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Re: Nigerian Students In UK Seek Help From Food Charity by RodgersAkpafu: 4:22pm On Jun 01
femi4:
They never had the school fees in the first place, most of them hoped to start working immediately they got there, unfortunately work isn't easy to find in the UK with restricted hours to students

this right here is the issue

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Re: Nigerian Students In UK Seek Help From Food Charity by Bankowner: 4:36pm On Jun 01
Food Charity is the equivalent of Food Bank here and it's the same challenge they are going through. Refugees and international students storm the food banks and it got to a point where some of them put out notices that the food bank was not for international students but locals.

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Re: Nigerian Students In UK Seek Help From Food Charity by LegendHero(m): 4:36pm On Jun 01
tensazangetsu20:


You are funny. You think the US is easy too. Dey play grin grin grin

USA is far easy than the UK.

For my masters back then, it’s $11k per semester for school fees.

Graduate school gave me tuition remission of $5k.
I got graduate Assistantship of $6k.

What that means is that, I did not pay 1kobo for my schoolfees for all the three semesters I used in school. Infact at my third semester, I got a big bargain of being a research assistant to one professor who want to give me more money that can cover for my stipends, but I just said I want to graduate jejely.

It is only in the USA where people come land into the country without having $500 and they will still hustle it out one way or the other with school fees. You can go and cry to the graduate school, cry to the departmental head, run to other department to look for work.

Even if worst come, you can still graduate without paying that school fees, they won’t just allow you to generate transcript or give you your diploma.

Don’t ever compare USA to UK my brother, they are wide apart.

Below is the email I just sent to the graduate school, and I got $5k straight. It was Fall semester then and you can see August date.

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Re: Nigerian Students In UK Seek Help From Food Charity by tensazangetsu20(m): 4:38pm On Jun 01
LegendHero:


USA is far easy than the UK.

For my masters back then, it’s $11k per semester for school fees.

Graduate school gave me tuition remission of $5k.
I got Teaching Assistantship of $6k.

What that means is that, I did not pay 1kobo for my schoolfees for all the three semesters I used in school. Infact at my third semester, I got a big bargain of being a research assistant to one professor who want to give me more money that can cover for my stipends, but I just said I want to graduate jejely.

It is only in the USA where people come land into the country without having $500 and they will still hustle it out one way or the other with school fees. You can go and cry to the graduate school, cry to the departmental head, run to other department to look for work.

Even if worst come, you can still graduate without paying that school fees, they won’t just allow you to generate transcript or give you your diploma.

Don’t ever compare USA to UK my brother, they are wide apart.

What happens after your masters bros. You have 3 months to find a job to utilize your OPT. 1 million applicants for the H1B visa that leads to a green card. Also many companies will not employ since you will require sponsorship. It's not the school it's what happens after.
Re: Nigerian Students In UK Seek Help From Food Charity by lastkingsman: 4:44pm On Jun 01
tensazangetsu20:


What happens after your masters bros. You have 3 months to find a job to utilize your OPT. 1 million applicants for the H1B visa that leads to a green card. Also many companies will not employ since you will require sponsorship. It's not the school it's what happens after.

Person go find one Shanice carry hold body after school grin grin

Wetin man go do? ***Clear throat, open one can of AMSTEL BIER ***

Cc: ednut1
Re: Nigerian Students In UK Seek Help From Food Charity by LegendHero(m): 4:47pm On Jun 01
tensazangetsu20:


What happens after your masters bros. You have 3 months to find a job to utilize your OPT. 1 million applicants for the H1B visa that leads to a green card. Also many companies will not employ since you will require sponsorship. It's not the school it's what happens after.

—After my own masters, I applied for OPT and I got a job before graduation already so I just rolled onto the job with my OPT.

—The first year I got into the H-1B program, I was picked in the lottery and by October that year, my H-1B got active.

—Then my company filed my green card straight after that.

Now for other people:
—Everyone can get OPT and can even get STEM OPT if it’s engineering and etc. That means you have 3 years in total to use for that.

—it’s true that you need to get a job within few months for your OPT to still be active. But if you don’t get that job, people usually go and do volunteer job with Red Cross and etc. your OPT will still be active and you can continue to search for jobs.

—Even if you don’t have job, people defer their graduation or enrol for second master or PhD.

—If you are not under a spell, you will sha see one job within 1 to 2 years that will put you on properly.

