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7demons:
Because him no sabi. This is the problem with black people. You just wake up and Vooom! Travel. That's why una dey die like fowl for Desert and Mediterranean sea. Oyinbo man cannot make this silly mistakes. Before you travel, get important details about the place you want to go.
For goodness sake! Internet is cheap. Every information you have is now on the tip of your finger. Make friends on Facebook, Instagram, especially people from your favored destination. Know about the cheapest hotels, motels, or hostels that rent for months and has access to breakfast or dinner.
Watch YouTube videos to know about what to expect from such destinations, there's alot to learn and know with at the tip of our fingers but some of us people chose to be stupid!
These things they pay agents millions upon million is something we can do ourselves expect for specific area someone might be lacking in the aspect of fundraising or related field jobs.

UDUJ:
This is laughable

Majority of them sold their houses and landed properties.

Others left high paying jobs for the mirage of the UK

SMH

AllenSpencer:
Their own people failed them!

Too much lies by our foreign brothers has led many astray! Few always say the truth.

But at some point, when you tell them the truth, they will think you don’t wish them well!


Many have sold a good life in Nigeria to buy depression and frustration.

Mrniceguy001:
May God punish the UK. Especially this new prime minister. How do you create an avenue and even authenticate it with a possible Visa category - only for you to turn your back on the many you've collected money from....

May God punish all Nigerian politicians who couldn't use the money we had at our disposal when the colonial masters left to build a great Nigeria.

It is well.

MT:
People left destitute after coming to the UK on skilled worker visas only to find there's no job

One woman from Nigeria tells Sky News she paid £10,000 to an "agent" for a skilled worker visa on the promise of work in the UK - only to find out the job did not exist.

Blessing, not her real name, told us she arrived in the UK three months ago. She says she paid someone she calls an "agent" in Nigeria £10,000 to arrange a job as a carer in the UK. But when she got here she found there was no work for her.

"I should be in a position of helping, not receiving aid," says one Nigerian woman.

Fraught with emotion and speaking to us anonymously in the narrow corridor of a food bank, she is now destitute despite being promised a job in Britain.

Blessing, not her real name, told us she arrived in the UK three months ago. She says she paid someone she calls an "agent" in Nigeria £10,000 to arrange a job as a carer in the UK.

But when she got here she found there was no work for her.

Her story is part of a wider problem, revealed in a Sky News investigation this year showing how the skilled worker visa system is being abused with middlemen allegedly being paid huge sums of money to arrange jobs in the UK as carers that do not exist.

Blessing, not her real name, told us she arrived in the UK three months ago. She says she paid someone she calls an "agent" in Nigeria £10,000 to arrange a job as a carer in the UK. But when she got here she found there was no work for her.
Blessing, not her real name, arrived in the UK three months ago on the promise of a care job. Images by Andrew Brown and Mostyn Pryce

Many of those who can't get work are struggling to survive, turning to food banks and even sleeping rough.

Blessing is now reliant on handouts.

At a food bank in a Nigerian Community Centre in Greater Manchester she is given a shopping bag of basic supplies - the shelves and crates are packed with donations of bread, cereal, tinned tomatoes and familiar African items like palm oil and beans.

Blessing says: "I've always provided for myself. I'm a very hard-working, diligent person. So for me to be here depending on people to eat coming to the food bank to get food isn't ok with me.

"I don't feel happy about it.

"It makes me feel I'm less of a person. I should be in a position of helping not receiving aid because this is not who I was back in my country."

'It makes me feel as though I'm a fool'

Blessing asked us not to contact the British company which sponsored her for fear of repercussions - but showed us her passport and other documents supporting her account of what happened.

I ask her why she didn't make the application herself. With some irony, she says: "I would have done it myself but there are so many frauds on the internet [in Nigeria] you don't know what's real.
Blessing, not her real name, told us she arrived in the UK three months ago. She says she paid someone she calls an "agent" in Nigeria £10,000 to arrange a job as a carer in the UK. But when she got here she found there was no work for her. Lisa Holland VT on Skilled Worker Visas.

"It makes me feel as though I'm a fool," she says.

Blessing says she knows others who have skilled worker visas only to get here and find there's no work waiting for them.

She sighs: "There are so many. Dozens. I met a lot here and so many are still coming after I've come. There's a big scam going on."

'Shameful' issue

Mary Adekugbe, the founder of the Nigerian Community Centre in Rochdale, says those on skilled worker visas now needing support is a big issue that is increasing her workload - something she describes as "shameful". For Lisa Holland VT.

About 15 of the 35-40 people who generally come to the weekly food bank have skilled worker visas, she says.

"We are overwhelmed," she says. "People are desperate. It's so worrying."

She paints us a picture of those she has seen: "A grown-up man crying like a baby. Children crying without food because their parents can't work to support them. No houses. No job. This is alarming."

