haryomikun:


Your username caught my attention. Are you a forex/perpetual futures trader who uses price action as a key technical analysis tool?

Inayachem:
I can get you UK healthcare sponsorship for your wife and you go with your entire family.
Duration of 1 month

Alejo2000:


This is fine if not too expensive, you can discuss further on this

myrrtle:


Your children are already growing up! Prepare their minds and let them he the ones to relocate abroad. Moving abroad is not that rosy! So many guys are doing menial jobs just to survive

xyzando:
I will strongly advise you to embark on this noble adventure if you have the opportunity. Please do not listen to anyone advising you to stay back. For instance, we have up to one million Nigerians that are resident in the United Kingdom. Despite all the shout about how tough it is to settle abroad, I cannot count up to 0.1% of these residents who have gone back to Nigeria. Be mindful that 0.1% of 1million is 1,000. I am waiting for anyone to provide contrary figures.

What you are contemplating is called Economic migration which is even practiced by citizens in developed countries. For instance, there are 1.3million Britons currently residing in E.U. countries. So many went for better economic opportunities despite being citizens of the 5th largest economy in the world.

I relocated with my family at the age of 45 and my life has been reinvented beyond my expectations. This is within three years!

What you require is discipline, persistence and focus. There are abundant opportunities in the developed countries. The economy of these developed countries is primarily driven by the Private sector. The economic value chain is unbelievable which gives room for novel job roles.

When you relocate, simply upskill/reskill etc. if you require a corporate job. However, you can still earn a decent living with blue collar jobs as a warehouse operative, care worker etc. These roles are in abundance and you can never be out of work. With your wife, the monthly bills can be shared. Honestly, you both can get by except you wish to live an extravagant life of alcohol and clubbing.

If you are coming to the U.K, please explore organisations like Tritech, itonlinelearning, stl-training etc. They train you in Project Management and prepare you for job interviews. They also provide work references as you will execute live projects with them. With this skill, you can easily attract jobs paying £250 per day.

Alejo2000:


Wahoo, that is good suggestion. I appreciate your time

disserious:
With your years of experience and the savings, I’d advise the following.

1. Apply for GRE and get into PhD in the USA (it’s oftentimes fully funded).
2. Make sure the PhD you get into is a STEM program so you can easily get 36 months post study work visa.
3. Let your kids learn auto mechanic, photography, and or plumber. They can use it to earn by the side when they are in the States.
4. Make sure they learn (3) while you guys are still in Nigeria - that way, you won’t have to spend so much on the skill acquisition.
5. While in the USA, your kids can learn programming from launchschool.com after school. It costs $200 per month.
6. While you’re going through your PhD (you’ll have roughly 5 years for it and they will be paying you monthly - it may not be a lot though), your wife can be going through accelerated nursing program - oftentimes, nursing agencies would do her papers after she pass her NCLEX.
7. Send some of your kids to Canada (they can always file for you, the parents thereafter).

As a PhD student, if your paper has a good citations and you have good recommendation, you can apply for EB2 visa yourself. Which would also help you get your greencard which can help your family.

I hope this helps.

Alejo2000:


It is hard to get sponsored visa for my field of study. I'm a Chartered accountant.

ednut1:
At this point just guide your children to study courses that would make them japa easily in future like nursing, medicine, tech etc.

Love800:
But the menial job pay better than our white collar job in nigeria. So what are u saying?

myrrtle:

Lol pay better? Have you factored in cost of living! And the end of the day, after all expenses, you may be left with 20k or even debts

franchasofficia:
Your situation is very dicey in the sense that you havent been doing business, starting one now when Nigeria has almost gone to the baboons, hyenas and jackals won't be an easy one. You may end up wasting the 20million savings trying to figure out the business and before you understand the business secrets, you may have folded up.


What does your wife do?


How about relocating alone first to countries like; Finland, Norway, or other unpopular Scandinavian countries for a masters? Finland have a very affordable masters programme for international students, Norway used to be tuition free for Nigerians not until this year they started charging high tuition fee if not, Norway would have been your best bet cos there are plenty jobs, I have people there.


Make more research about studying masters in Finland, etc. If it would cost you 10million to relocate alone, try it and use 6million to setup a pharmacy shop for your wife before you relocate.


But if that route will cost you more then try the next suggestions below:


Map out 10million and setup a pharmacy shop. Your wife will need go on an internship at any pharmacy shop for some months before yours is fully ready to get an idea of how to run the biz with the registered pharmacist you guys would employ.