—If you are engineering/software or general STEM, some big tech companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Cisco, Deloitte, KPMG, Accenture, EY, Visa, and etc usually do sponsor students. Things only got a lil bit worse with Biden era and Covid where job recruitment slowed down.

—For H1B, if they put you in every year for the 3 year your OPT got active, you’ll be picked at least once. 90% of the people I know get picked.

—Some companies don’t even need H-1B, they file your green card straight from OPT. Many people don’t know this. One of my guys at Microsoft got his green card through OPT alone. It just depend on company policy.

And if worse come to worse and you no see job after 1-2 years, then you marry an American citizen for green card. I won’t advise this route.

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Re: Nigerian Students In UK Seek Help From Food Charity by tensazangetsu20(m): 4:47pm On Jun 01
lastkingsman:


Person go find one Shanice carry hold body after school grin grin

Wetin man go do? ***Clear throat, open one can of AMSTEL BIER ***

Cc: ednut1

Lol even that isnt easy. Every country is difficult and most people are too laid back and stupid. The US after school laws are the most brutal amongst all developed countries. The F1 visa isnt an immigrant visa. You have 3 months to find a job to switch to your OPT or get out.
Re: Nigerian Students In UK Seek Help From Food Charity by 1Sharon(f): 4:48pm On Jun 01
MT:


They work under the table.

Also, to beat attendance, they give their mates their cards to swipe for them but the schools are becoming smarter now.

This is serious. I never knew the deception was this organised.

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Re: Nigerian Students In UK Seek Help From Food Charity by tensazangetsu20(m): 4:50pm On Jun 01
LegendHero:


—After my own masters, I applied for OPT and I got a job before graduation already so I just rolled onto the job with my OPT.

—The first year I got into the H-1B program, I was picked in the lottery and by October that year, my H-1B got active.

—Then my company filed my green card straight after that.

Now for other people:
—Everyone can get OPT and can even get STEM OPT if it’s engineering and etc. That means you have 3 years in total to use for that.

—it’s true that you need to get a job within few months for your OPT to still be active. But if you don’t get that job, people usually go and do volunteer job with Red Cross and etc. your OPT will still be active and you can continue to search for jobs.

—Even if you don’t have job, people defer their graduation or enrol for second master or PhD.

—If you are not under a spell, you will sha see one job within 1 to 2 years that will put you on properly.

—If you are engineering/software or general STEM, some big tech companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Cisco, Deloitte, KPMG, Accenture, EY, Visa, and etc usually do sponsor students. Things only got a lil bit worse with Biden era and Covid where job recruitment slowed down.

—For H1B, if they put you in every year for the 3 year your OPT got active, you’ll be picked at least once. 90% of the people I know get picked.

—Some companies don’t even need H-1B, they file your green card straight from OPT. Many people don’t know this. One of my guys at Microsoft got his green card through OPT alone. It just depend on company policy.

And if worse come to worse and you no see job after 1-2 years, then you marry an American citizen for green card. I won’t advise this route.

You were lucky you got picked in the H1B lottery. Most people dont. Theres over a million applications and only 80000 h1b visas given every year. Theres nothing like 90 percent of people are picked. The stats are all there. Also how do you get green card from OPT without filling for it through Eb2 or Eb1 which you can do from any place in the world.

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Re: Nigerian Students In UK Seek Help From Food Charity by LegendHero(m): 4:57pm On Jun 01
tensazangetsu20:


You were lucky you got picked in the H1B lottery. Most people dont. Theres over a million applications and only 80000 h1b viasa given every year. Theres nothing like 90 percent of people are picked. The stats are all there. Also how do you get green card from OPT without filling for it through Eb2 or Eb1 which you can do from any place in the world.

Bro, when I graduated, ALL of us in my department got jobs before graduating. What I just did back then was aggressively attending all those NSBE conferences and I every info session companies come to do on campus.

H1B lottery systems have been refined. When Trump came in, students with masters/phd in USA are given more preference, there was a way they set it up then. Legitly, almost everyone I know since I graduated and the other people I mentored got their H1B within the first 2 trials.

Don’t look at the numbers, it is deceiving. Most people in India just bombard the portal with multiple entries to secure H-1B pick chances and USCIS already understood their games.

You can get green card through OPT straight, I am not talking about EB2, that’s a different route entirely. I am at the mid-senior level at my job, I know what I am telling you. Companies file for student straight from OPT to green card, it all depends on their company policy.

If you’ve ever filed for a green card before, in all the forms you fill I-485, I-131, I-765, and etc, do you ever see USCIS ask any H1B question for work green card route? No, that’s the clue.

