Come sit with me as I share everything I know in my experience of migrating to Australia from Nigeria.
You can expect topics related to immigration, studying, employment, family life and everything in between, so bring your burning questions and I'll do my best to answer them (Disclaimer: I am not a registered migration agent but I can share what I know, and it is a lot!)
Hello Chioma, thank you for your very informative and insightful videos and to think that they are free is highly commendable. I have been having the dream of migration to Australia and thank goodness I stumbled on channel and must admit I'm in the best channel. Please kindly help me to clear on this concern of mine. My plan is for my wife to go through the student visa route to eventually get the PR but our biggest challenge is how to handle our young children cos my wife has made it clear she can't travel with them alone from the beginning and I am not always available due to my work type and can't abandon my job to join her right now. Imagine to say this video struck a chord with my wife's thought. So I want to know if family members like mother or siblings can qualify as dependent to join on the student visa?
Hello Chioma, thank you for your very informative and insightful videos and to think that they are free is highly commendable. I have been having the dream of migration to Australia and thank goodness I stumbled on channel and must admit I'm in the best channel. Please kindly help me to clear on this concern of mine. My plan is for my wife to go through the student visa route to eventually get the PR but our biggest challenge is how to handle our children cos my wife has made it clear she can't travel with them alone from the beginning and I am not always available due to my work type and can't abandon my job to join her right now. So I want to know if family members like mother or siblings can qualify as dependent to join on the student visa?
Hello Chioma, thank you for your very informative and insightful videos and to think that they are free is highly commendable. I have been having the dream of migration to Australia and thank goodness I stumbled on channel and must admit I'm in the best channel. Please kindly help me to clear on this concern of mine. My plan is for my wife to go through the student visa route to eventually get the PR but our biggest challenge is how to handle our children cos my wife has made it clear she can't travel with them alone from the beginning and I am not always available due to my work type and can't abandon my job to join her right now. So I want to know if family members like mother or siblings can qualify as dependent to join on the student visa?
Australia has institutionalised racism, we have Government Departments based on race. 4% of our population controls over 50% of our land mass, this all based upon race! We have endemic racism in government and especially in the media with a large focus on censorship and a system that is skewed against the majority.
In Canada we have stoped using the term “aboriginal “ because some say it’s offensive as “ab”means non so aboriginal =non-original, now we only use indigenous or First Nations .
Oh Choima, it’s an awesome presentation. i'm planning to go Australia, so it would be really helpful for me as well as diminished a little bit anxiety of mine. Again thanks Choima.❤❤
Also Australia's humour is a thing alot of migrants and immigrants here don't realise we take the piss our of our mates and if rhye happen to be a different ethnicity rhen we're gonna use that in situations we can it's not hate it's just always been that way
It's worth moving to live in Russia. Here are some advantages of living in Russia: - High-quality free education. - Gradual income growth. - Free medicine. - Cheap high-speed Internet. - Opportunity to find a job. - Little competition. - Low taxes (up to 18%). - Dynamics of development of the middle class. - Many walking places: parks, squares. - Paid parental leave for up to one and a half years. Here are some things that foreigners value about life in Russia: - Free, accessible and high-quality medical care. It is difficult for foreigners who pay for insurance themselves or through employers to imagine that medicine can be publicly accessible. - Vibrant culture. Russian ballet, theater, literature, painting, and impressive architecture have firmly settled in the hearts of foreign-language guests. - Cheap and fast Internet, low prices for cellular communications. - Commitment to family values. Foreign men are amazed that there are still women in the world who dream of getting married and caring for their husbands and children. - Russians love their history, respect for traditions. The way of life of Russians is closer to their spirit than the life and thinking of their fellow countrymen. Many would even like to live in Russia, because life here is much richer, more spiritual, and more interesting than in bourgeois Europe or America. Russia in ratings: - in terms of availability of natural gas for the population in 2nd place out of 30 European countries in 2024 - ranked 5th out of 38 European countries in terms of electricity availability in 2024 - ranked 6th out of 117 countries in the world in terms of Internet availability - ranked 15th out of 32 European countries in terms of gasoline availability in 2024 - in terms of unemployment rate in 4th place out of 34 European countries in 2023 - ranked 26th out of 153 countries in the world (ranked 4th out of 38 European countries) in terms of income tax rate Affordability refers to how much electricity, natural gas, gasoline, and Internet can be bought for the average salary in a given country. Thus, the average salary in Russia can buy more electricity, natural gas, gasoline or the Internet than in more than half of the countries in Europe. About 40 million Russians have garden plots - this is not the case in any other state in the world. Russia also has a unique situation with housing ownership: 84% of housing is owned by the population. No other country in the world has such numbers. In Russia, without any property at all - apartments, dachas, cars - only 7% of the population. For example, the United States has more homeless people per capita than countries like Vietnam, India, Russia, Iran, and Kazakhstan. According to official information, in the US between 550,000 and 3.5 million people do not have a normal home. These Americans live in tent cities, cardboard box houses. More than 20 million Americans live in trailers. Russia is rich in social benefits. The volume of social benefits in Russia amounts to more than 20% of GDP. There is free healthcare in Russia. For example, in Russia the removal of the appendix costs about 100 times cheaper than in the USA, this is in a fully paid clinic. Nearly a third of Americans say they have not sought medical attention for health problems in the past three months due to concerns about the cost of these services, according to CBS News, citing a new study by Gallup and West Health. About 23% of Americans say that paying for medical services is a serious financial burden for them. However, as the article highlights, refusing treatment can have dire consequences, and a study found that nearly 13 million Americans have either a friend or family member who died because they couldn't afford medical