LakesidesNG:
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I want to say a very and special thanks to Almighty GOD @⁨Amadi Nkesi. @⁨Patrice@ Chocolate @ Princess Adedoyin & @F33L⁩ for your private support and to all the group member tnx for your prayers, God bless you all��.

Congratulations you have been approved. May God be praise �

Congratulations. Welcome to America!

Coquinoqui:

16th march 2022 i Submitted Adjustments of status, Employment Authorization Card and advanced parole

16th march received USCIS Receipt notice.

25th march biometric appointment scheduled

22nd April I did my biometric and photo capture
After the appointment I checked my case online it says actively been processed , checked again few hours later and it changed to “We have approved your Form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization, we will mail ur card to the address u gave us” Omo i surprise I got the approval same day I did the biometric. Just 1 month and 5days . Thank God for grace , can’t wait to enter the hustling field$$$$$$$$$.

Great. Congratulations. Biden's administration is trying to speed up work authorizations and the process in general.

AllKnowing:
To our Nigeria peeps abroad, what is your personal template for handling racism at work/ school, in Church/ parties, and on the streets?!

cc: justwise
Lalasticlala

I have NEVER personally experienced racism. However, I experienced lots of tribalism when I was in Nigeria.

Hmmm.

Wetin the guy dey find with uneducated American woman that's on onlyfans? Dem no send anybody. They are not afraid of the police or jail sef.

Dem fit kill if you mess with them.

Insecurity:
Nigeria Needs Igbo President In 2023; Ruling Party, APC Must Zone To South-East — Adeyanju Writes Buhari

Adeyanju also said an Igbo presidency will help to repair Nigeria's badly damaged economy owing to the business acumen of the Igbos.



http://saharareporters.com/2022/04/06/nigeria-needs-igbo-president-2023-ruling-party-apc-must-zone-south-east-%E2%80%94-adeyanju-writes

LOL. Imagine this PDP guy telling APC where to zone its presidential ticket? Meanwhile, his own PDP is not zoning. Joker.

Tiwatope1:
Good day Nairalanders!
I need to make an informed decision.
I have a Capital of 2M , should I open a pharmacy/ chemist in Nigeria or Move to Europe,I also have baking skills.
I'm confused on which part to follow
P.s I'm not a pharmacist but experienced in that field.

Lol. Is 2 million Naira capital? Nothing capital in 2 million.

ednut1:
i’m tired of explaining my brother. The so called ogas and owners in those companies have dual citizenship or has their kids born in USA. But us wey our papa be common man will see opportunity for second passport and begin to do calculations. Omo i weak o. My colleague got a job offer in an IOC while waiting for his Canadian PR. The guy worked there for a few months before coming to Canada. Working as manager in a big 4, said he may move to USA after he becomes a Canadian citizen or come back to Nigeria as an expat .na 700k dey confuse this OP lol. Time for promotion now they may say due to business case or they bring one ogas relative come.

Imagine. 700k now and expected 2.2 million in 2030, a whole 8 years from now. Can you imagine. Maybe a $ will be N1,000 by then.

ednut1:
false, i was working in a big 4 accounting firm, if i had gone to the industry and not travelled I would have gotten more than he earns. I have ex colleagues who left audit to shell and other big oil companies, today they are in Canada, one of the oil company started paying salary once every two months. My guy just japa. Canada migration was designed to take only the highly skilled workers with 3 or more years experience. You cant even get into Canada as an hustler. Na usa and Europe dem dey hustle

A lot of people talking here don't even understand the situation. They think people running from Nigeria are poor or struggling.

I met someone in Houston that left Shell in Nigeria to relocate about 4 or 5 years ago.

My last salary in Nigeria was over 10m per annum (which was/is small in my opinion) in 2018 and I still relocated in 2019. I was an accountant in Nigeria and I got a job in a mid-size public accounting firm the same month I got my work authorization. At exactly 2 years, I moved to a big4 firm. The same big4 in Nigeria refused to employ me because of age or class of degree.

