₦airaland Forum

welf99:
Your response to... who is covering your expenses? Is one of the reasons you are denied. If you check Nairaland visa transcripts, this type of response is common among F1 visa hopefuls from Nigeria...once you start with that line, it's a straight refusal. Check the past transcript. It is important for F1 candidates to present credible financial documents before the I-20 is issued. How your funding is presented on your I-20 is important. Personal Fund, Sponsor, Family fund, Scholarship or Grants, Graduate Assistant, Student loans, Campus employment, etc

If you left school for more than 5 years, Personal funds cannot be zero, even if you have a scholarship or your father, uncle, or whoever is supporting you. In your case, advise your uncle to transfer the support money to your account, even if it is 50% of the deficit, get an updated I-20 from your school.

welf99:
Yes disclose it under job description or work experience. No its not a red flag because thats your job. Length of stay would be till tyhe end of F1 study, if 6yrs is left write 6yrs. What VO is interested in is if the marriage is genuine and if you guys have the finance or sponsor.

welf99:
Previous denial - Quote the code on the form handed over to you
Duration of stay: Till the end of the F1 Study or whatever year is left, or you can write 1 year depending on the F1 study situation.

BunmiBie:
Proper planning...
F2 cannot work.

My story
I came to the States on f2 visa but I started nursing school immediately. As f1 I have been working with my school teaching hospital with CPT and the work pays well at least for a student. I graduate this summer and of course I would get a job by God's grace with my Opt, from there get a hospital to file green card for me and my family.

So, plan your life very well. F1 has benefits
Right now it's so easy to switch to f1 from f2 if you consider that

samdovey:
Hello. Your wife must be finish her program as a registered nurse in Nigeria and work for at least one year before she can migrate to USA. She can work as a nurse in the USA but the process takes about 1 to 2.5 years. My wife was also a nurse in Nigeria before we migrated to the USA. I was studying on FI and she was on F2 visa. We adjusted our status to green card holder while I am still studying. Any bonafide nurse from Nigeria can migrate and work in the USA as a registered nurse. She would need to evaluate her credential with CGFNS and take the Nclex exam. Then, look for an agency or hospital to sponsor her adjustment of status and green card. If you need more clarification, let me know.

Olajumoke989:
Hello everyone,
I am new here please and I am on the application process for masters in the US.

Please add me to WhatsApp groups, that would be relevant for this process and my Visa application as well.

Here is my number 08067217141
Thank you.

MiracleOla4433:
Good morning to you brother,
Happy new year to you and your family.
I've passed the preapproval stage.
Thank you so much for your assistance so far.
I really appreciate.
It's just that there is no date in Lagos but I chose July in Abuja and requested for emergency appointment. I just hope they respond this week. Do you think I can still do the interview in Lagos when they approve it?

MiracleOla4433:
Good morning to you brother,
Happy new year to you and your family.
I've passed the preapproval stage.
Thank you so much for your assistance so far.
I really appreciate.
It's just that there is no date in Lagos but I chose July in Abuja and requested for emergency appointment. I just hope they respond this week. Do you think I can still do the interview in Lagos when they approve it?]

EXICON:
Congrats bro.

May the land favour you.

Yosoydave:
Congrats, Ijesa man! Lol.
Just a quick question, have you received a notification on your passport pick up? I did mine recently and am curious to know how long it takes for them to return passports.

MiracleOla4433:
Greetings to you.
Normally, the school sends the i20 together, starting with the F1. Though, it's together but you will send it separately by splitting it. You will upload the one of f2 with one starting with f2. Hope you understand.

Samuelborode:
Hello, good evening. Please I’ve been stucked in the pre approval stage for almost a month but i recently received a rejection mail from the embassy saying that my pre approval request was rejected and they didn’t state any reasons. Though I faced an issue when uploading my I 20… my I 20 document was about 62mb and i uploaded it that way, I was not aware about it until i uploaded it. So now I really don’t know the next step I should take, I’ve chatted the support service but they’re saying I should create ticket, please what can I do about this and could it be that it was that error i encountered with the I 20 that made my pre approval request got rejected? And please what’s the required size for the I 20 document when uploading. I’ll patiently await your kind response and guidance…thanks .

meizoos:
Hello guys. I had my F1 interview at the embassy in Lagos today. It wasn't successful as I was denied! The VO officer only asked me questions about who's going to for my studies. She didn't ask any questions about the school nor my course of study. All through my stay there, I personally didn't see any F1 visa that was approved today. Even people with funding from their schools were denied.

Teensmentor:
We chatted them up and they were the ones who suggested to reschedule and apply for emergency appointment.

