UK Immigration Experiences & Stories
Here you will find the real life experiences of the immigrants who settled in the UK, so it is about the bibliography of immigrants in the UK. If you are an immigrant and have a few or many words to tell about your immigration to the UK, from start to now, please write to me : fatihgg@gmail.com . I will publish your bibliography as soon as I receive it.
Alternatively, you can also leave your bibliography/story as a comment and then I will copy it in the main page.
Thanks,
Fatih
fatihgg@gmail.com
Alternatively, you can also leave your bibliography/story as a comment and then I will copy it in the main page.
Thanks,
Fatih
fatihgg@gmail.com
1 Comments:
I came to the UK with a student visa first in 2003 from Turkey, when I was 26. I had a good job in Turkey, but someway, I had the ambition to live abroad and I got a Chevening scholarship to study in the UK for a year. So I stepped in the UK like that.
Initially, UK seemed to be a like a fairy tale, like it does to all of us. I firstly started to live in Liverpool where i hardly understood scouser accent. Then, after studying a few months, I decided to stay more to find a job. But as a non-eu citizen it was almost impossible to find a full-time job, though you can work part-time. Anyway, I applied to HSMP meanwhile, and got it after waiting for one year. I am now working in London, which is a really difficult city.
My experience is that :
- Don't have pink dreams about UK!
- Don't expect to have almost any English friend. Everybody knows English attitude to foreigners. They give you a job but they will never accept you to their social environment. Forget it!
- Money, money! UK is not that reach you will share house with many others in most of cities. You need at least 25K for london and at least 20K for other cities to have a single ok life. UK is expensive, dont forget this! Saving money is not easy, dont dream too much.
- UK is not Europe! It is just UK! It is very isolated from the rest of Europe.
- Scottish people are much warmer than English people. Consider living in Scotland, though it is cold up there.
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