care. In addition, 20% of adults in the United States say they or a family member experienced a worsening health problem after delaying treatment because of the cost. From 2009 to 2020, medical bills were the largest source of debt in the US, with a record $140 billion in debt last year, according to a July study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. In Russia, higher education is free. Russia ranks first in the world in terms of the share of people with higher education. In the United States, only 55% of those who enter universities receive a diploma of higher education, American experts note the Spencer Foundation Emeritus Chairman and former co-chairman of the Commission on Bachelor Education of the American Academy of Arts, economics professor Michael McPherson and head of the program for education and development of competencies of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences PhD Francesca Purcell. However, the average dropout rate is also significant. In Russia, this figure is 21%, at the level of France and Belgium. In Denmark, Korea and Japan it is lower - from 11% to 17%. The average figure among OECD countries is 31%. Against this backdrop, the American dropout rate of 45% is almost a record. McPherson and Purcell explain it by the high cost of higher education in the country and the insufficient quality of teaching. More than 20% of American adults have difficulty writing, and some can't even read a newspaper, ABC reported. This was shown by a study of the International Program for the Assessment of Adult Competence (PIAAC) under the auspices of the US Department of Education. According to the study, one in five adults in the US has a very low literacy rate. 43.5 million Americans experience difficulties with writing and reading. And we are talking not only about migrants, but about people who speak English from birth. “The historical and political illiteracy of the population is quite high in North America. This must be fought, taxpayers' money must go to eliminate this illiteracy, and not to enrich the class of oligarchs, ”Mark Tagliano, a US writer and author of several books on geopolitics, told 360. Rating of countries based on the results of international studies PISA, TIMSS, PIRLS, ICILS, PIAAC, the share of people with tertiary and higher education, Global Skills Index, by the number of weighted victories at international student olympiads, by the total number of gold medals received at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO ), International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), International Physics Olympiad (IPhO), International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO), International Linguistic Olympiad (IOL/ILO), International Olympiad in Economics (IEO), International Biological Olympiad (IBO), International Geographical Olympiad Olympiad (IGeo), International Science Olympiad (IJSO), International Olympiad in Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA), International Earth Science Olympiad (IESO), International Astronomy Olympiad (IAO), International Philosophy Olympiad (IPO), WorldSkills competitions : 1 . Russia 2. Singapore 3. Japan 4 . South Korea 5 . Great Britain 6. Finland 7. Australia 8 . Netherlands 9 . Switzerland 10 . Canada 11 . Germany 12 . USA 13 . Poland 14 . Sweden 15 . France 16 . Austria 17. Hungary 18 . China 19 . Denmark 20 . Bulgaria And at the end of 2023, the World Bank included Russia in the list of high-income countries. According to the World Bank, in 2023, the share of the population of countries in the world whose GDP per capita, taking into account PPP, is lower than that of Russia, is 83.59%. Japan's GDP per capita, taking into account PPP, is 15% higher than that of the Russian Federation. But in Japan, there are long hours of overtime, office work on weekends, refusal of vacations and forced drinking sessions with bosses, and all this is the reality of the Japanese labor market. Millions of local clerks complain of chronic fatigue, burnout and depression. Every year, hundreds of them literally die from overwork: in Japan there is even a special term for this phenomenon, “karoshi” - “death from overwork.” In Russia, it’s the other way around; as a rule, there’s freebies at work. The actual time worked is several hours, and it is not a problem to ask for time off or to de facto leave work home early. Feedback from a programmer who left Russia for the USA: “When you travel outside the country, you begin to see things there that were the default in your life: free medicine, a 4-week vacation, clean streets, not scorching sun, convenient transportation, delicious food, the ability to get documents done quite quickly . And here - systemic loneliness, a lousy lifestyle, low illumination of the city, backwardness of everyday life, outdated infrastructure, no schools, you walk around the city and see schizos of different stripes, it’s scary, you live side by side with inadequate people. Got a bill: $1,500 for 15 minutes with a doctor? Fuck this kind of medicine! And we also have insurance! We were surprised by the noise of the local metro, it rumbles like a train. What's up with rats, urine and vomit? Along the walls from the 30s, from which the paint has fallen off, along the wires stretching along the ceiling? Try going to Manhattan at 8 am to understand what “packed” means. Expensive, hot, boring, stinks, I wash my clothes in the common laundry area, and I curse the decision to move to this garbage dump. Only after being here you understand what a circus it is, here you can choose your gender, not politicians. I thought that I would wake up in tears from dreams in which I came to Russia and could not leave there. As a result, I wake up in tears because I was there in a dream and realize that I am now in the States." Watch the video on RU-vid "🇷🇺After the TUCKER / PUTIN Interview: Do YOU want to Move to RUSSIA?! People Around the World do!" on the "EXPAT American" channel. In it, foreigners talk about their life in Russia.
I live in Western Australia and its very different to living in New South Wales ( Sydney) and Victoria ( Melbourne) . The people are a little different. There are a lot of Africans living in Australia nowadays. We are a very multiracial country. I wish you all the best for living here. You're very easy to listen to and have definitely done your homework.
As a born and bred Australian, of nearly 60 residency, (I live in France now) that is one of the best summations of living in Oz I have seen. Even back when I was a kid, we'd rarely see snakes in Sydney, but when I moved to a property near Canberra, we'd see tigers and blacks and brown snakes on an almost weekly basis during summer. I'm glad you enjoy the place! :)
Hi. I am unable to find the IQA Course information form on the link you have provided. It goes to the home page. Can you provide the correct link direct to the IQA Course form please. Thank you.
I learned something today about the black aboriginals, the medicare appointment wait time ,food ,beaches & a new word "commonsensical". You did a great job with your tone how you also delivered your information. Thank you...
Wow can’t believe you’re not a nurse it’s the clearest video I’ve watched so far! I was so confused about the AHPRA/ ANMAC situation but you have broken it down so well thank you. 🙏🏾
