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ceac.state.gov is the website to fill your DS-160 form...

www.fmjfee.com is the website to fill your form I-901 and pay your SEVIS fee...

tsirin:
https://en.visaproamerica.com/application-form


Good morning everyone, please is this the website to fill form DS-160 and pay for SEVIS fees. thanks

Ok thanks.

Anybodie:
Before submitting, there's a place to review each section. You should be able to change to Lagos

Hello all,

Please who has an idea how to Change my interview location from Abuja to Lagos on my DS-160? I haven’t submitted yet, and I was able to book an interview for Lagos (I initially wanted Abuja). I also changed my location from the login page and I was able to login, but I don’t know if that’s all.

I can already imagine how your interview went in my head lol...

Congrats again.

BrTune:
The reasons I outlined when applying for an emergency visa are:

"1. Research Assistantship funding - I am interviewing for paid research assistantship positions and a major issue I am having is convincing Professors that I will be attending the Spring semester in person. This is because I need to be on campus to utilize most of the resources available, like offline library services.

2. Experiential learning: I will be taking some experiential learning courses, which involves meetings at the United Nations office, traveling for meetings in Geneva and in-person discussions and classes, and I need to register early enough for these classes due to limited seats, in other to secure my place - I must show proof that I can meet the in-person requirements, which can only be done by obtaining a visa.

3. University Campus housing: In other to confirm my University housing booking, I must show proof of my ability and intention to be available in the Spring semester. The most incontrovertible proof that I will actually take up my university housing reservation is evidence of my Visa.

4. I need this emergency appointment so as to apply to my employers for a paid academic leave of absence. To facilitate my application, I must show my employers that I have secured a visa.

Finally, an emergency visa appointment will enable me plan my travel logistics. Especially so, in light of the ongoing pandemic, which necessitates I make early flight booking, put in place quarantine measures upon arriving USA and undertake any necessary tests or vaccines prior to my departure. Overall, this emergency visa will help me plan for any contingencies.

I look forward to your response.

Thank you."

#EnDSarz

Ok thanks.

Evans211:
Thank you.

Benigold hotel.
Price list varies-
N18,000
N20,000
N25,000 etc

Please can you help with which hotel you stayed at?

Congrats again,.

Evans211:
Visa Approved!!

Profile-
Program: MA Political Science
GPA- 3.28/4
Deficits- $6,677
GRE- 318
School- Texas Tech University (Spring)



I had a very concise interview. Before I proceed into proper details, permit to use this medium to thank Samuel (Sammy like I fondly call), Fortune, Fairheart, Mathew, Francis, Acers family, and a host of others I am yet to mention; these amazing lads gave me the mock interview and confidence (some deadly guts) to face my fears.

Sunday (4th Oct, 2020) is just like every other day where I casually mailed Lagos consulate with a view of booking an expedited appointment with no much expectations. I barely recall sending a mail that Sunday! On Monday morning, I got a mail from lagos consulate slating an appointment by Friday! FRIDAY? that must be a huge joke! How could I possibly pay sevis fee, fill my DS-160 form, get an updated I-20 to spring, going through the hassles of documents printing in just 4 days?! Hell no... I'm skipping this appointment. I was so damn sure about this on Monday but by Tuesday morning, I reflect on my thoughts and realized how golden this opportunity is. I presented my case before these great guys, Samuel and fortune who offered to help with documents printing errands and transcript drafting respectively, while I take care of other tasks.

Wasn't really thinking of the mock interview preparations until Thursday afternoon after arriving at my lodge close to the Lagos consulate at VI. It was a tedious experience filled with funny memories.

Thanks to the virtual mock interview organized by Mathew, Sam, Francis et al where I was given a friendly but yet, rigorous drilling, critiquing my transcripts which helped in boosting my confidence. Studied through the night with an open but yet prayerful mind...


By morning, I headed straight to the consulate; tho a walkable distance but I booked a cab. Upon my arrival, I focused my gaze on the scanty applicants (about 35 in total) contrary to the usual expectations. I shaped my mind and blended with the cue while I await my faith. Waited for about half an hour before the rain started (that's a story for another day). The CGFI official instructed us on the document arrangements while we align on a single line heading straight to the interview unit..............

