What do you expect from a Country with a:

Weak Military
Weak Police
Weak Navy
Weak Fire Service
Weak Presidency
Weak Customs
Weak Airforce
Weak Road safety
Weak Prison service.
Weak Responsive Team
Weak Maintainance and Oversight

The only thing going for us is that we are a determined and hardworking people.

I don't feel bad for Okorocha because he was too dumb to believe he will be President in 2023.

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Ladies and Gentlemen in Naija, I'll be 100 with you...

If you are dating someone and they are trying to migrate to USA with a non-immigrant visa, and they say they are coming back for you....chances are you are better off just freeing them and remaining friends while you face your life where you are.
I bet you neither you nor them knows the challenges that will have to be faced along this road.

Not every US Visa is a migration Visa. There is schooling visa, visiting visa, etc.
And visas are very restrictive about what you can and cannot do, and if you can even be allowed to apply for any other visa.

When a person has at least a green card, that is US permanent residency, and they are on a home run to US citizenship.
A green card means a person has no serious limitation within the US besides voting (you can do that when you become a citizen).
It is also at this GreenCard level that your trans-atlantic lover can BEGIN the process of sending for you.

But the road to a green card is long and uneasy if you didn't win a US diversity lottery..
Seeing as Nigeria is one of the countries banned from the Us Visa lottery (a program whereby people gamble to win a US greencard), no Nigerian as at some years back can get a quick GreenCard through that route. They have to go the looooong route.

There are various do-able long paths to the US greencard e.g:
- Naija -> School in US -> OPT -> H1B -> Eb2/Eb3/Eb4 employment based GreenCard
- Naija -> School in US (PHD) -> Lots of exploits -> extra-ordinary person Eb1 GreenCard
- Naija -> Have $500k - $1M to "invest" in the US -> Eb5 Investor Greencard. The higher you spend the more the priority (tief tief agbada types love this one)
- Naija -> marry a US citizen or Greencard holder -> Marriage based Greencard.

_{each '->' sign can mean any where from 2-10 years!}

But all these things have been made longer and even sometimes down right unattainable by Trump.
Now, companies that had once hired people through the H1B won't even look at you unless you have an OPT, which means you have more time to "try to get" an H1B.....which you might still kuku not get.
Also, you need to basically be Elon Musk or Bill Gates before you can come in through the "Extra-ordinary person" route.
If you thought you had money before, Trump wants to raise the $$$ range for investing, so the #BigAgbada will probably have to tief more.

The insults are so bad right now that in the US, Trump is trying to fight their 13th amendment so as to prevent people who visit the US to give birth from having that child become an automatic US citizen.

Now if the UK was your target, it's even worse because Theresa May and her people are mimicking Trump's US anti-immigration agenda to the point of them going further by trying to deport black UK citizens with Caribbean origins(https://www.npr.org/2018/05/02/607652305/caribbean-immigrants-to-u-k-threatened-with-deportation).


The only thing still left open that these rulers have been unable to touch/complicate yet is Greencard by marriage...and this is where we continue our thread from...

Your boo will mostly have to marry someone there....but it's not that simple.
This process also takes SEVERAL years before they get a greencard, trigger a messy divorce, rebuild themselves, before then being able to START sending for you.
However it is important to keep in mind that:
- Marrying someone purely for a greencard is a scam and is thus a very serious punishable offense worthy of deportation and a ban from the US.
- The safest thing, is to simply marry for real, live in the same house, etc.
- Sensible marriageable people can smell a potential marriage scam from a mile away now and don't enter marriage with guys/girls who don't have papers.
- Since the prime marriage prospects avoid you, You'd probably have to pay someone with a complicated life to do the marriage deal with...and these persons are usually crazy in some way...as they would have to be to collect money to marry someone they don't know.
- There is also the risk of the person you are married to taking advantage, asking for more money midway and/or sometimes even cancelling your greencard application...meaning it was all for naught and you'd then have to go back home anyway in failure after all the suffer.

It's a hard long risky road, one that you in Naija may be totally ignorant of.
In fact sometimes one could deduce that if the same amount of time, hussle and abuse-reception to get a greencard was spent building themselves in Naija, they probably would be farther in life themselves with more human dignity.

All that said...
The easiest thing for your boo to do is to marry a US resident FOR REAL (you don't wanna fake-marry someone you don't see yourself living forever with) and forget you so he/she can move on with their life. After marriage to a good person for a couple years, there will always come that strong urge to just BE DONE with the trans-atlantic wahala and move on with life, forgetting you in the process. Putting out the bad karma of Divorcing, then waiting to recover, and then the beginning of another battle just to send for you...is a serious long ting. You are basically baggage.

There are still some fairly easier, civilized countries to migrate to right now: e.g Australia, Canada (prepare for cold), etc. But if boo's plan is US or UK, and they didn't go as residents, just move your life along.
Don't stunt the development of your life waiting for all that. If you find a functional stable relationship where you are, go with that and free each other to face your chosen destinies untethered and without baggage.

There are many people in Naija who enjoy life to the fullest more than yankee people sef. Focus on being one of those people.

Wow. This is a brilliant piece and I hope many Nigerians who want to travel to US and UK read this over and over again.

But all these things have been made longer and even sometimes down right unattainable by Trump.

I picked this out because many Nigerians love Trump without knowing how hard he has worked to slow African migration down.

Those who don't live in or have been to a foreign land don't know how hard they work to sustain their values and deter people from crimes.
You will do serious jail time in Europe or US if you commit the least offence or crime in Nigeria.

Hopefully, someday we will will have the same thing in Nigeria.

I love my people but you don't know how much I hate our Nigerian politicians and government because they are clowns.

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The biggest problem the igbo man has is his own people.

A hot slap would have rest his creepy brain

He would be heading straight to jail in a normal Country

Things are getting so scary in this Country. There's nothing like safety and security for the people anymore.

No one know when this madness by Nigerian politicians will end.

You are giving them cars as if they don't have cars abi?

globalresource:


We cannot be careful with promises. We Dont see the heart of men. We can only try them out. Buhari failed so let's try another person.
Politicians will always promise. I pray we get the right person

How long have you been praying and when will that prayer be answered. We are on the same page and need to be wary. Some of you rejected Jonathan with the same tired reason that another person would be tried out? Their wives fried were photographed frying akara for you and the rest is history. We must choose wisely and we must be cautious too.

We all need to be careful with these promises by Nigerian politicians.

One politician was almost lynched by market women after promising them he would provide free buses that would pick them up from their homes to the markets and bring them back.

Boko Haram has not been defeated, One Naira is still not equal to One Dollar.

So, take time and check these politicians out before voting for them

I am happy for Linda Ikeji. May God bless her and may her son be a blessing to her and the world.

Nice one, Pastor

RIP

As if we have recovered from the lies to: Defeat Boko Haram and Make 1 Naira equal to a Dollar.

We need to stop these politicians from vows and promises abeg

Beautiful state. We respect the mighty but don't dance to their tunes.

Who know, Go know

Must this Nigerian father Christmas wear a mask or look different.

Even those Chinese people they no see.

Na waoh