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TravelRe: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 9 by SamGryffindor: 3:07pm On Sep 19, 2024
splendur:
2 stops at Addis ababa and Switzerland, is transit visa needed for this?
Which airline is this ?

However, if you’re going through Switzerland, I believe you require a transit visa.
TravelRe: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 9 by SamGryffindor: 3:18pm On Sep 18, 2024
Klazy:
I arrived Gatwick airport this morning at exactly 6:40am.
I spent just a minute with the broader officer who attended to me.

Me: good morning
Him: why did you come to the UK
Me: for postgraduate studies
Him: Your school
Me: I told him
Him: your course
Me : I told him
Before saying my course he stamped my passport and say have a nice stay in the UK.

God mercy.
Welcome to the UK. Which city would you be staying at ?
TravelRe: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 9 by SamGryffindor: 3:17pm On Sep 18, 2024
keeplurkingx:
Hi everyone. Please my application moved to VAC today without any mails from UKVI or TLS.
I didn’t get any mails after the notification from TLS that it had been sent to DMC. I’ve had to refresh my tracker daily. Should I be worried?
Nothing to worry about. They don’t typically send mails to tell you about transfer to DMC. They only send mails
When decision has been made on your application.
TravelRe: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by SamGryffindor: 10:52am On Sep 02, 2024
Hi guys. Thank you Mods for assisting with questions and concerns as ever.

I have questions/concerns to ask for a friend.

“ I have had 2 UK visit visa applications denied in the space of 4 months. Now I am about to apply for a UK study visa but in my 2 previous visit visa denials I used a salary account with huge deposits that ain't there anymore. In my current study visa application, I'm using another bank for my POF(one of these agencies that provide PoF).

My concern is, do I have to include the previous account statement used for my previous application showing salary deposits or just use the new bank I'm using for POF for the study visa. Also, how do I validate source of the income ? Cause there is no way I can say I earned 40 million in savings.”
TravelRe: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by SamGryffindor: 7:09am On May 05, 2024
Good morning everyone and Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers here.

Please has anyone done a Schengen visa application for Poland ? What validity period do they typically give ? Any chance they give one year multiple entries if you select such ?
TravelRe: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by SamGryffindor: 9:52am On Mar 23, 2024
Jamesclooney:
Go for Netherlands Schengen. They typically give one year multi-entry. It starts counting from your intended travel date. Some other countries only give 3months single entry.
Hello. Thank you for your reply. However, I browsed about this and I could only similar thing written for tourist/visitor visa to the Netherlands i.e that you’re allowed to stay for 3 months in a 6 months period but that it can be shortened at the discretion of the issuing authority…so I wonder if there is a particular way you made the application to be granted a year visa validity ? Also did you mention plans to enter other countries apart from Netherlands to be granted the multi entry allowed visa ?
Further, I curiously noted requirements to procure a health insurance for ur visa application. How did you go about this too ?
I’d really appreciate your assistance.
TravelRe: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by SamGryffindor: 8:30am On Mar 20, 2024
Mamatukwas:
OMO overnight dates have reached July. I’ve sha gotten an appointment finally as well. Thanks again for this hack @samguine
Hello. Is it possible to apply now and be waiting for biometrics dates even though I don’t have financial account ready for the application until April ending ? I am considering having a visa that will be valid through the Olympics period.
TravelRe: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by SamGryffindor: 12:35pm On Jun 17, 2022
Thank you so much
giselle237:
if you are a 1st timer going to Leeds.
Your best bet is to land at Manchester airport. From the airport there is a bus terminal, National express manchester airport you can take a bus from Manchester airport to Leeds bus station. When the bus drops u, use your uber app and book taxi from bus station to your accommodation in Leeds or you take a taxi - a1 brighouse (used to charge 70-80 pounds to leeds) from Manchester airport straight to your accommodation in Leeds.
If you land at heathrow or gatwick you must then take train or bus down to leeds. They are miles apart and that’s what accounts for the extra money. Coming as a 1st timer and with luggage, trains are not easy to maneuver. Before u know it you have missed your train and lost money.
The good thing about all airports is you dnt have to leave the airport to find your movemnt, trains and bus terminals leave from airports directly, so plan accrdingly
TravelRe: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by SamGryffindor: 12:30pm On Jun 17, 2022
SamGryffindor:
My final destination is Leeds. I know it's closer to Manchester. However, I'm seeing a price difference of almost 200k. Also, it's way more expensive to land at Heathrow than Gatwick. I just want to be sure it's okay to land at Gatwick over Heathrow. I don't mind taking time for such amount of reduction in expenses.
Please advise better.
TravelRe: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by SamGryffindor: 7:20am On Jun 17, 2022
My final destination is Leeds. I know it's closer to Manchester. However, I'm seeing a price difference of almost 200k. Also, it's way more expensive to land at Heathrow than Gatwick. I just want to be sure it's okay to land at Gatwick over Heathrow. I don't mind taking time for such amount of reduction in expenses.
Please advise better.
giselle237:
where is your destination gan gan? And where will the whole of your trip be centres around? London and Manchester are miles apart.
TravelRe: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by SamGryffindor: 12:23am On Jun 17, 2022
Hello everyone. Thank you everyone for posting and answering Questions.
Visa collection mail received today.
Biometrics 29th April
Visitors Visa.

