favorgO5:


Yes it was God I can say that again... he gave me confident ... thanks G

Congrats, quick question, on primary occupation, under Present Employer or School Name , did you fill that you are self employed or you filled the name of your business?

She is very lucky to meet a listening merciful VO that is having a good day. Many people in her situation that fail to provide old passport with visa of their travel history are denied. Any deception always damages overall credibility of visa applicant. Read in between the lines of her interview. From the line, yes I have my old passport in the car and to another story of her driver go with the passport and she even confirm her lie, she said. Me: yes I don't risk foreign food like that(that was a lie sha) except pizza that I bought few times.. my own normal food.
She is very lucky. I must say again she is very lucky to meet such VO, another VO could have deny her the visa. Confidence indeed!!!

LadyGuinivere:

Nwanne no be luck o! Na mega confidence. She was bold enough to take charge of the interview. Regular folks Wuda panicked but she just let the vo know her time was precious.
Congrats favorg

kristinbaby:
She is very lucky to meet a listening merciful VO that is having a good day. Many people in her situation that fail to provide old passport with visa of their travel history are denied. Any deception always damages overall credibility of visa applicant. Read in between the lines of her interview. From the line, yes I have my old passport in the car and to another story of her driver go with the passport and she even confirm her lie, she said. Me: yes I don't risk foreign food like that(that was a lie sha) except pizza that I bought few times.. my own normal food.
She is very lucky. I must say again she is very lucky to meet such VO, another VO could have deny her the visa. Confidence indeed!!!

True

God gave you confidence. It may not always be the same outcome with such confidence next time. You are lucky to have the visa. Better always go with your old passport next time. That is my advice for you.

favorgO5:


Yes it was God I can say that again... he gave me confident ... thanks G

domcreative:


Congrats, quick question, on primary occupation, under Present Employer or School Name , did you fill that you are self employed or you filled the name of your business?

Self employed ... and that, I explained what my company do and d name of my company.

forlahkhe:
I'm so happy for the quick responses i got up there, thank u very much. Now, lemme answer ur questions so that u pple can really put me through. The wife of My husband's friend had her baby in d USA few months ago, so my husband wants me too to go av my baby in d USA. She got a family visa o; her husb and daughter too later joined her after she put to bed although all of them are back home now. The entire plan is dt when my baby is a citizen, dt wl give me an acess to relocate later. So now we av paid to gtb and we want to book for interview. Since our purpose as stated on d form is for visiting, i was thinking dt if my belle is shooting out already they may suspect us. D was d same thing my hubby's friend did bt they had their interview in dec dt is y we too ar desperate for december. I know we have pple of better experience here, PLS PUT US THROUGH ON WHEREVER WE MIGHT AV BEEN WRONG. Should we choose march wen children wld b on holiday and my belly is already obvious or we can av d interview in january and tell them we want to go by march. Although if we later get the visa, i may go around May or June when im close to delivery.
Thank u.

Wow.... This is so wrong because it worked for someone does not mean they will not be invited for interview when they decided to renew.

Good day good people.

Please how do i cancel an appointment for visa interview?

It's slated for January 3rd but just received an official memo that won't allow me to be available in Lagos.

Please how do i cancel and reschedule for another date?

Hope it won't affect me in any way?

Expecting.

Thanks

kristinbaby:
She is very lucky to meet a listening merciful VO that is having a good day. Many people in her situation that fail to provide old passport with visa of their travel history are denied. Any deception always damages overall credibility of visa applicant. Read in between the lines of her interview. From the line, yes I have my old passport in the car and to another story of her driver go with the passport and she even confirm her lie, she said. Me: yes I don't risk foreign food like that(that was a lie sha) except pizza that I bought few times.. my own normal food.
She is very lucky. I must say again she is very lucky to meet such VO, another VO could have deny her the visa. Confidence indeed!!!

I didn't lie oo, (d lie I was talking about was me saying I don't risk foreign food.. ofcos I'm a risk taker) .. I said when d passport ish came up, I was destabilized, I couldn't remember any restaurant I visited while I was in London..but I was able to switch and put my self together... thanks

HRprof:


You did not understand me. Read carefully .
1. My passport has expired and i renew it
2. I login to my previous appointment site to update my new passport and schedule appointment but No option to update passport no.
3. My last interview was 2015 with the old passport number.

