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Lexusgs430:
Keir should negotiate with the leaseholders, would make very descent accommodation for those English channel refugees/illegal immigrants/invaders ...... 😂🤔🤣

jedisco:
They teach maths but are keen on avoiding secondary school kids for obvious reasons. A part-time teaching assistant role is being sought but hard to combine with a care role. They have registered with agencies but available jobs are sporadic and last minute. Ultimately, the aim is to get some UK teaching experience which opens up the door to opportunities out there.

Just like an insurance, I agree that the best time to start looking for alternatives is when one doesn't need it. I started looking 2yrs ago when UK was the cushy option and today, I have no regrets.

jedisco:
Fair enough. It's always pros and cons. There are always options out there.

It all comes in waves. After a while, when shortages start biting, they'd be clapping for care workers.
The funny thing with such moves is that it may have the untoward effect of chasing away the 'best and brightest' which they keep singing about attracting. The vibrant shooters with the means to would get the UK experience and head over to Aus, Cana or even the U.S. Those with little options will stick around. Down the line, when data comes thru about this 'japa 2.0', the new song would be on how to retain the best and brightest.

Goke7:
Very true, agencies jobs are sporadic and last minute and with the main care job that will be difficult to manage unless if the person is the dependent, what helped my wife then was that she was on student visa so getting on those agencies jobs were easier without visa restrictions in fact she ended up with a college (like a polytechnic) as a senior learning assistant for over a year until she got a job as a senior nursery practitioner on a skilled worker visa. The secondary schools unfortunately are the easier jobs to get because that’s where the shortages are especially for maths teachers and other sciences. If they are not too fixated on the uk they should attempt getting teaching licenses in Australia and Canada even if they feel they don’t need it now, it may come in handy tomorrow. They can even get into the express entry pool for Canada and just stay in there for whenever there is a draw for education category. Their current visa status may not make things easier unless they try another option to get the license for higher education to enable them teach in colleges and polytechnics as the students there are more mature and less stress from my wife’s experience.

Raalsalghul:
@ WanderingChild, basis your last writeup, what I understand is that it wouldn't be a bad idea to opt out of work place pension schemes?

What do you think about the above HustlaOfLagos?

Why keep paying pension when you might not access it. Once that legislation is finalised, I'm opting out of mine.

Strategy for strategy: just the kind of ideas that we need rather than moaning about petitions and what nots.

Raalsalghul:
@ WanderingChild, basis your last writeup, what I understand is that it wouldn't be a bad idea to opt out of work place pension schemes?

What do you think about the above HustlaOfLagos?

Why keep paying pension when you might not access it. Once that legislation is finalised, I'm opting out of mine.

Strategy for strategy: just the kind of ideas that we need rather than moaning about petitions and what nots.

Zahra29:
Unfortunately it's extremely difficult to regularise when one falls out of status. Even if she had a genuine marriage, Home Office would tell her to go back to her home country to make a spouse application unless it is virtually impossible to do so e.g. her home country is Gaza. They've also recently tightened the rules so that if she went back to apply, she would be subject to a re-entry ban for 1 year or more.

The only visa statuses she could change to in- country is the parent of a British or settled child, or under private life after she's lived in the UK continuously for 20 years. Both visas would put her on a 10 year route to settlement (with visa renewals every 2.5 years).

The government is now looking to add a penalty to increase this settlement route to up to 30 years (part of the earned settlement consultation) - which means that it could take her 50 years to settle from when she arrived in the UK. Hopefully these proposals are abandoned as it's crazily insane.

Wherever possible, overstaying should never be an option. It's not easy.

Raalsalghul:
@ WanderingChild, basis your last writeup, what I understand is that it wouldn't be a bad idea to opt out of work place pension schemes?

What do you think about the above HustlaOfLagos?

Why keep paying pension when you might not access it. Once that legislation is finalised, I'm opting out of mine.

Strategy for strategy: just the kind of ideas that we need rather than moaning about petitions and what nots.

lavida001:
E no go better for the likes of tinubu Akpabio oshiomole et al. If naija good wetin person de find come this wet lonely country.

Zahra what are the conditions for switching from one marriage to another within the Uk. Asking for a friend in dare need whose oyinbo wife said she wants out.

