Checkout Weird Things Nigerians Do In UK And America To Avoid Deportation (Photos)

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Many talented and brilliant Nigerians have had their promising future ruined by their desperation to seek greener pastures abroad. Some of them who quit thriving jobs at home end up doing menial jobs abroad with several others becoming fugitives in the long run.

Henry was a top insurance broker in Nigeria before he migrated to the United Kingdom (UK) for greener pastures on the crest of Highly Skilled Migrant Programme (HSMP) visa. As a top flight insurance broker, he had everything going for him—decent accommodation, fairly good car, reward for good performance and opportunity to rise to higher positions in his organisation. But all that, for the young man, was inadequate.

He had examine about how properly coverage brokers are paid abroad and imagined how his existence might change if he travelled out and earn a salary which when converted to naira could flip him into an immediately millionaire. To actualise his dream, he end his activity and left for the United Kingdom with a promise to humans he left in the back of that he might soon begin to ship vehicles and difficult currency to them.

On getting g to the UK, he attempted his first-class to secure a activity just like the only he became doing in Nigeria but he could not get any. He observed himself sweating in the bloodless temperature of the United Kingdom as he determined himself undeserving for the system. In the give up, a friend got him a activity as a security officer with a small personal organization. Unfortunately, the pay turned into not sufficient for him to renew his HSMP visa even though it become higher than what he earned in Nigeria.

In the stop, the Home Office (HO) gave him seventy two hours to leave the UK. But as opposed to comply, he in reality changed his residential deal with and carried on along with his activity with out informing his employer approximately the trade in his staying popularity.

A pal to Henry said: “The HO Police went to the office of the safety organisation where he labored after a deportation order turned into issued and a name became made to him to report in the workplace right now. But someone in the office tipped him off approximately the presence of the police, so he controlled to break out deportation.

“He become lucky to be off duty on the time the police visited. Otherwise, he would had been arrested and deported after serving a prison term for working with out permit. His quandary has in view that brought on him to go underground, seeking out menial jobs and begging for charity.”

Yet as far as the young Nigerian changed into worried, it turned into better to stay a wanderer in the UK than return to Nigeria empty passed to be taunted by way of pals and relations.

Like Henry, Bukky, an skilled nurse in a government owned health facility in Lagos, additionally stop her job to journey to the UK on the HSMP visa obtained with the assist of a relative who certified in the UK as a scientific doctor.

As a nurse, she had read and heard how tons her services would be wanted and rewarded overseas. Without wasting time, she saved enough money and obtained a working visa. With the HSMP visa conditions, she was tied to 4 year visa with her organisation – at Camberwell.

A buddy of hers said: “In order to change her visa to everlasting live with out restrictions, she needed to prove to the Home Office that she’s now ‘settled’ inside the UK. As a result, she travelled back to Nigeria to set up a marriage with an antique boyfriend. All the prices have been borne by using her.

“She in the end acquired a visa for the ‘hubby’ and both of them travel to the United Kingdom, however the guy couldn't get a task right away. At a point the person have become bored and started having affairs everywhere in the place, flirting and journeying such a lot of dating websites.

“Of route, their marriage crumbled, most effective for Bukky to recognize that the husband actually had some other wife and a toddler in Nigeria to whom he have been sending cash to regularly from Bukky’s financial institution account.

“Bukky literally went ‘mental’. She lost her pregnancy and has now not been herself due to the fact. She’s now getting better in a psychiatric domestic at the same time as the whereabouts of the husband is unknown.

“The best accurate thing is that the Home Office has allowed her to stay within the UK completely with none regulations, and he or she is now waiting to turn out to be a complete UK citizen. Will she ever pass lower back to Nigeria? I doubt that very lots. Not for every other husband besides.”

Bukky’s friend also shared the tale of two Nigerian women who travelled to the United Kingdom on six-month traveller visas that couldn't be renewed.

She stated: “Many Nigerians allow their traveler visas to run out without leaving the United Kingdom. And knowing that without their vintage passport the Nigerian Embassy in the UK, through regulation, can not issue them ETC (emergency touring certificate), they burn their passports and clone the identities of criminal UK citizens that they recognize. As matters stand, a lot of them won't be able to visit their domestic us of a again.

