FaithfulGod4me:
Its Baldock.

Thanks alot and thanks ti Advanced DNA and everyone who responded.

I am grateful.

Please i will send you a pm if it will be okay with you.

No wahala. You can send a PM

FaithfulGod4me:
Good evening, please i need a bit of guidance on how to go forward from here as I am a bit confused.

I picked my passport today and it has the 3 months vignette. Its for a 5years work visa with COS issued.

Please help me... What do I do from here?
How will I get the BRP at UK airport?

Is there anything else I have to do apart from booking my flight and preparing my personal stuffs ready?


My final destination is Hertfordshire. When booking for flights, should i pick London as destination and will get a train to my final location?

My job also requires me having a car.

What is the cheapest car i can get in UK? I have been driving automatic for 8years here but i have someone that will teach me manual this week in case i can't get automatic in UK.
Any idea how i can get a good decent car in UK at very affordable price?


House please i need all your guidance 🙏🙏🙏🙏.

I am a female and i will be going alone.

Take note of everything that @advanceDNA has responded.

In addition:

- You will get your BRP after you get in. You should get an email when it is ready and where you'll pick it up. You won't be needing it at the airport. At the border control, know everything about your new job. Also, know everything about where you will be staying. Be prepared to answer any questions.

- Turkish and Qatar airways are great. Where in Hertfordshire? Stevenage? Hitchin? Watford? There is a straight train from Gatwick Airport to Stevenage. Air Peace (direct flight) lands at Gatwick. I stay in Luton, so I can answer a few questions you have on Hertfordshire.

- Very good to stick with automatic you are used to, though manual cars are cheaper. First time driving in the UK is NOT easy. New rules, new styles etc

- All the best on your new adventure. May the UK favour you

People are telling the woman to take the oil and gas job, save and then japa in a few years. Is it not the japa in a few years that is available now?

If you advise her to stay in Nigeria, you surely have not lived in Nigeria within the past two years. Golden penny spaghetti is freaking #1300...A SINGLE PACK!! A bag of rice is over 100k. In December 2022, that N5,000,000 was worth over 6k dollars. Today, it is worth 3k dollars. 2 years, 50% devaluation. These are the issues. Of course, moving to the UK is not an automatic bed of roses, especially in the early years.

@NurseGrace, everyone here will be biased in their advice for you. Nobody here will be with you to suffer/enjoy the rewards of your decision. Discuss with your husband what will work for you as a family, and pray to God for direction. I pray you make the right choice that works for you now and in the future.

giselle237:

You are allowed to have your thoughts most assuredly. If I got 5m naira monthly in Nigeria I would not come here.
Rent is once a year. She pays her 7million out of 60million and is sorted. Rent is monthly here, this already makes both unequal to compare.
Iphone will not be bought every month. School fees is also not paid in Nigeria every month for 12 months.
Little or no tax in Nigeria. What is better about the Uk in terms of her starting salary? Nothing. Other luxuries would come easy and cheap.
Can she afford a driver, child minder, nanny and cook on the NHS starting salary as a nurse and still pay rent, council tax, water, electricity and cost of living in the UK from roughly £2300? NO! She can easily afford her luxuries every month in Nigeria and still be ok and have her family support childcare with a net of 5 million and no sweat. Her husband would also be working and bringing in his own income.
Only the childcare issues alone in the UK with children aged 5 years and 7 years and her shifts… she will start her cries..
yes there is insecurity in Nigeria but most people here still have majority of their families living in Nigeria, let me assume they dont care about their families—> most still have their biological parents living in Nigeria with the insecurity, what makes her different from your parents that are still living in the midst of this very drowning insecurity even though it breaks our hearts but we can not do anything ? Why is her own the highlight?
@nursegrace if the 5 million naira job is certain, take it!!!! It is a good sum to come in monthly for a WOMAN living in a low income, low taxed country like Nigeria. I am talking real life situation here, not internet. Your husband would easily be able to financially support his home.
Your workload in Nigeria can never be compared to the workload of an NHS nurse who still needs to go back home and be a wife and a mother. The burnout is real from all fronts.
For me, I can not compare a monthly take home of £2300 in the UK to that of 5 million naira in Nigeria and choose UK. I would be telling lies to you as I have earned way more than twice your NHS starting salary in here while going to work every single day completely burnt out but still showing up and in hindsight I would take a 5m option to live in Nigeria with my luxuries if I could. Easily affordable and accessible childcare for starters!!! . At least I would enjoy this 5m for the next one year first
Leave no room for regrets. This typing space is too small for me to write everything.