I am currently paying cash for a master's program that will end this year. My program cost over $27,000 but I am allowed to pay per semester based on the number of credits I register for. No way I would have been able to afford $27,000 for school fees if I remained in Nigeria. The value of my retirement savings account in one year alone is more than my over 10 years pension fund account in Nigeria. One of the companies I worked for still owes me over 1 million Naira pension deductions not remitted to my PFA. So many other things that have happened that I won't want to disclose here so as not to give away my identity.

I will always advise anyone. LEAVE if you have the opportunity to relocate legally. Staying in Nigeria was a waste of time for me. If I had come earlier.....I can imagine what I would have achieved.

Olam09:


Then explain the proverb to my understanding.

The proverb means time can be delayed. Time here represents progress, achievements, destiny. It simply means your destiny can not be changed; it can only be delayed. It has nothing to do with time travel.

drpossibilities:
Many thanks for all your contributions. I am more inclined to stay back in Nigeria and I will. Starting life all over again in a new country is a turn off for me. For my profession I'll need to spend a year or two writing exams in any new country to get certified in that country before I will be able to get similar job and roles unless I want to switch careers. My job in Nigeria is secured. The Company is over 50 years old and even though it started as a one man business it's no longer so. After becoming a director within 3 to 5 years you become a shareholder. Shares are allotted to you as part of your employment benefits and the shares are often enough to make you part of the decision makers. I feel I have better prospects staying here and building my career than relocating to a new country and starting all over again.

Good luck and wishing you the best in your decision. If there is a pathway for you to relocate LEGALLY, it won't hurt to explore it.

Hopefully you won't wake up 5 years from now and wish you had taken a different decision. I am speaking from experience, I had the chance in my late 20s / early 30s but ignored the opportunities. Fortunately, another opportunity came again in my late 30s and I grabbed it. Best decision ever!

drpossibilities:
If you are currently working in a company that pays you N700,000 monthly and you are on the right path to becoming a director in that company by 2030 (8 years from now), will you resign and relocate to Canada? Note the following:

1. Directors earn not less than N2,200,000.00 monthly and salaries are reviewed upwards in the company annually.

2. You and the company both contribute to a pension fund with a reputable pension fund administrator monthly and your pension fund account balance in just 6 years of working with the company is over 8 million naira.

3. The company caters for the health needs of you, your spouse and 5 children at no cost to you under HMO.

4. You enjoy performance bonuses annually.

5. Your next promotion is to Assistant General Manager where you will begin to earn about US$6,000 per annum as foreign trips allowances.

6. You are married with 5 children.

7. You are 35 years old.

I will relocate to the US or Canada if I am in the situation above.

That 2.2million you hope to earn monthly is not even up to $4,000/month at the current exchange rate. If the naira continues to depreciate, it will be a lot less in 8 years. $4,000 per month is $48,000 per annum. If you are a legal immigrant and you are educated, you can easily earn a lot more than that in the US.

Then consider you will have to pay school fees for your kids, provide your own power, water. You can't escape bad roads, police checkpoints, generator noise, etc.

I won't even think about it, I will leave if I have the opportunity. Actually, I left already and it is one of the best decision i have taken in my entire life. I only regret not exploring the opportunities available and leaving earlier.

Jamestown123:
How can you spend $600 in just a day? Are u ok?

LOL. He thinks it is 600 Naira.

Hi guys.

I came across this case and thought it would be good to share. I have attached a pdf copy of the case.

It's a relatively long read, but it is helpful. This is a warning against lying on any immigration or visa form. Whatever benefit derived, including citizenship, can be rescinded if they find out.

Summary:

In 2008, an applicant from Ethiopia applied for a K-1 visa as the fiance of a U.S. citizen. He did not disclose he had two children with a woman who was not his fiance in his application. The children were conceived when he was reportedly in a relationship with his fiance. His K1 visa was approved. In 2008, he entered the United States soon after and married his fiance within 90 days based on the terms of the K1 visa. In
2009, he adjusted his status to that of a conditional lawful permanent resident by filing a Form 1-485 and eventually removed those conditions in 2011 by filing a Form I-751, Petition to Remove Conditions on Residence. He did not disclose these children on either of these forms.

