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Please is anyone able to get a date for interview in Lagos?

Tamad101:
Visa Transcript
My profile:
Second master’s degree
Location: Abuja
COA: $36,500
Scholarship: $8,000
Status: Approved!!! (Window 9)

1st Attempt – Lagos, (December 1- surge date) MTSU
2nd Attempt - Abuja (9th March) MTSU.

After my first delay, I was disappointed and this is because I’ve been to the US couple of times and had two kids in between in the US. However, the Lagos VO wasn’t even interested in my I20 but more about my kids and my sister who was supposed to be in the US at the time but was in Nigeria trying to renew her F1 visa.

Anyway to the transcript proper, (questions in no particular order)

VO: Have you been to the US before? I see you are going to MTSU
Me: yes
VO: how many times and what did you go for?
Me: thrice, holiday with family and other times to have my babies
VO: So you have 2 America Citizens? Any other children
Me: yes, 2 citizens and no other child
VO: I see you are going to MTSU. What course and why?
VO: IT project management. I choose the course because while I was considering a career change and looking for a degree to empower my transition and offer me new and better opportunities, it came top on the list.
VO: Tell your study plan?
Me: for the successful completion of my course, I’m required to complete 30 credit semester with 2 years. I’ll be taking courses like IT project risk & recovery, IT planning & implementation, IT project strategies for success, applied business analytics, big data analytics amongst others (she was nodding and actively listening).
VO: why did you pick MTSU?
Me: I picked MTSU over my other admits because my graduate coordinator assured I could cope despite not having an IT background and most especially because I got 23% off my COA.
VO: How did you get it (scholarship)?
Me: well my school has merit scholarship for international students which is dependent on your GPA evaluation. In my case, I had 3.64/4.0 hence why I got it.
VO: Where did you do your bachelors and course?
Me: I graduated from xxxx University here in Nigeria and studied Tourism management.
VO: So what did you do in the UK?
Me: Well I had a master’s degree there in 2013 and I have since returned back to Nigeria.
VO: (still nodding) So you don’t intend to work in US?
Me: Not at all.
VO: So where do you work?
Me: I work at a federal government instruction and I intend to transfer from there to Galaxy Backbone Limited to take up the role of an IT project manager upon return to Nigeria.
VO: So this will be your second master’s degree.
Me: Yes, it will.
VO: Are you married?
Me: yes, I am married
VO: Will your husband and be going with you?
Me: No he won’t.
VO: I see you have a sister in the US, where does she live and school.
Me: She schools at Campbellsville University. (she interrupted, what location is that?) I replied oh it’s in Kentucky.
VO: Oh I see you had an interview in Lagos.
Me: I had an interview but I couldn’t get my visa so I deferred from spring 2022 to fall 2022.
VO: Ok ….. (she typed and typed, erased somethings too).
VO: I’ll be recommending you for the visa, take this white paper, it will tell you how to pick up at the VI location. Also kindly go with your I20, you’ll be needing it at the POE as its very important.
Me: thank you, thank you, thank you very much (with smiles).
VO: Its ok….(she smiled).

Things to note……
1. Oh my God, I prayed ehen because I was disappointed in Lagos as it was also my birth month and I got such a news on the first day of the month.
2. I immediately paid another visa fee same day but didn’t check for a date until January 2022.
3. I initially picked April 7 only to get a mail from the embassy that my appointment had been moved from April 7 to March 9. I got the notice 5 days prior to my interview date.
4. In answering why I was refused a visa in my DS160, I explained my ties back home as the reason why I can’t be going for long (I figured she was reading through them).
5. No documents was requested.

Congratulations on getting your visa approval.
I am also trying to get an earlier date for my interview as i will also be applying for my visa.

Please can you put me through how you were able to get a close date for your interview. Having been rejected in December.
Thank you

ShyShyBobo:
I'll be resuming for Fall 2022 (August) . But I've got an F-1 Visa interview date for March, 2022.

Should I be worried as I have more than 120 days to go?

You can get your interview before resumption, the only thing is you cant enter the US earlier than 30days before your program start date.

Please kindly tell me how you were able to get a early date in March for your interview.
I am also trying to apply against the fall resumption.

babsray:
Guys, Please i need you to engage and help me on this.

My school resumed on 10th January.
Had my interview on 14th and was denied.

Please can I reapply and get a new emergency date within now and 30th.
If so, how can i go about it.
Please assist me on this.
Thanks

Guys, I need help on this ASAP.
Please

MelaninGemstone:
Many people were denied on the 14th

Was it that white lady at the extreme right window ? Close to the queue, that denied you ?

Yes, It was

MelaninGemstone:
Share your transcript

Also, were you denied in Lagos or Abuja?

I was denied in Abuja.

Tbh I can’t really say I remember in detail all i said.

But this was how it went.

V.O. Good Morning
Me: Good Morning Ma

Vo: Please pass your documents.
Me: passes documents

Vo: who will be paying for your housing?
Me: My mother(my sponsor)

Vo: Why Urban and Community Development.
Me: I said a few stuff, i cant really recollect how i phrased it.

VO: What are your plans for when you finish your studies.
Me: I will be coming back to Nigeria to work with my Mother’s Company, which deals in Real Estate Management.

Vo: Types for a while then asks, what does the company do.
Me: Real Estate Management.

Vo: pauses for a few seconds. Finished typing.
Then issues the blue form.

Guys, Please i need you to engage and help me on this.

My school resumed on 10th January.
Had my interview on 14th and was denied.

Please can I reapply and get a new emergency date within now and 30th.
If so, how can i go about it.
Please assist me on this.
Thanks

eminence5000:
First attempt dec 1 2021
Visa denied today
Lagos Embassy
Tuition expenses: $56000
Funding : $57,000
Deficit: No deficit
School: George Washington University


VO: Good morning
Me: Good morning
VO: I can see you are going for your doctorate degree, how did you get this huge scholarship?
Me: I believe the admission committee were impressed with my academic profile which includes my academic transcripts, excellent gre score of 332, Quantitative 169, Verbal 163 and analytical writing 5.0. Good lettee of recommendations and my statement of purpose.

VO: very good. Sorry i cant approve your visa at this time.gives me blue paper.



Second attempt, 7th January,2022
Abuja embassy

VO: Good morning
Me: Good morning
VO: Pass me your documents
Me: I gave it to her
VO: Wow you have a huge scholarship from George washington University.
Me: smiles, yes
VO: you must be very brilliant.
Me: smiles, I am
VO: Congratulations, your visa has been approved.

Thank you all!!!

Please how were you able to get a new interview date so fast.
Please i need help on this