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Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Zahra29: 4:25am On Feb 01
Ukliving:
So the dependant ban for care workers is kicking off March 11
What if after March 11, a husband and wife both get sponsorship, will the rule still apply if they proceed with their visa application individuallly?

From March 11, if husband and wife each get a care visa outside the NHS, they will not be able to sponsor anyone (their spouse or children) on that visa.
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by adekzy: 5:14am On Feb 01
Why are you so bitter as if you are from the sadEast part of Nigeria.

Every presidential candidate promised to remove the subsidy and regularised the Dollar so that the forces of Demand and Supply can determine the rate rather than the CBN wasting Billions of scare dollars to defend the imaginary rate that we've been using since 2009. Emefiele+Buhari later made if worse.

Tinubu got the job he campaign for, so the bulk is on his desk!

However, The elite citizens have also moped up every available dollars save/sit idle in the bank while the industrial economy that we want to revive is crying for need.

We have created an unnecessary artificial scarcity, thereby contributing to the problem, but we all want to blame the Govt.

As at November last year, over $29billion is currently sitting idle in all domiciliary account across the country, yet we dey cry say no dollars. WHY?

Why should we dollarised our economy for non productive adverture at the expenses of our local economic drive and the mases who dont have the opportunity to edge thier naira to save in dollars.

If possible, the Govt should just "borrow" all those idle dollars cool temporary and return it when the economy is stable...but I doubt if they have "Political Will" as most of the politicians are also culprits.

So Mr Thread, your bitterness will only gives you HBP if you don't disect the real issue without sentiment and emotion.



Treadway:
wrong

The end was inevitable from then on. Like some have said before, Nigeria is about to be the largest prison on earth...and the majority of those who will be stuck there utterly and thoroughly deserve the things that will swallow them.

Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Atk1nson(m): 6:44am On Feb 01
adekzy:
Why are you so bitter as if you are from the sadEast part of Nigeria.

.....
As at November last year, over $29billion is currently sitting idle in all domiciliary account across the country, yet we dey cry say no dollars. WHY?

Why should we dollarised our economy for non productive adverture at the expenses of our local economic drive and the mases who dont have the opportunity to edge thier naira to save in dollars.

If possible, the Govt should just "borrow" all those idle dollars cool temporary and return it when the economy is stable...but I doubt if they have "Political Will" as most of the politicians are also culprits.

So Mr Thread, your bitterness will only gives you HBP if you don't disect the real issue without sentiment and emotion.




You seem to have a weird fascination with draconian and heavy-handed tactics. I recall you were the one also justifying hamas and vilifying US.

Definitely at some point you benefited from the dorm account balances you were referring to fund your travels. Speculation exists the in every sector in a free market economy. Naira has shown a high level of instability since APC took power, and the current speculative activity reflects the poor handling of the foreign exchange situation by the current and past presidents. The current speculative activity is the result and not the cause of naira's instability.

Also, do not assume everyone operating a dorm account is doing so for speculative purposes. If businesses project that they will have to buy FX at a higher rate to fund their activities in the future, it gives them a high incentive to lock in prices by buying FX now so they can hedge against FX losses in the future.

Obj and GEJ managed to keep the exchange stable and speculators at bay, the chicago accountant may go to them to learn one or two.

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Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Lexusgs430: 7:03am On Feb 01
Atk1nson:


You seem to have a weird fascination with draconian and heavy-handed tactics. I recall you were the one also justifying hamas and vilifying US.

Definitely at some point you benefited from the dorm account balances you were referring to fund your travels. Speculation exists the in every sector in a free market economy. Naira has shown a high level of instability since APC took power, and the current speculative activity reflects the poor handling of the foreign exchange situation by the current and past presidents. The current speculative activity is the result and not the cause of naira's instability.

Also, do not assume everyone operating a dorm account is doing so for speculative purposes. If businesses project that they will have to buy FX at a higher rate to fund their activities in the future, it gives them a high incentive to lock in prices by buying FX now so they can hedge against FX losses in the future.

Obj and GEJ managed to keep the exchange stable and speculators at bay, the chicago accountant may go to them to learn one or two.