My question

Since my exiting login does not permit me to create a new login on appointment site because i cant use same email to create another login. Should i create another login with different email to enable me schedule my appointment with my new passport number.

Normally your previous passport info should cease to show instead they will ask for the info of the new passport especially your passport number,issuance and expiry date.

ghaul:


@LadyG, Justwise, Seyewest, ...all d gurus pls advise....
I have booked an appointment for interview (28/11/2017) - single application. There's a change in plans now, as I intend travelling with my family (wifey and 2 kids).
Pls how do I re-adjust the application to accommodate my family and re-schedule a new interview date?
Thanks.

Call the embassy they will know the right thing to do.

kristinbaby:
She is very lucky to meet a listening merciful VO that is having a good day. Many people in her situation that fail to provide old passport with visa of their travel history are denied. Any deception always damages overall credibility of visa applicant. Read in between the lines of her interview. From the line, yes I have my old passport in the car and to another story of her driver go with the passport and she even confirm her lie, she said. Me: yes I don't risk foreign food like that(that was a lie sha) except pizza that I bought few times.. my own normal food.
She is very lucky. I must say again she is very lucky to meet such VO, another VO could have deny her the visa. Confidence indeed!!!

It's Pure LUCK. Honestly thought he would be denied when the passport thing was not adding up.


Congrats though. May God continue to confuse people to favor you.

Favorg05

favorgO5:
Goodmorning


I PRAYED, I TRUSTED GOD and I say I won't pay attention to anybody or wish for any particular VO to interview me .. first time application,I read NL front to back and I never asked question from here because I took my time to read and my questions were answered while reading .
Thanks to everybody here, God bless y'all(plenty typos, sorry it's too long to edit)

You get liver jare....

LadyGuinivere:

Nwanne no be luck o! Na mega confidence. She was bold enough to take charge of the interview. Regular folks Wuda panicked but she just let the vo know her time was precious.
Congrats favorg

You nailed it LadyG

seyewest:

You nailed it LadyG

I do not agree to that. This is just God at work and all the glory should be returned to him. My opinion though

Yinkus1011:

I do not agree to that. This is just God at work and all the glory should be returned to him. My opinion though

No one is taking glory from God reason we said it's not luck... God's grace is not luck.

karli4nia:


Hmmm...na wah oh! I don't get how answering questions on Lady G's thread can begin to make certain kind of Nlanders feel so important... Arrogant and kinda rude like they have become high school teachers answering questions from high school students.. Not cool..
Ain't it better to ignore apparently annoying questions or kindly answer than sounding kinda rude! What a pity! Just saying...

The Twood of a person is a rude person on this forum, he doesn't give a bit of regards probably cos this is a faceless forum.

domcreative:


But some interviewer would think she was lying, when she first said her passport was inside the car and later. She was lucky and grace found her

If she was eventually denied, many of the top contributors here ( who are always so quick to judge) wuld av asked for her head. Calling her names... like say dem know it all.

yobro:
Good day good people.

Please how do i cancel an appointment for visa interview?

It's slated for January 3rd but just received an official memo that won't allow me to be available in Lagos.

Please how do i cancel and reschedule for another date?

Hope it won't affect me in any way?

Expecting.

Thanks

Just go the same place you booked appointment and reschedule.

favorgO5:


I didn't lie oo, (d lie I was talking about was me saying I don't risk foreign food.. ofcos I'm a risk taker) .. I said when d passport ish came up, I was destabilized, I couldn't remember any restaurant I visited while I was in London..but I was able to switch and put my self together... thanks

Nobody said you lied, but some interviewer would have denied you visa when you could not provide the passport, He first asked for the passport, you searched your bag, later said was in the car, later car went to hospital. It was grace that otherwise that was enough reason for the VO to stop the interview.

domcreative:


Nobody said you lied, but some interviewer would have denied you visa when you could not provide the passport, He first asked for the passport, you searched your bag, later said was in the car, later car went to hospital. It was grace that otherwise that was enough reason for the VO to stop the interview.