The VO is in window 9, probably in his mid 30s. A very wonderful and yet witty conversationalist. He denied about 4 applicants ahead of me and issued 3 approvals. I won’t lie, my morale was dampened but I kept a straight face. A lady just ahead of me was literally begging the VO to reconsider his denial and almost not leaving the spot! (In my head I was like, hey pretty! Leave that spot before you annoy the VO.. don’t implicate me pls........)

Here goes my interview with the VO ���


VO: Good morning, pass me your passport and I-20.

Me: I obliged.

VO: What are you going to do in the US ?

me: I am going for a Master’s degree in Political science with Concentration in International Relations and Public Policy, in Texas Tech University, Lubbock.

VO: not a single word from him as he kept typing......(I wasn’t sure if he heard me but I kept my cool).. So who is sponsoring your studies?

Me- Well, I was offered a Graduate teaching assistantships with full tuition waiver and some monthly stipends to help offset my living expenses and my uncle will help with the deficits.

VO: ...keeps typing for a couple of seconds, this time around a bit longer than usual. So what does your uncle do?

Me- He works as a Real estate Developer and owns a wholesale supermarket.

VO: where does he work at?

Me: Lagos

VO: okay. ...keeps typing.... So where did you graduate from ?

Me- The University of Ibadan in May, 2018

VO: Have you ever travelled out of the country ?

Me- No sir, I had no reason to.

VO- Are you married ?

Me- No sir.

VO: What is your program start date?

Me: 04 January, 2021

VO: Oh! You said you graduated from University of Ilorin?

Me: No sir, I graduated from the University of Ibadan.

VO: I see... Okay. I will be approving your Visa. have your reciprocity fee paid at window 23 and make sure you make travel plans not more than 30 days before your program start date.. you will need your I-20 at the POE ...........blah blah blah... I smiled as he utter the golden words!!!

From what I observed, the interview lasted less than 2 minutes! No other documents requested. Financial statement was handy but he never asked.

Congratulations Evans!

Evans211:
Visa Approved!!

Profile-
Program: MA Political Science
GPA- 3.28/4
Deficits- $6,677
GRE- 318
School- Texas Tech University (Spring)



I had a very concise interview. Before I proceed into proper details, permit to use this medium to thank Samuel (Sammy like I fondly call), Fortune, Fairheart, Mathew, Francis, Acers family, and a host of others I am yet to mention; these amazing lads gave me the mock interview and confidence (some deadly guts) to face my fears.

Sunday (4th Oct, 2020) is just like every other day where I casually mailed Lagos consulate with a view of booking an expedited appointment with no much expectations. I barely recall sending a mail that Sunday! On Monday morning, I got a mail from lagos consulate slating an appointment by Friday! FRIDAY? that must be a huge joke! How could I possibly pay sevis fee, fill my DS-160 form, get an updated I-20 to spring, going through the hassles of documents printing in just 4 days?! Hell no... I'm skipping this appointment. I was so damn sure about this on Monday but by Tuesday morning, I reflect on my thoughts and realized how golden this opportunity is. I presented my case before these great guys, Samuel and fortune who offered to help with documents printing errands and transcript drafting respectively, while I take care of other tasks.

Wasn't really thinking of the mock interview preparations until Thursday afternoon after arriving at my lodge close to the Lagos consulate at VI. It was a tedious experience filled with funny memories.

Thanks to the virtual mock interview organized by Mathew, Sam, Francis et al where I was given a friendly but yet, rigorous drilling, critiquing my transcripts which helped in boosting my confidence. Studied through the night with an open but yet prayerful mind...


By morning, I headed straight to the consulate; tho a walkable distance but I booked a cab. Upon my arrival, I focused my gaze on the scanty applicants (about 35 in total) contrary to the usual expectations. I shaped my mind and blended with the cue while I await my faith. Waited for about half an hour before the rain started (that's a story for another day). The CGFI official instructed us on the document arrangements while we align on a single line heading straight to the interview unit..............