Raalsalghul:
@ WanderingChild, basis your last writeup, what I understand is that it wouldn't be a bad idea to opt out of work place pension schemes?

What do you think about the above HustlaOfLagos?

Why keep paying pension when you might not access it. Once that legislation is finalised, I'm opting out of mine.

Strategy for strategy: just the kind of ideas that we need rather than moaning about petitions and what nots.

HustlaOfLagos:


Want out ke? E must want in o - For this kain immigration palava

Also, curses no dey work. Look at the likes of Wike for example

lavida001:
Omo naija matter just tire me. Not a single thing is working. I don give up for a better Nigeria.

lavida001:
Omo naija matter just tire me. Not a single thing is working. I don give up for a better Nigeria.

Goke7:
You were never interested in a better Nigeria in the first place 😂 you just dey whine us here all this while. Thanks for the clarity finally

lavida001:
Hope still de if obi win 🥇

Goke7:
By sitting down here in the uk abi

Santa2:
@Goke7 Oga come and cut GTV anointing for me, so that I can use it for EB-1.

WanderingChild:
Just some random extreme thoughts.

I can safely assume that if the UK government is able to legislate to increase the timeline for earned settlement in order to throttle the number of qualifying immigrants, then the following:
1. Settlement timelines can be retroactively changed
2. Different migrant categories deserve different timelines based on "contribution"
3. Settlement doesn't guarantee full social rights (being noises around)
4. This can all be done without parliamentary debate (Immigration Rules changes)

having been established, the next plan from the UK government will be to focus on "state pensions reforms". The arguments will be an exact replica - the number of immigrants who will qualify for state pensions by say 2052 will bankrupt the state as we would have more persons on pension than working. They would talk about the need to keep people working longer especially immigrants and how citizenship is not a right but a privilege (please always look out for this statement as its prevalence in HO correspondence is a psyops to numb the fact that it is your right to acquire British Citizenship if you have met the time requirements and good character aspect - you CANNOT be denied citizenshipif you apply having met all requirements).

The "reforms" will focus on:
1. Making state pension a benefit. They will find ways to argue that NI contributions today are immaterial to the benefits that payers derive from living and working in the UK (I can evidence this as a fact that our NI and taxes are far lesser than the value we get from living and working in the UK. The justification of this will rely on "intangible" benefits (peace, prestige, exposure, community, access, name and location brand, etc.) whose quantification is subjective like Elon Musk's wealth). Government already argues visa fees reflect "value" of UK access. Remember that there are 3 types of lies - lies, damned lies and statistics.
2. Making the minimum qualification to enjoy state pension outside period of contribution to be having a British citizenship.
3. Making this forward looking rather than retroactive (to avoid clashes with ECHR). The goal will be to make getting citizenship more laborious (Kemi's 15 years comes into play) after ILR.

Remember, the government will by then (through current reforms) have:
1. Established retroactivity is acceptable
2. Created precedent for differential treatment
3. Signaled openness to restricting ILR rights
4. Done this with minimal opposition

As you plan, please plan wisely. The immigrant is about to be properly set in a visual rat race. We are about to launch the creation of a generation or two of frustrated immigrants with outcomes far worse than during the slave trade era. The UK lacks any means of wealth creation (growth) beyond exploitation and extraction from workers. This is why they will continue to skew policies to bait and trap workers for as long as possible.

jedisco:
Just before Christmas, Essex University announced that it would close its Southend campus this summer due to a big fall in international students, who pay much higher fees. The move will affect 800 students, as well as staff, but it will also have a huge impact on a city that has come to depend on the university in many ways.

I thought most universities have stabilised. Another campus which includes a nursing school closes.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/04/essex-university-southend-campus-closure-seaside-deprivation

ehizario2012:
Nice writeup. What is your advice about contributory state pension? Is it advisable to opt out now? Just a few years in

Santa2:
@Goke7 Oga come and cut GTV anointing for me, so that I can use it for EB-1.

Goke7:
For where folks like Hustla Dey, 😂 na learner I be o!

