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Kendlar:
Is it possible to change visa type on cgi portal after applying. Eg, changing from F2 dependent visa to F1 student visa?
I mean if appointment date has not yet been selected.

Or what can I do if after applying for f2 visa, didn't get a date early enough/didn't get a near date and then now want to apply for F1 visa instead since resumption for F1 is already near

Yes you can as long as you haven’t been scheduled for interview. Remember to fill a new DS-160, update the new application number in ur portal and Sevis id

cbi22:
None on mine yet. Have you gotten an update on yours?

Yes, issued.

Interview waiver submissions for last Friday (25-02-22)

You can login with the link below and check your status. Decisions are being updated.

https://ceac.state.gov/CEACStatTracker/Status.aspx

GAPPLE:
Please how can we be sure it’s the same profile?

For both of our profiles, each of us is added as family members in each profile

Thank you.

There was no need to create two profiles, one could have been enough cos once you get a date for interview, it applies to both of you. Infact printing it will show the two names o. The same time slot. Same way if you apply for EA, applies to both of you

degxyflexy:
They pay different visa fee too?

Of course and fill different DS-160 form also

GAPPLE:
Hello house!

For F1 and F2 that apply together for visa interview. Does F1 applying for Emergency Appointment also apply to F2?

I mean, when F1's EA date is granted, will F2 also be given same date as the EA date given to F1?

Thanks for always.

If they applied together, meaning on the cgi portal, they have only one profile, where F1 is principal applicant and F2 is added to profile as “Family Member”, then yes…every action affects both

Ijebuboy525:
Hi guys, I’ve been trying to schedule an appointment but I keep getting this error message while trying to create a profile in cgifederal.secure.force.com website, is this a general issue or I’m missing something?

Send an email to:
support-nigeria@ustraveldocs.com

They will reply you with the login details within 15 mins and when you log in you can now change ur password and proceed to set up your profile

EuniqueBabe:
The instruction says bring two but they will only collect one

Ok thanks

tshtsh:
Gtbank receipt, DS160 confirmation page, 2 passport size photos and ordinary passport ( i took my expired passport as well because it had the expired visa in it). The security men at the embassy will only look at the documents and collect your passport + passport size photo. Passport was returned in 7 days

Please confirm if it’s one passport photograph or two?

Dariusinc:
Guys login now.. appointments are available for tomorrow alone.. Interview waiver visa

They are all gone. The speed with which those appointments were snatched ehnn…close to 70 appointments, all gone in 3 mins.

Pls for those who had submitted, did they ask you anything about NIN?

cuttingedge:
Hello all, I think I've asked this question before but still not sure I got anyone to respond...or maybe I missed the response. Myself and my wife got a fully funded PhD and Grad Assistantships. When we apply for Visa, how do we go about it and how do we sort out the critical issue of home ties and all. We have a 1year plus son.
Also how do we sort out the issue of SOA too.

I also agree that you should go together, book the interview together so you can be interviewed together by one VO, also add ur son for F2.

The main thing I want to say to you is that daycare is not free in the US, while school is free from age 5, daycare is not free, so VO will ask you for your plans for childcare seeing as two of you will be studying. Don’t fumble on that question. Google for daycare centers near your school, infact as an added way of showing preparedness you can email them so that you can inform the VO that you plan to put the child in so so daycare and you are already in contact with them. You can also check if your school has, some schools have within the school but it is also not free, it usually depends on how many days you will be keeping the child and if it’s full day or half day, it would usually not be less than $800 per month depending on your schedule.

The good thing is that two of you are F1 and will be collecting stipends but paying one house rent, you can still accommodate cost of childcare. Just needed to drop this info for you cos it may likely be asked

Mille:
Today I got a shocker from URI graduate school that my Msc does not meet the minimum graduate requirement of a 3.0. Hence, they will be overriding my supervisor and sending me a PhD rejection letter. After some back and forth, the graduate school's decision stands.

It is laughable because I am applying with a French grade of 14.3/20.
In all universities in Canada and the USA where international grade equivalencies is visible on their websites, a 14/20 grade is at least an A- or a 3.7. Even for WES and Scholaro, it is a perfect 4.0. I understand it is done course by course, but there is no way it will be less than a 3.0.

https://www.scholaro.com/grade-conversion/

My advice: once a school say credential evaluation is recommended. Please do it before applying. Only God knows what parameters was used for their own conversion. Maybe they don't understand French grades and just used a percentage or something because it is just funny to me.