The VO is in window 9, probably in his mid 30s. A very wonderful and yet witty conversationalist. He denied about 4 applicants ahead of me and issued 3 approvals. I won’t lie, my morale was dampened but I kept a straight face. A lady just ahead of me was literally begging the VO to reconsider his denial and almost not leaving the spot! (In my head I was like, hey pretty! Leave that spot before you annoy the VO.. don’t implicate me pls........)

Here goes my interview with the VO ���


VO: Good morning, pass me your passport and I-20.

Me: I obliged.

VO: What are you going to do in the US ?

me: I am going for a Master’s degree in Political science with Concentration in International Relations and Public Policy, in Texas Tech University, Lubbock.

VO: not a single word from him as he kept typing......(I wasn’t sure if he heard me but I kept my cool).. So who is sponsoring your studies?

Me- Well, I was offered a Graduate teaching assistantships with full tuition waiver and some monthly stipends to help offset my living expenses and my uncle will help with the deficits.

VO: ...keeps typing for a couple of seconds, this time around a bit longer than usual. So what does your uncle do?

Me- He works as a Real estate Developer and owns a wholesale supermarket.

VO: where does he work at?

Me: Lagos

VO: okay. ...keeps typing.... So where did you graduate from ?

Me- The University of Ibadan in May, 2018

VO: Have you ever travelled out of the country ?

Me- No sir, I had no reason to.

VO- Are you married ?

Me- No sir.

VO: What is your program start date?

Me: 04 January, 2021

VO: Oh! You said you graduated from University of Ilorin?

Me: No sir, I graduated from the University of Ibadan.

VO: I see... Okay. I will be approving your Visa. have your reciprocity fee paid at window 23 and make sure you make travel plans not more than 30 days before your program start date.. you will need your I-20 at the POE ...........blah blah blah... I smiled as he utter the golden words!!!

From what I observed, the interview lasted less than 2 minutes! No other documents requested. Financial statement was handy but he never asked.

Your $19,800 CAD tuition + $10,000 CAD living expense + $3200 CA for miscellaneous/others, sums up to $33,000 CAD for a year. With the current exchange rate, that’s about N9,900,000....

Do you have any dependents that would be going with you or staying back here?

If no, you may want to consider adding a little more funds to the account. 9 million is clearly not enough.

If yes, then you’ll be needing a whole lot more money (if they’re accompanying you), or proof of how they’ll be taken care of in your absence (if they’re not accompanying you)...

Hassan19:
Hi everyone, I just got letter of acceptance from Humber College. I applied for a graduate certificate course in project management (A year course). My tuition fee for a year is $19800. My question is that will 9 million be enough as statement of acct for my personal account? This 9m will just be sent to my account, I hope there won't be a problem because the money hasn't been flowing for the past 3 months. The money is actually in form of bitcoin so I have to convert it to naira. Is there any way to convince the VO that the money belongs to me because it's just been transferred to my account.
I'm highly anticipating for a response. Any other information will be highly appreciated.

Please I need someone to help with a detailed response.
Thank you.

I get you. But,

If that happened in Ghana, it might not necessarily happen in Nigeria. Let’s not start to create unnecessary panic. What will be, will be.

Rabato:
I hope everything goes smoothly as expected, here is the reason I posted that

Alright.

Luckymama:
So if you have applied for a Canadian study permit once, and you are rejected, the next logical step is to go for a judicial review just because you can afford it? You won’t try to find out what was wrong with your application at least? You won’t try to fix it and apply a second time?

I noticed that he gives this advice to people when it appears from their profile that they can afford it. That was what I was taking issue with. And he responded by telling me I have no idea how things work. I may not have an idea how things work in visa applications because I am not a professional visa applicant. But I know how things work in the world. You just don’t throw away thousands of dollars when you are planning to emigrate to a new country with a lot of unknowns. You conserve as much of your funds as you can because believe me, what you expect is never what you find out there.

If it were not for all of his defenders that appeared out of nowhere to bully me, the matter would have since died down.