HustlaOfLagos:


Show us way abeg

I want to touch the helm of your garment

ehizario2012:
Nice writeup. What is your advice about contributory state pension? Is it advisable to opt out now? Just a few years in

Goke7:
And the blame continues 😂 wetin musa no go see again for gate!

https://x.com/skynews/status/2021639035123323249?s=46&t=tk-1hGRx-HBpOmsos8uccA[/quote]The UK is almost certainly heading towards its Trumpian era. Anyone with a visa would be wise to take a brace position and leave the door back home open.

Be it as it may, the UK and most of the West is largely a fading system and immigrants are not to blame for its fading glory.

I am convinced in a decade or two at most Africa will turn a corner and we will have people from Europe looking to settle in Africa to escape life in Europe much as they are already starting to flock to Asia and the Middle East for a better live themselves.

We are not to blame for the West's ageing population, we are not to blame for its dying industrial base, we are not to blame for citizens who chose to live on benefits rather than work, we are not to blame for its slowing growth rate, we are not to blame for its people increasing disillusioned with its economic decline.

We largely do the thankless work that many dont want to do because of its low pay or demanding hours without any recourse to funds.

Yet the politicians and those with influence constantly drum to the public that we are vagrants here to live on benefits when in reality we pay taxes for which we are barred from its direct benefit, we pay health surcharges many of us do not use, they increase visa fees annually at ridiculous rates far beyond inflation and yet we do not complain. Many of us struggle to switch jobs or employers because of various hurdles and the rhetoric the politicians and homeoffice have been feeding into the system, yet we get blamed for not showing enough productivity and economic mobility...utter bullshit!

They shoot themselves in the foot by limiting our potential to do more for them than we currently do. Many of us had plans to invest in the real estate business here or invest in the real sector, but have been forced to put brakes to everything, even home improvements we no longer do anything expensive. Not allowed to run a business on a SWV, struggle to switich to higher paying roles.

The focus now is to do the best you can with what opportunity we reach here while mantaining the flexibility to leave and move whatever we have accumulated here in an orderly manner if the system becomes too toxic.

As someone said, the british passport is not one to heaven.

Memorychip:
The UK is almost certainly heading towards its Trumpian era. Anyone with a visa would be wise to take a brace position and leave the door back home open.

Be it as it may, the UK and most of the West is largely a fading system and immigrants are not to blame for its fading glory.

I am convinced in a decade or two at most Africa will turn a corner and we will have people from Europe looking to settle in Africa to escape life in Europe much as they are already starting to flock to Asia and the Middle East for a better live themselves.

We are not to blame for the West's ageing population, we are not to blame for its dying industrial base, we are not to blame for citizens who chose to live on benefits rather than work, we are not to blame for its slowing growth rate, we are not to blame for its people increasing disillusioned with its economic decline.

We largely do the thankless work that many dont want to do because of its low pay or demanding hours without any recourse to funds.

Yet the politicians and those with influence constantly drum to the public that we are vagrants here to live on benefits when in reality we pay taxes for which we are barred from its direct benefit, we pay health surcharges many of us do not use, they increase visa fees annually at ridiculous rates far beyond inflation and yet we do not complain. Many of us struggle to switch jobs or employers because of various hurdles and the rhetoric the politicians and homeoffice have been feeding into the system, yet we get blamed for not showing enough productivity and economic mobility...utter bullshit!

They shoot themselves in the foot by limiting our potential to do more for them than we currently do. Many of us had plans to invest in the real estate business here or invest in the real sector, but have been forced to put brakes to everything, even home improvements we no longer do anything expensive. Not allowed to run a business on a SWV, struggle to switich to higher paying roles.

The focus now is to do the best you can with what opportunity we reach here while mantaining the flexibility to leave and move whatever we have accumulated here in an orderly manner if the system becomes too toxic.

As someone said, the british passport is not one to heaven.

Goke7:
And the blame continues 😂 wetin musa no go see again for gate!

https://x.com/skynews/status/2021639035123323249?s=46&t=tk-1hGRx-HBpOmsos8uccA[/quote]Imagine an elite talking like this, what do you expect from the common man then?

Goke7:
Are you ready sow a seed offering? 😂

Raalsalghul:
Imagine an elite talking like this, what do you expect from the common man then?