I agree with u

Hello house, I really need your help. I have already booked my appointment for January with my old passport which has 5months to expire which I know there's no issue with the US embassy, so right now I wanna apply for UK visa, which I most travel there for Xmas and UK won't issue visa on 5months to expire passport unlike USA. So my concern is can I go to the interview with my new passport which I know the passport number will be different from the old one, I hope it won't be a red card for me? And can US issue visa on the new passport cuz d old one would be cancelled without prejudice

LadyGuinivere:

Not very good advice.
That's what leads to all the mistakes and questions on how to edit the form. If you wanna advice some one to take the short cut, dont forget to mention the downside to it.
Remain blest

Thx
How well can I suit in since it's a close date to my vacation starting Dec 5th while application of DS-160 is starting 20th Nov.
Someone said that all date are booked, just found 28th Dec free.
It's a short period. Pls how do I got about it.

jalay:


Thx
How well can I suit in since it's a close date to my vacation starting Dec 5th while application of DS-160 is starting 20th Nov.
Someone said that all date are booked, just found 28th Dec free.
It's a short period. Pls how do I got about it.

Lagos or abuja?

Yinkus1011:

I do not agree to that. This is just God at work and all the glory should be returned to him. My opinion though

A man can recieve nothing except it be given to him from heaven John 3:27. I know the word of God. Even those that didn't do anything spectacular or plan to abscond, it was still the permissive will of God.
Again. Fortune favours the brave. The same w
Word encourages hard work. Luck connotes lack of hard work. A lot of folks go for interviews without research and " hope for luck'
This applicant clearly has worked on knowing how to manipulate an interview. It is a skill. I have it so I know it
She was being truthful about her travel so why should she be worried. It's a mind set to want something and find a way to achieve it. It's been said here a zillion times, VOs work on psyche. All the plenty uk questions was to watch her body language. Again, with a profile like hers, I would give her the visa if I were a vo
If only future applicants will pick a thing or two from her.


Well if you say it's luck. Then it's luck for u

kristinbaby:
She is very lucky to meet a listening merciful VO that is having a good day. Many people in her situation that fail to provide old passport with visa of their travel history are denied. Any deception always damages overall credibility of visa applicant. Read in between the lines of her interview. From the line, yes I have my old passport in the car and to another story of her driver go with the passport and she even confirm her lie, she said. Me: yes I don't risk foreign food like that(that was a lie sha) except pizza that I bought few times.. my own normal food.
She is very lucky. I must say again she is very lucky to meet such VO, another VO could have deny her the visa. Confidence indeed!!!

Methinks they already knew where she had been and did not really need the old passport, except to verify the old visa stamps. For starters, you enter in evidence of previous travel when you apply, second i'm sure that the US and UK do share data so it would be easy to crosscheck the UK trip on a database...

Also the OP sounded very confident and sure of herself, which is a good trait to have.

I get really mad when people attribute Hardwork to Luck.

Common....let's be real here.

In my opinion, one of the most important thing when talking to a VO is your confidence. That transcript showed favourg05 was very confident.....and this was because she had an understanding of how the whole process works.

Many of ya'll go to that interview with your heart in your mouth and even more sadly spending more time to pray than actually prepare yourself.

Happy Sunday
When filling my DS 160. Apart from New York that I was visiting as a Tourist I also added A place in Utah.
If am been asked "Where are you going to in the US"?
What would be the proper and convicing way of answering since it's in my profile that am visiting towo States tourism?
Thank You

HiredGames:
I get really mad when people attribute Hardwork to Luck.

Common....let's be real here.

In my opinion, one of the most important thing when talking to a VO is your confidence. That transcript showed favourg05 was very confident.....and this was because she had an understanding of how the whole process works.

Many of ya'll go to that interview with your heart in your mouth and even more sadly spending more time to pray than actually prepare yourself.

That is not true. I'm sure many people go to interviews confident and still get denied... and there are people who go with their hearts in their mouths who get visas. I believe it has more to do with whether you can prove that you have a valid reason to be in the US and can be trusted to use the visa as specified.

