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thank you sir.

see transcript above.

bogolobango:
@babylawyr congrats

Okay, so here we go.
Lady G, Justwise, sheuk, et all. come and hear my story oo

Background: i was denied in 2013. I felt my circumstance has changed significantly, i have a better paying job. i have visited more countries. It has been three years since the denial. So i decided to try again, i reapplied last month and fixed the interview for today 7:15am.

Pre-Interview: i read the whole thread USA Visit Part 1 and 2. I repeat, i read Part 1 and 2, everything. I was reading only transcripts tho, every night when i get home i read and read and read. I read like i was going for a job interview, i prepared all my answers. I prayed too oo. i prayed and prayed and prayed, i did a 9 days Novena in church by myself ( i can share the Novena prayer if anyone is interested),

I remember a man saying he removed his shoes at the embassy and said a prayer. LOL. Well, i removed my shoes too. It was not my plan but after all the standing, queuing, walking up and down. My feet began to ache i wore heels and they were uncomfortable (but lovely). i sha stylishly removed them one leg at a time, used each feet to touch the floor for like one second, said a quick prayer and wore them back. LOL. (the things we do for visa)

Interview:

VO: Why are you going to the US.
ME: im going on vacation, sightseeing and to see my sister.

VO: where are you going.
Me: ****, Atlanta, Georgia

VO: Have you travelled before.
Me: Yes i have, I have been to the UK, Istanbul, Dubai and Ghana.

VO: What do you do.
ME: Im a lawyer, i work as a ******* in ********* (telecoms)

VO: How long have you worked there.
ME: ** months. However, prior to that i worked in a law firm for 4 years and 2 months.

VO: Are you married
ME: No, not yet

VO: Do you have any children
ME: No, not yet *chuckles*

She types for like one minute (which felt like forever).

VO: Sorry, our systems are a bit slow today
Me: No worries (heart in mouth. praying silently).

She brings out the white paper.

VO: Pick up your visa at ............ *white paper* (i was not listening anymore). I felt like break-dancing.

No documents checked, she didn't even flip through the passport to see my visas. Hence, my conclusion that the decision was made already.

Advise:
1. Ignore the touts totally. I saw some people rushing to get 'entrance slip/card' from them. Imagine! i was amazed.
2. Dress the role. As a lawyer, i wore a black dress. Also wear comfortable shoes. There is a lot of standing queuing and waiting.
3. Even though you upload your passport successfully on the portal, please go with your passport. They scan passports now to their system.
4. Pray pray pray pray pray. With God on your side, who can be against you?

Thank you to everyone who ever shared a transcript.

Also, reading from Part 1 to Part 2, i want to commend Lady G, FPL, Omobendel, seyewest, Tzetzefly, Justwise, i saw a lot of 'sharp practices' and 'not so honest advise/conversation' (for lack of a better word) going on in the initial part of Part 1 of the thread. The quality of advice has improved greatly and thank you for not condoning sharp practices, promoting honesty and sanitising the thread.

God bless. (drops mic)

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.

Visa application approved in lagos this morning.

Transcript loading lemme rush to work.

seguno2:
So, any update, one year after?

Hahahaha!!! Funny you should ask.

It's been fantastic, I still drink at least 3 liters of water a day. I have a .75l Camelbak bottle which is always on my desk at work. I drink a bottle before lunchtime, another bottle during lunch, and the last one afterwards. I also drink water after dinner (if i have dinner).

I feel great, I have not added any weight in one year cool (p.s, Im not doing this for weight loss).

Drinking water can be boring, so sometimes I add lemon or lime or any interesting fruit available.

I challenge you to try it grin. I will buy you a bottle kiss

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Increases Energy & Relieves Fatigue
Promotes Weight Loss
Flushes Out Toxins
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Puts you in a good mood

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Godswillnwaoma:
How I wish Muslims and Christian should come together as one then the whole world will be in peace because Jehovah care for all of us be it Christian or Muslim.

The raster man called him jah

Muslims called him Allah

English man called him God.
But he is Jehovah.
We may have different names to called him but he cares for everyone.


Muslims and Christian let us stop fighting each other and start seeing ourselves as one.

A message from Godswillnwaoma.

How can Muslims and Christians come together when Christian and Christian can't even come together.

