Mcilfero:
Hello Nairaland, I will have my interview at Abuja soon please I need info on any cheap hotel that's close to the embassy or probably any better suggestion on accommodation available. The ones I am seeing on google no be for here oo (84k per night). Please help a fellow Nairalander

Malone122:
if the refusal is more than six months it’s meant to be left as “regular”
So I believe you are correct


It’s only if you have been refused within the last two months of applying you pick “preciously refused”…

melvin4gups:
Hello Nairalanders,
Please i want to be clear about this part of filling the DS 160 form.
I have been denied in 2019, and now I see a part of the form asking if one has been refused a US visa, or refused admission into the united states, or withdrawn your application for admission at the port of entry?

is it ok to say tick YES with the reason i have stated there in?

Prosnelson:
Am also filling DS 160 but I am a little bit confused I don't have national ID card can I click do not apply, another thing is date of departure my program is ending in may 7 2025 which date can I put as date of departure

Mcilfero:
Hello Nairaland, I have an interview at Abuja soon please I need info on any cheap hotel that's close to the embassy or probably any better suggestion on accommodation available. The ones I am seeing on google no be for here oo (84k per night). Please help a fellow Nairalander

KemLaughs:
Yeah does not apply is correct. Date of Departure? Please send a screenshot

Prosnelson:
I also have another question to ask, there is a column for employment status like what you do for a living , am not employed at the moment can I click not employed will it affect my chances of visa approval or should I look for one business Name and give them and tell them that I do biz?

Prosnelson:
Am also filling DS 160 but I am a little bit confused I don't have national ID card can I click do not apply, another thing is date of departure my program is ending in may 7 2025 which date can I put as date of departure

Prosnelson:

You mean the DS 160 form

bamiDee1:
Hello my experienced people.

Please I need help ASAP.

I applied for Engineering Physics program and SEVIS placed it as "Physics" on my I-20 letter.
A) Should I put it as it is "Physics" on my DS-160 form and then explain to the VO that I'll specialize in Engineering Physics?
Or otherwise

Meanwhile, the school told me this when I asked for a change:

It cannot be changed. They do not know why SEVIS made it that way. The CIP code for Engineering Physics is 40.0801 which is also considered to be "Physics, General"
*This is the information that must be in SEVIS. For some reason, SEVIS considers 40.0801 to be "Physics, General." It is okay that the name does not exactly match up with the name of your program because the CIP code matches. It is correct and cannot be changed to anything else*.

Thanks in anticipation of your response.

customised87:


Yes, you can. Just make sure you update the correct application ID on your profile latest by 3 days before your interview appointment date.

lilfrancis100:
I need your advice please. The duration of my my program as written on my i20 is from August 16 2021 to May 30, 2026. While filling DS-160 form, I wrote the duration to be 5 years instead instead of 4 years, 9 months. Hope this won't be an issue. I am yet to submit my Ds160

customised87:


It looks like you are filling the part where it’s asking if you made concrete plans and you answered yes, that’s the only place you could be asked for date of arrival and date of departure. If this is correct, you do not have to answer yes to that part.

Also about the employment, hope you would be able to defend yourself if you are asked for the proof of the business you want to claim?

Candboy:
my friend, if u are a recent graduate, that wont be a problem. But if u have graduated for long, ill suggest you dont put unemployed o, it simply shows u want to japa. my 2 cent though.

fairheart:
IF YOU NEED GRE MATERIALS, QUOTE AND DROP YOUR EMAIL UNDER THIS COMMENT.

Motiqueen:
12th January, 2021
Good evening all,

I am glad today, my interview at Abuja went so well and it was God, I must say.

I was the 4th to be interviewed this morning and the 1st to be granted a visa, the three guys before me were rejected.

School is University of New Haven, Connecticut.
I had little funding and deficit of $26k
Course: Masters of Public health

The VO(only VO for today) had an assistant with him, guess the guy was on training or so, cos he had the approval and denial papers with him in a file, both of them were standing (or do the VOs usually stand?) the VO collects from him to dish out. You hear him converse slightly with the assistant after each applicant leave before he calls on the next applicant, so that's why I presume he was on training as a VO too.

VO: Good morning
Me: Good morning to you

VO: can I have your documents (passport and i-20)
Me: sure you can, here you have it(I passed to him)

VO: what's your course?
Me: Masters of Public health

VO:Do you know anyone in Connecticut?
Me: No, I don't.

VO: So where will you be staying
Me: in the school hostel, I already booked a space( I haven't booked any space ooo, just replied with that)

VO: I can see you have a deficit to be paid by a family member, so who is paying?
Me: My dad actually

VO: So what does he do?
Me: He owns one of the biggest hotels in Lagos, he cuts me short and asks for the name, I replied, then he asks for his bank statement and I showed him. Flips to the second page only, showing his assistant, then returns to me.

VO: what else does he do?
Me: He is into the transportation industry, his fleet of cars and buses run about 17 states currently in Nigeria and hoping to expand to more as demand permits

VO: So how long has he been in the hotel business
Me: about 15-16 years

VO: So he just added the transport to it
Me: Yes

VO: How about your mom, what does she do?
Me: She is a caterer

VO: What type of catering?
Me: indoor and outdoor catering, for both social and corporate events, she also runs staff canteens for companies and she's been in the field for 35years

VO: Wow! That's fine, so do you have siblings?
Me: Yes, 2 sisters and 2 brothers

VO: What do they do?
Me: my older sister works with my dad in his hotel, my younger sis is a fashion designer and a student, my younger brother is a hair stylist and a student, my last brother is a photographer and a student.

VO: Oh! That's good, what secondary school did you attend?
Me: I mentioned and added location

VO:You live in Lagos
Me: Yes, between the boundary of Lagos and Ogun state.

VO: So why did you come to Abuja for interview
Me: my school's resumption date is actually fast approaching and Abuja had earlier appointment dates than Lagos.

VO: oh! That's true, so have you travelled out of the country before?
Me: No, he tried to cajole me like, you know people just travel for maybe vacation to Dubai and that's just it.... So I replied by saying, I have actually been about school and work basically so I haven't even had the time to plan any trip, be it vacation or any.

VO: He kept nodding with his assistant, that one just had the file held like a statue and was smiling. So how did you find out about the school?
Me: When I concluded on having my masters degree, I did an extensive search on Google for schools that offer pub, VO cuts in and completes the rest for me and I said yes.

VO: OK, that's fine, do you have a room mate
Me: I don't know, the school didn't tell me any of such(room that I didn't even book at all)

VO: OK, I want to approve your visa, collects the white paper for approval from his assistant and slides it under the Window with my i-20 and says I can pick up at my preferred pick up point.

Me: thank you very much, I'm honoured.
VO: don't mention, you are welcome (he smiled at me with his assistant, while I dropped my papers in my file and left his window)


That was simply how my interview went, guess this VO is more about home ties cos he hardly asked questions about school even from the first 3 applicants before me.

Thank you everyone for the transcripts you have been dropping so far, to everyone still hopeful for an approval, God in his infinite mercies will make your day of joy to come. You won't come this far and not have a testimony.

godguy:
hello,

Can i book for Visa appointment (after receiving I-20 from my school) before paying for SEVIS fee?

godguy:



please respond

godguy:



please respond

TEMIT0PE:
You cannot book an appointment without paying SEVIS fee.
However, you can book an appointment without submitting your DS-160.