In 2012, the Applicant divorced his K-1 visa petitioner. Approximately one month later, he married the mother of his two children, filing a Form 1-130 to bring her and his children to the United States. In November 2013, the USCIS interviewed the Applicant in connection with this Form 1-130. During this interview, USCIS discovered he did not disclose his children on his prior immigration applications. As a result, in 2014, USCIS issued a notice of intent to rescind permanent residence, and in response, the Applicant requested a hearing before an immigration judge. In June 2016, the immigration judge rescinded his lawful permanent residence.

In trying to remedy the situation, the Applicant and the mother of his children divorced the same year. One month later, the Applicant married the mother of his third child, she filed a Form 1-130, Petition for Alien Relative on his behalf, and he filed a Form 1-485 to adjust his status based on this relationship.

Of course, the new petition was not approved, and he lost all his appeals in court.

You can read the attached pdf for the full story.

So please, it is important to be truthful and honest in our applications and not commit ANY requested information. Also, don't compound a situation by lying to cover up another lie.

Lol. @ OP where do you live?

rentAcock:
You hustled in Nigeria and succeeded. You are on an exponential trajectory in Nigeria as it is, whatever you do, do no relocate to the U.S.

You will be miserable there. You may end up working at Mcdonald serving food or end up as a security guard or at the very best a taxi driver. Your U.S based wife may talk down on you because she feels like she brought you to the U.S and also because she will likely be the bread winner of the house. Nigerians in the U.S especially in Houston, have the highest divorce rate and domestic homicide rate than anyone else. And that's because a a majority of the U.S based Nigerian women are nurses making good money while their husbands are minimum wage earners doing menial jobs. They feel like they can talk to their husbands anyhow and one day the husband reacts and kills the woman.

IF you are into IT, you can work remotely right here in Nigeria. I know a couple friends working for Amazon Web Services from Nigeria, they get paid in dollars and they earn nothing less than $300,000 annually by working for different companies. I wish you all the best, but don't say you weren't warned.

This has got to be the dumbest take I have seen on this travel section this year.

Remnita:

@sharpman pls can I get your email.

Go to my profile and send me an email from there.

Congratulations to him.

I only hope he is contributing to the welfare of his kids though and not leaving the burden to the mothers of his children.

Hope he has money to pay child support.

Cyntie55:
Good day nairalanders. Season greetings to y'all. I'm so angry right now. Please I need mature advice.

My father is not a learned person but he make sure all his children are graduates. My younger brother(last born and only son) rounded up his Nysc few months ago, we're just 2 girls. My elder sis and I. My elder sis is a nurse in Austria (3 years now), she's married with a kid in Austria. My big sister send money home once in 3 months, and I have been the one receiving the money. I share the money exactly as instructed by my big sis. I have never cheated anyone, Infact my Dad and Big sis communicate very well. My Dad trust me so much.

My younger brother is always angry, He said he feel cheated all the time. He shouts and talks to me anyhow like I'm his mate.
Honestly speaking, I gave my younger brother more love and respect that he could ever imagine. When he was serving, he would call telling me he need 10k urgently, sometimes 20k, that he will pay back. Immediately I will send it to him and he would never pay back. Same thing he does to my father.
If we ask him what's he using his allawee for?? He would angrily say so is becus we're sending him "chicken change" that's why we're asking jamb questions.

He said we don't regard him, he called my Dad a SIMP, he said my Dad listen more to my big sis and I....but he don't listen to any of his suggestions.

My brother is a 2:1 (second class upper) graduate in economics from UNIBEN. After his Nysc all he does is to sleep and eat. My Dad's good friend told my brother to come to Lagos and resume work with him. He refused. My Dad ask him if he wants to further his education (masters or professional courses)he said no....Okay follow my Dad to his cement shop and help him (my dad even promised to pay him salary) he refused....I overheard him on a call with a friend and i suspect he's now into yahoo yahoo.