If you are assured of a 5m/month job in Nigeria NOW, will you leave the UK and go resume the job in Nigeria?

Cyberknight:


When you take your test with a manual car, you get a full license which enables you to drive either manual or automatic vehicles. It can be useful if you have a job that requires you to drive an office vehicle, as quite a lot of those are still manual transmissions in this country. If you take your test with an automatic car, you can only drive automatics.

Manual cars are generally quite cheaper than automatics in this country, with some significant differences between the two versions of the same car.

Makes sense. All the best

Honlucas:


Not yet just want to know everything ni

I hear that the verification portal is open. I think you should start from there first

Hkana:


Congratulations. Your post has given me a bit of hope. I'm currently learning to drive using a manual and I'm almost at my wits end. Lol.

Was yours a manual test?

Genuinely curious, why manual?

Honlucas:

Can you explain the pathway biko

Have you done your verification?

Childofgrace18:


You people should stop this nah, the people you know, are they working as a nurse or HCA? How can someone just finished from nursing school, no IELTS, No CBT and NMC Nigeria didn't verify them and they are working in Scotland? Oga take it easy on people nah, get your facts right before you may end up misleading people here.
NMC portal is locked now, meaning that NMC can't verify anyone and your countries NMC must verify you before you can work abroad, because that is the country u acquired your nursing certificate.

Loooool. Wetin be this?

Where in my reply did I say someone who finished nursing school DOES NOT have to pass IELTS, CBT, or get verified by NMCN? Did you see any of those in my response? Even a university graduate with a BSc in Nursing and Midwifery will have to pass through all those before getting a job in the UK.

The question is, can a registered nurse from a nursing school get a job in the UK? The answer is YES.

Can they get it now? Probably not if they've not been verified.

And for your info, the people I mentioned work with the NHS as nurses as I am sure you are aware, the verification issue started Dec last year, and people have been getting jobs way before that.

Honlucas:
Hello guys can a registered nurse ( someone that graduated from school of nursing) work as a nurse in the UK?

I'm new to all these .

Thank you

Yes, you can. I know two nurses who finished from the school of nursing working for the NHS in Scotland currently

AgentXxx:
Hi all,

Can someone please share that bot for finding a close appointment date for Schengen visa? I have a company sponsored Expo for Nov 6 in Amsterdam and I was seeing on their site that visa application must be made at least 45days earlier.

Can anyone also share if there is a way my company could be of help to fast track the visa process? I am currently thinking of applying by myself.

Thank you

Here - visabot.eu

JosephNJunior:
Hello everyone, I really need your help.

So, my wife and I are applying to move to England for work, with one of us being the dependent. We have been married for nearly eight months now, and before our marriage, dated for three years.

In our application, we came across a question that has left us a little confused and we need some help answering it. First, we were asked: 'Have you lived continuously together for the last two years,' to which we answered 'No'. The following question read, 'Give a reason why you have not lived together for the last two years,' and we explained that we were not permitted to live together before marriage due to our culture. But we have lived together every day for the past seven months. The next question, which is really the confusing one read, 'Can you provide evidence of why you lived apart?'

We have asked a number of people if we should answer 'Yes' to the last question, and they've all replied in the affirmative, as they believe it's the best way to avoid risking a denial. However, we feel that the question may not apply to us since we have not lived apart since our nearly eight-month old marriage began, but then, we also fear that answering 'No' to the question may leave a loophole for the visa review team to exploit.

So this is me requesting help from experts in this forum. What answer should we provide to that question, and if you believe it should be in the affirmative, what would suffice as evidence in that sense?

I would really appreciate your help. Thanks!

Very easy.

Just provide proof you guys lived apart. During my own application, I provided the offer letters of the jobs we were doing while living apart (included our addresses).

So you can provide proof of address (utility bills, bank statements) etc. Whatever it is that has the addresses where you both lived.

directonpc:


Just got my passport back

Today I got my passport back (via Royal Mail) from TLS contact Manchester.

I applied for a business visitor visa via German embassy (I'm traveling to Berlin in June)

Biometric date: 11/04
Processing turned green: 25/04
Passport delivered: 27/04

I got a 30 days multi entry visa valid for 3 months.

Congratulations. Germany is a beautiful country.

Lexusgs430:


I don't think you require anything.......

Thank you

Hello everyone. I am flying to Glasgow next weekend from Luton. Is there any doc I have to carry apart from my BRP?