#justthinkingaloud

watered:
Babylawyr: you killed it and I owe you one bottle of amstel malt (though not cold)

Uncle watered, please how do I get my amstel malt. I'm taking this offer very seriously oo.this is the first time someone on NL is offering me anything.

Truth be told and I'm speaking from experience now, driving in a car will limit the number of guys that will have access to you.

However, it will improve the quality of guys that approach you.

So its quality over quantity. You choose.

Did anyone open the link at all??

Dangote is not mentioned anywhere.

Alarmists

frachy:
Can nyou please tell me some good hotels where one can lodge in Ghana. I'll be going there for the first time. Thanks in anticipation.

You can try MJ Grand Hotel in East Legon.

Very cosy, wonderful food, excellent wifi, they have a pool.
Its generally a very nice and comfortable place.

iblaw:
Same thing happened to me last year, i got a refusal letter that all the info was wrong, i sent Sheffield a mail and after three weeks they replied no reeor in the letter sent to me. i was mad i just forgot about it but in January someone told me to keep disturbing them till they correct error. I sent another details mail and two days i got an apology mail asking me to take my passport to BDHC to get my visa, i travelled in March for two weeks.

Hi iblaw,

Please can you kindly send me the email address you used. Thank you

Good morning all,

Can someone kindly give me the email address of ukba. The email to use when you want to lay a complaint, please.
Thank you in advance.

travelland:
She has two choices:
A) she can reapply and include a personal letter of explanation attached to the refusal letter

B) She can get the contact details of the embassy and send a letter to them.

I prefer the first option because they may likely tell her to apply again.

@ Travelland, thank you for taking time out to respond.

She submitted a letter to the embassy on Friday notifying them of the error. Unfortunately, she wrote through a lawyer which I advised her against.
Fingers crossed.

iblaw:
Same thing happened to me last year, i got a refusal letter that all the info was wrong, i sent Sheffield a mail and after three weeks they replied no reeor in the letter sent to me. i was mad i just forgot about it but in January someone told me to keep disturbing them till they correct error. I sent another details mail and two days i got an apology mail asking me to take my passport to BDHC to get my visa, i travelled in March for two weeks.

Thank you for sharing. I'm happy to hear this.

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justwise:
In that case all she need to do is to reapply and point out their mistake in a letter. Using a lawyer is just waste of money in my opinion though.

Very many thanks Justwise. I appreciate.

Hello House, my friend's visa was denied yesterday (we are supposed to travel together thus my concern). Their reason was that she has 5 dependents hence, she cannot afford the trip/vacation on her salary. They also stated that she is not entitled to AR or appeal.

The problem is that she is single without any kids and she did not state in her application that she has any dependents. I suspect that the VO used someone's information for her, as i really can not phantom how they arrived at this conclusion that she has 5 dependents .

She is about to talk to an immigration lawyer who she says can help (i'm pessimistic) . But, can anything really be done? I mean they stated that she is not entitled to AR or appeal. Can she make a case based on the fact that the information attributed to her/rationale for the denial is false/flawed.

Uncle Justwise, Oga Ralph, Prof.Worry and our able contributors......your thoughts will be highly appreciated. Thank you.

Hi op,
What ever type of access to funds you are referring to be it cash withdraw from atm or pos payments, please note that you need to notify ur bankers before you travel.

This is in line with the new CBN directive. If not, u will be totally stranded as ur Atm card will not work.

Take note

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purplesummer:
Nigerians can be good archeologists...digging up facts since 1914. Anyway, as long as he is a citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by birth, he is eligible to contest elections anywhere in Nigeria.

YOU THINK!!!!!!

Politics in Nigeria is indeed an interesting game as even at the dying minute, evidence will surely emerge just to prove a point about a contestant.The former Accountant General of Lagos state and one of the highly favoured to emerge as the flag bearer of the All Progressive Congress in the ongoing party Primaries, Akinwunmi Ambode, might likely not win if reports reaching us is anything to go by. According to CityRovers, it has been revealed that the form he filled for his Joint Matriculation Examination Board (JAMB) examination in 1983, as it is observed that he is from Ondo state. -

I just saw this online.

Is it true or is Jimi Agbaje taking things a little too far?
WHAT DO YOU THINK??

