for this month and I don't know whether I am to bring along the £40 as cash or buy a postal order from the post office before heading for capturing.


There is no cash payment at the embassy.

Buy £20 postal order and special delivery envelope.

So you are going with five things

Printed application
Printed payment acknowledgement
Printed appointment slip
£20 postal order and
Special delivery envelope.

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Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by justwise(m): 6:50pm On Jul 10, 2023
Zahra29:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/10/uk-care-operators-accused-of-shocking-abuse-of-migrant-workers

Social care minister has been asked to intervene.

Reform loading...

Too little too late, this has gone on for yrs and they are reacting now after care homes and agents have made £££ unrestricted
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by BorisJohnson(f): 6:53pm On Jul 10, 2023
justwise:


Too little too late, this has gone on for yrs and they are reacting now after care homes and agents have made £££ unrestricted


Better late than never.
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by giselle237: 7:04pm On Jul 10, 2023
NnenaRita:
Thank you very much.
also asda and boots have glasses section .. asda cheaper

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Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Phayie(m): 7:05pm On Jul 10, 2023
igbsam:
Please can someone recommend materials /free mock test for PTE Practice. I am due to write one in 2wks and i never even study.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyRuvZZ-QbA

Follow that channel and practice. I think you should be fine

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Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lightnlife: 7:18pm On Jul 10, 2023
Hahahaha! 😂

Things dey happen.

Na every mallam and hin kettle.

hustla:


LOL was told of a Nigerian babe that has 2 pet rabbits. She even has cctv in the room Where they sleep (she rented 2 bdr because of them)

If she has visitors, na parlor them go sleep or she'll offer them her room instead and sleep in the parlor grin

Dunno if na ment or ....
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Tier4Dependant: 7:43pm On Jul 10, 2023
Not too late. I’m on the verge of leaving my current employment, I read this article and I can tell you that my current employer is guilty of the the points raised including that of substandard accommodation. Make I no just talk wetin people eyes dey see for this youkay.

Infact as I type this, I am being threatened to pay a sum of up to £8000 upon resignation very funny.

Even though I am a member of Unison which my employer has no clue about and I have a private employment lawyer, this article will open the eyes of a lot of care workers in this same situation and hopefully the government might be able to do something about it.

It’s better late than never

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Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by BorisJohnson(f): 7:53pm On Jul 10, 2023
Zahra29:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/10/uk-care-operators-accused-of-shocking-abuse-of-migrant-workers

Social care minister has been asked to intervene.

Reform loading...

For the 1st time in many years, I read such a story and Nigeria was not mentioned.
Phillipines & India

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Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Goke7: 8:05pm On Jul 10, 2023
justwise:


Too little too late, this has gone on for yrs and they are reacting now after care homes and agents have made £££ unrestricted

Na whining things, grin
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lavida001: 9:20pm On Jul 10, 2023
steadyMoving22:



It's a usual practice with any other race tho.

Nothing special about oyinbo people ooo. We should stop glorifying whatever dey do
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by eniola1010(m): 9:33pm On Jul 10, 2023
lavida001:


Nothing special about oyinbo people ooo. We should stop glorifying whatever dey do

Nothing special about people who design rocket, generator set, handphones, manufacturing machines, trains, planes, internet network

Abeg you need to hail them cus its not easy

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Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lavida001: 10:26pm On Jul 10, 2023
eniola1010:


Nothing special about people who design rocket, generator set, handphones, manufacturing machines, trains, planes, internet network

Abeg you need to hail them cus its not easy

There is nothing special my guy. If they can do it any other race can as well. We should stop hailing Europeanns.
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lightofjoy(m): 11:13pm On Jul 10, 2023
Please, I use Lloyds Bank, how do I switch and which bank can I switch to. Also how will I do it that the switching will not affect my direct debit and salary?
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by igbsam(m): 11:29pm On Jul 10, 2023
Phayie:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyRuvZZ-QbA

Follow that channel and practice. I think you should be fine

Thank you. I've got some materials to help me prepare as well. I appreciate
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Hkana: 11:43pm On Jul 10, 2023
For the switchers, TSB is currently in the market. £200 switch bonus

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Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by dentalux: 2:23am On Jul 11, 2023
harddrive2012:
Hello bro, I’m also considering getting chartered. Though I Started ICAN in Nigeria and still in Skills with 2 papers left.
May I ask if you started your ACCA in UK?
I have checked the fee online and it looks much 😂.
Would you advise I continue my ICAN in UK and probably convert to ACCA later using my ICAN. Or make I just close eyes start ACCA here from the foundation level for those with Bsc. Accounting.

