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imperiouxx:
That's it. Your granny that gave birth to your pop/mom. Where are your immediate parents? So, as old as she is, you think she can support you all through 4 years? Could she be working at her age? Grandma not even grandpa.

Logically, you mean she is the one supporting your whole family even your uncles and aunties and if it happens that something wrong with her while you are far away, then you'll be stranded.

imperiouxx:
^^^ Devil at work - full time! I pray they solve the issue quick and get back to you with your visa.

@brain,

Sure he can go with that and his reason. There was a guy here with similar issue - lost certificate issue and got his visa.

@all, why is that the waec cert call for more scrutinizing? Is that the number of fake presented is increasing on daily basis?

Godson2000:
Please house I need help here though am new on this tread. I need to know how I can get my waec certificate from the American embassy. They say my weac is fake while its not. I did the interview on the 16th at Abuja and I have not gotten a reply from them. Meanwhile they took my i20 ds160 and my gtbank receipt too and return my passport to me and said that they will get in touch with me. I have mailed them still no reply till today from them. What should I do now?

USBound:
@Nethacker, Aroy1, djunit1 etc: You guys are acting funny. Number one, this thread was never set up to establish if Yankee is easy or tough but to get student visa in Nigeria, plain and simple. Number two, the reason why folks here will not listen to you is because you are still there. Why not COME BACK to Nigeria and then your advice will be more believable?

I have a friend who came back from London saying 'london is tough, london is tough'. Two years later, he is happily married with a kid and just moved to his own house (duplex) in Lagos. The only advice he gives to young people is 'you can make it here in Nigeria, FORGET TRAVEL'. Do you know why people listen to him? Because he CAME BACK here to Nigeria. Abeg, like imperioux said 'Life is a battle field but we still pray to live long in it'.

Right now, you guys have no RIGHT to post that advice until you are BACK here in Nigeria. Okay?

N.B: I have not said Yankee is easy. If you watch the News, you should know about the US Economic Recession, Debt Debacle etc.

johnkent:
@davidylan: I have no clue where u get your silly information about community colleges being only for poor people. Most people in the United States do attend a community college for 2 years (associates degree) and then transfer to a university for another 2 years to obtain their bachelors degree.
Most people choose community colleges because it saves them alot of money for the first 2 years before they have to transfer to a university for a bachelors degree. What Davidylan doesn't understand is that regardless if you started at a community college or a 4 year university, everyone ends up with the same bachelors degree (That's if you transfer from a junior college to a university which most people do unless for some reason, they decide to drop out of school)
Another thing David didn't point out to you guys is that almost 80% of american nurses only have an associates degree and NOT a bachelors degree. U know where these nurses got their degrees from david?? u got it, COMMUNITY COLLEGES.

I'm a product of a community college. I saved atleast $20,000 going to a junior college for 2 years before transferring to a university.

USBound:
@GboyegaD and fun2sho: CONGRATS and CONGRATS and CONGRATS.

@Ifecux4real: Thank you for coming back to post your experience. I am sure you can learn from it and take the best decision for yourself.

@folakemito: Abeg leave davidylan; the guy wan carry panadol drink for another man headache.

@davidylan: Why make people hate you? Just criticize with love. Once upon a time, our shoes were all thesame size. True.

ifecx4real:
not a good interview. about a min. mine came to an end before it kicked off,

V.O good afternoon
me good afternoon

v.o passport and ,
me passed to him

v.o after going tru it, y us
me, told him cause us was the best in health care studies and bein the 1st and only boy emphasis is placed on me getting a quality edu
(vo) - y community college, told him, stammered douh,
vo - how many schools did u apply for,
me - 1, though would av loved to apply for university of alabama,
vo do u know some 1 in alabama
me, yes my mothers bro.

where i knew was gonna hinder my chance

vo have u bin denied a us visa before
me yes(immigrant)
vo reason
me the stated that the relationship btw me and the petitioner was invalid(my moms husband)
vo did u take any entrance exam(while packaging my document for return)
me no the school wavied it(cuts me shot)
vo am sorry blah blah blah

was interviewd by d black guy on booth 4 wit a fake smile, looks nigerian douh wit yankee accent.

the african american guy in booth 5 had the higest rate of approval

the lady in both 1 is very disciplined, she"ll drill u. she takes nothing less than 4-5mins asking and asking. u just have to no how to hold your ground wit ha and dont get lost, be bold.

the only person she gave under bsc and associate deg was 1 boy dat was going for aeronautic engineering after drilling him for like 5mins, dough his dad and mom where lecturers in a uni in 9ja . mehn d guy was good. even men told him wen he was done that they like his confidence.

But in all it was a good experience. Now weighing my options, either to reapply

aroy1:
USBound

1) If this thread is about getting US F1 visa, who do you think is giving reloaded pragmatic advice between you and me? I am sorry to say this, but do you really see farther than your eyes? I did tell the students to improve on their English. You did not. I like intelligent discussions and here are my facts.

1) The student is a student of broadcasting, a field related to journalism. So you believe bad command of English is OK for such a student?

2) The student is going to a country that has a mandatory law that all intl students must firstly be certified in her language, English, before being approved the F-1 visa. So is he/she qualified based on this law?

3) Consular: "Why didn't yo do TOEFL?"
   F-1 applicant: My school waive it when they see I has a good understanding of English.

Airplanes fly, cars move, etc., because some people believe in perfection. I do not think that USbound should be different.