It is the only school I applied to because I was sure of getting in after discussing with the supervisor.


Anyone with advice on schools for MSc Food Science for Spring intake that doesn't require GRE or IELTS? I don't think I'll apply for PhD again after being told to expect spending 6 years.

Pele o…with heir $89 app fee. It is well. Applied to same school with 4.0/5.0 (hope they won’t carry that play come my side). I haven’t heard from the Graduate school but I’ve been in touch with faculty from my department

naxee9294:
Abeg make una seee oooo just few seconds oooo saying session timed out I guess the site got some issues smh

Use Firefox browser, then you have to be fast and be saving after each page. Also try at night; 1am - 4am.

Something is definitely wrong with that page, the thing showed me shege. Something I would ordinarily complete in 2hours or so, took me almost a week to fill two forms.

Zero ur mind that you will log in countless times, immediately it logs you out, log in again

Kween2014:
My appointment was for 8am this morning. Got here 7:35 and I’m done . It was easy peasy. You get into that first check point area where there are lots of chairs and they check your old visa, receipt, appointment confirmation and Ds 160 confirmation page. They collect your passport or passports and your passport photo only and tell you have a nice day. That’s all.

In other words, I can send someone to do this IW process for me right? Cos I don’t live in Lagos.

bukhety:
Yes na! The instruction is you apply for assistantship after admission. Congratulations!

Already emailed the dept grad coord., said its few and its given to stronger candidates. Thanks all the same

bukhety:
Wow! Which course?

Phd CS...no GA
No be die be that

bukhety:
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Pls can you elaborate on this? Does this mean that people who have had B1/B2 visas and are applying for F1 are exempted from visa interview.
Not only b1/b2 o! Check their website or search google for interview waiver 2022.

I had to go to youtube for more explanation

Pls can you point me to a link? I see it on usgovt website...I don't see it on us embassy nigeria page

bukhety:
Pls If you applied to university of Alabama for fall 2022 n you have heard from them, kindly signify. Thanks

Got the admission email on 1st December. Yes Fall 22. UA

bukhety:
I would suggest you go for the B1/B2 interview. If granted, according to the new waiver program, he might not need to appear for an F1 Interview. This is if he applies while still in Nigeria.

NB: it is left to the prerogative of the VO either to waive or not waive a visa interview.

This visa waiver is valid throughout 2022 for those who have been issued any other visa in the past and are not ineligible in any way.

Pls can you elaborate on this? Does this mean that people who have had B1/B2 visas and are applying for F1 are exempted from visa interview.

uzomacl:
I think there's a website where you can apply and get the GCMS within 14 days or so. Is this your first time of applying to Canada?

Yes it is

sugah:
Sorry about your refusal.
Do you already have a US visa?

Yes have a valid US visa

babs4all:
I applied via paper route on 30th of January, 2020. I linked my application online in April. Till date, no update.
Did VFS call you to deliver your passport?

I applied online so didn't submit passporr

sugah:
I applied for a TRV since March and no responses yet.
Has anyone been issued a TRV recently?

I applied online Mid-February, did biometric same mid-February.
Refusal mail: Last week
Reason: I'm not convinced you'll leave canada at the end of your visit based on purpose of visit

Applied to visit my cousin: it was supposed to be combined with my trip to the U.S.

Pls who knows how I can order gcms notes?

isysleek:
Thank you to all who provided answers on evacuation flight for my sister. She has booked the one of 17th July. Though she was only able to book for herself (at the time of booking, only one seat was left). She has a four months old baby.

Does anyone know how much it will cost to buy a ticket for the baby at the airport(evacuation flight is with Ethiopian airline)? She has been calling Ethiopian airlines to ask and make payment if possible but no one ever picks the calls.

They don't pick. I'm also on that flight. Same situation as ur sister. Those who returned yesterday said said we can buy baby's ticket at airport. $102. Hope she has sorted ETC out?

Chiowerri:
Hello All,

I had my baby April 11 in LA. I'm back home in Lagos and still recovering from the hustle of the trip. This trip was a big testimony for me and my baby.

When am able to type my 10 page story i will post.

Wow...congratulations! How did you do it? With the passport offices closed and Naija airport shut!

Thank God for safe delivery...

