₦airaland Forum

claremont:
A racist policy. If a Ukrainian came by boat from France, would they send the Ukrainian to Rwanda? Why is it just black and brown people they send to Rwanda?!

I and many immigrants in the UK are economic migrants. The only difference between us and the refugees crossing the channel is simply sheer luck. We were lucky to come in via the boat of university migration, and we were lucky to have the funds to pay tuition fees, visa etc.

If a book was written about the sheer hypocrisy of a small minority of black and brown people speaking/acting against black and brown refugees escaping their countries to seek a better life in the UK, that book will be a best seller.

LondonDating:
Its hard to explain and whilst I hate to tar all Nigerians in the UK with the same brush, when you hear of cases when a pastors wife's credit card was stolen from right inside her bag in the church sanctuary, it tells you that some people can be so bold in their criminality and there are a caliber of Nigerians in the UK that had no transferable skills to bring to the UK from Naija but they managed to get a visa during the Non Appearance Visa regime some years ago and these people will obviously gravitate to crime plus a lot of Nigerians have a penchant for not telling the truth.

justwise:
osinachi nwachukwu was as religious as you can get with God given talent, the husband is a pastor and he ended up killing her after years of abuse. They heard from God? Nigerian version of religion is a scam

ultrazone:
@omobaba, thank you for stating it as it is. She has admissions to UK and Canadian schools, so we plan to go with one with greater prospects.
@TheGuyFromHR, can you please share your view too, bro?

Alexia20:
Thanks for your prompt response .My COS doesn't cover for the family .By my calculation referencing uk gov doc above ,for family of 4 excluding the principal applicant , amount needed will totally to £1000 .So what will be the conversion rate used by VO

canadaishome:
SOS!!!
Canada have asked me for passport after 3 years, they don wake up!!
We are already booked for biometrics for April 27 and deadline to submit to Canada is May 8.
I've tried contacting Nigerian high Commission in London about expedited processing but their phone line never gets answered.
Please guys I need your help

Does anyone know if fast/expedited processing is still an option? No information on their website about this

How can I contact UK high Commission and get a fast response?

umarwy:
but one indian man won a court case agaunst ukvi for something similar, something in the lines of not all adults are in relationshps or seek relationship 100 percent of the time. do quote me, i saw it on news or somewhere

LagosismyHome:
I don't know of other cities as I am a londoner so I follow mainly london news .

In 2017 two thirds of knife crime offenders under 25 in London were black or minority ethnic, according to the Mayor of London’s Office for Policing and Crime.

Two third abeg is high enough for my ears. Please I am happy to be stopped and delayed to where I am going , if it helps catch and stop someone with a knife . It very heart breaking to be a parent of a child who died due to stabbing.

LagosismyHome:
For me even if they do that is ok as well ..... if that would help keep my money safe then fine

It like the issue of stop and search... a lot of the stabbings in London is black on black. So I support the stop and search even if it you are stopping more of black people, after all based on the data the death is higher in our community.

However because of how inconvenience if you are stopped and political correctness , people are shouting don't do stop and search , it is racial profiling but aren't we higher in the stabbing department.....

Ok now no stop and search then young boys are roaming the streets with knifes and stabbing continues . You can't always cut your cake and eat it .

LagosismyHome:
No 2 happens more often than you think. Some years ago I went to Ba Heathrow desk so not even online. And was paying for some tickets. Despite I put my pin the payment was declined..... I called the bank after been on hold for almost one hour and the hold was release and I was able to pay for the tickets

Highly inconvenient to me (especially the parking fees i paid that day, I was furious) but the amount of fraud that happens daily , I can understand that they are doing their job . Few years ago I shared here how someone fraudulently used my card. The person had a swell time,one week of spending spending until all the money finished before he or she rested. I was given my money back but someone paid the price for it . The bank. Shebi I am glad I am in the UK, if this was naija would I have gotten my money back in full ?.. I doubt that

This is why when I read your first post, I can see how inconvenient it can be and I sympathise but they are only doing their job . I could easily have said the bank declined my card because I was profiled as it was four business class ticket to nigeria so maybe it because I am black or white or it because the destination was an African country . Although really the bank didn't know the details of the booking just the amount....but you can always draw logic when you are upset or inconvenienced.... however when I remember how someone swiped my card unchecked for a whole week some years ago. I just calmed down , let them do their hold or check or whatever and paid the expensive Heathrow packing and went on my way.

BouharryArtikou:
A mum-of-four says she was who was forced to escape Nigeria with her children over fears for her safety is now using her voice to empower other women and young girls. Omoze, 35, who is currently living in a hotel in Brent Cross while waiting to hear back from the Home Office on her asylum status, fled her home country after she was arrested for her sexuality.

https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/mum-fled-london-nigeria-kids-23611094.amp

davide470:
My sister works in the Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) of a FinTech in Europe. She said and I quote - once you see any transaction that could be flagged as fraudulent, there is no limit of what publicly available information (LinkedIn, FB, Twitter, Instagram etc.) to check so as to mitigate the risk as long as the info is used solely for that purpose and nothing else. Once a transaction failed security check, they go all out. The ideal thing is to pause that payment channel till it is certified ok by the FPU and before it is certified, DD must me carried out.

