Nairalanders, Plz I need ur advice....I am new to all this (I mean tis is my 1st tym of traveling out of d country) I just picked up my 3 months Visa to SA ysterday......(1).Am planning to stay more than 3 months in a SA buh some1 adviced me to stay only a month and come bck then go back again....Meaning I'll hv 2 buy another ticket, so I want to knw if is a gud advice? (2)I only hv only one frnd in SA and have heard allot that guys there do dissapoint sometyms ,wen d person arrive d ll switch off dia phone...So hw much can I go with incase such thing happens? (3) If I'll stay more than 3 months what can I do to avoid immigration wahala? (4) And eventually if I stay more than 3 months and come back here will it be easy for me to apply again? Brodas nd sis...wait for ur advise?? he

This is not the right place to ask your question. There is a thread for SA inquiries. However, I will like to advice u that u need to go back after just one month. You are giving SA 3 months visa to stay one month at a time and come back and if u wish to go back, u can. If you decides to stay more than one month here, if u are caught by some bad police officers here or something happens where u stay and u were required to provide prove of stay, if it has been more than 30 days, my brother u will find it difficult. If you have a good job in Nija, hold on to it and come here only as a visitor and then go back. SA is not all that good as people thought. No good Job as a foreigner here cause govt do impose some heavy requirement to companies which make them desist from employing foreign nationals. You will enjoy it more if you come as a visitor and go back. Make sure u have better arrangement for accomodation when coming. Always go with ur passport that reads u came with a visa if u have dollars with u cause if not so, u will be required to present receipt of d dollars you purchase
Just these few tips.

@ Henry i dont think your advice to that young man was encouraging, he can stay in S.A more than a month if he applies for a temporary resident permit during his first one month on Visit and with his receipt he can stay even after his visa has expired provided he has his receipt which shows that he has an active pending permit in process, I am currently schooling here and i have a 3years student Visa which i got with this process since last year, and i think companies do not discriminate if you dont act like other Nigerians who lives in the street do, i have seen so many successful Nigerians doing very well here with companies and some are even Agent at the home affairs well registered and established...my friend best thing you should do before arrival is make sure you have your BTA with you and when you arrive SA change the currency to SA rands, sit down at the arrival and call your friend, if his number doesn't go through use one of the Airport Taxi ask the Driver for a cheap guest house, they are around 250-350 Rands, lodge in one of them..but make sure to have the number of the Taxi driver just in case you need something else and needs his service, if you are coming to SA genuinely you have nothing to be worried about.

eddiebruk: @ Henry i dont think your advice to that young man was encouraging, he can stay in S.A more than a month if he applies for a temporary resident permit during his first one month on Visit and with his receipt he can stay even after his visa has expired provided he has his receipt which shows that he has an active pending permit in process, I am currently schooling here and i have a 3years student Visa which i got with this process since last year, and i think companies do not discriminate if you dont act like other Nigerians who lives in the street do, i have seen so many successful Nigerians doing very well here with companies and some are even Agent at the home affairs well registered and established...my friend best thing you should do before arrival is make sure you have your BTA with you and when you arrive SA change the currency to SA rands, sit down at the arrival and call your friend, if his number doesn't go through use one of the Airport Taxi ask the Driver for a cheap guest house, they are around 250-350 Rands, lodge in one of them..but make sure to have the number of the Taxi driver just in case you need something else and needs his service, if you are coming to SA genuinely you have nothing to be worried about.

Mr eddiebruk, if you want to advice someone, advice him on wat is realistic and attainable. That you got 3 years student visa does not make you adviser of immigration in south africa. i advised him to stay for one month and go back is not a bad advise. he himself said someone also advised him to do the same. So can't he get a temporary resident permit of south Africa from Nigeria. if he has a good reason to stay, he can apply anywhere. i guess you came new and you are yet to experience the discrimination of south Africans towards Nigerians and that is why you speak the way you do. i know some Nigerians work in companies here but you can't use a small proportion to determine the vast majority here who do biz cause no work. Even south Africans on their own have numerous unemployed people and talk more of foreigners. i simply told him to hold on to his job but it seems you have a better idea which can land him a job when he comes. sometimes, the govt discourage companies from hiring foreigners by increasing the work permit requirement which i simply highlighted but i never said he won't get a job. But since you have a better idea, help him with a job and get a permit for him as well. Yo seem to have a better idea and knowledge in that aspect more than i do

@Henry, pls ignore the guy and don't let pple like him stop you from helping people.

if i'm to come in i think eddiebruk was right in his advise,he was only advising not discouraging the poor boy that is travelling for the first time.
so don't take offence in it and mind u,this is a forum to learn not to abuse ourselves.

femmoy: if i'm to come in i think eddiebruk was right in his advise,he was only advising not discouraging the poor boy that is travelling for the first time.
so don't take offence in it and mind u,this is a forum to learn not to abuse ourselves.