Teensmentor:
Hi Nairalanders,


So I am a current PhD student. I had a visa interview (renewal) for 12th and was supposed to travel in to Nigeria on the 8th. The airline canceled the trip and rebooked us for 10th. Meaning we’d arrive Nigeria a day before our interview. Unfortunately, we missed that flight and we couldn’t meet the interview.


We’ve called and were advised to reschedule and apply for emergency appointments. So we were able to reschedule before the interview date but only available dates were in April. We’ve applied for the emergency appointment through the portal but haven’t gotten any response since Wednesday
.

School resumes 19th January for spring semester and our GA appointment starts 8th January.

I guess my question is, does anyone know the fastest way to get the emergency appointment expediated? How do I contact them to get this resolved asap? Has anyone been in similar situation and what did they do?


We have called the embassy and even raised ticket but all we’ve been asked to do is wait.

Samuelborode:
Okay thanks, did you send those documents as attachment or inline with the mail, because one of the customer support told me that they don’t open any attachment…?

Chemist4life:
Full name:
Date of birth:
DS-160 confirmation number:
Passport Number:
Good morning,
I am an F1 visa applicant,i was accepted into spring 2025 academic program to study *****, United States..the start date on my 1-20 is 13th january 2025 , howverber, i will be needed to be in school as early as the 5th of january for there will be an orientation program for graduate students but I have been experiencing difficulties while trying to schedule an appointment on AVITS. I have paid the mrv and sevis fees and i'm currently in the pre-approval stage. Is there anything that can be done to expedite this, that would allow me to resume my academic program in the United States on time,.please, find attached my form i-20, evidence of visa and sevis fees payment to this email for your kind perusal

Thank you.

Firstlady999:
And when you did this your preapproval stage was approved?
After doing this, how long did it take to get approved? And can you please share the context of the email?

Samuelborode:
Wow! Big congratulations to you.
Please i really need your help on how to pass through this pre approval stage. I’ve been stuck there for long. I’ve called and chatted the customer support but they keep saying I should wait. I’ve also raised several tickets and sent mail but nothing yet, please I’d really appreciate if you can assist me on how to get past this stage, thanks and congratulations once again!

MiracleOla4433:
Wow... congratulations. I'm still on preapproval request for 5 weeks oo. The customer care agent told me he would forward my details to the team. I hope they will respond soon. I'm so happy for you

Greatkenny2:
Hi guys, please the ticket I raised concerning the i-20 upload is on HOLD. who else has experienced such?

JessicaGodwin:
I was actually in a hurry dat I uploaded my Sevis payment receipt instead of i-20

MiracleOla4433:
Same here too oo. And it's more than a month. I also had a chat them this week and sent another email. I hope they will respond soon

phoyeks:
Halleluyah!
We got past the Pre-approval stage today!

bonawaja:
Have landed in North carolina

kharemorgan:
Personally, I think all these issues are as a result of gross incompetence in the part of the visa appointment team.

There is no issue that can't be resolved.

If they are overwhelmed, let them employ more competent people to handle this business.

There's nothing that can't be resolved.

I don't think they will try this in the US.

They are pretty much aware that Nigerians has no choice.

How can someone fast and pray to apply for visa and still fast and pray to get appointment date and on top of that there is still the possibility of getting denied. Aaaaah!

The avits software is totally rubbish. Poor design, poor UI/Ux.

It can't just successful perform the simple taste it was created for. And they are doing nothing about it.

If it's not working or serving the purpose, let them take it down!

The engineer/developer ought to be arrested.
The customer service, again dead!

You create ticket, you are not even sure if it will be responded or attended to.

We the visa applicants shouldn't suffer these. They are not our fault.

But we are Nigerians, we can afford to be paying servis/visa fee as long as we want, because we have no choice. And we don't even have a voice.

MiracleOla4433:
I had a chat with them two days ago and a lady responded (I was able to know by her name) and said I must wait and ended the chat while I was still communicating with her and I messaged again yesterday and a guy responded nicely and said I should send ticket and he would forward my details to the team but nothing was done on that day and I reached out today in the morning and a guy apologised for the delay and also promised to send my details to the team and I should create another ticket and I should be expecting an email soon. Still no approval yet. I messaged again after some hours in the afternoon and a guy whom I thought was having a bad day responded and didn't show any interest of helping and he reluctantly said he would only help by forwarding my details to his supervisor and stayed on the chat for almost 30 mins or more without responding to my messages and later ended the chat.
Please, what do you think I should do and how many times did you chat them before your approval?