The OP can file a case which is well within his/her rights, but a FPU officer will squash it within 5 mins. There is no discrimination in Fraud Prevention (her words).

Ray7878:
The fact that he/she paid with her debit card and they cancel the order, he/she isn't asking for credit, your credit history doesn't come into this when you are paying with your debit card, he/she stated they even had to approve the transaction via their banking app.

So I don't know why the debit thing comes into it. I don't think people really understands what's going on in here, honestly. This is a good case for her/him to work on.

dustydee:
Document controllers handle sensitive documents as well and depending on the project, may need security clearance. The ones in my company have it else they cannot work on some projects. Not sure about citizenship except if it has to do with the required level of clearance.

fatima04:
In a related scenario where a job advert on LinkedIn specifically states British passport holder, can that be classed as discrimination.

A colleague saw the attached advert and was really displeased but I wasn't surprised since I encountered quite a bit of that during my job search and they all claimed its due to Security Clearance for the jobs.

With her reaction, it now got me thinking if it's passive discrimination but I am just used to it hence my not seeing a big deal to it.

On the other hand stating it publicly saves the recruiter and applicant precious time.

MichaelUde:
Lol, HR, me too dey wait.
Abi them no dey give Nigerians work in fraud prevention units?
Nobody should come for me, biko, even though I'm not fasting.

fatima04:
Observation:- no hidden post or insult on the current debate going on and now 3 pages on. ***claps**maturity restored and confirmed. Pls no one should come for me oo, I am fasting [center][/center]

KOVIC19COVID20:
I think you are over reacting.

You said their email mentioned you failed security check - which is not uncommon.

Lawyers fees dear die…

“Perhaps because I’m black “ that is 100% speculation. Based on info available to you, there is NO WAY you can prove that, easily.

Based on the chronology of events you made here, it was in this order:

A. You tried PayPal, it was rejected.

B. You checked your LinkedIn profile and saw that a LinkedIn staff viewed your profile (presumably after the PayPal rejection)

C. You next uses your debit card. This was subsequently rejected too.

Conclusion: The decision made in C was as a result of the LinkedIn profile view.

How about A? Why did PayPal refuse (in the first instant?)Have you bothered to research that?

My take: Spare your energy for more serious battles

Adazeal:
Please family, how and where does one get a full immunization history to meet a job requirement?

Amarathripple0:
If you register your name (which is data by the way) and details on a company’s website and sign up as a user, and a staff member pulls that name and inserts it on a third-party social media app to look you up and you can clearly see that they went through your profile, then you can claim that there has been a breach. Yes, your social media page is public, but that information was not theirs to use for what appears to be personal purposes. Unless LinkedIn is one of their "products" and you consented to them going through your personal page on their terms and conditions, then yea, all is good, but in this case, John Lewis used my data on a platform they shouldn’t have. I hope this explains it so people can stop assuming that because it’s a social media page and that it’s public, they have a right to access it because that’s just a lack of awareness.

And by the way, under GDPR data protection, it state that information is considered personal data whenever an individual can be identified, directly or indirectly, “by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological"

LagosismyHome:
Also to add the fact that a profile was viewed doesn't mean it had any single impact in the decision to reject or approve. It very speculative.

The amount of linkedin I look at weekly partly due to curiosity aproko , I should have lost my job by now if my employer was here, giving that I currently work in Financial sector

hustla:
I have read it

so far his Linkedin was not provided to them, and they used info he gave them to check his linkedin, he should be able to sue (I no be lawyer o)

Coincidentally, I am writing a report on that 1998 / 2018 DPA and I still insist he needs to check to see what he can hold on to there

I rest my case o

Shalom

hustla:
How did they look up his publicly available information?

hustla:
Data Protection Act 2018 lists all that customer data can be used for

If he can go through it, he will see what data controllers can do with his information and decide if to sue or not

I will sue if i were him

Broomstick01:
Oh really .... �

phyl123:
You can either contest it (by writing to them), as you were told by a staff to board the next train or you pay up and save yourself stress.

Solumtoya:
It's an advice I would give anyone: Your reason for marriage shouldn't be primarily "extra income".

Solumtoya:
This should be a personal decision actually. My thoughts are that if you postpone the wedding till after your PSW ish, it doesn't mean she will join you for free afterwards so I don't see the point. She will still be charged for Visa, IHS, etc. maybe less though. Your concern should be more of the best way to bring her soonest. Bonus: Spouse's earnings can be life saving if she won't mind working, although, I don't mean you should marry for the extra income o.

MichaelUde:
OgaHR himself!
Fire and hire!

Solumtoya:
If you don't want to pay so much, drop some stuff. Many of the things we insist on carrying eventually turn out to be very avoidable luggage. By this time next year, you'd be advising others same

Amarathripple0:
Also might I add that going through someone’s profile on a third party app such as a Social media app goes against UK’s data protection policy under GDPR. I work in customer service and if I did that and they found out, I would be fired.

Amarathripple0:
Good morning elders,

Please I would like to find out if this is discrimination or if I’m just overreacting. The gist is, I tried to order a laptop worth £800+ from John Lewis using the PayPal pay in 3 option. Mind you I’ve used this feature multiple times on other stores without issues.