embsyNEWS:

Like I said I’m not launching a vendetta on her. She gave us the visa. When you go for an interview always remember
Brevity: Go straight to the point when answering their questions.
Do not be presumptuous: Don’t give out any document(s) or say what you weren’t asked (they usually will pick on it)
Be confident, bring the right (original) documents and at least afford a smile.
I have never being denied before because at the American embassy (which it’s different from UK); it’s all about how you present and defend yourself.
Now look at our case.
We travel to the UK and US once a year on vacation. During these times we do the routine health checkup, last year my husband had to undergo a surgery. The last thing you’ll ever do in the US is get a service and not pay for it. I mean not pay to the last dime. If after months of notifying you and they get no reply, it is forwarded to the right government agency that will tract down your records to your last entry into the US. That is a major problem for you in getting a visa renewal.
So I’m no novice to interviews, presentations and collating my documents right.
The lady demanded she wants to see all receipts showing we have paid the hospital fees, to me this was just way out of her line of questions she was previously asking. Well we came prepared. We passed the receipts across.
Asian woman: “I don’t believe this shows all the bills were paid”
We: passed a detailed 23 pages invoice breakdown from the hospital titled “Your Executive zero balance account” (showing we were not owing the hospital neither was the hospital owing us, simple and clear).
Asian Woman: “Do you have a letter from the hospital showing none of the bills was ever submitted to our government for our tax payers to pay?”
What is there to understand from ‘YOUR ZERO BALANCE ACCOUNT’
My husband: “As an international patient the operation cannot kickoff without getting all prepaid cost transferred to their account”
Asian woman: “well this is our procedure, I’m still not convinced”.
We: “then call the hospital or send them a mail for confirmation.”
Asian woman: “you can see the queue is long (oh now you know!)”
She handed us the rejection paper. My husband then said: “you can’t reject us with this wealth of evidence we have put before you, if all you want is a specific document where the hospital will state ‘they are not owing us and we never pushed their bills to the government’(which sound so ridiculous) then will you give us; because for one particular thing, I HAVE TO SEE MY DOCTOR FOR AN IMPORTANT CHECKUP’.
Asian woman: Well ok come back with the rejection letter, I am giving you 24hours to produce the letter.
She gave us a letter to appear at the embassy the following day by 10am.
Well we called the hospital related the ordeal and made our request. They found it rather absurd, but did the letter, sent it to the American consular and copied us too.
We got back the next day and waited for a family who were having their turn of interrogation and later denied after the applicant started sobbing “madam we have paid all our bills how many times have I been to the US that I don’t know the rules”. I told myself “not on this Nigerian soil will you humiliated me to the point of crying today”.
Asian woman: “Next… so did you bring the documents?”
We pushed the letter to her.
Asian woman: “where did you get it from?”
My husband: “As you can see it was actually sent to your official mail and copied to us so you can check”
She went to the computer and just busted into deep laughter, really she was laughing hard.
Asian woman: “Ok Mr. …. I’ll issue you a visa, but am noting here you and your wife can not seek any medical service in the US again. So for your own good I’ll suggest you keep clear from any American Hospital”.
Cut the brown card, gave it to us and we have an audience almost shaking our hands when leaving.
Well we are taking the “keep clear from any American Hospital” case up with her.  W.H.O. constitution states that its objective "is the attainment by all people of the highest possible level of health."
All I am saying is: YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO SAY NO TO HER WINDOW AND PATIENTLY WAIT FOR ONE THAT WILL AT LEAST GIVE YOU A FAIR HEARING, YES YOU HAVE THE RIGHT! [/size][size=8pt]

Can't believe people go through this because of visa. This is what happens when people would rather RUN to another man's land than face their problems. As if those people didn't have problems in the past that they stayed to solve.

candylips:

US is too violent.

Have you been to Detroit or east Los angeles. come and see poverty and violence.

New york some areas in The Bronx n Brooklyn. . . see drug dealers and LovePeddlers . Guys carrying Mac 5 in broad day light

Cape Town is lovely but Jo burg is hell. infact you can get killed for begin a Nigerian. Be careful what you wish for o 

queensmith:


what kind of asian?

spooky76:

Fellas,this is a very simple issue to solve.
Most times,we Nigerians condone this behaviour because of fear!!!Most of us just don't bother with the sort of rubbish and ill-treatment that we get from such embassies.I think the consulates and embassies should be officially aware of such incidences,apologies and threats to such embassy visa officers usually doesn't work and so our Dear Government should also be involved.
Guys,guess what, if that Asian lady was a Nigerian,most people would have either abused her,shouted at her and if possible beat the devil out of her.
Just because they are light skinned does not mean we are less human than they are or are better than us-we are by no means inferior to them and since the bulk of their profit comes from Africa especially NIJA----we shouldn't accept such nonsense.

AjanleKoko:

Abi o.
I regard a visa application as a service which I am paying for. And I demand to be served.
Some of us seem to regard the issuance of a visa as a sort of benevolence of the Great White Country we are visiting. We have bilateral relations with the US, and no amount of fraudulent applications from other Nigerians provides any license for honest Nigerians to be treated badly.
If you are not a dishonest applicant, demand for your rights. Don't let inferiority complex get the better of you.

embsyNEWS:

Finally had the time to pick my passport at the collection center yesterday. The lady gave us 1year multiple. My husband was right "God is surely greater than any human". Yes but you have to prepare too!

candylips:

US is too violent.

Have you been to Detroit or east Los angeles. come and see poverty and violence.

New york some areas in The Bronx n Brooklyn. . . see drug dealers and LovePeddlers . Guys carrying Mac 5 in broad day light

Cape Town is lovely but Jo burg is hell. infact you can get killed for begin a Nigerian. Be careful what you wish for o

Vicjustice:

As someone who studied psychology, I'm not at all surprised at the behaviours of the Asian woman: The interviewer, being a female, and of Asian origin would most likely want to prove that she can do a better job than her white male colleagues, and therefore she is more likely to over-act to prove her seriousness. The same thing goes with female police officers, when you get into their trouble, they are more likely to be merciless than their male colleagues. Have you considered why short people are over-active when one has a dispute with them? They take this unnecessary offensive measures because they think you are trying to intimidate them for reason of their small status.

u have one already, madam Patience