Now, Please I want to ask...are there any dependable banks where it's reliable to get the PTA upon application?

2ndly, as regards flight booking. Any advantage of flying Abuja to London over Abuja to Manchester? If none, are there any disadvantages to flying into and from London Gatwick against London Heathrow? The price varies and I want to know they don't matter when I book.

Thanks in anticipation.
TravelRe: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by SamGryffindor: 6:56pm On Jun 14, 2022
Thank you so much for your response.
Does it mean it's now tls/VAC that she is now waiting to send mail for passport collection?

Also, how much is the paid call ? And Please at any time she receives the mail for passport collection from VAC. Can you please come and quote me here. I would really appreciate that.
benjichuks:
My MIL did her biometrics on the 28th of April, just did a paid call now and was told decision has been made.
I don't even know how long before she receives her passport
TravelRe: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by SamGryffindor: 2:53pm On Jun 14, 2022
Hello Guys.

Anyone who applied for Visitors visa and had their biometrics between 27-30th April. What's the status of your application please?
Foreign AffairsRe: Upwork Suspends Operations In Russia And Belarus by SamGryffindor: 5:53am On Mar 10, 2022
Can you mention which niches are unsaturated ?
pocohantas:
What is your niche?
How do you write your proposals? Copy and paste or bespoke?

It is harder to land gigs on Upwork now and most niches are saturated, with Nigerians not being top-pick, let alone a beginner.

However, if you veer into unsaturated niches, you would have less competition and better chances.
Foreign AffairsRe: Upwork Suspends Operations In Russia And Belarus by SamGryffindor: 12:57pm On Mar 09, 2022
So what do people now use Boss??
Give me update. Getting jobs at Upwork is quite exhausting these days.
SUGARCyprian247:
Lol..

People still use Upwork?
SportsRe: Women's Nations Cup Qualifier: Ivory Coast VS Nigeria At 4pm Today by SamGryffindor: 6:12pm On Feb 23, 2022
I just de laugh the two of una. Person wey I go soon go visit her people
gatecrash123:
Bobo, i no want see you near my wife. Keep ur crushing to your self
TravelRe: See How Empty, Morning Flight Was This Morning. (Photos) by SamGryffindor: 5:41pm On Feb 22, 2022
I hope Airpeace won't cancel a ticket I booked at the old price for this?
That should amount to a breach of agreement right? Let me start looking for a lawyer if so ooo
CrimeRe: Sportybet Scam/fraud Alert!!! Please Help!!! by SamGryffindor(op): 10:33pm On Feb 16, 2022
My bank sends OTP for online transactions. I have no idea how they didn't send this time around.
I really just don't get it.
tesseract:
Always set up multiple measures on your bank accounts. Apart from pins and passwords, always use your token and or otp to validate all transactions ranging from those as small as purchase of data and credit to transfers of any amount.
Also don't store your card details on apps that go online, always use the virtual bank transfer option provided by wema.
If you still have access to this bank account please go and change all of your banking passwords because its obvious your account has been compromised.
CrimeRe: Sportybet Scam/fraud Alert!!! Please Help!!! by SamGryffindor(op): 10:32pm On Feb 16, 2022
This is huge. So transacting online with our accounts puts it in jeopardy? I wasn't aware. Thank you
HenryWilliams:
First of all. Don't ever use your main account to transact online. Always have another account with Limited cash.
It's possible your account has been hacked.
CrimeRe: Sportybet Scam/fraud Alert!!! Please Help!!! by SamGryffindor(op): 10:31pm On Feb 16, 2022
Yes. It's been secured already. I just wish to know how it could have happened for the future.
Adamtrampan:
Before i advice, hope you have taken the balance out of the account?
CrimeSportybet Scam/fraud Alert!!! Please Help!!! by SamGryffindor(op): 12:19pm On Feb 16, 2022
Hello Everyone!