Look at what happened. My big sis sent us money yesterday to celebrate this festive period. She said I should give my brother 50k, I should take 80k and give my father the rest (abt 250k). My Dad is always aware of everything.
I even added 20k out of my money and I transferred 70k to my brother, I was left with 60k (becus she also sent me hair and I plan to sell it becus I already had enough). You can imagine this ungrateful idiot started insulting me, that I cheated him. the fool angrily withdrawn the money from his account and SET IT ON FIRE (70k). He called my elder sister and started warning her saying "if he can't receive the money henceforth, she should stop sending him money again that he's the man of the house".
My Dad gave him a resetting, resounding, hot and dirty slaps. He pulled out a knife, deflated my Dad's car tyres and ran away from the house.

Everyone is not happy. I don't want my brother to live a wayward life. He's 24 years old. Please nairalanders Help!

Leave him! There is nothing you guys can say to him that will make him change, he has to learn by himself. He is old enough to make his choices and bear the consequences.

Your father should not worry about him and he should leave the house permanently to fend for himself.

When/If he realizes his stupidity, he will come back home. He should only be allowed back in the house omly if he us truly remorseful.

Skybridge33:
A friend of mine called me last week, she resigned from a high paying job working for a Telecom company in Nigeria to move to America with her two kids. Before she left she was doing okay, her salary was over a million, her kids went to the best schools in Lagos and she bought a plot of land in lekki. She sha want to leave Nigeria and japa even though she was in her mid forties and can't hustle like before. She got a tourist visa and left with her kids.
Now she's complaining even after advising her not to leave as she was average rich here before she left . Now she lives in a one bedroom apartment in a ghetto area of Houston. She works 20 hrs a day doing two jobs and she still doesn't make enough money to pay her rent, the landlord will chase her out anytime. Now she's complaining that things are hard and she wants to come back to Nigeria. What should I tell her, everybody wants to japa thinking life is better there. Eventually when they get there, instant regret it's cold, the people are unfriendly and even the blacks there are racist to Africans.

The issue here is that she is an illegal immigrant and that's her fault.

If she was legal, her story would have been different.

Adex3mj:
Good day everyone, I have read some pages here but my question is this i lost my wife in 2016 and my U.S finace is ready to file for k1 visa for me.. pls where can I get the death certificate that's recognize by US embassy...

Get a death certificate from the Nigerian Population Commission. The same place you obtain birth certificates from.

The death certificate will likely be sufficient as proof that you are free to marry your fiance at the filing stage, but be prepared to show more evidence at the interview stage.

At the interview, in addition to the death certificate, you should have other secondary evidence like social media posts (from you, friends, etc) showing her death when she passed, copy of the obituary, burial ceremony program, condolence letters, pictures of grave with gravestone showing name, dates, etc. Anything that will confirm death aside the death certificate.

corporateDan:
Can’t believe ,,, I read from page 1 to 174... Kudos to my Ogas Sharpman, treasureprince. dj francis, legitbachelor etc.... Three gbosa for una.... My fiancée is coming to Naija very soon .. Please is it advisable to apply for visa on arrival?

I think it is best to get the visa before travelling.

Armstrong34:
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The process for the visa process is not straight forward.....Can it be done entirely online??

which one can we apply for......................is applying for Tourist visa possible at this time or we should go with business visa??

I have not applied for a Nigerian visa before so I don't know the process. You should call the Nigerian embassy in New York, DC or Atlanta for information. I doubt it can be done entirely online.

Armstrong34:
please guys my girlfriend who is a united states citizen is expected to come to nigeria in few months from now and she has an expired nigerian passport....And we all know how the nigerian embassy is so relunctant to issue passports .............please what do we do here??

She should apply for a visa to Nigeria on her US passport.