This place is not just a random chat thread. People (myself included) take advice from here and act upon it. Whoever is therefore giving advice here should endeavor to exercise a bit of fiduciary care and advice what you know to be in the best interest of the person you are talking to.

Luckymama,

If you continue to post things like this, you’ll gradually be dragging your reputation on the forum in the mud.

A conversation ensued here, after which you made a few statements which everybody (including you) knew was wrong. It was clearly a misunderstanding on your part. A simple apology (“I’m sorry, I guess I misunderstood what you were trying to say”) would have avoided all the insults people are throwing your way. I mean, there’s nobody above mistake. But instead you’re trying to beat around the bush and talk about irrelevant things.

Sincerely, I’ve been following up with your posts and I was honestly happy for you after I read that you got an AIP. I always look forward to your comments but with this today, I may begin to look at you in a new light.

Luckymama:
Even if you were the one who paid my tuition fees and packaged my visa application, are you God? Does that mean you are perfect and can’t make a mistake? Does that mean you can’t be corrected?

All I said is that we should give full disclosure. I still stand by what I said - it is not normal to advise people to spend over a million naira on judicial review when you have not exhausted all possibilities.

For judicial review to be the first line of advice to someone who has not even received GCMS notes for their first rejection is unfair. Assuming the person has applied several times and is still rejected then you advice such then that makes sense.

And for all of you to suddenly appear out of nowhere to start insulting me and trying to shut me up simply shows that I have a point. You people should sha be doing things with a conscience. People listen to you and make life decisions. Don’t carry that load lightly.

You need to relax ma’am. You’re clearly countering yourself.

“You’ll make the money spent on judicial review (approx $5000) after a few months of living/working in Canada as a student”... it’s entirely different from “you’ll make $5000 in a few months AFTER ALL YOUR BILLS are paid”.

Yes. It’s possible to make $1000 monthly working as a student in Canada. In 5 months you’ve made $5000 (regardless of what you spend it on - whether house rent or food)... I believe that’s what Frankrobn was trying to say...

It’s like I’m working in Nigeria, and I earn/get N200,000 a month. Regardless of what I spend my salary on, I still earn N200,000 monthly.


Let’s be slow to attacking other people, please.

Luckymama:
Oga if you have ulterior motives asking people to do judicial review please stop it. So I work 40 hours a week during summer break. I will not pay rent abi? I will not pay taxes. I will not pay bills.

What kind of job can a student on vacation get? Is it not minimum to medium wage? Let’s say at the most 25 dollars per hour. 25 x 40 = 1,000 a week. Minimum wage is actually 17 dollars. Even if I earn that 1,000 dollars a week. What if bills?

Please stop this calumnous campaign. The streets of any country in the world are not paved with gold! We need to understand the realities of what lies ahead even as we want to emigrate.

Yes!!

It must be within a 30days frame. Check your I-20 for “earliest admission date”..,

Paragontek:
I just got my updated I-20 and my resumption date is now 19th January. However, I had filled arrival date on ds160 to be 17th December, which is a month and 2 days before the resumption date.

Do you think this should be a problem?

Hello @Favouredtk,

Please I just sent you an email. I need your help URGENTLY. Kindly reply when you see it. Thanks

favouredtk:
Yes, I received the same email few minutes ago

Just booked too.

Goodluck to us all

ormorteey:
The interview slots are open for lagos if you are trying to schedule an interview. You can check now.

Yes it’s ok.

Vader92:
I am prompted to specify the address I'd be staying in the US. Is it okay to input my school address as I haven't made any plans of that sort?

Yes it is..

Can you please share their profile?

adakuchidiebere:
Two of my brothers get AIP last week without Medical request and no up front medical.
All is paper application.
One of them submitted In February and other one March 18.

Hope this is good news?

Hello Deegayes. Please I sent a private message (email). Kindly reply when you have some free time (+your Nigerian number isn’t working on WhatsApp anymore, that’s why I’m here)..

Deegayes:
I have explained that in my recent response. Also , an hold will be placed on your account until you register courses , once you register it will be lifted and since the school also has some things done with ICE already, easy pissy. Someone was turned back and what they said to her was they couldn’t verify that her classes are not fully online ( she isn’t Nigerian by the way ). I also attached a mail from the PDSO’s deputy in my school and FAQs to schools from ICE.