Thanks

taalas:
These are the questions I was asked at Heathrow Airport by the immigration officer yesterday.I was practically done at the clearance desk
within 2-3mins

IO: Document please
Me: Here sir..I gave him my passport
IO: Where are you coming from?
Me: Nigeria
IO: What did you come to do in the UK?
Me: Work
IO: Do you have a proof of your sponsorship?
Me: Yes.. I handed him my CoS
IO: Typed in something on his system.. Looked closely at the document and asked me, but..your work start date was December 2023 and you are just resuming now
Me: That was because my CoS was just approved and assigned to me on the 10th of March and then the start date was amended to 15th April , and this was also captured in the sponsor's note
IO: Looked again..and said aah! What job have you come to do?
Me: I told him
IO: And have you got any experience?
Me: Yes I have over 3years experience
IO: Welcome to UK.. he stamped me in

May the land of UK favour me..Amen!

Congratulations. Welcome to the UK

BeeNL:


Thanks a lot for this, though we uploaded our documents on Saturday night and went for our Biometrics yesterday. We uploaded as many relevant documents, pictures, chats as we could....didn't label/date the pictures though,. However, we put the pictures in a pdf file in a progressive order - dating, pre-wedding pics, wedding, 1st pregnancy, with first child, with 2nd pregnancy, with both kids, anniversary pics etc. Also included as many random pictures (not just the ones taken at photo studios) as we could. Fingers crossed 🤞 hoping for a positive feedback.

Those should work. Good luck in your application

directonpc:

I've found 2 way ticket for ryanair totally 49 USD from east midland airport o. And the Airport is closer to me than Manchester and London.

Lucky you.

Childofgrace18:


Marriage certificate, tenancy agreement, bank transfer made to her or the one she sent to you. Pictures of two of together, send as many as possible, WhatsApp chats, Facebook chats, utility bills with your both names or joint account.

Exactly

directonpc:

Thank you.

It's a Business visit visa.

Are those tickets fully refundable?

To ticket, Rynair, 28 Pounds. Non-refundable.
Fro, Lufthansa, 89 Euros, about 50% refundable

directonpc:
I'm applying for a German visa from the UK for the first time, can anyone that has applied before share how they went about flight and hotel reservation for the Visa application process?

Booked an airbnb, booked Rynair to and Lufthansa fro. Added all the documents to the application.

Good luck!

What type of visa are you applying for?

BeeNL:
Then please, can the frequent travelers in the group kindly help with these questions...

1. Is it that the popular "ghana must go bag" has been banned completely by FAAN or can they still be allowed (eg if they are wrapped)?

2. Are there direct flights from lagos to Luton/Stanstead? (Final destination is Cambridge and we are thinking of the shortest possible way to go since we have two toddler's below 5yrs of age).


Thanks in advance 🙏🏽

- No, GMG bags are not banned, to the best of knowledge.

- I don't think there are. There is a straight bus from Gatwick to Luton though

SamGryffindor:


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.

I am not aware of other Schengen countries, but for Germany, you do not need to provide any financial capabilities until you go for your appointment. You will have to provide an account statement as recently as a week before your appointment. Also, you will provide flight tickets and accommodation details (if you don't have them, you must have sufficient funds in your account to cover them. Though it is advised you settle flight and accommodation before appointment) during your appointment.

vanvickie:
Good morning, please is there any European country I can visit visa-free with just my UK BRP. I've tried to make inquiries but keep getting conflicting answers.
Thanks

I know of Montenegro and Albania.

Check here: https://www.nairaland.com/7168603/countries-visit-free-uk-visa

Mamatukwas:


OMO overnight dates have reached July. I’ve sha gotten an appointment finally as well. Thanks again for this hack @samguine

You are welcome. Good luck!

Jamesclooney:


Thanks again Samguine for sharing this bot. Finally got an appointment after many weeks! For all those interested, there’s Netherlands Schengen slots from May onwards. I got the notifications last night. Good luck!

I'm glad it worked for you. All the best in your application!

missjekyll:
Being registered to vote affects your credit records in a positive way. You should do that once you arrive the UK. Takes about 3 minutes.

https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote

You can also check whether you are on ɓthe voter's register here

https://www.gov.uk/contact-electoral-registration-office

I applied to be put on the voter's register and I got my confirmation letter earlier this week. What are the next steps? How does this affect my credit score?

And talking about credit scores, what practical ways can I build mine?

N.B: Got into the UK three months ago.

eniola1010:


hello friend, i understand when applying for the shengen one has to show your itinerary, but i wanna know, let's say hotel for example, can i just book the hotel or the hotel has to be paid for, before the visa officer take one serious.

I guess when you book the hotel, you make payment. They'll want to see your flight tickets (to and fro) and where you'll be staying. So, it is advisable you make refundable bookings just in case.