Please what is the size of the passport I need to take to my interview??

Please for those that sent a message to the embassy for an emergency appointment, has anyone gotten response from them?

Good afternoon all,
I couldn’t go for my visa interview before the fall semester started, can I use the same i20 given to me to go for an interview in spring?

Vivian18:
Good afternoon all,
I couldn’t go for my visa interview before the fall semester started, can I use the same i20 given to me to go for an interview in spring?

No, except you deferred amd got an updated i20 with a start date in January which from your question above dont seem like you did..so except you i20 states that ypu are to begin classes sometime in january, you cant go for an interview

Amahjosh:
Please what is the size of the passport I need to take to my interview??

5cm by 5cm

Please I have my Visa interview date and location changed from Lagos to Abuja.

Can I change my pickup from DHl Lagos to Abuja or It is fine to receive my passport in Lagos even when i have my interview in Abuja.

Application Waiver!!
University of New Hampshire.
Waiver codes ( ISW65 )
Goodluck!!

olaolu39:
Please I have my Visa interview date and location changed from Lagos to Abuja.

Can I change my pickup from DHl Lagos to Abuja or It is fine to receive my passport in Lagos even when i have my interview in Abuja.

Abuja Pick-up location should be updated.

Tomison:
Please for those that sent a message to the embassy for an emergency appointment, has anyone gotten response from them?

No response yet o. Sent message since Monday night.

What's the latest date for previously denied applicants in lagos

Chonco:


Abuja Pick-up location should be updated.

So we have to wait in Abuja to collect our passport? How long does it take to get it? Is there anyone who interviewed in Abuja with pickup location in Lagos?
Thanks

FutureSenator:


No response yet o. Sent message since Monday night.

Same here. Being waiting since Monday too�

Tomison:


Same here. Being waiting since Monday too�

I don't know if this is normal, or why it takes so long before response.

olaolu39:
Please I have my Visa interview date and location changed from Lagos to Abuja.

Can I change my pickup from DHl Lagos to Abuja or It is fine to receive my passport in Lagos even when i have my interview in Abuja.

You can pick it up in Lagos, that was what I did during my time. Interviewed in Abuja, picked up in Lagos

FutureSenator:


I don't know if this is normal, or why it takes so long before response.

Am getting tired of waiting, and it looks like there are dates available in Abuja

Universities offering free waiver

1. Michigan technological University

2. University of Missouri Saint Louis

3. West Texas A&M University

4. University of Pittsburgh (Code: H2P)

5. University of Dallas
Code: scholar2021


6. Netherland excellence scholarship
Deadline: January 31, 2021

7. University of Oregon (Request for it from the department and GC will nominate you)

8. New York Institute of Technology
Code: GRAD2021

9. University of British Columbia in Canada also waived App fee for Chemistry ppl sha�

https://www.grad.ubc.ca/prospective-students/application-admission/apply-online


10. Morgan State University
Code: FREE20


11. University of Arkansas at little rock
Code: GRFREE6



12. Wayne State University - no app fee, deadline-early dec

13. University of Rochester - no app fee, Deadline-dec 15

14. Temple University - Can offer waiver

15.Michigan State Univ. - no app. fee, deadline - dec 15

16. Iowa State Univ. - no app fee, deadline jan 15

17. Georgia tech - no application fee

18. Georgetown Univ. - can offer waiver

19. Univ. of Emory - can offer waiver


20. Case western reserve university - no app fee,deadline- april 15

21. Caltech(can offer waiver)

22. Brigham young univ. - no app fee, deadline Jan 5

23. Carnegie mellon University - waived app fee for fall 2021 application

24. ulane University - no appl fee, deadline- april 4

25. Pennsylvania state Univ. - can offer waiver, deadline- dec 15


26. Univ. of Illinois chicago - waive app fee till dec 15


27. Utah state univ. - no app fee

28. George Washington uni- can offer waiver, deadline - feb 1





Schools that waived GRE and have full funding for PhD Chemical Engineering
1. Texas A&M University
2. University of Notre Dame
3. University of Colorado Boulder
4. University of Oklahoma
5. University of Maine
6. Iowa State University
7. Missouri University of Science & Technology.

TOEFL is also waived by all of them with the exception of University of Oklahoma. Send each of them a mail for fee waivers, from my experience some would definitely respond positively.

