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Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 4 by TheGuyFromHR: 1:15pm On Sep 24, 2020

prittian:
How do I send the reminder? Please help.

https://www.gov.uk/contact-ukvi-inside-outside-uk/y

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Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 4 by TheGuyFromHR: 12:30pm On Sep 24, 2020

ChicFashion:
Pls has anyone gotten collection mail today? Aug 25th -27th. Abi this people don lost our passport? What kind of wahala is this??

No second interview, no call, no mail. Jist silence since

Try the 5.48 quid gentle reminder.
My friend did that and they returned his passport the next working day - his visa had been issued about a week earlier, and had been ready and perhaps the embassy people had just been overwhelmed.

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 4 by TheGuyFromHR: 9:15pm On Sep 23, 2020

Hebraeem:
Good evening y'all, Please if one makes a typo while filling the course details on the visa application form with the ”qualification you will get” column like inputting RQF4/SCQF7 instead of RQF7/SCQF11 and have submitted. Please what can be done? @mimilyric @omopapa @oloshi

I don't think you've anything to worry about.
The caseworkers at UKVI are not petty, they consider applications as a whole and they will understand its a mistake when they see the details of the course you applied for which is actually an RQF7... in your CAS and elsewhere where the course is identified as a masters degree.

I made a couple of similar mistakes myself when filling in the forms (for a family of 5) and these were obviously disregarded.

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Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 4 by TheGuyFromHR: 2:32pm On Sep 23, 2020

rukkykelvin:
Hmm !

I'm expecting phone interview by 3:30pm today.

I just stepped away from my phone for 5 min, i came back to see missed call from a UK number by 12:20pm. The phone didn't ring complete. I even thought it was a notification.

I'm so scared right now.

Has anyone here experience such.

Help cos I definitely going to panic attack by 3: 30pm if i don't get call.

LORD HELP ME.

Lol, calm down.
My wife missed her own calls twice.
It delayed us, but in the end they emailed us and gave us a date.

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 4 by TheGuyFromHR: 11:32am On Sep 23, 2020

Qlock:
Hi guys, I need an insightful opinion here please.

I'm in the midst of paying for my Tier4 visa (for four years). The IHS checker specifies £1350 and was hoping to pay with my UK pounds account. On the payment page however it is valued in USD (1850), which is like £100 in excess based on the conversion rate on every channel I have looked at. Is this normal from your experience (based on some ridiculous rate)? Or is there some charges I'm not aware of?

A mixture of both I believe.

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 4 by TheGuyFromHR: 11:29am On Sep 23, 2020

dami24:
$410?, are you sure about this? Was that the final price? Or that was before tax and carriage fee

Of course that is base fare, before tax and the rest. That's the price shown on the website. Final price per person came out to about $520 per person
For the week of the 5th it was showing a base fare of $810 - $844.

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Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 4 by TheGuyFromHR: 5:14am On Sep 23, 2020

Arhmiee:
Pls can you recommend a VPN one can install?
I use windscribe but when I search, it's still same price as when the VPN is off.

I use Surfshark, but like I said, this was something that used to generally work before the pandemic for buying tickets, given that airlines are in serious financial wahala these days it might not always work now. But you can only try.

Set your location to different cities in the UK (mine offers e.g. London, Glasgow, etc.) and try. But note that once your location is not set to Nigeria you will not have the option to pay in naira, only online by card, so this is only something you can try if you have a funded domiciliary account. Previously, when naira cards used to work fully with no limits it was an excellent option.

Note that the more you search an airline's website for a date, the higher the fare could go. I'm going with children, so the cheaper the fare the better for me. For instance, I was previously looking at 1 October as a travel date and it was at $810 one way. I checked it again twice, no change, and the 3rd time I checked it had ballooned to more than $1,000 economy one way (yes, that high!). I left it for a while, and tried a different VPN location and finally saw the week starting 12 October down to $410 and decided to take it.

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Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 4 by TheGuyFromHR: 11:44pm On Sep 22, 2020

cdaniel:
I did mine on 26th August, got the non straightforward email on 10th September, no other mail for 2nd interview, my schl resumed on 7th September and if by 25th September I don't complete matriculation, i may loose the offer. This wait is quite frustrating and am feeling sick already
..