This FX quagmire, is only going to get worse........ We are very reliant on back to back foreign loans to shore up the naira, fund our budgets, payback current loans, infrastructural development, foreign trips for bola, health tourism for bola, pay wages, steal, loot ètc etc .......😄

Once we finish spending the amount we borrowed, we go shopping for more loans .........😂😜

Which reasonable investor, would bring $ to Nigeria to invest (with all the news hitting all headlines)........

It's all calm, bola is in france relaxing..... It's all well back home .......😜😁

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Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Atk1nson(m): 7:12am On Feb 01
Lexusgs430:


This FX quagmire, is only going to get worse........ We are very reliant on back to back foreign loans to shore up the naira, fund our budgets, payback current loans, infrastructural development, foreign trips for bola, health tourism for bola, pay wages, steal, loot ètc etc .......😄

Once we finish spending the amount we borrowed, we go shopping for more loans .........😂😜

Which reasonable investor, would bring $ to Nigeria to invest (with all the news hitting all headlines)........

It's all calm, bola is in france relaxing..... It's all well back home .......😜😁

Aptly said, his predecessor lived part-time in the UK, doing a lot of meaningless globe-trotting burning scare FX. Tinubu's children own several real estate abroad, his grand children school abroad, same with Buhari's children. Tinubu is one of Nigeria's rightest politician without any well known business, and I quite sure a sizeable portion of his wealth is stored in foreign currency. These two presidents are also the ones who raked up most of Nigeria's foreign loans.

Today someone is blaming dorm account holders, foreign currency speculators and Nigerians having foreign taste but exporting nothing for the poor state of the FX grin.

Yesterday, the official market rate went above the black market rate. Read an articule yesterday that tied it to Dangote sourcing forex to buy crude for his refinery. NNPC is currently unable to supply Dangote enough crude because it has traded future production for loans.....guess who is responsible ?

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Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by heroshark(m): 7:29am On Feb 01
adekzy:

Why are you so bitter as if you are from the sadEast part of Nigeria.

Every presidential candidate promised to remove the subsidy and regularised the Dollar so that the forces of Demand and Supply can determine the rate rather than the CBN wasting Billions of scare dollars to defend the imaginary rate that we've been using since 2009. Emefiele+Buhari later made if worse.

So Mr Thread, your bitterness will only gives you HBP if you don't disect the real issue without sentiment and emotion.


How you do manage to live with all this bigotry in your heart?
You use a discriminatory statement to refer to an entire geographical regional of a country. If na Oyibo man make this kind statement about your race, you go cry racism tire!

Omo our journey is still far as a society!

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Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Lexusgs430: 7:40am On Feb 01
Atk1nson:


Aptly said, his predecessor lived part-time in the UK, doing a lot of meaningless globe-trotting burning scare FX. Tinubu's children own several real estate abroad, his grand children school abroad, same with Buhari's children. Tinubu is one of Nigeria's rightest politician without any well known business, and I quite sure a sizeable portion of his wealth is stored in foreign currency. These two presidents are also the ones who raked up most of Nigeria's foreign loans.

Today someone is blaming dorm account holders, foreign currency speculators and Nigerians having foreign taste but exporting nothing for the poor state of the FX grin.

Yesterday, the official market rate went above the black market rate. Read an articule yesterday that tied it to Dangote sourcing forex to buy crude for his refinery. NNPC is currently unable to supply Dangote enough crude because it has traded future production for loans.....guess who is responsible ?



Have you heard the latest soundbite from EFCC....... Religious houses are moving money for terrorists.......🤣😜

But, EFCC CANNOT name the religious houses/outfits/enterprise..........😄😁😜

Nigeria is not ready ..... We're still joking......😂😜

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Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Advision: 7:41am On Feb 01
heroshark:


How you do manage to live with all this bigotry in your heart?
You use a discriminatory statement to refer to an entire geographical regional of a country. If na Oyibo man make this kind statement about your race, you go cry racism tire!

Omo our journey is still far as a society!