“But the most tragic factor is that lots of them are struggling and are on the mercy of different Nigerians within the Diaspora who've became them into slaves of kinds. This is the story many Nigerians overseas would not tell their family participants at domestic. To compound their issues, some embassies and excessive fee offices aren't making matters smooth.”

In a viral video, the Nigerian High Commission in Atlanta Georgia, United States, turned into fingered as one of the places the issue of documentation and passport renewal are made hard.

In the video, a Nigerian who became pissed off approximately the hurdles placed in the approaches of Nigerians who want to renew their passports described the state of affairs at the high commission as “chaotic”.

According to the man that speaks inside the heritage of the video, the staff at the Nigerian High Commission, aside from amassing the passport application charge, could make Nigerians pay some other 130 bucks.

“Nigerians ought to stay inside the sun outdoor the embassy disorganised dishevel, go away their homes, journey with the aid of flight and sleep in resorts. (They) spend approximately 1,500 greenbacks for this trip just because they need to renew their passports,” he said.

In comparison, he stated, the citizens of a country like the Republic of Benin do now not must journey but simplest mail their passports.

“We must forestall this. It is a fraud. Defrauding Nigerians in the name of ‘there is no money’ to run the embassy. Where has Nigeria’s cash long past to? What passed off to the price range?” he queried.

For many Nigerians who are living abroad illegally, returning home to calm down or visit family contributors will be a pipe dream. According to an immigration lawyer, the hassle with most immigrants, particularly those with multiple entry visas, starts offevolved after they want to work inside the UK.

According to him, the visa confers on them the reputation of visitors who aren't allowed to paintings. “Most Nigerian immigrants adopt other people’s names and use the documents of real residents who're allowed to paintings. In most instances, whilst this sort of vacationer is stuck, the penalty is constantly grave. Unfortunately, most Nigerians who come as traffic continually have it behind their minds to work within the UK.”

According to him, it's far a piece better for those with a couple of visas. But it is also a huge danger. Most of them might are available, paintings and use the proceeds in their work to shop for items. He said what they normally do is to increase the visa for 2 or 3 years and they'd start working.

“After some time, they go to the home workplace and change their fame from being a tourist to that of a trader or a business individual. But it is a large danger, due to the fact within the procedure of looking to collect money, nothing must go wrong. For those of them that managed to get away immigration, it's far continually neither right here nor there because they would not need to come returned to Nigeria because of the worry of being caught through the immigration at the airport.”

A Nigerian with twin citizenship who lives inside the United Kingdom instructed The Nation that a few Nigerians who're stranded within the usa are every now and then assisted by means of human beings like him. But he said it can spell a catastrophe if they're stuck.

He stated: “If stranded Nigerians need to go out of the u . S . (UK), what they typically do is to look for someone with both the Nigerian and the UK passports. The one with the United Kingdom and the Nigerian citizenship will buy the price tag in his very own name, pretending that he's touring to Nigeria, check in, gather the boarding pass or maybe journey collectively.

“The simplest snag is that you could’t use such in two locations due to the fact the gate the foreigner will bypass thru isn't the same as the gate the United Kingdom citizen would skip via. But as quickly as the Nigerian receives to the airport, he would ship the passport back to the UK.

“This expenses a number of money and it is a massive racket here. They rate as a lot as £2,000. But if stuck, the owner of this sort of passport could also go to jail. Though very risky, this is the handiest manner those who had been stranded get out of the UK.

“Although using every other character’s passport can be hard, some who are not eligible to paintings also alternate their identity by using using another man or woman’s file to paintings. But this has its own task too because the income or the salary is paid into the account of the owner of the identity. The actual owner deducts his personal fee at supply and offers some thing they agreed directly to the borrower of his identification.

“This has its very own hassle too due to the fact the proprietor of the identification ought to decide to be doubtful. He may additionally determine now not to pay a dime to the character the use of his identity, knowing full properly that the character would not be capable of record.”

Speaking to The Nation, Susan, who has lived within the United Kingdom for 6 years, stated she came to the us of a with a student visa. But after completing her research, she decided to stay and paintings and has been using any other individual’s identity. Suzan said: “I become hired with the aid of a Nigerian agent to work as a caregiver. Most instances while it's time to pay, the proprietor of the organization, a female, might have one cause or the other not to pay. She might tell you that in case you are aggrieved, you may file to the police. It sucks. What can you do?”

