Schoolhike:



I’d rather allow my spouse to be on NHS sponsorship than me being non sponsorship.

1. NHS offer flexible working arrangement.

2. NHS is around 3 days working in a week for three times and 4 days working for the fourth week which mean 3,3,3,4 = 37.5hrs x4 weeks. ( I don’t know if that applies to England as well, but yes in Scotland, tho the days might interpolate). Meaning she will mostly be working 3 days a week, with mixture of nights and days. Some week all night shift and some other week all day shift, I don’t know if exchanging shift with colleague applies. (But most employer understands the needs for family commitments, which shouldn’t be a problem)

3. In my own perspective, working flexible as husband will give me option to explore other options.

4. NHS is government funded, so Job security shouldn’t be a problem.

5. There are possibilities of career progression from band 3 to 4 etc for an unrelenting person in NHS.

6. Most importantly consider the fact that your ilr will start counting again if you switch role or primary sponsor, should NHS give 3 years sponsor first, you are likely to get the remaining years to complete your 5 years, and here in Scotland NHS mostly give 5 years straight.

Just an opinion, considering your options carefully.

True, mostly. Number 6 though, it doesn't reset if you switch sponsor.

Focus99:
I barely see people talk about Ireland and wales here. Discussion is always surrounding England and Scotland I will like to know why this is so. Don't we have Nigerians living in Wales and Ireland these two countries are also a part of UK.

Just sharing my thoughts because I really want to know more about Ireland and securing a graduate job their. Also I will like to know about their child care because I look forward to giving birth in the nearest future. I just need to know more and awaits my graduation.

Thank you guys.

What do you expect? Population of both Countries are about 2m and 3m compared to England with almost 60m so naturally, most people and conversations will be in England.

You need to refer to it as Northern Ireland though unless you're not talking about UK.

LORETA:
Please guys I need your candid advice ,my spouse got 2 offer from health sector. One for Kent, and another for Northampton.
Same company ,same salary, same job, but different city.
Please we need advice. On which to accept accordingly to these cities .we dont have kids yet.
Thanks guys

This is a personal decision. I would take Northampton though

BoyleEd:
Good day lovely people, I know this may be too basic but please kindly recommend a good TV ( 50'' and above with quality image and sound). My budget is between 300k and 400k.

Thank you

Buy a TCL on ao.com. When called afterwards, if you have kids that could spoil it, agree to pay for insurance, should be about £6 monthly. Thank me later.

Anyone who wants to buy a brand new TV should do this.

Peerielass:


I wasn’t judging just wanted to understand how someone’s circumstances could change so quickly. Rule of thumb though is to always set aside a buffer of 3 months wages to tide you by in case of any eventualities.

It's always weird to me when you guys judge new Immigrants by these personal finance rule of thumbs. It may be that he even had the 3 months but needed to keep earning and not sit and wait till he runs out of the Emergency savings.

I remember when I lost one really good remote job. That same night, I took a shift and went to work at a Warehouse, not because I didn't have any savings but as a recent immigrant, I just had to keep grinding.

As recent immigrants, just like a recent Graduate, we don't have that luxury of these rules. For many, the relocation process left a massive financial void that needs several months or years to fill. So let them "breef"

Goke7:


Contract jobs are becoming a risk now, had a friend who went out of contract and had to resort to doing care support job for now to fend for his family. An AML expert o.

Reason why I always "feared" contract jobs. If you add the extra non-cash benefits of many permanent roles, they come close to the £450 per day of contract roles.

Wking:
my People.

For those that did there provisional driver license, did you send your original Brp card or int'l passport along in the white envelop to Dvla.
how did you generate the Share code starting with S? this people want to scatter someone head.

You don't need share code if you send your BRP. Yes, you can send your BRP, I did.

kwakudtraveller:

It may seem as though my AMEX point system is jinxed. My British Airways point is currently at 310. I use my Amex card for my grocery shopping, I never exceed 25% and I’m on dd for my payment. Yet it goes up and down often. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.

Lool... Very common misconception. I struggled with it too.

So it's simple: your points are moved from your card account (on the Amex app) to your BA Executive Club account where they are stored as Avios.

So if you spend £2k, at the end of the month, it's moved and on your App, it seems like it has dropped but you need to log in to your BA Account on ba.com where you will see your stash of Avios points accumulated waiting for you.

It's a very clumsy process that takes some getting used to.

Hope that helps...

steadyMoving22:
Any idea if this is allowed for movement within a few kilometres? It's an E scooter and I intend to use it for a little few moving around.

People use it but it's illegal to use private scooters on public roads but most Police Officers don't care about seizing them or prosecuting offenders but they're illegal and I've seen them seized and destroyed.

triplo3:


Hi Elders, I saw this post and decided to try my luck, please how do I use my British Airways/Avios points? I have 342 / 956 points from the mobile app. Every time I click on Book Travel or Hotels link, it doesn't work. Same thing on the website? Also can I use the points (956) for return flight to Naija? Thank you

You can use it to pay for flights, hotels, car hire, etc through your Executive Club Account, Participating Merchants website and so many other ways

But the real point to note here is that I think 956 points is very very small. Using a referral link to join alone gives you about 4,000 and each Pound you spend gives you a point. So you may need to accumulate some more. I, for instance, have well over 100,000 points.

