VisaOfficer:


Absolutely! Just let us know at LagosIV@state.gov.

onyiblanche:

Ma,I have sent an e-mail to LagosIV@state.gov.I will be at the embassy this Friday-the 13th day of March 2015.Please ma,how will I identify myself at the entrance?Thank you.

onyiblanche:

Ma,I have sent an e-mail to LagosIV@state.gov.I will be at the embassy this Friday-the 13th day of March 2015.Please ma,how will I identify myself at the entrance to the embassy?Thank you.

VisaOfficer:


If your family would like to continue with the IR-2 cases, please let us know at LagosIV@state.gov.

Waiver applications take several months to be reviewed. If your stepmother's waiver is granted, we will continue with the case she has now. Please remind her that if she is forthcoming with information her application is more likely to be granted. (Waivers are not automatic.)

bukolacole:
. Thank you so much ma, am grateful for your help and info, she told me she has sent a mail to you to go on with our cases, and please like what are those information she needs to come up with ma, thanks so much, and I will like to make it clear that I never meant to be rude to you in any way like someone was insinuating in the other thread ma.

VisaOfficer:


I updated our entry list to show your name. Could you tell me what your wife's name should say (just first and middle names, no surnames in public -- or you can e-mail us) so I can correct our records and have the new visa ready for you when you arrive? (You [or she] wrote that we have those names not in the order on the passport.) Also, what's the expiration date on her visa, please? Thanks!

onyiblanche:

Ma, thank you for the quick response.The name on her passport is BLANCHE BIH EPSE then surname,ECHI............In that order.The expiration date on her passport is 9th April 2015.Thank you.

Chile12:
Goodday VO,
Please im in a very worried state, my brother wants to adjust his status and was asked for his birth certificate. Now the only birth certificate he has is the one he got from NPC. Can this be submitted to USCIS? He was born in 1987. Please i need advise. He has something like this Below.

VisaOfficer:

We wouldn't have been able to take your fingerprints if your photo hadn't been scanned in, so if you remember your fingerprints being taken, I wouldn't worry about it.
For the record, the worst I think can happen would be waking up from that nightmare I sometimes have that I never actually graduated from secondary school (because I forgot I had signed up for an algebra course...) and finding that it is actually true, but I have a feeling that that's not what you were asking.

kino47:
VO pardon me please but Memory of this morning incident keeps flashing in my head really affected my day at work today feeling like something might just go wrong may be because i actually told some alarmist that made it look like a big blunder don't know if you can help out on my status.

VisaOfficer:


My apologies for the misspelling! We've already made the correction and will print the new visa out tomorrow morning, so we can make the swap as quickly as possible for you on Friday.

VisaOfficer:


I didn't think you were rude at all! You have been perfectly lovely since I first "met" you on Nairaland.

I do need to warn you that "continue with your case" means that the officer is going to review it again in light of the information that came up in the IR-1 case. We do need to be sure that you have the relationship with the petitioner that you claim to have. If you do, there's no need to worry, though.

Since you're asking in public, and since this might be useful for other readers: The issue is that she refused to acknowledge that she had ever applied for a visa in the past and that she had used a different name and date of birth. But I was looking right at her photo and fingerprints when she told me this. If she applies for a waiver, but tries to tell USCIS that it's all a mistake and she never applied for a visa before, they're not likely to approve her application because it is absolutely clear that she did indeed apply for a visa using a different identity in the past. Thus it is absolutely in her best interest to be forthcoming about this, rather than to continue to deny that she ever applied before.

It's simply not credible that someone else has the exact same fingerprints that would lead to a photo that looks just like "my" applicant, who has an incredibly similar name, and whose birthday is exactly the same except that the year is slightly different. Being told in the face of all that evidence that she had never applied for a visa before did make me somewhat cranky here on Nairaland, for which I sincerely apologize.

rayanah100:
dear visa officer, I asked my dad about the approval date which you asked me in my earlier email, actually I have not been approved yet and when my dad filed the pettition the nvc only sent a small piece of paper stating that he should wait for their response. now that I have not been approved yet and I turned 21 last month, is there any means in which I can be assisted?

nalacandi:
Hi ma, hope you had a wonderful rest from all our questions. Please, can you tell me if there is any update on our case yet, LGS2014598025. Hoping to hear something soon and make sure we don't need to do anything else. Your God sent the way you tame so much time answering questions. Some of the questions I have to read 3 or 4 times to understand. I don't think I could do your job but your doing a fantastic job.

Nalacandi

bukolacole:
. Thanks ma, seems you have gotten her mail has she claimed to have, and on the issue of reviewing our relationship with the petitioner is never a problem, because we are talking of our biological father here. On the issue of my stepmother, I will do all within my capacity to make her be forthcoming ma, Please with the said review, when will the Visas be ready ma?

VisaOfficer:


We sent you and your father an e-mail about this yesterday -- please check. Thanks!

bukolacole:
Good day ma, it seems my dad got his own, but has not had enough time to go through the DNA instructions. the one you sent to my stepmother was mistakenly deleted, could you please if possible send another e_mail to my stepmother today ma, and please if we start our DNA test by next month due to money constraints, from your experience, what month can we be through with it and are we still going to be scheduled for another interview or the last interview is intact and hope our medical will still be valid till then? Thanks ma.

chukwumaebenmel:
Good morning ma pls I will like to ask if my medical paper work is still valid.. Since ave not been contacted I will like to get a new one to minimize time waste. Thank you

Lgs2014726042.-- DNA issue

VisaOfficer:


Looks like the medical paperwork expires on March 18.

VisaOfficer:


I'm afraid I'm not the person who e-mailed your stepmother. If she has deleted an e-mail from us, please have her check with LagosIV@state.gov to see if it can be retrieved.

Once you have submitted your DNA to the lab, we generally receive the results no more than a month later. If the DNA results are a match, we can proceed with your case without another interview. If they're a match and you're unable to travel before your medical paperwork expires in July, you will need to submit new medical paperwork. Thanks!

takin35:
V O,pls can i have your line here so as to discuss some issues with you XXXXX.i will be very glad if you can mail me ur line.thanks.

VisaOfficer:


If your issue can't be addressed in public, please e-mail our general mailbox at LagosIV@state.gov. Thanks!

Jesus!ok ma thanks.all i wish i can explain verbally.

VisaOfficer:


Just a gentle note that to Americans, when people say "Jesus!" it sounds like they are swearing / cussing / taking the name in vain. I know it is a prayerful sort of exclamation here, but those of you who travel to the United States may wish to consider breaking the habit to avoid misunderstandings....

IyawoToBe:
Lol. My professor mentioned this in my Cross-cultural Psychology class. Am glad an American is attesting to it.