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Vision202:
Please have you been able to make the payment? I'm also looking for the fastest means of making payment to a school?

Please anyone who knows how can be of help.

Thanks

I can help with this if you like

Hi guys, I see a lot of people are asking about the C1 certificate

1. It's not the same as TEFL, they are different
2. You have to do it in Nigeria because it is needed for visa processing
3. You can do it online. PLEASE DO YOUR RESEARCH
4. BOTH C1 and TEFL are needed. Refer back to number 1.

Hope this clarifies things

Smartb0y:
Hahaha, you funny die.

@bolded ,I don't judge lol.

Do you have any intention to travel cross country sometime in the future?

Lol. It's neccesary oooo. Lol

Yes I do

Smartb0y:
I appreciate the clarity.

On the other note,4 star hotel just for friends,hmm that's suspicious lol.

In that case, I'd say some Nigerian friends I guess.

Iffa hear say Nigerian friends do this kain thing for you

Anyways, it was one of my private students........a female o

Smartb0y:
@whyna.

I thought c1 is same as the tefl certificate.

Or is c1 for IELTS?

And yeah , that "we" is the groom to be lol.

Lol. Wrong. We is not the groom.

No C1 is different. It's just like IELTS but a cheaper version to help with the visa processing

Kloppo:
Opoooorrrr


Youna

Nope.

You can get a school to sponsor you......

Especially now that there's a shortage of teachers. But here's the thing, you need to be careful. I'll outline some things...

1. It's difficult
2. They'd rather spend less to bring in a white or a Fillipino. It costs less to bring them in
3. The school will want to take advantage of you cos they literally own you. They brought you in so be ready to collect a shitty pay
4. In the end, it's up to you and what you want and your circumstances.

I reckon by September/October, they would be more desperate a new school year has begun and many still don't have foreign teachers

Good luck to everyone trying.

Don't stop trying, don't give up, you may not end up in Vietnam but keep trying....

On work visas, things are a bit slow now. No one understands the way the Vietnamese government works.

But I can tell you one thing, the demand is still huge! Infact, it's a teacher's market now and I can confidently tell you the going rate now even for new comers is about 17.5 USD to 25.5 USD.

I kid you not. Just make sure you're surrounded by good people who will guide you and give you pointers.

The same way the rate is increasing, is the same way the criterias are increasing.

It's good that many of you have now gotten your TEFL certificates, kuddos. you're one step closer.

Now, you need your

Degree
TEFL
C1
Police Report
Medical Report

For renewal purposes, you may need to write IELTS or other cheaper alternatives. IELTS in itself is cheap here cos ofcourse, yoou'll be earning in their currency. This criteria also depends on who (company) helping you renew your visa. Chances are, by the time your current visa expires, your current employee would help with renewing either bearing 100% cost of splitting with you at an agreed ratio.

Please be careful out there. Tourist visa and "visa on arrival" is not available to people with African passport. Don't confuse this with Visa vignette on arrival.

For now, you can get a company to sponsor you on a one year visa though difficult right now. I heard someone mention he was able to get a 3 months deal to be converted to one year on arrival. I hope it's a real deal.

If you get this deal though, try and push for one year instead to avoid paying double! Just pay for the one year straight

I mentioned this at the beginning of this thread but it's probably lost in the midst of lots of communications so I'll say it again.....

You can get a school to sponsor you......

Ok so I think that's basically all about vacations....

Lesson learned. Go with a good phone and go healthy!

Anyways....on to visa things....


First, it's worth mentioning that the 2 guys who came barely a month ago are now big shots. Na work dey rush them with great salaries. Kuddos to them.

I also see all of you making efforts especially through the school route. May God crown all your efforts with success.

One thing I will say is, don't stop pushing. I don't know much about the school route but from the inbox messages I have received and a few I helped pay school fees (exchange stuff, no be say I use my money pay ooo. I never reach that level), trust me, you can do it on your own.

One secret, after typing your mail, go to google translate and translate the message! Most of them are just too lazy to translate. Chances are, they'll reply you in Vietnamese too and you go back to google!

if one school isn't answering you, go to another school! keep mailing until you get a reply!

I just wish more people who have done this school thingy can come and share their experience

The beach....

Did I forget to mention Da Nang is a beach city?

More...

Breakfast buffet

You all know this popular place?

Do you know the name?

So Saturday morning, after breakfat, went to the rooftop pool to swim a little, went back to the room to take a shower and then nap before heading out to this place and boom! Sickness!

Oh wait, that was scheduled for the next day. We were supposed to go kayaking, then the that place. That Saturday afternoon, I went with the illness to Hoi An another tourist destination but I wasn't feeling it cos I was really sick. Had to stop by a pharmacy there sef.



And that my peeps is how 3 days vacation turned to one day vacation because man pikin got the Flu

The whole setting...kinda. they were bringing it in batches

Ohhhhh, there are the oysters, do you see them? Yum.