Thanks


continue with ICAN and convert to ICAEW without exams but u need about 5year post qualification experience.
But instead of waiting for 5years, immediately you are done with ICAN convert to CIMA. You will be required to write a case study and that will be all. I dont think they do that post qualification thing for CIMA.

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Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Schoolhike: 2:51am On Jul 11, 2023
Just a little update for people who studied Masters in the UK.

Try to pursue Civil service role, both AO role (administrative officer) and EO role (executive officer ) role or above if you are very good and with lots of experience.

AO doesn’t require experience (might be easy to get in with this), not
EO requires experience experience (a little bit rigorous)


A full time permanent role in any of the two can offer sponsorship to people who studied in the UK, because you guys are allowed to be paid 70% of £26,200 (requirements for sponsorship).

Have a living testimony of a friend who was sponsored with AO role (£22k salary).

Meanwhile, you just need to keep trying and trying, hopefully something good will come out.

Also, be on the lookout of some department writing it explicitly that they will not offer sponsorship, don’t bother your self with those, only 1 or 2 in 15 adverts says this from my experience.


Just google CIVIL SERVICES JOBS,

Filter to Administrative officer and executive officer role, permanent, full time.

Would advice AO roles first then try EO.

You will only be accessed based on what is written in the job adverts.

When writing your statement,

Make sure you includes lots of scenarios that applies to you, even if you’ve worked in care, it doesn’t matter, use the STAR approach.

Don’t feel ashamed putting care in your cv, probably put it as part-time or full time role, which ever applies to you (my opinions on this is that sometimes employer want to know if you actually had UK working experience (UK work ethics, such as punctuality, reliability and such)), it’s not only about a direct Uk experience but also, they might want to know if you already have experience about UK work ethics. But reduces the roles and responsibilities to like 1 or 2 if it’s not relevant to the position you are applying to.

Another friend was told that she did not have any UK experience yet, she said she has done care, she was asked why she did not include it, since then she has been including care, (now she’s also in another IT company anyway)

Say, you apply for a role that requires adhering to data protection, confidentiality etc, you can actually chip in your experience working care (such as care home, NHS, etc)

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Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Schoolhike: 3:15am On Jul 11, 2023
Would also advice if you don’t have experience using excel also, you can try get your hands on it learning it.

Pivot table and charts , formatting in excel, filtering sorting, performing simple calculations, some formulas such as vlookup, index&match, right, left, xlookup , etc, (don’t need to memorize just know how they works and when to apply them), I understand sheet, workbook, navigating within excel and some other simple task, not complex, just for the sake that if you aware being ask question on them you will be able to say something about them.

Don’t bother spend time learning vba or macro

My previous experience in one of my past role was that companies already have their procedures to follow while performing task, you just have to follows the set processes, I was marveled when I found other ways of using index&match which is totally different from what I’ve used it for in the past.

I really benefited from this thread, most especially the motivations I got from people here in the past.

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Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Seynex01: 5:13am On Jul 11, 2023
I have a provisional license and I have been in the Uk for 5 months. Is it advisable to keep driving with my Nigerian license while I get prepared to get my uk driving license.
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by heroshark(m): 5:36am On Jul 11, 2023
Joyfuljoyful:

Hi. Do we pay this fee when we go for capturing or how do I go about it? I have capturing for this month and I don't know whether I am to bring along the £40 as cash or buy a postal order from the post office before heading for capturing.



Buy is from the post office

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Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by heroshark(m): 6:08am On Jul 11, 2023
Goke7:


Very commendable, with the way the uk is running haywire, no matter the kind of visa you have it’s just advisable to get other visas. It’s what am doing too.

I don't understand what you guys meant by get other visas?

Having other visas (which in most cases are visit visa) will not save anyone from the UK immigration wahala if the time comes. You can't use those visas to immigrate or even work on those visas. I have a long-term US visa and Schegen visa (Swiss issued) yet they are absolutely useless for immigration purposes.

Except you plan to travel and then turn illegal immigrant.

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