My sister sent the below article to me in a bid to encourage me drink more water and i thought to share. I'm still on my first week (...day 2...lol) and it feels great.

I'll let you know how i progress and I encourage others to join too. Who is interested in the house?


How drinking three litres of water a day took ten years off my face

The photograph of me taken the day I started this trial demonstrates perfectly - and rather frighteningly - what a lack of hydration does to a face.
I am 42, but have to admit I look more like 52 in this picture, which is shocking. There are dark shadows under and around my eyes, which make me look exhausted, a profusion of wrinkles and strange reddish blotches, and my skin lacks any lustre. It looks dead.
My daughters, Alice, eight, and Betty, four, tell me I look 'about 100 years old' in this photograph and I have to agree.
Even my lips look shrivelled. This is all classic evidence of poor hydration, apparently. Every system and function in our body depends on water.
It flushes toxins from the vital organs, carries nutrients to cells, provides a moist environment for ear, nose and throat tissues, and eliminates waste.
Not drinking enough means all these functions become impaired. So I decided to see how I would look and feel if I drank three litres of water every day for 28 days. The results were astonishing . . .

[img][/img][img][/img]Dehydration: One in five women consumes less than the recommended daily intake of water Dehydration: One in five women consumes less than the recommended daily intake of water

Week One

Weight: 8st 7lb
Waist: 28in

Three litres of water is just over five pints, which sounds like an awful lot. I visit my local GP in Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire, to be sure there can be no adverse health implications to upping my water intake so dramatically.
He is very encouraging. 'I suggest you have a big jug of water in the morning, then another in the afternoon and another in the evening,' he says. 'Your kidneys, which filter waste products from the blood before turning it to urine, will quickly feel the benefit, as they will be getting a good flush through.'
I usually have a wee three times a day: when I get up, before I go to bed and at some point in the afternoon. By the end of my first day of drinking more water, I have had six and my usually sluggish bowels are much more lively.
I exfoliate my face every day to try to get rid of dry patches before I apply moisturiser, but suddenly I seem to be breaking out in spots. Maybe it's all the toxins coming out of my skin. A few days into the experiment I'm still urinating five or six times a day but it's clear now, rather than dark yellow.
I'm enjoying lots of cups of tea. My husband says that's cheating, but I tell him the British Nutritional Foundation says 'moderate amounts of caffeine do not cause dehydration, so they do count towards your fluid intake'.
I meet friends for a drink one night, remembering that alcohol is a diuretic (a substance which promotes the production of urine), acting on the kidneys. For every one alcoholic drink, your body can eliminate up to four times as much liquid.
I assume a white wine spritzer is a good option because the alcohol is diluted with soda water, and I sip water between alcoholic drinks throughout the evening.
Hangover headaches result from dehydration: the body's organs try to make up for a lack of water by stealing it from the brain, as a result of which it actually shrinks.
Headaches result from the pulling on the membranes that connect your brain to your skull. Ouch. Luckily, I escape all this and wake up hangover-free.
For years I've been doing ten minutes of yoga every morning straight after I get up, but I've been feeling stiffer over the past six months. Yet since I started drinking more water my flexibility has improved. Gemma Critchley, from the British Dietetic Association, confirms that water helps lubricate the joints.

Week Two: The blotches on my face are diminishing and the shadows around my eyes less pronounced Week Two: The blotches on my face are diminishing and the shadows around my eyes less pronounced

Week Two

Weight: 8st 6lb (lost a pound)
Waist: 28in

My complexion is improving and my skin tone is more even. I still have wrinkles under my eyes, but they look less crepey and shadowy than before.
The blotches on my face are diminishing, and the shadows around my eyes are less pronounced.
I feel pleased when my sister-in-law tells me my skin looks clearer than it did a week ago. I have a busy week with lots of time away from home, so I stock up on half-litre bottles of mineral water I can carry around in my bag. A week's worth costs just over £8. If I spread my water intake over the day, that's half a litre when I wake up, another with breakfast, one with lunch, one in the afternoon, one with my evening meal then another before bed. It sounds like a lot, but I'm finding it manageable.
Today, I've noticed my breath smells less 'breathy', maybe because I've ditched tea - I decided water was better for me. I'm certainly not missing the sweet, milky taste it left in my mouth.
Gemma Critchley says: 'Water is obviously the best choice since it has no calories and will hydrate you efficiently.' I say I might try juice instead of water sometimes, just for the taste and variety, but she warns me not to.
'If you drink a large glass of juice, you could be consuming more energy than you need,' she says, which would mean weight gain.
I haven't had a headache for over a week now, which is unusual for me, and I'm delighted that my bowels are working so much better. Result!
I went shopping this afternoon in Leeds, but having to find a lavatory three times in five hours was irritating - they always seem to be in the most hidden corner of every shop.
I'd expected my stomach to feel bloated with all the extra water but it's actually flatter than usual. And my husband says the cellulite on my bottom and thighs has vanished.
Surely this is too good to be true?