Today, I received a debit alert of ₦1000 with description Online Sporty with a particular transaction id. While I'm thankful, that it was only a mini amount of money, I'm also worried and curious as to how this could have happened.

Please does anyone have an idea or have had any such experience of unwarranted debit from Online Sporty.
I've never used my ATM or whatever to transact with them, I don't even have an account with them and to the best of my knowledge, my ATM card isn't compromised. Meanwhile, I've contacted my bank customer care on the phone to block my ATM card for online transactions before they withdraw the remaining available cash, and also enquired from them how that could have happened since I never authorised such but they're insisting I was the one that authorised the transaction which really baffles me.

Please I'm sharing my story so anyone who's experienced such prior can help enlighten me on how such could have transpired.

HealthRe: Doctor Removes Ovaries Of Teenager During Appendix Surgery In Benue by SamGryffindor: 12:44pm On Feb 04, 2022
Clown! You edited your comment from calling me a slowpoke to a slowpoke, yet you couldn't tell that you committed a terrible blunder thereby substantiating my earlier stance that Nigerian Drs should ignore you.

If you like keep blaming your horrible English to autocorrect. When the chickens will come home to roost, you'll ve only but yourself to blame for not taking constructive criticisms.
Benwems:
slowpoke, the earlier you start accepting construction criticism, the better for you. I need no validation, I definitely speak better than you. Autocorrect caused it!
HealthRe: Doctor Removes Ovaries Of Teenager During Appendix Surgery In Benue by SamGryffindor: 12:29pm On Feb 04, 2022
This is the story of every Doctor that served in Benue State communities.
It's quite alarming how far laid back they are.
cosmatika:
My brother, you should have known by now that Nigerians in general and nairalanders in particular hate doctors. Any issue that want to paint doctors in a bad light, dey rush to argue ignorantly.
Your submission on this matter shows someone that reasons well and that you are a colleague.
I served in a rural community in Benue state and I can tell you that the number of quacks in that state is more than registered practitioners dere.
They have a lot of school of health that train people in CHEW & JCHEW. These students assume themselves to be doctors and nurses.
While the male ones answer doctors, the females are seen as nurses.
When they attend clinical attachments in hospitals, they strive to learn how to cut. And once dey graduate, they enter the villages and open their clinics and start this unholy practice.
Wetin my eyes see for Benue, if I'm telling the story people doubt me
HealthRe: Doctor Removes Ovaries Of Teenager During Appendix Surgery In Benue by SamGryffindor: 12:24pm On Feb 04, 2022
I've never seen any group of confident ignoramuses like the typical Nigerian patient.

What makes you think that a chest pain is "Simple" ?
And if it was a simple chest pain like you insinuated, what makes u to think that tramadol isn't adequate for it ? In your own ignorant best knowledge, tramadol is only used as a sex enhancer.
Stay there and be arguing with a Dr who went through 7 years of grilling medical training.
iamL:
One was once asked me what he was supposed to give me for a simple chest pain he he realized he was clueless he then prescribed tramadol for me. I just walked out.

Na tramadol wey Dem they take for school to bang girls wey make them nor dey read na he fit know.
HealthRe: Doctor Removes Ovaries Of Teenager During Appendix Surgery In Benue by SamGryffindor: 10:07am On Feb 04, 2022
Hahaha. Forgive her Chief. She's lacking wisdom and understanding.
By the time I'm 50, I'd be having like 28 years PG experience.
Instead of them to channel their angst to the system that allows fakes to flourish, they're busy blaming and condemning the Doctors.
VIKTO83:
Any Dr less than 50yrs u said?
U must be in dreamsland. How on earth do u think? U think through ur anus I guess. Probably ur type are d ones that are living in 17th century.