Tomison:


Same here. Being waiting since Monday too�

I think you should mail the Abuja embassy concerning your EMERGENCY REQUEST.

Good people can one still be able to use a visa fee twice?
I intend to cancel my January appointment an see if I could reshedule for an earlier date with same visa fee. I already exhausted my emergency slots with the MRV.

Snakedoctor1:
Good people can one still be able to use a visa fee twice?
I intend to cancel my January appointment an see if I could reshedule for an earlier date with same visa fee. I already exhausted my emergency slots with the MRV.

I think you have to pay another MRV fee so as to get an early date

Good morning all,

Please, can one request for the i-20 form from the different schools he secured admission? Then make comparison and choose one for his visa?
Will it be a problem?

Lildairo:


I think you should mail the Abuja embassy concerning your EMERGENCY REQUEST.

How do I do that?

Hello house, I just got an admission to university of Alabama spring 2021 starting Jan 19. They are just preparing my i-20 and wt the look of tns is going to take like 5 days. Now the question : is it still feasible to book a visa interview and get an appointment before Jan 19.. Can I do all these processes in jst a month. The school has a summer session starting in May so I am thinking of deferring til then so I wil have enough time to do all the processes. Pls I need advice.thanks

Tomison:


How do I do that?

Via their mail @ Consularabuja@state.gov

You can reschedule on same visa fee if you have not rescheduled before. I did same. In this case, don't cancel. Just click on the reschedule tab directly. In the case you have previously rescheduled, you have to make another payment

Snakedoctor1:
Good people can one still be able to use a visa fee twice?
I intend to cancel my January appointment an see if I could reshedule for an earlier date with same visa fee. I already exhausted my emergency slots with the MRV.

Hello all,

This thread has been really helpful.

I have my mom as my sponsor on my F1, few months ago, my office became interested in sponsoring. Do I still go to the interview with both statements or just the organisation's?

Kindly share thoughts.

Please who has SOP for mathematics, I promise not to steal it completely, i just want to use it as a guide to write mine.

Lildairo:


Via their mail @ Consularabuja@state.gov

Thanks

AkinOseni:
Good morning all. Now I'm done catching my breath. Here goes the transcript:



School : Bowling Green State University, Ohio
Programme: MA (Literary and Textual Studies)
Visa : F1
Status : Approved
Funding: $25508
Deficit: 3K


I was attended to in an anteroom by some white male VO

VO: How did you know about Bowling Green ( being the first question, while seeming not to have heard my greetings).

Me: I read about BGSU in Princeton Review. EducationUSA and through some random google searches.

VO: How many schools did you choose?

Me: I chose two schools— Alabama and BGSU

VO (cuts in ) so BGSU gave you more money than Alabama and that’s why you are choosing BGSU?

Me : (confused and almost lost for words) No, not really...ermm... I had actually chosen BGSU because the university is rated high in terms of teaching quality, not only in Ohio but also in the United States as a whole.

VO: No (speaking assertively) you have chosen BGSU because of the money, or did Alabama offer you any money? How much did Alabama offer you?


Me: (almost dumbfounded) not really because of the money ...


VO: No, it may be because of the money. There is nothing wrong about that. $25508 is a huge money.


VO: Where do you stay?

Me: Ikorodu here in Lagos

VO: Oh OK, you are a teacher?

Me: Yes I am a teacher. I teach Literature at Eppie International School

VO: What?

Me: Eppie International School at Ikorodu

VO: How many students do you have?

Me: you mean the number of students I teach or you are referring to the school capacity?

VO: Yes, I mean the school capacity


Me: 120 in all

VO: What? (sounded stunned)

Me: Yes, 120. It’s a high-paying school.

VO: What do you teach?

Me: I teach Literature and I also freelance for Digirature (I don’t think he heard the latter)

VO: So who is your favourite author?


Me: William Shakespeare (I actually fancy Alexander Pope the most but Shakespeare surfaced first in my heart and I did not want to engage in any internal conflict, not at that moment)


VO: so you did English Literature (or something like that)

Me: Yes I did. In fact, I taught Shakespearean texts during my national youth service scheme at the department of English, Zamfara College of Arts and Science.


VO: Do you know Nnedi Okorafor


Me: (Just heard the name for the first time). ‘No I don’t.

VO: (looked astonished) you don’t? s/he is a Nigerian. S/he wrote the novel — Lagoon.