Suzan said if she could be capable of get a activity in Nigeria wherein she might be capable of earn N500,000 a month, she could virtually go back domestic.

There is likewise the case of 1 Peter who travelled to the United Kingdom. At a factor that matters have been getting difficult for him, he approached his pal who gave him his driving force’s licence which he used to use for a activity in a supermarket.

He stated: “It was my buddy that applied for the process for me. He gave me his driver’s licence however warned me sternly that if I changed into caught he could deny me and tell the police that I stole his identification. He warned me no longer to use his identity to borrow from a bank or get into debt.”

Peter turned into lucky for two years, using his friend’s identity to paintings with out paying a dime to the owner of the identity. He applied for asylum and for extra than two years, he saved attractive. He had his files within the domestic workplace and become sooner or later granted an asylum.

“I became just lucky. It is continually candy whilst you are not caught. I couldn’t see my family throughout that duration because if I made any try to come to Nigeria, they would now not permit me to go back to the United Kingdom. It become disturbing.

But the use of some other person’s identification brings a number of problem. A Nigerian residing in Texas, Dele Peters, told The Nation how a Nigerian became stuck the usage of the identification of a dead man or woman. The actual proprietor of the identification is in Texas even as the person that assumes the brand new identification lives in Ohio. “Unfortunately, the proprietor of the identification who lived in Texas died. But the only with a faux identification stored the use of the report of the useless individual even if she knew that the owner of the identity became lifeless.

“Unfortunately, this us of a is stressed out. They knew that the real proprietor turned into useless however he become nonetheless paying tax. Everybody pays tax. So, in case you work, your corporation remits taxes on your behalf to the federal, country and county. That the name turned into useless in Texas and yet a agency become remitting taxes on her behalf become a pink flag.

“Of route, the impostor did now not realize that this can be monitored. When the government went to test his administrative center, they observed that it became some other character that became using the record. The fingerprint of the man or woman the usage of a dead individual’s file changed into taken, so it have become tough for him to paintings again. Even if he wanted to work, it might be underneath the table,” he stated.

According to Peters, the device is original in this type of manner that if you are caught, you'll be lucky now not to be deported however it's far the machine that might render such a person useless. “You won’t be capable of function in case your call is flagged on employment difficulty, particularly if it's miles based totally on dishonesty,” Peter explained.

He said the good thing is that such someone could pass again to Nigeria however it would be tough to go back to the United States.

According to him, there are many of them in distinctive correctional centres in the United States due to some of the matters we do at domestic that do not appeal to sanctions.

“Here, it's far a large deal and you may be jailed for it,” he said.

According to him, having a dating with a teen, watching ponography at work won't attract tons sanction in Nigeria, however within the United States, it's miles seemed as legal sexual behavior and this draws extreme sanction. “Ethically, it is inaccurate if you are as a nurse or a physician to have porn on your telephone. I realize a few Nigerians who have been locked and had their licenses seized because of that.

“I realize of a person right here in this state. He changed into operating with elderly humans and the bodily challenged. On responsibility he became watching porn. He left his smartphone because he needed to take care of an emergency. One of the bodily challenged picked his cellphone and the primary factor they saw at the cellphone became porn. That changed into a massive mistakes.

“He changed into prosecuted. He lost his licence and there was no way he might get a great activity.

Fortunately for him, he ran to Canada because he is a citizen and reordered his life there.”

After coming back from jail, such someone might be living on government benefits or foundation blessings. Such someone might not go back to Nigeria due to the fact his file has been taken. And if he is going to Nigeria, he will no longer be allowed to go back to america, besides such someone is a citizen.

For a number of them who are not citizens, they usually select not to go back to Nigeria due to the fact they would not be allowed access into the united states of america.

Peters additionally disclosed that some Nigerians intentionally choose to be cab drivers due to the fact this offers them room to avoid baby aid fee. “They realize that in the event that they do normal jobs, the authorities will continue to deduct their cash from the source for toddler help. Some of them have two, 3 kids outside without bothering to care for such youngsters. In the actual parlance, they've ‘baby mamas’ that they're now not married to but have kids with. If they're stated with the aid of the mom in their children, anywhere they work, their paychecks are always garnished.

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2 years ago

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2 years ago

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Quadri Olafenwa
2 years ago
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