'She sold everything she had'

As we finish chatting by the front door two women scurry past with their bags of food. It's only afterwards we're told their story - that they were too ashamed to speak to us: one of the women has hit rock bottom and, with nowhere else to go, lives on the bus.

Community volunteer Jones Adekube says: "Last week we gave her bread and tuna because that's what she can eat easily without cooking or warming."
At a foodbank at a Nigerian Community Centre in Greater Manchester the shelves and crates are packed with donations of bread, cereal, tinned tomatoes and familiar African items like palm oil and beans.

At a foodbank at a Nigerian Community Centre in Greater Manchester she is given a shopping bag of basic supplies - the shelves and crates are packed with donations of bread, cereal, tinned tomatoes and familiar African items like palm oil and beans. For Lisa Holland VT.

Now homeless, the lady on the bus is yet another person who paid an agent in Nigeria to arrange care work in the UK, we're told.

Mr Adekube says: "She did some work when she came in. Initially they gave her one shift a week which is 12 hours a week. As time went on there were no shifts.

"According to what she showed us she was offered a full-time job as a carer. And now she's sleeping on the bus."

He adds: "She's in a bad way. She can't go back home. She has nothing at home. She sold everything she had."

'It's not been easy'

Another couple - we're calling them Allen and Joyce - have come to the UK with their young son.

We've changed their names but they showed us documents which prove they're in the UK on skilled worker visas.
Allen and Joyce - have come to the UK with their young son. We've changed their names but they showed us documents which prove they are in the UK on skilled worker visas.
Image: Allen and Joyce (pictured from behind to protect their identities) have come to the UK with their young son

Joyce says she was also promised work as a carer and Allen was able to accompany her because he is classed as her dependent.

Allen says: "It's not been easy. I had to sell my car; sell my property, get a loan and took a lot of risk to raise the money."

Under the terms of the skilled worker visa they can't work in any other job category and are limited to 20 hours a week under another employer in the care sector.

Often, home care providers require access to a car, and permanently switching sponsors is almost impossible.

Joyce says: "It's very difficult because most jobs you want to get - they will first of all tell you that you've got a sponsor from somewhere else. So maybe you should go back to that place to get your job. That's what they always say."

"We are begging the [UK] government if they can look into it, even if it is not skilled work, if they can give us another sponsorship or any other work, we are ready to do. For our survival."

Over 170,000 skilled worker visas issued in a year

In the 12 months to March 2023, 170,993 skilled worker visas have been awarded. In the health and care sector alone, grants have increased over two and a half times and represent over half of all work visas issued in the same period.

On the job with the lowest entry requirement - care workers and home carers - 40,416 people were awarded visas in the year to March 2023.

In different parts of the country and across different communities we are hearing the same thing.

In Bradford in West Yorkshire, people in the town's established Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities speak of their concerns about people struggling to eat and put a roof over their heads having come to the UK to work.

'They are desperate'

[b]Moin Uddin Khan, who owns the large Al-Falah Supermarket in Bradford, says people are always coming in asking for work - predominantly people who have come on skilled worker visas.

Mr Khan says: "They are very desperate. Some people they come begging me because I don't have any food to eat - and you get this every day."
[/b]Moin Uddin Khan, who owns the large Al-Falah Supermarket in Bradford, says people are always coming in asking for work - predominantly people who have come on skilled worker visas.

The shop manager, Anhar Ali, says some applicants never had any intention of working as carers in the first place - the job they were sponsored for as a condition of coming into the country.

He says: "Some of them are told before they arrive, 'you won't have a job, you're only arriving here'. And they do pay a lot of money. It's just a way to get to the UK."

Some of the people who are abusing the route to reach Britain, Mr Ali says, come into the shop without even being able to speak English - a basic requirement to obtain a skilled worker visa.
Anhar Ali, a shop manager of Al-Falah Supermarket in Bradford, says some applicants never had any intention of working as carers in the first place.

In the back office, he shows us the latest pile of CVs from people trying to get a job. He has to check each one with the Home Office's online immigration status tool - otherwise the store could be fined thousands of pounds.

Nearly half the rejected CVs, Mr Ali claims, come from people recently arriving on skilled worker visas as carers but who cannot legally do shop work.

And there is a strain, Mr Ali admits, on the community over those willing to do anything for even below minimum wage.

"If they're going to businesses and offering themselves for less money some businesses may want to go down that route and employ them and sack the local employees," he says.

Mobeen Hussain, who founded a community hub and cafe in Queensbury, on the outskirts of Bradford, says some people have an unrealistic view of how easy it will be to build a new life in Britain.

