hello everyone and welcome to the channel in this video i will try to summarize my very first week
experience as an international student in the uk so i'll be letting you know that what was my very
first reaction how was my very first day then moving on i'll be explaining that what are the
important things which you must do in the very first week yourself that will involve your bank
account bi national insurance number there will be a lot of things which we'll be talking about
and secondly there will be some golden tips and tricks as well in this video so make sure that
you consistently wash this video out without any further ado let's straight away get started with
this video so first of all i will try to briefly summarize my very first reaction on my very first
day spent so i bought it my plane from new delhi so essentially when i was on the telly airport so
they were my parents who left me on the airport itself so i wasn't like too much emotional over
there it was completely alright i was busy in my you know the luggage thing i was worried about
my baggages like i have to make sure that i'm like building the plane in the right manner so i was
busy in all that to happen which was going on on the airport itself so when i landed in the glasgow
now there was like i had booked my own taxi now here's a golden tip for you that always make sure
that from your own country booker airport like to your accommodation like book a taxi for yourself
and here another resource which i would mention is the university living as they provide you
airport pickups so make sure that you use university living so essentially now i took
my taxi from the airport itself and during that journey from the airport to the glasgow airport
to my accommodation that was pretty much crazy that was a very weird feeling which i had so i
was feeling like you know i've left everything in india now so i'm all alone over here and i have to
start everything from the start starting onwards i have to start everything from the scratch
and i was like feeling kind of sense of responsibility when i was traveling on that taxi
moreover like i was seeing that big big buildings on the way itself which i have never seen in the
india so it was a very kind of a weird feeling as well then moreover there was like very cleanliness
all around the car was like running smoothly over there instead of that horse in the india so it
was a very kind of a transitionary face which i was going through when i was in the taxi itself
but at the moment i landed in the accommodation everything went fine because i was living in the
and sew it so basically in the end so it is kind of a shared accommodation so i was having my six
or friends over there already so then essentially i went to the accommodation so they were waiting
for me then i just came into the accommodation i just started putting everything in my cupboard
itself so essentially like but only that kind of face when i was in the taxi was the thing when i
was feeling bit of transitory face which i had but when i was in the accommodation everything
was pretty much fine now basically the students who were living in the accommodation they weren't
like my like pre friends so i didn't knew any one of them at all but they knew that like jason deep
the day was here that he's coming over here but i had one of my another friend he was we were
living in the same locality which i already knew from the india now here is again a golden tip for
you guys now for example in my case my university was university of strathclyde and in your own home
country in my case india they will be hosting a lot of events for example i applied in september
intake so they will be hosting events maybe in june july like all of this month so there will
be very important events which will be going on so basically i went to one of the events so it was
in delhi so usually these events are in hotels so i went over the year i took the extra steps
so basically i live uh somewhere around chennai itself so we went to delhi and there was this guy
like who i know so he's called divi itself so he came to that hotel as well right and that's
how i kind of made a connection with him then we connected on whatsapp groups and we tried to book
like the same flat as well but we couldn't get the same flat unfortunately but i was having that
connection already made and this is an important tip that make sure that you connect with someone
who is going to save university where you're in your home country in my case it was through
that hotel through that university event in your case it could be through my youtube channel make
sure to comment your university name below make your connections over here facebook props are
the another option so the golden tip is that make sure that you connect with someone who is in the
same university in your home country itself so the very first day so when i landed over there
in the initial like one or two hours i was putting everything in the carpet itself i'm never tired so
i was just putting the things in my cupboard and then i called my friend so he had already arrived
we had already arrived so i called him over here well you know come to my room
and then basically we went outside we looked for grocery stores now it's important tip over here
now when you land over here you are unfamiliar about the nearby shops you don't know where are
the grocery stores you don't know where is the city center where is the bus station where is the
train station so maybe in the initial one or two days because in the very first days some people
are tired but i'm never tired so in the very first day i just have got that google map google map is
very important application make sure you have got that application downloaded from your own
home country so we put out that very sensibly where is this marks and spencer these are the
names of grocery store and we just basically tried to explore the nearby city so where are all of
these essential things now basically this was how my like very first day completed in the uk itself
now the important tip over here is that for your accommodation make sure that you're full from your