I believe that you ARE the same person writing as another person (eddiebruk). How come since you registered, this is the only thread you commented on. However, i have apologized to you. There is no need to use another identity. I am very sorry. ACCEPT MY APOLOGIES.

Thanks everyone for ur advise

henrychubayo:



I AM VERY VERY VERY SORRY FOR REPLYING YOU. I JUST SAW WE HAVE NOTHING IN COMMON AND AM NOT YOUR MATE. I HAVE A trash and bias igbo man thinking BUT YOU HAVE WISDOM, KNOWLEDGE, THINKING ABILITY AND UNDERSTANDING. YOU HAVE A 3 YEARS STUDENT VISA OR TEMPORARY RESIDENCE, BUT I HAVE NONE. I AM one of the uninformed person BUT YOU HAVE ALL THE KNOWLEDGE. FORGIVE ME PLEASE AND MAY HE FOLLOW YOUR ADVICE CAUSE MINE IS VERY BAD ONE. I AM SO SORRY. ACCEPT MY APOLOGIES PLEASE.

Which kind man you be self, what this person needs is advice and possible solutions as to how he could get more chance to live somewhere he has made his mind to live and here you are firstly making things look difficult for him and by trying to correct your blunders you are thereby trying to make it looks like i lack respect for peoples opinion, now tell me How did you attained your own resident permit...? was it how you explained...? things can be done in simple manners but no...you wont allow them see the simple ways rather you want them to think things are difficult..advice someone not discourage them.

henrychubayo:

I believe that you ARE the same person writing as another person (eddiebruk). How come since you registered, this is the only thread you commented on. However, i have apologized to you. There is no need to use another identity. I am very sorry. ACCEPT MY APOLOGIES.

And please he is not same person...just like i have said you live a life of assumption for you to have assumed he was the same person....stop assuming bro it will help you in life.

You have very little time to plan for a resisdence permit if nt there are chances that yu might be scammed..after a week you can appy for extension where 3months will be given to you at a low cost of 450rand,then yu can now plan on what type of permit you wanna do ;and even though all depends on person wey yu come meet.mind yu Don't expect egbon wey use aduro''ashylum''to have a plan for you about permit..welcome to SA..I do laught wen I see newcomers

Exline101: Nairalanders, Plz I need ur advice....I am new to all this (I mean tis is my 1st tym of traveling out of d country) I just picked up my 3 months Visa to SA ysterday......(1).Am planning to stay more than 3 months in a SA buh some1 adviced me to stay only a month and come bck then go back again....Meaning I'll hv 2 buy another ticket, so I want to knw if is a gud advice? (2)I only hv only one frnd in SA and have heard allot that guys there do dissapoint sometyms ,wen d person arrive d ll switch off dia phone...So hw much can I go with incase such thing happens? (3) If I'll stay more than 3 months what can I do to avoid immigration wahala? (4) And eventually if I stay more than 3 months and come back here will it be easy for me to apply again? Brodas nd sis...wait for ur advise?? he

@eddiebruk


I can't stand supposedly educated people who can not argue without making tribal comment. You will be staying away from this section for sometimes.

About yur friend yu talk about ,do you know what he's doing for a living?his status?lots of nigerians here are very unpredictable...and don't tell anyone the exact amount yu bringing in,don't have in mind that yu going to get a job.when pple talk bad things aboutnigerians in Sa dey are right so are people pple doing gud , living confortable;I was first discouraged here on nairaland. And when I say I. Do laugh wen I see newcomers mean I do pity for those who just come without proper arrangement..quote author=Exline101]Nairalanders, Plz I need ur advice....I am new to all this (I mean tis is my 1st tym of traveling out of d country) I just picked up my 3 months Visa to SA ysterday......(1).Am planning to stay more than 3 months in a SA buh some1 adviced me to stay only a month and come bck then go back again....Meaning I'll hv 2 buy another ticket, so I want to knw if is a gud advice? (2)I only hv only one frnd in SA and have heard allot that guys there do dissapoint sometyms ,wen d person arrive d ll switch off dia phone...So hw much can I go with incase such thing happens? (3) If I'll stay more than 3 months what can I do to avoid immigration wahala? (4) And eventually if I stay more than 3 months and come back here will it be easy for me to apply again? Brodas nd sis...wait for ur advise?? he[/quote]

justwise: @eddiebruk


I can't stand supposedly educated people who can not argue without making tribal comment. You will be staying away from this section for sometimes.

Thank you very much Justwise. They guy need to be thought a very good lesson. I didn't know why he should use those words on me. He thinks he knows everything because he obtained a 3 years student permit. By the way, he came new to this country while people who has been here long time have not sounded that way. THERE IS NO JUSTIFICATION FOR TRIBAL COMMENT HE MADE.