Most people don’t do it just because companies prefer to file H1B to green card rather than just OPT to green card.

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Re: Nigerian Students In UK Seek Help From Food Charity by aspabay(m): 5:00pm On Jun 01
The students don get better excuse.

How many were really hoping to get funds from Nigeria?
Majority are in the UK hoping to work and pay their fees. But water don pass garri.

It’s alright to make it feel you had some money in Nigeria that the forex issue has wiped out.

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Re: Nigerian Students In UK Seek Help From Food Charity by aspabay(m): 5:01pm On Jun 01
femi4:
They never had the school fees in the first place, most of them hoped to start working immediately they got there, unfortunately work isn't easy to find in the UK with restricted hours to students

That’s the absolute truth

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Re: Nigerian Students In UK Seek Help From Food Charity by tensazangetsu20(m): 5:01pm On Jun 01
LegendHero:


Bro, when I graduated, ALL of us in my department got jobs before graduating. What I just did back then was aggressively attending all those NSBE conferences and I every info session companies come to do on campus.

H1B lottery systems have been refined. When Trump came in, students with masters/phd in USA are given more preference, there was a way they set it up then. Legitly, almost everyone I know since I graduated and the other people I mentored got their H1B within the first 2 trials.

Don’t look at the numbers, it is deceiving. Most people in India just bombard the portal with multiple entries to secure H-1B pick chances and USCIS already understood their games.

You can get green card through OPT straight, I am not talking about EB2, that’s a different route entirely. I am at the mid-senior level at my job, I know what I am telling you. Companies file for student straight from OPT to green card, it all depends on their company policy.

If you’ve ever filed for a green card before, in all the forms you fill I-485, I-131, I-765, and etc, do you ever see USCIS ask any H1B question for work green card route? No, that’s the clue.

Most people don’t do it just because companies prefer to file H1B to green card rather than just OPT to green card.

You did a lot of work on your part. Most people are laid back and stupid. Job search should start from day one. Networking and going to conferences and all. People wait until last minute when its too late.

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Re: Nigerian Students In UK Seek Help From Food Charity by LegendHero(m): 5:06pm On Jun 01
tensazangetsu20:


You did a lot of work on your part. Most people are laid back and stupid. Job search should start from day one. Networking and going to conferences and all. People wait until last minute when its too late.

You are right. Job search should start right from the second semester.

Attend everything you can attend. Try to hustle for internship and if you can’t get it, it’s fine too.

However, I won’t blame students that got here between 2021 and now. Recruitment have slowed down so much in USA. Most companies have hiring freeze and etc.

You will still be seeing the job listings online, but they are there just to fulfil the PERM requirement for this companies. So if you are applying to them, they will just keep denying you.

We hope by 2025, the economy will pick up and companies start recruiting massively again.
Re: Nigerian Students In UK Seek Help From Food Charity by ednut1(m): 6:04pm On Jun 01
lastkingsman:


Person go find one Shanice carry hold body after school grin grin

Wetin man go do? ***Clear throat, open one can of AMSTEL BIER ***

Cc: ednut1
Yetisha, yelaina, vivica, kayla 🤣. My former colleague doing MBA in USA came to Canada last year and we linked up. Baba don find one carry am go 9ja last December. 🤣


Tensazangetsu20

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Re: Nigerian Students In UK Seek Help From Food Charity by maasoap(m): 6:04pm On Jun 01
AmericanIdiot:
Nawa o
Abeg the caption should be titled “SOME Nigerian students begging charity for food “SOME” not all abeg
Some of us are doing very well here in uk not like those useless ones too lazy to work that came to live off the govt

They are not lazy o, most Nigerians who japa through student visa knew that they had to work real hard. But this particular university really fvcked them up badly. From cutting down their installments from 7 to 3, to locking them out of the school portal thereby denying them lectures and other activities, to reporting the defaulting students to immigration office for deportation. Are you telling me that this is the only university in UK where foreign students defaulted or all Nigerians in that University alone are lazy?
Re: Nigerian Students In UK Seek Help From Food Charity by maasoap(m): 6:09pm On Jun 01
aspabay:
The students don get better excuse.

How many were really hoping to get funds from Nigeria?
Majority are in the UK hoping to work and pay their fees. But water don pass garri.

It’s alright to make it feel you had some money in Nigeria that the forex issue has wiped out.