Yeah

Tella26:
Down for maintenance is to be able to accommodate for user traffic on Monday.

Y’all see cgi federal’s website ��‍♀️, and it’s not even Monday yet!

I pray the server doesn’t crash by Monday.

Ok thanks.

Walspring:
Yes it’s possible if it’s not emergency date request because for you to get emergency date your sevis receipt is needed.

Hello all.

For someone who already paid the visa fee, and has a valid I-20 (with January resumption date), is it possible to book an interview date before paying SEVIS fee?

I was aware that it’s possible but lately I’ve been seeing some conflicting posts...

Most probably YES. Congrats in advance.


Please can you share her profile and which documents you submitted...

Godsblessings:
pls house ,I have submitted for my sis on Sept 21, received medical letter now ,pls does it mean her visa will be approved?

Ok good. And Congrats

Dame24:
Undergrad: Kinesiology 2018
Program I’m going for: International hospitality management
23yo
Sponsor is my dad

What’s your profile like - if you don’t mind sharing...

undergraduate degree?
Program you’re going to study
Tuition and fees
When did you complete your ist degree? / any study gaps?
Age?
Is the sponsor directly related to you?

Dame24:
Just the sponsor’s source that I mentioned in the letter.

Please has anybody been able to retrieve or fill a new Ds-160 form lately? I’ve been trying to retrieve mine but it keeps saying “session timed out” (on all the different browsers I tried- safari, chrome, firefox)...

I’ve also tried to fill a new one but it seems like that icon isn’t working (like it was blocked intentional by the website controllers)....

Please let me know if you’ve been able to fill a new form lately and which browser you used.

You wanted him to ask “WHY”, and still felt the need to say “PIN THIS COMMENT”? LOL. Pin the comment for what? For future reference when he eventually gets denied?

Next time please just ignore such questions if you don’t have the luxury of time to give a full and reasonable response.

Austacus:
This has absolutely nothing to do with career progression or anything related to his previous course of study.

I don't know how to spice it up to him but I will repeat it 1 million times, HE WILL NOT GET HIS VISA with PSW.

I wanted him to ask me ’why’ not YOU! Hitherto, it's not necessary anymore.

What school / program are you going in for?

What session (Fall 2020 / Winter 2021)?

What’s your tuition fee like (yearly or for the complete 2 years)?

Is your sponsor a biological parent or someone with a different surname?

What’s your age - if you don’t mind sharing (PS: you could give a range, e.g 20-23 / 24-26 / 27+)?...

How long ago did you graduate from your ist degree institution (or how long ago did you complete NYSC)?

LASTLY, Are you a male or female?

Sorry for my plenty questions.

versashee:
I didn't choke-up my application with plenty documents.

I submitted:

the needed forms
Affidavidt of good behaviour (signed and stamped in court)
Affidavit of sponsorship (From my sponsor signed and stamped in court)
Sponsor's letter of sponsorship
Sponsor's personal account ( stamped, signed, scanned and uploaded)
Sponsor's CAC documents
My Admission letter
Proof of tuition deposit
International certification
International Passport
Police certificate
Employment letter (signed and stamped)
Recommendation letter from employer(signed and stamped)

Wow finally!

Tonyodg:
News news news

Please can we move on from this topic!

5 pages gone already; everyone here has read your story Ope. Whoever is led to help, would help in whichever way they can. Dragging it on and on would make people get tired , and possibly stop reading a post that has your name on it (e.g me)...

Moreover some of your responses have been a little bit rude; but I’ll blame it on your desperation. I don’t have much myself, but you can send me a mail later. I’ll support with the little (just a token) I can when you’re ready to get your INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT (The pastors story doesn’t seem feasible). Plus I believe that’s what you need first, even before SAT.

Just drop this topic please.

Phenomenalopeye:
Nairalanders, if I'm not passionate I wouldn't spend this much time typing and asking questions, pls help me fufill my dreams, I'm sorry for disturbing y'all.