Originalsly:


Hmmm..... after living in NYC how do you sleep in such a quiet place? It may take me yearssss to adapt.

At times, I wonder how people live in NYC. I don't like the place at all. reminds me of Lagos and I just feel it is a stressful place to live.

nigeriandream14:
US. stock market that only favors the 1%? Exchange rate is not really helping that much these days cos Nigeria is very expensive and the average Nigerian building is equivalent to the amount of the US. median house price

There is no point arguing with you. You are either trolling or ignorant.

nigeriandream14:
Majority of Nigerians in diaspora fewer options to invest abroad that's why they all invest back home. Abroad life is all about savings. That;s the reason why I even wrote this post

Fewer options to invest? Please what are the investment options in Nigeria? Do you know the size of the US stock market compared to the Nigerian Stock Exchange? The size of the real estate market? The reason most people invest back home is because of the exchange rate, a little $ translate to plenty Naira., not because of a lack of investment options or opportunities.

dake40:


The OP made concrete analysis and even quoted CNBC, so you sabi pass CNBC?

$50k isn't always the take home, you pay tax which atimes could be over $8k depending on the location, putting other expenses into considerations, saving $9k might be hellish

There is nothing concrete about the OP's analysis. Na sand full the analysis.

dake40:



Well, i cant agree less with you that it depends on the country and state. $50k isn't always the take home, you pay tax which atimes could be over $8k depending on the location, putting other expenses into considerations, saving $9k might be hellish.

Well, I know for a fact, that if you live in Texas, earn $50k (gross income not take home pay), live a life that is not extravagant (I don't mean suffer yourself), you will save much more more than 9k and live a better quality of life than most people living in Nigeria.

nigeriandream14:
I have done a thorough research and my findings are very interesting. I hope the Moderators considers me worthy to move this to the front page.

It is impossible for someone earning $50,000 annually abroad to save $25 daily (Over $9,000 annually). Majority, if not all of western countries consider people making $50,000 as middle class. $25 dollars is just 10,000 naira daily. I believe most Nigerians with handwork can make that much comfortably daily. I am not trying to discourage anyone from traveling abroad, I just want us to have a rethink and see that Nigeria is not that bad as we portray it to be. Drivers, laborers, petty businesses etc all make over 10,000 daily. Forget the daily complain of hardship we read online daily. It is a Nigerian trait. Tens of millions of our citizens do actually make above 10,000 daily. What we need to do is cultivate the saving habits of our brothers who live in diaspora. Nigerians only learn how to save when they travel abroad. If we work on ourselves, saving a million naira annually won't be a problem. Thanks

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2021/06/25/how-to-budget-your-money-if-you-make-50000-per-year.html

You mean anyone earning $50k annually can not save $9k in a year? Oga, you are talking in a nonsense.

You need to ask which country, state, or city the person lives first before jumping into conclusion.

SmartJac:
Please when did you start applying for the spousal visa? Secondly, my Agent was saying that they hardly approve the fiance visa. How true is this please?

Agent? Please forget using an agent.

You can do the process yourself unless you have a complicated case.....and what you need for a complicated case is an immigration lawyer in the US not a Nigerian agent that does not understand the process himself/herself.

You should also join visajourney.com. Great resource and information on any question regarding the K1 and Spousal visa there.

Gracedavid125:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhHjJ0bzWjY

Seun kuti shades and mock wizkid over Grammy award.

Seun revealed that only four Nigerian musicians have been nominated for a Grammy award and he is one of them.

According to him, his brother Femi, juju singer Sunny Ade and Burna Boy are the Nigerians who have been nominated for the renowned award.

See this failed artist living in his father's shadow. If not for Fela, who will know this one?

Treasureprince1:
Guys I safely arrived the US last week, I had a very smooth session at port of entry, I was just asked the address I'll be staying and that was it. All the best to all of us

Yay. Wasere. Yankee man. You don escape leave us for Naija.

I don't know why but I am super excited for you. God bless your new start and new family.