Pls I pm'd you. Presently in LA. Help a sista

Well, at least this idea of paying off the discount, is a ray of hope.

What I will advice going forward is for people to look for hospitals with cheaper total bill. For example my last birth in LA, total itemized bill was 13k: 10 for me, 3k for baby...vaginal delivery. The self pay price was 3k. Having to pay back 10k looks more feasible than 21k.

The greatest tragedy that happened to us is this present govt, else as at early 2015, dollar was still 165...it would not be an issue at all if I was looking at 1,650,000.

However, i agree with Omobendel. For those with larger discounts, getting it to 12k and backing it up with lots of prayers (tongue out to the atheists) should do the trick.

Finally, it is time to commence research again...this is not time for everybody to flock to one hospital cos I believe if we can see a full bill of 13k, there should also be a 10k full bill somewhere in America.

For starters, that hospital that advertises regularly on this page...i don't know but they seem to me like people that will have that kind of total bill.

Otokini I sympathise with you, imagine not being asked anything. Could ur recent Canada application have anything to do with it?

anunimorigba:
Hello everyone..
I had a successful visa renewal yesterday in Abuja. Got an email today saying passport ready for pickup..how possible is this?
Thanks

They should have even made you wait and pick it up...I mean how many visas are still being issued? Work has greatly reduced in that unit!

naijatisumi:
I'm so down right now...House please forgive my typo error

Dear All,

Please i need sincere clarification and response

Two years (2017) ago my wife travel to the STATE with an F1 visa, but when she got there she realized she was 2 month pregnant tho she was menstruating and all. Anyway she got registered in the school and became the best in her department even with the pregnancy and all school fees payment was duly paid.

In between she registered for Insurance and medicare as a student through the school to deliver our baby,doing this period she has to chill out a semester so as to have the baby as such she has a semester left but her VISA will expired next week.

Your wife and by extension you are in a precarious situation and I sympathize with you cos clearly you acted out of ignorance. I have a question, the visa that is set to expire next week was it cancelled?

If no...get her on the next available plane to go and finish that remaining semester.

The only way I see that decision changing in this trump era is if you repay Medicare. I dont know whether Medicare is same as Medicaid cos I heard to repay Medicaid is a Herculean task

sharpman1:
South Africa, Kenya, Cameroon and Malawi now get visa free travel to the United States.

Meanwhile......Naija is the giant of Africa.

https://news-ap.com/u-s-adds-cameroon-9-other-countries-to-its-visa-waiver-program/

It's fake news bro

seyewest:
Their wahala is too much... good of your husband to explain things to him in clear and relaxing manner... which airline did you take?

Emirates. Thanks to you, we decided to depart from Abuja to enjoy the layover...we enjoyed more than you sef...23 hrs...Copthorne + free buffet breakfast, lunch, dinner...awesome experience. Same on our way back.

We renewed our visa almost at the last quarter of last year. Initial visa was issued for childbirth, had two babies with it. It was the perfect profile for 221g. God showed us mercy. Passport was back in about 3 weeks. Fast forward to weeks ago, Orlando POE. Hubby, I, 2 kids. From what I've read from here, I didn't try to go to the queue for citizens, joined the visitors queue. An Indian couple with a USC baby was told by a cbp officer to join the visitors queue. From the queue I could see a man who was being attended to by a female cbp officer, laughing and being very friendly with her and I said to myself, dem go send this one to secondary...I just felt she would think he was trying to hide something by being overtly friendly. She sent him to secondary.

Cbp: addressing my husband 'where are you coming from'
Hubby: Dubai
Cbp: I mean where are you coming from (he wasn't friendly at all).
Hubby: Nigeria
Cbp: Where exactly are you coming from (almost hostile at this point). I felt he was asking for the actual city in Nigeria...all the while, the cbp officers behind who take people to secondary inspection was signalling him, one had stepped forward a bit.
Hubby: oh we live in so and so but took off from Abuja. Actually we were supposed to be here for Christmas but I had a tight schedule so we decided to squeeze in some days. We are only here for 3 days and them then we leave to Houston, few days there and we return back to Nigeria. (I don't know if it's what he said or something but the cbp became very relaxed). One the other guys signalled to him like 'should I come and take them' he waved and said something like I've got it. He stood up to see the kids and stamped us all in. Nothing was asked as per the receipts for the birth etc...it was a short but enjoyable trip anf we are back.