When we advised the guy to go to Iran or Saudi if he dislikes the west so much, someone said it was a racist comment, no minding the guy sef na racist

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Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by hustla(m): 8:17am On Feb 01
Lexusgs430:


Nigeria is not ready ..... We're still joking......😂😜


Until we start executing people before Nigeria will have a resemblance of sanity

I keep saying smiley

The problems have obvious solutions but yeah, carry Toke Makinwa to climate conference and sponsor Hajj with scarce forex

Who do Nigeria this thing ehn?

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Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Treadway: 8:21am On Feb 01
adekzy:
Why are you so bitter as if you are from the sadEast part of Nigeria.

Every presidential candidate promised to remove the subsidy and regularised the Dollar so that the forces of Demand and Supply can determine the rate rather than the CBN wasting Billions of scare dollars to defend the imaginary rate that we've been using since 2009. Emefiele+Buhari later made if worse.

Tinubu got the job he campaign for, so the bulk is on his desk!

However, The elite citizens have also moped up every available dollars save/sit idle in the bank while the industrial economy that we want to revive is crying for need.

We have created an unnecessary artificial scarcity, thereby contributing to the problem, but we all want to blame the Govt.

As at November last year, over $29billion is currently sitting idle in all domiciliary account across the country, yet we dey cry say no dollars. WHY?

Why should we dollarised our economy for non productive adverture at the expenses of our local economic drive and the mases who dont have the opportunity to edge thier naira to save in dollars.

If possible, the Govt should just "borrow" all those idle dollars cool temporary and return it when the economy is stable...but I doubt if they have "Political Will" as most of the politicians are also culprits.

So Mr Thread, your bitterness will only gives you HBP if you don't disect the real issue without sentiment and emotion.



I'm not bitter, on the contrary I'm smart just like the horde of people holding the dollar, a concept you couldn't understand even if it hit you in face. So I'll leave you be in your wanton delusions and ignorance.

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Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Treadway: 8:27am On Feb 01
Atk1nson:


You seem to have a weird fascination with draconian and heavy-handed tactics. I recall you were the one also justifying hamas and vilifying US.

Definitely at some point you benefited from the dorm account balances you were referring to fund your travels. Speculation exists the in every sector in a free market economy. Naira has shown a high level of instability since APC took power, and the current speculative activity reflects the poor handling of the foreign exchange situation by the current and past presidents. The current speculative activity is the result and not the cause of naira's instability.

Also, do not assume everyone operating a dorm account is doing so for speculative purposes. If businesses project that they will have to buy FX at a higher rate to fund their activities in the future, it gives them a high incentive to lock in prices by buying FX now so they can hedge against FX losses in the future.

Obj and GEJ managed to keep the exchange stable and speculators at bay, the chicago accountant may go to them to learn one or two.
Atkinson, we gree today ooo..lol

leave that clown. He proposes that I watch my earnings turn to toilet paper and fold my hands and do nothing about it. That is his brilliant idea. I no be salary man like him or most here, na me dey pay salaries so ori mi lati pe X10. I can understand and excuse his basic and low-level thinking though. Shebi na for him to see salary, wetin concern am with tough decisions or even simple ones like this one called 'self preservation'. Whether na him popsy give me money and sense to buy dollar and HODL, e go soon tell me.

Na moshood and Batist, na their way.
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by justwise(m): 9:05am On Feb 01
wonlasewonimi:


I used to do visa at your doorstep. They bring their biometric machine to my living room on a day I choose.

lol I like the way you said this without mentioning the cost of such home service lol

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Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by wonlasewonimi: 9:13am On Feb 01
justwise:


lol I like the way you said this without mentioning the cost of such home service lol

We were talking about visa appointments na wink
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Kunleop: 9:31am On Feb 01
Good morning, pls for peoples that used money box/ISA account for their house. What type of product can i choose as i want pay in money before the tax year end and im using it towards my 1st home. kindly assist

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Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by hayesconcept(m): 9:46am On Feb 01
Life time ISA
Kunleop:
Good morning, pls for peoples that used money box/ISA account for their house. What type of product can i choose as i want pay in money before the tax year end and im using it towards my 1st home. kindly assist
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Kunleop: 9:47am On Feb 01
hayesconcept:
Life time ISA

Cash life time ISA?