Wicked somebody grin grin grin
Re: Nigerian Students In UK Seek Help From Food Charity by fullclub: 6:20pm On Jun 01
AmericanIdiot:



Nawa o
Abeg the caption should be titled “SOME Nigerian students begging charity for food “SOME” not all abeg
Some of us are doing very well here in uk not like those useless ones too lazy to work that came to live off the govt

If they get job will they be begging?
Where is the job to do?
If you have one then be thankful
Re: Nigerian Students In UK Seek Help From Food Charity by AmericanIdiot(m): 6:39pm On Jun 01
maasoap:


They are not lazy o, most Nigerians who japa through student visa knew that they had to work real hard. But this particular university really fvcked them up badly. From cutting down their installments from 7 to 3, to locking them out of the school portal thereby denying them lectures and other activities, to reporting the defaulting students to immigration office for deportation. Are you telling me that this is the only university in UK where foreign students defaulted or all Nigerians in that University alone are lazy?


Let them go back to Nigeria then
Re: Nigerian Students In UK Seek Help From Food Charity by fullclub: 6:43pm On Jun 01
LegendHero:


God bless you. It’s like you’re seeing what I’m seeing too.

To even start with, how do you expect student to be able to afford almost $16-$24k for a full masters program on their own without provision for some form of either tuition assistance or free access to some jobs or leniency in out of campus stuffs. Those student will still rent houses, pay bills, and etc.

FG have been subsidizing dollar for us which explained why people believed it is okay to just put down almost 24k pounds coupled with another almost 5m on processing and bank account props.

How many UK citizens even fit pay that amount? Even for America here, almost all American student got student loan which they use to support school except international graduate students that have luck with GA, TAs, Tuition Remission, and grad school assistance.

UK don cast. All my guys wey dey there self wan japa come USA. Even Canada self don dey get Kleg. But people won’t understand.

The truth is that most UK citizens hardly go pass university degree. Upon all the options available to them... Council loans, student loan, government subsidy, University pegging school fees below 10k pounds. They hardly go. Instead they most prefer apprenticeship and it is fully funded by council tax and they are paid 6 to 8 pound pee hour to learn this skills. Even most universities are now offering what they call degree apprenticeship in a bid to attract British citizens to incorporate skills alongside study.

Still yet them no send.

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Re: Nigerian Students In UK Seek Help From Food Charity by fullclub: 6:46pm On Jun 01
Tizu:
Shut up. If you have any opportunity to run out of this useless good for nothing country called Nigeria you will run.
What works in Nigeria?

Na this statement made us took this this terrible route. Please be mindful of what u post.
U see those people begging food? They are bankers, well to do people in Nigeria etc.
And to come here u have to part with nothing less than 30milliion naira to 45 million naira... No be poor man decision and if u get that kind money I won't throw it in ocean

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Re: Nigerian Students In UK Seek Help From Food Charity by Regex: 6:57pm On Jun 01
ednut1:

Yetisha, yelaina, vivica, kayla 🤣. My former colleague doing MBA in USA came to Canada last year and we linked up. Baba don find one carry am go 9ja last December. 🤣


Tensazangetsu20

😂 😂 oluwa help me find one oh... I need pikin
Re: Nigerian Students In UK Seek Help From Food Charity by lastkingsman: 10:36pm On Jun 01
ednut1:

Yetisha, yelaina, vivica, kayla 🤣. My former colleague doing MBA in USA came to Canada last year and we linked up. Baba don find one carry am go 9ja last December. 🤣


Tensazangetsu20

Kwakwakwa grin

Life no suppose hard oh
Re: Nigerian Students In UK Seek Help From Food Charity by lastkingsman: 10:37pm On Jun 01
Regex:


😂 😂 oluwa help me find one oh... I need pikin

I no understand you oh
Re: Nigerian Students In UK Seek Help From Food Charity by Regex: 12:00am On Jun 02
lastkingsman:


I no understand you oh

😂 😂 ah son of man gats get option.
Re: Nigerian Students In UK Seek Help From Food Charity by Gerrard59(m): 3:44am On Jun 02
MT:



The worst part of it is that , most students are paying third party to do their assignments for them. If these students write exam, most of them would fail. I assisted two friends and they graduated with distinction in tech based master courses. I warned them that it would backfire but they put pressure on me to help them so they wouldn’t fail the courses, Today, they are working in care homes because they don’t have capabilities to get a job in the tech industries. Tuition fees gone to waste.
shocked shocked
I am curious, don't they have an academic background in quantitative courses like Physics or engineering or mathematics? No tech experience while in Nigeria?
Re: Nigerian Students In UK Seek Help From Food Charity by lastkingsman: 6:37am On Jun 02
LegendHero:


God bless you. It’s like you’re seeing what I’m seeing too.