Setup a small office for yourself to start consulting as a Chartered Accountant. Print good business cards and proposals and submit to supermarket owners, etc to help them organize their stock and bookkeeping, with time you will start getting jobs. Also add external auditing to your portfolio of what you can do.


Create a linkedin profile on this new business of consulting. Inform friends, Church members, clique about your new consulting firm.


Save 7million in a dollar account and keep 3million for running family for now.


Start now to guide your kids to love nursing, medicine, radiography, pharmacy, software engineering, etc. This will prepare them to face future with greater chance of survival.



May God see you through and please don't panic, you are still on top, fear will push you into depression and cause you to start making irrational and foolish decisions that will ruin your years of hardwork.



Remember you are still better than over 150million Nigerians out there.



I pray God guide you to make the best decision at this critical time, amen

Love800:
Pls what is radiography all abt.
What does the course entails?

jesmond3945:
apply for a job that would sponsor visa. Study route will wipe you out.

priceactionx:

Yes oo, with full chest...
PA, momentum, order flow, supply and demand specialist.

pansophist:
I used to be a proponent of starting a business and growing bigger, but with what is going on in Nigeria right now, I won't advise anyone to do that. I mean your 20M is a lot of money, and ten years ago, it would be worth x5 of what it is right now in value.

So anyone with about 950M naira today is not a millionaire in dollars, how frustrating can that be? So after you make all your money as Nigerian Elon Musk, your money will still have less value at home and away. it's not worth it.

I will always advise people to pick Scandinavian countries, this society will clean up all the shit in your life. For real. The Nordic model (google it) is a birth-to-death life coverage, that covers every resident in the country, both foreigners as well.

So Just living there, your kids will be educated for free, healthcare is free, and a one-way ride to citizenship after four years even as a student.

But can you learn a new language? That's the price to pay.

pansophist:
I used to be a proponent of starting a business and growing bigger, but with what is going on in Nigeria right now, I won't advise anyone to do that. I mean your 20M is a lot of money, and ten years ago, it would be worth x5 of what it is right now in value.

So anyone with about 950M naira today is not a millionaire in dollars, how frustrating can that be? So after you make all your money as Nigerian Elon Musk, your money will still have less value at home and away. it's not worth it.

I will always advise people to pick Scandinavian countries, this society will clean up all the shit in your life. For real. The Nordic model (google it) is a birth-to-death life coverage, that covers every resident in the country, both foreigners as well.

So Just living there, your kids will be educated for free, healthcare is free, and a one-way ride to citizenship after four years even as a student.

But can you learn a new language? That's the price to pay.

Sir please is masters free there or is there a program like express entry to help people become permanent residents?

gabbytabby:
Unfortunately 45 is not a good age but if you do not mind retraining as a teacher PGDE or PGCE in mathematics would get you a funding for your course and a job after in the UK.

tensazangetsu20:


CRS scores for french speakers are very low now.

bedoab10k:



Thank you for your response. As low as 400?

tensazangetsu20:

375

ayandee:


You don't have to go to Canada via study route. Like someone advised, learn French aggressively for one year. I mean learn it like your whole life depends on it. Attend french classes, listen to French people talk, speak French and become very comfortable with it. Depending on how much progress you have made studying, you can go to Togo or other francophone countries for 2 months for language immersion. Then write TCF canada or TEF Canada. You will spend money learning

This was what I did. I didn't go to Togo though.

This way, you can preserve your 20million and use it for proof of funds when you get invited to apply for Canada PR.

Join the Canada TEF thread and the express entry thread in travel section.

If you are considering this route:
1. Find out if you are eligible for FSW on Canada dot ca using good ielts score plus B2 french. If you have a masters already, that will be a plus.
2. If you are eligible, apply for credential evaluation with WES Canada.
3. Start your French journey and while at it, write ielts general.
4. With your language scores and WES report, create an express entry profile. When you get invited, apply for PR.

Not an easy route but it's doable.

MeineMutter:


It’s a pity that we don’t know your profession and/or whether you have transferable skills or not.

Based on the little you wrote about yourself, I will say these:

- go but don’t plan staying longer because you are already old for their system. Going abroad will give you certain exposure and change your orientation about some things.

- be ready to do menial jobs all through.

- don’t plan to stay longer than 5 to 7 years if you don’t want to be useless.

- save while you work there and start commercial projects on your land you have back home. Don’t think of using your savings to build any house ‘to your taste o’ - at least while you are still abroad.

- it would be better if you and your wife can pull resources together to build more units of simple rentable structures on those land.

- when it is 10 years (max), leave and go and face your investments fully in Nigeria.

Things would have improved a bit in Nigeria but it won’t get to the level of that of western world.

Ire o.