Some of the live sea animals. Forgive the poor quality photos. I already explained in the beginning

The seafood wey I chop.....

King Crab: e no sweet. Tastes like fish with a ting of bitterness. All shell and no stuff

Snail in chesse sauce: Wow!. This was my best! The snail is cooked with the shell just like periwinkle. Na their way here

Oysters: Damn: Don't know if this is my first or second but it was reallly good.

Shrimps: just there, e plenty here so we been dey chop am

Seaweed probably with mayo: twas also good I no go lie

Clams: also good

So we arrived on a Friday afernoon. It's just a one hour flight from Hanoi to Da Nang.

That afternoon, we explored the hotel, in the evening, we met with some friends and me wey no dey go club go club o. VIP lounge sha.

we also ate seafood.

So I've always heard my students say I ate seafood. Like when you ask what did you do on your vacation, 100% of them ate seafood. E even dey their reader Fam, I follow eat the seafood ooooo So I suppose enter Vietnam book of ....??

Royadeveloper:
Biko who sponsored cos we would like to know

Hehe. You're supposed to guess

While you're guessing....

Here are some more pictures.

Oh We went to Da Nang. Da Nang is beautiful mehn! The whole experience was wow! and I started asking myself why I waited 2 and half years to take my first vacation.

The hotel came with free buffet breakfast and rooftop pool. Sick!

These are still pictures of the room. We got a double bed room and that's our view

Hi guys...

It's been a whilllllllle. I have been reluctant to post cos I was partly made at myself.

I promised that I woud take lots of photos for your guys but my health and phone had other plans. I did take a few and tried to extra pictures from the videos I took though.

To the main gist.....

I went on an all expense paid vacation oooooo. Like flights, 4 star hotel (I thought about my free bed at home when i heard the price per night), feeding, standby uber and gbogbo ti gbo and all that and guess who sponsored it............

What did I miss?

Lemonadewifey:
Hello, Good day @Whyna. Please can I send you a message through mail?

Yes sure

nwadikeokey11:
Have responded to you, and hope it was you i responded to? You said i should confirm here to be sure you are the one I'm talking to.

Replied.

Added a vernacular blessing to the response

Andercruz:
Hello, dear.
How do you do?
I sent you the nairaland mail. Pls help me respond so we can converse properly.
Thank you.

Replied since yesterday

nwadikeokey11:
nwadikeokey11@gmail.com This is my email, reach me directly on this. Let me know when you are done so that I get it outta here. Thanks. This is cos I couldn't reach u

Received you mail.

nwadikeokey11:
Didn't see ur msg. I could have giving u my watsap numbers but I don't know if that's permitted here or not. I really want to talk to u, it's urgent Or are u the Newbie123. I got a notification from that. If u are pls indicate, cos I also responded wit a hi msg

I sent you a direct mail when you dropped your email address saying this is Whyna.

I will send again. If you still don't receive it, try and DM me via my profile here.

Please confirm here that it's me you're chatting with o. My hand no dey

nwadikeokey11:
Could you drop your email here for me, I would like to contact you for something important urgently.

I DMed you

Investmentfreak:
Please can someone with just o level apply to become a teacher in Vietnam ?

There's a way around it...

Gadgetmobil:
I got the Nairaland.com email notification but didn't see your email.

Pls you can mail me directly, my email is in your quote.
Thank you Sis

I sent you a direct mail. Please check or DM me using the email now option on my profile

Meklex:
Hi Whyna,

Are there other jobs available in Vietnam for Nigerian immigrants apart from teaching?

Teaching is not my strong suit. Also, can I comfortably work from home?

Trust me when I say you will cope with teaching here. Give it one month and you'll adapt.

There are IT jobs here too but you must be a big shot with lots of experience for them to pick you over a local. There are other big companies too but like i said, you should be a big shot and know your onions and such multinational companies would usually recruit from home not here.

Olenda1:
Please Gurus in the house help. I had my biometrics on 20th April 2022, made paid call was told that decision has been taken waited for few days made paid mail and was given 15 working days for feedback after some days got a mail from the school that brp card is ready for collection and yet to get my passport returned to TLS, lectures has started and am the online one left to arrive to the UK because passport haven't returned, I have been to TLS on 3 different occasions but I kept on hearing same message passport isn't ready. Please help me with any info on how to go about this please. My class is MAY intake.

Wow

Cjaylawson:
Pls duchess I need u to confirm dis for me can I pay my visa and ihs fee with euro cos I currently av my application fee in euro is euro acceptable for visa fee some said I can't use it
Pls clear it for me

Yes you can.

The equivalent will be charged

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You can delete now ..

BunmiBie:
You will get there babe. You've come too far to give up on this dream now.
I used to say this on threads too and today to God be the glory. USA gat me but that Vietnam, I will visit by God's grace for vacation.
Whyna, Kudos to you and to the new members onboard please, represent us well well o.
God bless everyone of us.

Congrats Bunmible