Week Three: My skin looks plumper and more nourished Week Three: My skin looks plumper and more nourished

Week Three

Weight: 8st 6lb
Waist: 27.5in (lost half an inch)

The dark rings and wrinkles under my eyes have virtually disappeared, and my skin looks plumper and more nourished. My friend, who is a beauty therapist, says this is because the water is helping my skin cells regenerate more efficiently.
I've noticed I've stopped rubbing my eyes when I wake up in the morning. They used to be dry and full of sleep, but not now. All this extra water must be keeping them moist.
I'm feeling guilty about all the plastic bottles I've been using so I'm back on Yorkshire tap water, which I carry around in a re-usable water bottle.
I have to take a long train journey and I realise afterwards how productive I felt and how easy I found it to concentrate, rather than having my customary snooze.
Dr Emma Derbyshire, senior lecturer in nutritional physiology at Manchester Metropolitan University and adviser to the Natural Hydration Council, says: 'Our brain is 73 per cent water, so poor hydration can affect how it functions. Dehydration can reduce our ability to concentrate as well as our cognitive performance.'
The downside was having to use train toilets. Dreadful.
I'm eating less because drinking water with meals makes me feel fuller quicker. I used to snack, but I was reaching for food when I was actually thirsty. Studies show 37 per cent of people mistake thirst for hunger.
When I put on eye make-up, my eyes seem less wrinkled. When I rubbed an eye-shadow applicator over my eyelid, it used to drag the skin with it, too, but now my skin seems to have more elasticity.

Week Four: I am going to keep on drinking three litres of water every day Week Four: I am going to keep on drinking three litres of water every day

Week Four

Weight: 8st 5lb (lost another 1lb)
Waist: 27in (another half an inch)

I genuinely can't believe the difference in my face. I look like a different woman. The dark shadows around my eyes have all but disappeared and the blotches have gone. My skin is almost as dewy as it was when I was a child. The transformation is nothing short of remarkable.
I'm feeling leaner and fitter, too, which is amazing, since the only thing I've changed is the amount of water I drink. My best friend says she's worried about how much water I'm consuming - she's heard rumours about Nigella Lawson being an 'aquaholic' who drinks three litres before bed.
But I am following safe guidelines under the supervision of my GP, so I am able to reassure her.
I even enjoy another boozy night out but drink lots of water along the way and wake up feeling fresh as a daisy. Whatever happens, I am going to keep on drinking three litres of water a day - and would advise every woman to do the same (after checking with her doctor, of course).
I feel fitter, leaner and healthier, and my husband and friends tell me I look ten years younger. Who in their right mind would not want to try something which gets such incredible results?

In bloom! Rosie Huntington Whiteley is just peachy as she models pretty pastel knits and a racy...


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2480491/How-drinking-litres-water-day-took-years-face.html

What can i say, he is the better of all the thieves.

fikki1: Do they normally send message if the application was rejected or granted

LOL. I cant laff.

Quick question, did you apply for a visa?

If yes, then it MAY have been granted.

P.S. I can translate to other languages too. *just kidding*

ebankole: @Babylawyr

Can u spare time or a night to appreciate God for your life?

Do,Coz,as u do you will begin to witness some extra ordinary things in your life.

U really want to appreciate God alot.
I thank God for ur life.
Watch out for unexpected blessings.
cheers

Thank you Sir! I will do just that. God has indeed been good to me.

hi,

i had a dream last night were i was vomiting. i vomited soo hard in the dream that when i woke up i had a funny taste in my mouth and i had to go to the bathroom were i started spitting. it may help you to know that what i was vomiting was like white quaker oats.

i need your input on this. thanks.