I'm less than 40 with over 12years practice. We have hands that lives have been saved through them who are younger than me even.

Don't forget that quacks grow old too.
Come to think of it, that man doesn't look like a Dr.
HealthRe: Doctor Removes Ovaries Of Teenager During Appendix Surgery In Benue by SamGryffindor: 10:01am On Feb 04, 2022
I expect Nigerian Doctors to ignore you until you can type good English.

The hatred for Doctors in the social media space is sickening.
Benwems:
Except Nairaland doctors to come to their support. Nigerian does have been incapacitating and killing people but nobody holds them to account.
HealthRe: Doctor Removes Ovaries Of Teenager During Appendix Surgery In Benue by SamGryffindor: 9:49am On Feb 04, 2022
Comrade, it's really annoying. Nigerians are so easily deceived. People are so busy blaming and castigating their Doctors when the people really doing the harm are getting away with it.
I absolutely agree with you on this too. No Nigerian trained Doctor would have committed this blunder. Absolutely none.
DrFunmisticGlow:
Really?!

Rather than castigate young doctors, why not castigate quacks?!

I can bet you that the person who did the operation is not a licensed medical doctor in nigeria
HealthRe: Doctor Removes Ovaries Of Teenager During Appendix Surgery In Benue by SamGryffindor: 9:45am On Feb 04, 2022
Thank you so much for this. I'm not even surprised. Our regulatory bodies really need to do better. People shouldn't be getting away going beyond the limits they were licensed to.
How CHEWs in Nigeria came to become Surgeons is one of the many wonders of our wonderful Nigeria.... Surgery that even fully licensed Drs still undertake some training before they start to attempt one
Feelings79:
This incident happened in my area where I live and work.The so called"Doctor"isn't anything close to a doctor.He is rather a community health worker.Here in Benue state even a patent medicine operator is labeled and called a doctor by our people.Often times, the so called doctors perform all kinds of medical operations
HealthRe: Doctor Removes Ovaries Of Teenager During Appendix Surgery In Benue by SamGryffindor: 9:39am On Feb 04, 2022
Not to vilify MDCN or anything, but I can bet you that the person involved in this isn't a Medical Doctor.
Benue state is filled with a lot of fake ass quacks parading as Medical Doctors, deceiving pple and committing all sort of atrocities with people's lives. It's a very big menace in the state, and I'm speaking from personal experience having undertaken my NYSC in the state.
I still faulter MDCN because I believe they're not doing their job very well as a regulatory body. They are so engrossed with billing the Doctors that alot of quackery go uncheckmated and people keep dying from such. It's really a very sad situation.
christejames:
Some of these so called doctors operate like carpenters, always cutting to join.


Sometimes you begin to wonder what the regulatory body (MDCN) do to checkmate and assess the intellectual capacity of these medics, once they grant them their license, they forget about them which is not suppose to be so.


Sometimes I begin to align with BMC and Tinubu urchins on why their principles will never take panadol produced in Nigeria talk more of having a bed rest here.
RomanceRe: Who Are Those Marrying The Female Doctors? by SamGryffindor: 6:54am On Dec 08, 2021
ABANGWABOI:
E shock me the day my brother told me that some of them Doctors earn as low as 75k at FMC Owerri ..
Despite them shouting Brain drain .. still Dem full for naija.. e dey hard Dem now to get work unlike before.. very soon doctors go full everywhere like lawyers for this country..
Na em make if Dem wn do their Mumu shakara, sharperly that Idiot Minister of Labour go change am for them too..

Confused lots..
It's either your brother is lying to you or he's a corper Doctor. No Dr after NYSC would be comfortable with anything less than twice that amount. Factos
TravelRe: Passengers Confront Air Peace Staff After Cancelling Flight Delayed For 8 Hours by SamGryffindor: 4:43am On Dec 07, 2021
Mummyfour:
:- kiss kissit's okay.
I just saw the apology.
Oya shake my hands make we settle grin
Hahahahahaha...get a room guys!

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