TWoods:


That is not true. I'm sure many people go to interviews confident and still get denied... and there are people who go with their hearts in their mouths who get visas. I believe it has more to do with whether you can prove that you have a valid reason to be in the US and can be trusted to use the visa as specified.

And we have seen many people with VERY valid reasons denied.

It's not a one way street bro. Everything here is relative.....and that was why I said "one" of the most important things.

I've been on this thread for about 2 years now. I was a total novice when I came here.

It's popular belief that 55% of communication is body language, 38% is the tone of voice, and 7% is the actual words spoken.

So confidence is key!

There's a way you tell me your the CEO of a company and I'd go "yeah...right" and there's a way you'd tell me you're a house maid and I'd respect you for it. We've seen a lady earning about N50,000 (and disclosed in her DS160) get her visa!!!

LadyGuinivere:
Welcome to part 3 of this thread, Like the Phoenix, Part 2 must go down for part 3 to be born (Although the info in Parts 1 and 2 remain priceless and Must/Ought to be read by any serious applicant.Part 2 was wonderful. Lots of lovely people offering great advice. Each in their own unique style. You guys rock!!! You know yourselves.

For enquiries relating to likely interview questions and self evaluation, kindly go through both parts 1 and 2 of this thread so you have a fair knowledge of answers to such questions.

Kindly note that this is a do it yourself thread. Nobody here is an agent. Nobody is a VO, hence cannot authoritatively predict your chances of visa success .

Happy reading and good luck to all the honest visa seekers!

Please see part 1 here for reference:
https://www.nairaland.com/608780/usa-visit-visa/322#38856287

See part 2 here for reference https://www.nairaland.com/2656320/usa-visit-visa-part-2

Due to the fact that some questions are frequently asked, repeated and retreated, the links to the questions are contained herein for easy reference
For instructions and documents required for the application
http://nigeria.usembassy.gov/mobile//non-immigrant_visas.html

To book appointment and fill DS 160
http://nigeria.usembassy.gov/mobile//niv_appointmnent_instructions.html

Note:The steps for the whole process is set out step by step. For your own good, adhere. If not, a possibility exists that the final ds 160 number will be different from the one used to book the appointment . Applicants in those situations will neither be allowed to enter the embassy nor will they be interviewed.
In the event of such an occurence, kindly call/email the embassy to sort it out .

Peraventure you wish to change a detail in an already submitted ds 160, fill a new one, submit and call/email the embassy

For US embassy contact Nos and email
http://nigeria.usembassy.gov/mobile/contact.html

For video interviews with actual VOs on frequently asked Questions
https://www.nairaland.com/2656320/usa-visit-visa-part-2/180#47174473

https://plus.google.com/app/basic/s/%23AsktheVOs

For sample transcripts of some interviews (as posted by the users of this thread) Please check this link https://www.nairaland.com/download/4692218


Finally, Lying on your ds 160 or during the interview is misrepresentation and a crime. This thread's aim is not to teach / coach applicants on how to lie. The truth is ALWAYS the best course of action no matter the situation. Please DO NOT ask about how to misrepresent on this thread.

I'm grateful to God that I am alive to create this new part. And for the several friends I have made hereon.

Thank you.
Humbly
LadyGuinivere

pls help me out, there is this friend of mine I have know for a year+ (a white us citizen) we only chat and do video call online, he own a farm and want me to come to live and work on his farm in US, he told me if I can obtain a work us visa that he will help me financially, he have where I will stay.
Pls how do I go about? am just a secondary school drop out he stay at Oklahoma

Good morning all the guru in the house for the job you are doing here, I am the guy that ask some month back that I am an hearing impaired person, my appointment was canceled because I apply early at Abuja embassy and the appointment code was not change which made me loose the first application, I have to pay another 64k,please my question is, is it the V O I will tell I want him/her to write because I can't hear very well, I only watch lips to catch my mother tongues (Yoruba) or I would have met with anyone before meeting the V O, my question in summary who will I inform about my hearing loss for effective communication, am nervous because of my poor communication, please don't mind my long and poor write up, I need my hearing back to get a life of my own, I want to do cochlear implant in Hollywood, hearing aids has turn me deaf... Thanks in advance