The value of the points are really tiny (maybe half pence each) so you need a lot for something significant.

I don't know if it's a special offer but if you use my code, you get 8,000 points:

https://americanexpress.com/en-gb/referral/jEDIDASmvK?XL=MNMNS

080bjaked:
Hello Gurus,

Please my wife is due to give birth in the UK in a couple of weeks. As required, we need to get the baby's brp within the first 3 months of birth for IHS to continue to cover all hospital and treatment costs.
However, reading how long it takes to get the NIN and Passport for the newborn in the london embassy before applying for the visa isn't encouraging.

Please who is able to advise on how to go about with this?

Take your time. When the baby gets the first Immunization, Get NIN, then passport, then apply for Visa.

Your baby doesn't need BRP urgently unless you need to travel. The baby will get medical treatment too for a while under the NHS without a Visa

eniola1010:


Leave the guy
I stated my own opinion
He should state his
Instead he chose to be a fool

And you end up degrading to insults. It's a pity

kwakudtraveller:

Again with the demarketing, you are not talking about how Nigeria has one of the most advanced tech when it comes to the fintech industry.. Nigeria is on the top 10 list with the most start up investments. Ordinary Barclays cannot give you a pdf version of a transfer as POP, something that Nigerian banks have been doing for years. But no, we’ll talk about how "we cannot build websites" because of corrupt leaders. The white child will hear this and grow up believing that we don’t know what websites are.

Paris is marketed as the city of love, we see how beautiful it looks in movies and we love it. Went to the same Paris and was smelling piss everywhere and there are protests in France every other day. But you’d never see them demarket the place, it’s sold as an amazing place for tourism. Abeg, I don tire to dey talk

You have energy o. When these folks speak, you see the sad mentality they have. This complex will unfortunately affect them in many ways.

Santa2:


With regards to the bolded, it would depend on your lifestyle, closeness to transport links from your abode and the likes. I too have not need for a car yet, even though that might soon change. But If one lives in a remote area and does not live near transport hub, or have transport come irregularly, commutes to work from there. Driving might make life easier for them.

True, I was distracted when i typed that. I meant it is not "do-or-die". People struggling to get International License even when they can't drive just so they don't enter UK without a license. 99% won't need to drive in the first 6 months.

Chreze:
For clarity sake,

Is there any condition that stops one from :

Getting provisional license
Writing theory test
Doing practical test
Then start to drive alone without supervision in one month or two?

Aside from maybe booking time, slot, ability to learn UK pattern faster and all that. Is there like a certain rule that says all this can’t happen in a month or two?

If there are no rules, please can anyone share reason why it may not be possible.

There's no rule. But it reality, it's not possible most times.

The process to get a provisional license takes like 3 weeks typically. You apply online, then it takes about a week to get the form, you fill the form and send back, then it takes about 2 weeks again for them to send you the provisional license.

When you recieve your provisional license, you have to book for theory test at least 3 days in advance, prepare for it and take the test.

Same as above for practical driving test, but you might not even easily get a date. Waiting times can be as low as 2 weeks or as high as 10 weeks!

So 1 month is actually not feasible

Instead of trying to get a fake license... Or get a Naija license when you can't drive... Forget about license.

For folks coming here, driving isn't very important that it's do or die. I remember when I was coming over, I was so keen on getting my International License, but came here and for 2 years, I never had a need to drive or buy a car. Train, buses and bicycle, then ocassional taxi were all I needed for any movement.

As for getting a UK License, it's straightforward and easy, just need to pass the tests which you may need some driving lessons for.

terrymason:
Una don confuse me. Should I just do the normal Nigeria license or international license.
I read that one need to have local Nigeria license to be eligible to use international license in the UK. Current I don't have Nigeria license, but planning to do an international license.

What's the best way forward. The answer have been seeing regarding this question has not be straightforward.

Hope you can actually drive.

Focus99:
What if someone in Nigeria got an offer for January 2024 then he/she is able to get visa first week december 2023. Can such a student come into the UK with her dependent last week of december2023 as against January2024?

Seriously looking out for my younger sister lol

In my own opinion I think UK should cut down the number of dependent(s) one can bring into the UK instead of putting an end to it totally lol...I'm not entitled though but we don too suffer for their hand they should help our lives hahahahahahahahahaha abeg joor

There's no harm in trying. Such a person has to apply very very early but still have at the back of her mind that the dependant might be denied. I think there's an 85% chance the dependant would get the Visa but that's just a guess.

tobbyoladejo:
Are you saying I can drive in the UK with a valid Nigerian licence, even without the international driver's license? Also, does it matter if I've been in the UK for over a year?

Yes you can but only when you're less than a year.