Thanks
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by justwise(m): 9:52am On Feb 01
wonlasewonimi:


We were talking about visa appointments na wink

Ok tell us how much it cost and how long they spent in your house grin
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by profemebee(m): 10:00am On Feb 01
The hatred in your heart outweighs any sense you are trying to make......

If you don't know, tribalism is worse than racism.... discrimination within the same skin cuts deeper

I hope you heal and stop making excuses for a government that has failed and is on the road to colossal failure.

OBJ & GEJ don't have 2 heads....

The same Tinubu criticized them when they were in power for things like insecurity.. now it is his turn and he is failing woefully

Every presidential candidate promised to remove subsidy but they had different execution procedures....

Person A and B can decide to go from Ikeja to VI.... Person A can pass 3rd mainland bridge while Person B can pass Eko Bridge... the experience will be different..

You don't remove subsidy all at once without providing some form of cushion effects .. it has to be done in milestones.. the country is already in deep multidimensional poverty and now 28.9% deep in inflation...

Nigerians getting killed, even children and not a single visit to Plateau State or even Abuja that is close to the Presidency...... chilling in France with the NSA who should be working on Security in the country.... the others were dancing Buga on stage.. smh

adekzy:
Why are you so bitter as if you are from the sadEast part of Nigeria.

Every presidential candidate promised to remove the subsidy and regularised the Dollar so that the forces of Demand and Supply can determine the rate rather than the CBN wasting Billions of scare dollars to defend the imaginary rate that we've been using since 2009. Emefiele+Buhari later made if worse.

Tinubu got the job he campaign for, so the bulk is on his desk!

However, The elite citizens have also moped up every available dollars save/sit idle in the bank while the industrial economy that we want to revive is crying for need.

We have created an unnecessary artificial scarcity, thereby contributing to the problem, but we all want to blame the Govt.

As at November last year, over $29billion is currently sitting idle in all domiciliary account across the country, yet we dey cry say no dollars. WHY?

Why should we dollarised our economy for non productive adverture at the expenses of our local economic drive and the mases who dont have the opportunity to edge thier naira to save in dollars.

If possible, the Govt should just "borrow" all those idle dollars cool temporary and return it when the economy is stable...but I doubt if they have "Political Will" as most of the politicians are also culprits.

So Mr Thread, your bitterness will only gives you HBP if you don't disect the real issue without sentiment and emotion.



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Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Raalsalghul: 10:21am On Feb 01
hustla:



I dont understand this part o

What I meant is that if you apply to enter the Schengen area using Greece, you'll get quicker dates for appointment but the catch is that you'll only be able to use the visa once or twice (Single or Double Entry to the Schengen area) and I'm sure you'll probably prefer multiple entries as you might want to visit other countries.

So if you want to get quicker dates using Greece as entry point and at the same time get multiple entries to visit as much Schengen countries as you want, you'll have to fully book and pay for holiday in three different Schengen countries (including Greece) which will be presented to the V.O to get a high chance of getting multiple entries.

Does the above help?

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Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by wonlasewonimi: 10:43am On Feb 01
justwise:


Ok tell us how much it cost and how long they spent in your house grin

To be honest, it was convenient for me as I was wfh and it cost £400 and the visa was issued within 2 weeks.
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by justwise(m): 11:18am On Feb 01
wonlasewonimi:


To be honest, it was convenient for me as I was wfh and it cost £400 and the visa was issued within 2 weeks.


Yes it not cheap, few yrs ago i wanted to take my wife to Spain for holiday but getting appointment was hellish, that was when i came across the service you mentioned, it was £300 then, i decided to get appointment and visa through Portugal, we stayed one night there then cross to Madrid.

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Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Goodenoch: 11:38am On Feb 01
Raalsalghul:


What I meant is that if you apply to enter the Schengen area using Greece, you'll get quicker dates for appointment but the catch is that you'll only be able to use the visa once or twice (Single or Double Entry to the Schengen area) and I'm sure you'll probably prefer multiple entries as you might want to visit other countries.

So if you want to get quicker dates using Greece as entry point and at the same time get multiple entries to visit as much Schengen countries as you want, you'll have to fully book and pay for holiday in three different Schengen countries (including Greece) which will be presented to the V.O to get a high chance of getting multiple entries.

Does the above help?