To even start with, how do you expect student to be able to afford almost $16-$24k for a full masters program on their own without provision for some form of either tuition assistance or free access to some jobs or leniency in out of campus stuffs. Those student will still rent houses, pay bills, and etc.

FG have been subsidizing dollar for us which explained why people believed it is okay to just put down almost 24k pounds coupled with another almost 5m on processing and bank account props.

How many UK citizens even fit pay that amount? Even for America here, almost all American student got student loan which they use to support school except international graduate students that have luck with GA, TAs, Tuition Remission, and grad school assistance.

UK don cast. All my guys wey dey there self wan japa come USA. Even Canada self don dey get Kleg. But people won’t understand.

Which k-leg Canada get?
Re: Nigerian Students In UK Seek Help From Food Charity by Love800(m): 7:29pm On Jun 02
What is eb2 and eb1 pls?
tensazangetsu20:


You were lucky you got picked in the H1B lottery. Most people dont. Theres over a million applications and only 80000 h1b visas given every year. Theres nothing like 90 percent of people are picked. The stats are all there. Also how do you get green card from OPT without filling for it through Eb2 or Eb1 which you can do from any place in the world.
Re: Nigerian Students In UK Seek Help From Food Charity by Love800(m): 7:33pm On Jun 02
Hello.
How do i migrate to america apart from using school route. Is there any other way?
LegendHero:


You are right. Job search should start right from the second semester.

Attend everything you can attend. Try to hustle for internship and if you can’t get it, it’s fine too.

However, I won’t blame students that got here between 2021 and now. Recruitment have slowed down so much in USA. Most companies have hiring freeze and etc.

You will still be seeing the job listings online, but they are there just to fulfil the PERM requirement for this companies. So if you are applying to them, they will just keep denying you.

We hope by 2025, the economy will pick up and companies start recruiting massively again.
Re: Nigerian Students In UK Seek Help From Food Charity by Love800(m): 7:38pm On Jun 02
So u.k students dont go for white-collar jobs?
fullclub:


The truth is that most UK citizens hardly go pass university degree. Upon all the options available to them... Council loans, student loan, government subsidy, University pegging school fees below 10k pounds. They hardly go. Instead they most prefer apprenticeship and it is fully funded by council tax and they are paid 6 to 8 pound pee hour to learn this skills. Even most universities are now offering what they call degree apprenticeship in a bid to attract British citizens to incorporate skills alongside study.

Still yet them no send.
Re: Nigerian Students In UK Seek Help From Food Charity by LegendHero(m): 8:34pm On Jun 02
Love800:
Hello.
How do i migrate to america apart from using school route. Is there any other way?

There are other ways but I don’t know much about them so I won’t be able to advise well.

—Marriage Green card route: You find someone in USA who is a citizen who will like to marry you. Then you do marriage and they start the process of filing your green card to bring you here.

—Visitors Visa (B category): You can find someone to send you an invite. It could be to a conference, to a graduation, and etc. But the chance of getting visa for visitors is like 10%. So if you have money to play with, you can just use it.

—H1B: You can apply aggressively to companies in USA through LinkedIn and hope one can recruit you. Then they can file your H1B and then bring you to USA. I know some guys that come to USA through this route, there is also another visa type L-1 or so that allow this too but your company need to be multinational for that.

Na only student visa I Sabi well well.
Re: Nigerian Students In UK Seek Help From Food Charity by LegendHero(m): 8:39pm On Jun 02
Love800:
What is eb2 and eb1 pls?

I can tell you about EB visa.

They are visa route that allow students usually masters/phd to get their green card right from when they are still a student. It is usually tied to them partaking in research and proving to the USA government that they are special.

Just imagine a student that did research that give the cure for cancer. You know that kind of person is very important to USA economy, so USA allow such person to get green card right from there as a student by filing for himself. I just used cancer ask an example, people use even smaller research to get it.

EB1, EB2, EB3 are just used to delineate the level.

EB1 could be individual with mad extraordinary abilities, EB2 usually for students that have Masters/PhD and those can file for themselves, EB3 I think is for professionals or skilled worker and you can have BSc, I don’t think they care about masters here.

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