He says: "I think a lot of people feel that they're going to come over here, they're going to start a new life, it's going to be a life where they're going to make lots of money, they're going to be living a lavish lifestyle. But it's nothing like that."
Mobeen Hussain, who founded a community hub and cafe in Queensbury, on the outskirts of Bradford, says some people have an unrealistic view of how easy it will be to build a new life in Britain.

Mr Hussain said the government checks are weak and should be tightened.

A Home Office spokesperson said: "Abuse of our immigration system will not be tolerated and we have robust measures in place to ensure compliance.

"We will always take decisive action if employers break the rules, including by revoking sponsor licences when necessary."

Source: https://news.sky.com/story/theres-a-big-scam-going-on-how-people-are-paying-thousands-for-skilled-worker-visas-for-jobs-that-dont-exist-12945498

AuschwitzPrefec:
Sure .

Check Nigeria's Forex reserves between Jan 1st 1983 to Jan 1st 1984 using the link below.

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/nigeria/foreign-exchange-reserves


You will see that between December 1983 to January 1984, Nigeria's foreign reserves plummeted

Buhari's first executive order was to pay off Jewish banksters .

Shagari had insisted on rescheduling the war debt and also huge sums taken by the corrupt ITT Obasanjo military junta.

Shagari had activated the clause owing to massive dip in Forex earnings due to a previous slump in oil prices. Shagari's industrialization policy with Ajaokuta and Aladja steel plants completed in record time was seen also as a threat to British iron and steel industry .

sukkot:
british people done do us strong thing ooo

togifon:
Omo, i gat tired of reading after copy n paste of blessing story showing up again n again

UDUJ:
This is laughable

Majority of them sold their houses and landed properties.

Others left high paying jobs for the mirage of the UK

SMH

sulaak:
Who tell you lies , I always tell Nigerians there are no jobs in the UK, but they come anyway.

UDUJ:
This is laughable

Majority of them sold their houses and landed properties.

Others left high paying jobs for the mirage of the UK

SMH

ednut1:
some were victims of kidnapping, banditry and other crimes in Nigeria. Some had thriving businesses that Buhari policies killed. Some people just wanted a decent working environment. Some were scared of their children future. Can you blame them

Larryndelaw:
some of them can't stay for long on a.job ,they want free things. I know someone looking to employ 2 of them but once they work one week they will run away. They are looking for quick fix to recover the money they spent on visa

Godfullsam:
If I have up to £10,000 with me, I will rather establish myself here in Nigeria instead of taking such a gamble to travel abroad for an imaginary job.

Our people say 'someone who has a head doesn't have a cap and someone who has a cap does not have head'.

This life no balance

PrettyRX:
Please do proper research before going abroad. It's the same life principles that's applied everywhere. Some people keep living in fallacy

AuschwitzPrefec:
Not British by Jews who own that chalk island .

CondemnBattery:

Driving past the Canadian embassy every morning on freedom way, you will ask yourself, all these people queuing each day to japa, what exactly are they going there for?

How can you just wake up and decide to run away from your own country, when most of them has good-paying jobs and businesses?

The desperation is really disturbing

sukkot:
well you know being a jew is a religion. those rotschilds all have british nationally

Larryndelaw:
some of them can't stay for long on a.job ,they want free things. I know someone looking to employ 2 of them but once they work one week they will run away. They are looking for quick fix to recover the money they spent on visa

RaptorX:
When you tell them they say why didn't you come back to Nigeria, just like that clown arguing with me on the other UK thread about how once you get there in less than 3 years you would have saved £50,000 and be swimming in pounds and euros. UK is just an advanced shithole know this before you sell your properties, because you are selling an asset to probably go take up debt if you decide to get a mortgage to buy a house in the UK.

AuschwitzPrefec:
Being a Jew is not about religion as most Jews identify as being atheists.

A Jew is a criminal materialistic cult of those descended from the bloodline of Cain .

7demons:
Because him no sabi. This is the problem with black people. You just wake up and Vooom! Travel. That's why una dey die like fowl for Desert and Mediterranean sea. Oyinbo man cannot make this silly mistakes. Before you travel, get important details about the place you want to go.
For goodness sake! Internet is cheap. Every information you have is now on the tip of your finger. Make friends on Facebook, Instagram, especially people from your favored destination. Know about the cheapest hotels, motels, or hostels that rent for months and has access to breakfast or dinner.
Watch YouTube videos to know about what to expect from such destinations, there's alot to learn and know with at the tip of our fingers but some of us people chose to be stupid!
These things they pay agents millions upon million is something we can do ourselves expect for specific area someone might be lacking in the aspect of fundraising or related field jobs.

ednut1:
Some were scared of their children future. Can you blame them

FashionCookie:
Trust Nigerians to rejoice at other people's misfortunes...see comments. SMH...

Always bitter towards others. On Sundays they'll occupy the front seats in church. Wicked souls...