ALL you can do is to stay calm and positive.
In my case, after the 2nd interview the visa was issued the next day, so at least these things can move quickly.

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Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 4 by TheGuyFromHR: 11:38pm On Sep 22, 2020

I use a VPN when buying Lagos to London tickets and change my location from Nigeria to the UK.

Previously you usually get lower prices when you buy your tickets from the UK as opposed to buying from Nigeria, except that you have to pay with your card, which is no longer feasible with Nigerian cards.

In any case, prices on BA's website for 2nd week of October are down to tolerable levels ($410 for a one-way ticket to Manchester/Aberdeen, about 160k), and I just bought earlier today.

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Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 4 by TheGuyFromHR: 1:47pm On Sep 16, 2020

Kinkwin:
Hello house.

Please I want to understand how the bank statement works, should it be in your account for 28 days before you submit and pay for your Application on line? for example if you submit your application on line September 1st, and then your 28 days statement ends on September 3rd then you print your bank statement September 4th, so that means the application was submitted online before the statement clocked 28days but still waited for it to clock 28days before printing.

So please house which one is it or it doesn’t really matter if you submitted online before or after your statement clocked 28days as far as your statement is 28days.

I submitted and paid for my application on September 5th, I printed out my statement on September 7th which carries dates from August 8th to September 6th. Please am I safe ?

Thank you

This is unfortunately not in line with the rules.
You should have submitted and paid for your application any day after your 28 day count ended ( 6 September in your case).
Just hope it's overlooked.

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 4 by TheGuyFromHR: 8:33pm On Sep 15, 2020

eddieifeoluwa:
@mimilyrics Hello Boss, and all the gurus in the house...Please I need assistance, my dependent IHS form is requesting for visa expiry date for main applicant which is me and I haven't even submitted my application yet talkless of getting visa , we can't proceed to payment until this is sorted out,please kindly help me on this.

Input the end date of your main applicant's course as shown on their CAS.

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 4 by TheGuyFromHR: 2:02pm On Sep 15, 2020

Luvdbyursista:
Pls someone help.me with this

A quick internet search reveals that the ATAS certificate its a government issued certificate concerning your course of study, so in your shoes I would place it under "Studies".

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Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 4 by TheGuyFromHR: 11:16am On Sep 15, 2020

Jumiebabs:
Pls for those that received a call for a phone interview. Was the call initiated with an international or local number?

It looks local, but is not.
You can't call it back; when you try to it says number not existing.
I think one was a 090.... number. It's an internet telephony service, I would assume.

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 4 by TheGuyFromHR: 10:23am On Sep 15, 2020

Samopex05:
Does dependants get interviewed too?

Lol, no, I'm just used to using the first person plural when referring to this whole Tier 4 project.

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 4 by TheGuyFromHR: 9:39am On Sep 15, 2020

Youngee34:
Nah, I'm talking about UKVI, I remember there is a paid call service one can make for one's visa application

Oh, OK.

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 4 by TheGuyFromHR: 9:35am On Sep 15, 2020

Youngee34:
That is my point exactly.
It's really strange.
I'm even considering putting a call through.
Who knows, the issue might be from TLs

Lol, TLS has no known number.

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 4 by TheGuyFromHR: 9:33am On Sep 15, 2020*

inphoenix:
Congratulations! I must have missed your post about your visa approval!!

Quick question please, did the principal applicant and dependants' visas arrive at the same time? How far between were your submission dates?

Care to share your timeline please?

Quick answer: main applicant's and dependants' visas didn't arrive together. Applications were submitted different days in the same week.
Timeline is almost a month, first 10 working days nothing, then activity 3rd week, but because we missed the 2nd interview calls twice (both working from home, no help, active and very bored children, busy, busy, exhausted) it was shifted to the end of a week, visa came out immediately thereafter.

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Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 4 by TheGuyFromHR: 6:51am On Sep 15, 2020

Flezi1:
Please for those that hv been granted student visa. Is there normally a letter inside the envelope? Because I know for visiting if u notice any letters inside u hv been rejected.

Yes, there is.
Lists the address to which your BRP has been sent and includes some other information.
Keep it carefully, as it's to be presented to the people at immigration on arrival.
Or so it says.