own home country otherwise you'll be really struggling in the initial few days yourself
now here again i'll be suggesting you university living then link will be in the description below
so essentially when you go to the link which is mentioned in the description below once you
click that link you can put your name of your university maybe you can also put the name of
the location we're going so for example university of strathclyde is in glasgow you can either put
university or stratflight either you can put glasgow so once you click the search button
over here then it will give you like options of all of these accommodations which are available
over there now like select depending upon your budget select and like accommodation which you
would like to book they've got very good offers as well which are advertised on the university living
so the important tip over here is that make sure that your accommodation is already booked from
your own home country so that you don't struggle with it now moving on to the second phase of this
university the second segment and here i want to let you know about some of the things which i did
in the very first week itself now the very first important thing which i did was collection of my
brp now in terms of your vip you'll be getting a letter from uk vi when you're in your own home
country itself and they'll be putting out where you can collect your brp in my case it was at my
own university but few of the cases they will be mentioning the address of the local post office
uh in your university area itself so in my case it was for my university essentially i went to
my university there was a long queue so there were many international students who joined this
university at that time in the september intake and essentially the very first thing is collection
of your brp in the brp it will mention that how many hours can you work so basically will be 20
hours what is your date of birth like all that generic information will be there in the brp and
that's called biometric residence permit itself and very important document so very first thing
is collection of your brp now moving on the second thing is apply for national insurance number or
nin now what is national insurance number is something this will allow you to work
somewhere now you've got that document which says that you have got maximum limit of 20
hours but you can't work just based upon your brp so you have to get this national insurance
number or the text number itself now how do you get this text number now basically there is one
once you go to google just type nin a phone number itself so on the google page itself there will be
very first phone number maybe i'll try my best to mention that in the description box below so once
you click that number so you'll just give them a ring itself and in my case it took me one hour so
i waited for one hour on the ring itself because it's a very long queue so just be aware about that
it takes like a lot of time so in my case it took me about one hour to have a conversation with them
so they will be asking about some of the generic information maybe what's your passport number
what's your accommodation maybe what's your prp number so this will be the information which they
will be asking you and once the conversation is ended they will be giving you national assurance
reference number now once you get that reference number and on second thing which
they will be informing you on the call is there that you have to come to one specific location
and then they will then they will be basically your short interview like very generic interview
very short interview will be you will be having a short interview as well so essentially you'll be
getting your reference number and now you will be having one of the slot which will be booked
for your face-to-face interview as in my case so essentially like maybe in my case it was like
after one month after that call because it was very busy period during that time and essentially
i went to the center itself with the reference numbers show them like this is a restaurant number
this is interview they asked me some questions and basically got my national insurance number created
and now if the important tip over here is that once you've got the reference number
you can still work so whenever you're applying for any company you can say then i've got the
reference number i don't have the actual nin number but i've got the reference number
so most of the companies will be accepting your reference number so you don't have to wait for
that one month just like thinking about that like your one month wages should be lost right you can
straight away apply for the countries don't worry you've got that reference number itself
now moving on to the very third thing over here is your nhs registration so when you're in your
home country itself you'll you'll be paying for your health surcharge and basically in your local
area around the university there will be one of the center for registering or national uh
health search charge number itself so basically you'll be going to that hospital itself i think
there will be few documents again you have to fill the documents i think it will be literally
about 30 minutes or something like that for that process to be happening essentially go
to the hospital and there will be time slot which you will booking and this essentially
sign the documents and you'll be getting your nhs number really itself and the other thing which i
did in the very first week was creation of my bank account and for bank account essentially i went to
bank of scotland which i had my account there are plenty of banks it is called hsbc bank of scotland
there are plenty of other banks available as well now if you want me to make a separate
video on bank account yourself make sure that you comment it below so all in all this was my
very first quick experience as an international student in the uk and this is the video which i'll
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and thanks for your time and watching this video see you in the next video itself