Oh I didn’t know it was possible at all to get multiple entries on one’s first shenghen application.

I have (not very wisely, in hindsight) booked a holiday in France and paid the fees in full but I simply can’t get an appointment date. I’ve just been checking but nothing comes up.

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Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by giselle237: 12:02pm On Feb 01
Morning.
Living in UK people… whatever you do, stay away from keeping your GBP in Nala’s wallet. You won’t get that money back without losing your blood literally.
Be aware.

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Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by justwise(m): 12:20pm On Feb 01
giselle237:
Morning.
Living in UK people… whatever you do, stay away from keeping your GBP in Nala’s wallet. You won’t get that money back without losing your blood literally.
Be aware.

How does that work? Never heard of it
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by giselle237: 12:38pm On Feb 01
justwise:

How does that work? Never heard of it

Example if you want to change to naira, you’ll credit them your pounds so they give you naira. If you send them your GBP and say you have a change of mind, you won’t get your pounds without breaking a sweat. Like actual sweat. They are disastrous and disgusting. Whereas with Lemonade you get your money immediately.
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Evagreenfields: 12:43pm On Feb 01
Hi, thought to share my experience as a 1st time schengen visa applicant even though it is a while back.
My family and I applied for a schengen visa (for france) in the 1st week of Dec with a paid ticket with travel date in April 24. Took about 1 week of meticulous checking for appointment but we were able to get dates on a wedbesday at 11.30pm for the middle of dec.
We got our passports back 1 week after with visa stickers.

I'd say, keep checking for availabilities especially towards midnight. Also, they seem to release dates in small blocks (rather than availability 2 - 3 months ahead).

Best wishes.

Goodenoch:


Oh I didn’t know it was possible at all to get multiple entries on one’s first shenghen application.

I have (not very wisely, in hindsight) booked a holiday in France and paid the fees in full but I simply can’t get an appointment date. I’ve just been checking but nothing comes up.

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Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by justwise(m): 12:59pm On Feb 01
giselle237:

Example if you want to change to naira, you’ll credit them your pounds so they give you naira. If you send them your GBP and say you have a change of mind, you won’t get your pounds without breaking a sweat. Like actual sweat. They are disastrous and disgusting. Whereas with Lemonade you get your money immediately.

Got that now, i only use Lemonade though.
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Owoado(m): 1:03pm On Feb 01
Kudos to the NIS and NHC in London. I received my passport in just over 2 weeks after biometrics.

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Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by fitzjerry(m): 3:24pm On Feb 01
fitzjerry:
Hi Guys,
I have a colleague who is currently doing his dissertation @ the University of Hull but he’s kinda worried cos he got compensated for one module which he scored 46, below 50 but because his results in other modules are very good, he got a compensation and got awarded a credit for the course instead of a re-sit.

However, he is worried if the compensation won’t affect him getting a PSW Visa when he’s done with school.
Or whether he should just apply for a re-sit?

??

Anyone has an idea?

His results are quite fair at the moment (Merit).
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Goodenoch: 3:36pm On Feb 01
[quote author=fitzjerry post=128236051][/quote]

I have not heard of PSW being contingent on your grades.

Once you graduate when you’re supposed to, HO will be notified and you can then apply.

I don’t really understand this compensation thing but as long as his graduation is on track then there’s no issue here.

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Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by hustla(m): 4:15pm On Feb 01
Owoado:
Kudos to the NIS and NHC in London. I received my passport in just over 2 weeks after biometrics.

Mine took like 2 months but I heard they are quite better now though

smiley

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Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by hustla(m): 4:15pm On Feb 01
Raalsalghul:


What I meant is that if you apply to enter the Schengen area using Greece, you'll get quicker dates for appointment but the catch is that you'll only be able to use the visa once or twice (Single or Double Entry to the Schengen area) and I'm sure you'll probably prefer multiple entries as you might want to visit other countries.

So if you want to get quicker dates using Greece as entry point and at the same time get multiple entries to visit as much Schengen countries as you want, you'll have to fully book and pay for holiday in three different Schengen countries (including Greece) which will be presented to the V.O to get a high chance of getting multiple entries.

Does the above help?


Yes I do

Thanks!

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