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Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 4 by TheGuyFromHR: 4:31pm On Sep 13, 2020

Slimmzyy:
All I can say is, if I am truly willing to help, I would respond to that question differently.

Obviously, our definitions of "help" differ. In this case, someone asked for help, and was given clear directions. You say giving directions isn't enough; but we are all different.
In any case, let's leave this here.

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Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 4 by TheGuyFromHR: 4:02pm On Sep 13, 2020

Slimmzyy:
Hello TheGuyFromHR,
Thank you for taking your time to share this piece.

Well, I would start by saying I was in many people's on this forum shoes years ago, which I did my application by simply reading the Tier 4 guidance published on GOV.UK and I didn't ask anybody a damn question and I went on to secure a 5 years work-permit just two months after graduating from The University of East Anglia, as well as two of my friends.

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic which is affecting everyone globally, I have been working from home since march and I can tell you I have read this thread from page 1 to the current page and I can confirm your concerns about some people's inability to carry out simple research, as well as some people's rude responses.
Prospective Tier 4 students needs to know most of their coursework would be research-based and they need to cultivate the habit of carrying out simple research to find solutions to problem before coming to ask questions for clarity. so it is wrong for you to think I don't have an understanding of what this forum is all about, I can't recall for once when Mimilyrics and Justwise had to be rude with their responses and I appreciate the contribution of everyone on this forum to ensure a successful application process for everyone.

my comment was not meant to condemn anyone but for us to be more respectful, sensitive and be mindful of the way we respond and make people feel.

Thank you for your proportionate response. It's refreshing, to say the least.
I have quoted the post in question below.

"There was an extensive discussion of this some months back on this thread involving people who are actually living in the UK now, if I remember clearly. Go back and read it. I think someone even cited a decided court case in favour of their standpoint."

Could you tell me how this post is in any way rude? I would characterise it as straightforward and to-the-point. And reading stuff like this is what I do. As you say you currently live and work in the white man's world, would you really feel offended if a colleague or co-worker sent you a message in this vein?

If all the people whose reports and letters and windy stuff I have to read ("how was your night?", "Happy new month, sir) wrote in this manner, going directly to the point, I would be a much happier man.

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Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 4 by TheGuyFromHR: 3:26pm On Sep 13, 2020*

Slimmzyy:
Hey Cyberknight, I think you can actually be more constructive and polite when replying people and if you don't have answers for their questions, kindly ignore!!!
If you are coming to the UK to study and live here hopefully, you need to develop your emotional intelligence.

Lol.
Here they come again.
I usually avoid the controversies here, since I just came to get some specific information when we were making our application, but when someone asks a question that has been dealt with and is asked to refer back to that discussion, just what is wrong with that?

Rule 14 of the Nairaland rules, rephrased, advises people to search the forum before starting a new post (or, for our purposes, asking a question). I have always found strange and mystifying the reluctance of the average Nigerian to apply themselves and do some reading. When you mistakenly mention emotional intelligence, considering that the people on this forum asking questions are about to or have invested millions of naira into acquiring an education, is advising them to be familiar with the basics of research in the internet age out-of-place?

Ultimately, we see people who are looking to be spoonfed in their hundreds when they apply to us. FYI, when they say the average Nigerian graduate is unemployable, statements like this one simply re-inforce the stereotype. Those in the UK should let us know if the white man is ready to spoonfeed them when it comes to job searches or if they are not ensuring they are up to standard in all aspects given that they are competing in a serious job market.

As an aside, I read this forum through in its entirety for its informational value, and simply by reading his posts, the excellent English in which they are phrased and so forth, one can tell that the gentleman you cited is obviously a well-educated and a well-exposed person, whom I have noted never involves himself in controversies or comments on things of which he has no knowledge. He's one of those whose posts I read carefully and with interest, along with mimilyrics, dduchess, justwise, mattfeuter, occasionally the repentant Skymoore wink

and a couple of others.

Look for someone else to trouble.

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Travel › Re: Canadian Express Entry/federal Skilled Workers Program - Connect Here Part 10 by TheGuyFromHR: 7:15am On Sep 09, 2020

francophone134:
thanks for your response. The instructions says one of this certificate must be from a course of 3years and above, meanwhile both HND and ND are two years each. Is it still in order? I am really confused

IQAS evaluates the combination of the HND + ND together as generally the equivalent of a 3 year bachelor's degree.