Seynex01:
Hello, can one drive in the uk with a Nigerian temporary paper for renewal of a driver’s license. The drivers license is on process no plastic car yet.

Will this be regarded as a valid license?

Haaa!

misterkelly:
Only VALID AUTHENTIC INTERNATIONAL DRIVER'S LICENSE

The normal Nigerian License is actually sufficient

Goke7:


The problem with some of us is perspective, while some of us are very open-minded using the opportunity as legal UK residents to open doors for ourselves to other Western nations. For your info, some of these other nations are becoming more dynamic in their visa offerings as they now allow you to switch visitor visas to work visas if you get a job offer there. For example, if I work with one of the big four in the UK or any other large orgnisation, I can apply for jobs in Canada with one of the large organisations, with my Canada visitor visa, the organisation already sees me as a serious person cos they know with that visitor visa I have, easily they can switch me to a work visa ( this is valid till 2025). Even the US announce such earlier in the year when thousands were losing jobs and had the scare of leaving the country since their work visas were tied to the company they were fired from. Even Germany is going the same route so you see times indeed are changing and that's the perspective some of us are seeing things from.

There is no "problem with some of them". He asked a question which made sense which you can just respond to without being rude. I'm sure people have answered you politely before here

You make a good point, although I know it's not as easy as you make it sound getting a job on a visit visa but at least there's a possibility.

I think what everyone should do in addition to having a few visas is have good liquid asset like cash. If push comes to shove, you would need a lot of funds for any alternative migration arrangements. There are some legitimate agencies in Canada and USA that can help people with good skills get jobs quickly ata heavy fee. Caution though: there are many scammers too.

Schoolhike:
Would need advice
Currently on Graduate visa (expires jan 2025)

Got two analyst role
1. One in Scotland (25k annually) 1-year contract, full-time. Obviously no sponsorship.

2. In London (28k annually) permanent, full-time, with sponsorship


Note:
Both are hybrid (1-2days office)
Been living in Scotland right from day one in Uk.

Move to a City not too far from London. You can move as far as Newport, Wales and use National Express of £18 return ticket to go to work. Or you can even go to Northampton or Birmingham. Don't move to London or very close Cities, the Cost of Living would be a lot.

But yes, i would advise you to take thw Sponsorship

Lexusgs430:



The next thing for you to do now........ Divide your mortgage payment by 4, over pay your mortgage by one week or more if you can afford it..........

This singular move, would shave years off your length of payment......... 🤣😂

Congratulations.........

RENT MONEY IS DEAD MONEY........ 😜🤑

Not all Mortgages permit this. And even those that permit it often have a maximum limit for overpayments. So, read the terms before overpaying to avoid heavy fines.

But yeah, the concept makes sense. Overpayment goes to the Principal and drastically reduces the Mortgage tenure

lavida001:


I heard Even if you no use am. You go still dey pay interest. Is that true

Wow! This isn't true, please.

Peerielass:


Which one is cheaper and is this for a brand new car? In my experience, PCP is often cheaper than Higher Purchase. Most higher purchase lead to ownership whereas with PCP, you can walk away after the initial lease period.

Hmmmm... This is not as simple o... In many cases, HP is often the better option

sugarkemi:
Please someone should help with a good site where I can buy used car and also a good car model from experience. Thank you

Autotrader.

As for car model, depends on what you want, really.

eniola1010:
Please i hv some question to ask

1) if i get cos on January and like august my wifes comes to uk to join me. Will i have to go through another documentation with the company that gave me cos so that the cos can conver my wife who just newly came into the country? Or is it with home office i will take it up with and the company doesnt need to be involved?

2) about this mother in law visitation. I keep hearing people say is she a pensioner, if the old person visiting is not a pensioner will that reduce the chances of approval?

1. You don't need to go to the Company. Same with if you give birth to more kids. If the Company paid for your visa, you can consider requesting to see if they would consider paying for your wife's but many may not.

2. Being a Pensioner means she's retired and gets regular income so she's seen as less risk and is understandable if she stays in the UK for some months. If the visitor is working, how can you justify staying away from work for months?

Teedol:
Did you update yours here in the UK, if yes how did you go about it? I learnt some agency[ies] handles NIN here in the UK,.

There are lots of agencies here in the UK depending on where you live. I'm doing one for my daughter but it's in Cardiff.

I updated my middle name in Nigeria though.

mayowa94:
Can I do a cleaning job as part time while on health and care worker visa?

Most likely, NO.

Teedol:
James Paul Kwame: intl passport

James Kwame: NIN


The above scenerio, what are my chances of getting my passport renewed at Abuja House in London, given that my middle name does not appear on my NIN, my surname and first name matches though. Thanks.

Won't work. You have to update your NIN to include your middle name. I am speaking from experience

Lolli2pop:
Hey fam please i need your advise.. i am trying to purvhase the chair below off someone but the main feature I am looking out for in an office chair is an excellent back support because of the back pain i tend to develop when working. Does anyone have experience in using similar chair?

These Executive chairs aren't the best for lumbar support. Get a good Ergonomic Office Chair.