Me: Oh, I don’t know her. There are many great Nigerian authors such as Sefi Atta, Chimamanda Adichie, Lola Soneyin, Chogozie Agbim (Obioma intended but I ended up calling the name of a Nigerian goalkeeper but I mustered that divinely inspired confidence ) and a couple of others – pulling this as a stunt not to appear blank and stupid on home front .

VO: But you don’t know Nnedi Okorafo?

Me: what text did you say he wrote, again?


VO: Lagoon

Me: I don’t get that. Could you spell please?

VO: Lagoon like where we are ( referring to the location of the consulate on the Island)

Me: Oh OK. When was that published?

VO: it was published in 2014, no sorry 2015. It is about some aliens who came from ... hesitated


Me : (I quickly filled in an attempt to take charge of the conversation and make up for my ignorance about the author) ... from the space


VO: Yes from the space. It is quite interesting. Muttered other words but I could only hear so when you get to .... don’t blah blah ... Goodluck to you...


Actually, I didn’t know what his decision was but he gave me a white paper and retained my passport and I was sure he had approved my visas.


Epilogue (Comedy of Error)

The guy at the door told me congratulations (perhaps he had heave-dropped the VO). I was happy too until I got out and read the paper:


The consular officer refused your visas due to CGI reason. You need to submit additional documentation and maybe schedule another appointment. My hair stood on end. I couldn’t get the drift. I knew if I had my visas denied, he should not be with my passport. Many thoughts were competing for attention in my heart, the most prominent of which was that I had been denied the visa because I did not know the Nigerian author – Nnedi Okarafor. But I was not too convinced about the refusal since he retained my passport and offered a white paper after the interview.

So I took everything to the CGI point for further clarification.


The woman who attended to me asked: what did the VO tell? Did he say your visa has been approved or did he tell you to provide any document? ‘ I couldn’t even get him because he was rushing towards the last part of the interview,’ I said. But he has my passport with him. ‘ He has your passport with him?’ the woman asked. Yes.

OK, bring your Confirmation. I gave her. She came back some 10 minutes later with a man, both smiling. ‘I’ve got some good news for you, said the woman. ‘You will go in again and meet my colleague, the man added.’

I was led to the interview room again. I had thought it would be another round of quizzing. But on get there, the guy quickly spotted me and led me to a woman. He was the one given the wrong paper. It was a mistake, the VO wanted to give you your pick up note — your visas has been approved.

She took the other paper from me and gave me white paper for Issued visa delivery. If you want somebody to collect your visas on your behalf, fill the back paper (blah blah blah)

Remember, a fellow posted something like being initially denied and later called back? I did not altogether believe but I had a change of mind yesterday after the spectacles of comedy of error.

Note : Prepare well and don’t rely solely on regular questions. My interview did not altogether take the regular route. Remember some very basic things in your field too. Who knows if the VO has just bagged a degree in International Relations and may be willing to test your knowledge on the most basic thing about the discipline?

Most importantly, pray, pray and pray as if that is the only thing you are taking to the interview. Our God is able. Alhamdulillah. I pray Allah, our God ease the affairs for those having their own interviews in coming days.

Congrats Pls who know anybody that got F1 visa from Turkey

Asguard:
Please who has SOP for mathematics, I promise not to steal it completely, i just want to use it as a guide to write mine.

It is available

Brown2Green:


If the VO is not satisfied with the information provided, you'll be asked. It is better to be brief and know everything you filled than been elaborate without cognizance of what was filled.

Hi boss. Please I want to ask.. I'm still in school but every Transcript I've been reading here bears no Art and Humanities as a course of study is it that schools abroad don't offer Scholarship for such student? I'm studying Mass Communication. I will be glad I get a reply from you. Thank you Boss.

kinkymax:
Hello house, I just got an admission to university of Alabama spring 2021 starting Jan 19. They are just preparing my i-20 and wt the look of tns is going to take like 5 days. Now the question : is it still feasible to book a visa interview and get an appointment before Jan 19.. Can I do all these processes in jst a month. The school has a summer session starting in May so I am thinking of deferring til then so I wil have enough time to do all the processes. Pls I need advice.thanks

You can't book an appointment without the SEVIS num, so wait for it.
You can book and get a date tomorrow or anytime, depending on what you see on CGI website. You can even get a date this Month or probably Jan first week.