Travel › Re: Canadian Express Entry/federal Skilled Workers Program - Connect Here Part 10 by TheGuyFromHR: 4:27am On Sep 09, 2020

ThatEdoFemme:
Wow. Love your drive. And im bashing myself here for not maxing TEF at a go

Do you by any chance know if they've released the TEF results from July in Lagos?

Travel › Re: Canadian Express Entry/federal Skilled Workers Program - Connect Here Part 10 by TheGuyFromHR: 4:25am On Sep 09, 2020

francophone134:
Which option will I pick here with my HND certificate that I possess?

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 4 by TheGuyFromHR: 7:37pm On Sep 06, 2020

Luseyi:
I am surprised some other persons got a different IHS fee when they inputted course end date.My dependants and I paid £450(=$612) each and it was my course start and end date I inputted, I didnt have to add 3 or 4 months extra.

PS: my course start date is 05/10/2020 and end date is 28/09/2021.

I hope I paid the right fee o

That's the same fee we paid for one year too after inputting dates for a course that runs for one year.

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 4 by TheGuyFromHR: 9:25pm On Sep 05, 2020

Omah7979:
The link is showing not found

Thank you very much!

Modified.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-how-to-self-isolate-when-you-travel-to-the-uk/coronavirus-covid-19-how-to-self-isolate-when-you-travel-to-the-uk

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Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 4 by TheGuyFromHR: 8:50pm On Sep 05, 2020*

Omah7979:
Good evening guys, please I have a question to ask I am going to Sunderland university but will like to do my 2 weeks quarantine in London at a friends place before moving down to Sunderland

My question is this

1) Are they going to assign an official to always check up on you daily
2) what happens if I don’t pick my BRP from school within these two weeks
3)is it possible to quarantine in London before moving to Sunderland

Please someone should please reply

This has been discussed before.
You can quarantine anywhere you wish as long as you stay there for 14 days.

1) No, they say they will make spot checks (see this guidance https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-how-to-self-isolate-when-you-travel-to-the-uk/coronavirus-covid-19-how-to-self-isolate-when-you-travel-to-the-uk)
2) You're not allowed to go out to the university/post office during that period, so you have to do it thereafter.
3) Yes.

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Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 4 by TheGuyFromHR: 5:47pm On Sep 05, 2020

LagosismyHome:
Surely this cant be right ...... Ice breakers in any interview is a personal choice but very ok

SamReinvented:
Like I said. It’s just an advice. You can do you in your interview. No be me wan get visa, break ice away.

Lol.
Depending on the type of interview.
If you are being interviewed for selection/recruitment purposes, displaying calm and engagement and composure can help you and tossing out icebreakers is part of that.
It can also make the interviewer decide to dig deeper to see if they can shake you. I've been guilty of that before grin

If you're being interviewed for another purpose, not necessarily so.
Both SamReinvented and Lagosismyhome are right.

Make una no panic the guy, abeg cheesy

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 4 by TheGuyFromHR: 10:07am On Sep 05, 2020

Jayfarm:
Please kindly enlighten me on steps to paying IHS fee. Clicked on PAY for IHS and it created a reference number for me but no further direction. Read somewhere that you'll be directed on how to pay your IHS through your Visa application Thanks

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Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 4 by TheGuyFromHR: 9:33am On Sep 05, 2020

inphoenix:
One other thing please, did your IHS summary page indicate that "you don't have any dependants", even though you answered "yes" to traveling with dependants in your visa application form?

Mine did, even after listing the dependants.
Went ahead like that.

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 4 by TheGuyFromHR: 8:41am On Sep 05, 2020

zopyna:
Pls what is the actual amount for visa fees 473$ or 612$,I'm confused honestly.

You are paying two sets of fees for a UK Tier 4 visa. The fees are denominated in pounds sterling, but the payment provider the UKVI uses to charge your cards expresses all payments in dollars.

1. One is the actual visa fee itself, of £348, which is the equivalent of $473 you mentioned.
2. The second is a fee for using the NHS, known as the IHS, which is £450, the equivalent of $612 you have mentioned.

Both must be paid before your application is processed. You pay the IHS first before the main visa fee.
If a visa is refused, the IHS will be refunded and the visa fee will not.

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