Sicherheit:
My man stop scaring the guy because of one small mistake jo. If they can WAIVE your TOEFL with the way you write, then they can WAIVE his own too.

davidylan:
some of the questions here na real wa . . .  

- should i get there on time?
- what documents should i take to the interview
- please find school for me
- should i drink water before going?
- what color shirt should i wear?
- do they require shoes at the embassy . . .

one would think this visa was the ticket to heaven.

aroy1:
reloaded

1) Saying "I has", not knowing the correct spelling of "clue", using present tense where you should have used past, and your composition in general, is a clear indication that the school made a mistake in waiving TOEFL for you. If you make it obvious in front of the VO, then you got a problem.

2) Just to be safe, since you have a lot of time before going for your interview, why can't you write TOEFL?

3) I think you should schedule your interview a little later.

4) You have to improve your English before going for your interview.

jaykoc:
hi guys, can some1 tell me how many days it takes to pick up your visa package from the day of interview?

fun2sho:
@house
I paid my Sevis Fee in Ecobank Western Union Seme Border yesterday and i was given a tracking no(MTCN). Although i was told by folks it is faster, that i would get my confirmation instantly but am tracking on western union since yesterday the system did not recognize the MTCN.
I decided to go on Western Union Global Payment Solutions>>Quick Pay website but could not find anywhere to track my payment/transaction
Simply stated i could not track with the MTCN i was given at the counter

Plz house anyone who has paid through Western Union, Seme should let me know how to resolve this issue, as i have limited before my interview

davidylan:
problem. You forget this woman has interviewed thousands before you . . . she already knows the standard template answers to expect.

No its not, just go there with "favor".

Oracle is a software not a foundational subject.

arshy:
Oh djunit1 that's u?! So, some other old timer are still in the house. I just remember if he had given your answer or something similar, he would have gotten it. I remember the way I studied this forum as if I was to take exam on it. I crammed almost all the visa interviews and reviewed everything at home before my interview. So, I can still remember almost all the visa interview of last year from gongo aso, oyewoles, nethacker,
How is life treating u over there?

arshy:
Congrats Cutegirly. Welcome to Obamaland.

@Adolite, sorry about that. That's pathetic.
I feel the woman got u from the first question. She just used the silly FORTRAN question as a veil to deny u. You answered the question by letting her know how good the school is (which is fine), but u did not link it to Nigeria in any way. Please house, don't ever miss any opportunity to link yourself back home. If u like get lost when get to Yankee, but link yourself back to Naija in most of the questions.
On the Fortran question, always remember that u are going to study. You want to become a student which means u have not mastered everything. U can easily let her know that, one of the reasons u are going for further knowledge is to have answers to this question and many more and use the knowledge to help Nigeria in combating the cyber crime in the banking sector. Even professors will still check books to confirm one or two things. Always remember u are not a human encyclopedia. You can never have answers to their questions because their is no area of study, but u have to be smart in answering it.
If u have taken your time to read all the post here, there was a guy they ask square root of maybe 69 or something (I cant remember the exact question). He said he cant answer now but if given time to study he will surely answer it. They gave him his visa

aroy1:
djunit1

The questions he was asked are fundamental. I think the way those people do it so to initially ask the rudimentary questions. If you prove yourself, then they move on to higher grounds.

By the way, how is life in New York City?


nairaspace

So many courses you can name depending on your level of studies. But for an undergraduate, some could be:

Introductory Software Engineering
Introduction to Computing
Mathematics for Computing
Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming
Systems Analysis & Design

etc, etc.

aroy1:
Adolite

I am sorry to tell you that you denied yourself the visa based on your replies. You did not show that you are a real prospective computing professional.

1) Specialising in Informational technology is meaningless. Computer Science (and synonymously referred to atimes as[b] Information Technology[/b]) is broad and some of its specialised areas are: Artificial Intelligence, Theory of Computations, Database Management, Networking & Information Theory, Software Engineering (which embeds Programming), and a host of many subfields.

2) Fortran, are you kidding me? That language is gradually being fazed out in modern computing. It's like being asked that which languages do you think will be advantageous  to know in today's human world, and you say: Yoruba. What happens to English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese, etc. Talking in Computing Jargons, Java, C++, HTML & PHP, and many others relevant in today's world would have been better.

3) By the way, FORTRAN stands for Formula Translation and is a language used in Specialised Scientific Researches.

Finally getting a visa with a course of study in Computer Science, or any of its fields, should be easy provided you are brilliant and know what you are talking about. I did by presenting a virgin passport and making a mistake of telling the VO that I might not be coming back.

Adolite:
House,  I was Denied ooooo counter 7 , So painful , she focus on computer for about 1 mins and said sorry can't give u visa because u did not convince me that u will be coming back,


I need to schedule anoda Appointment, Any Advise where to go again pls?

Adolite:
@House, My Interview is tomorrow 1pm in Abuja, please pray for me and wish me good luck ooooo,  Cant wait to get my Visa,

mysterysng:
morotioluwa, congrats! AND i think you were right with your answer on the GRE percentile score (perhaps, he just wanted to confuse you), did u have to take financial statements from your office? Or just letters?

cutegirly:
Can u imagine, a friend was rejected today at abuja becos the consular asked if she was single, she said yes and he gave her the 214b reason,

Adolite:
@House, which Counter is Excellent in ABJ? and which one is avoidable?

All counters are the same!

 @Djunit1, SOmetimes ago, someone mention that  counter 7- Poor   8 - good    while 9- Excellent? so just want to know waddup with them

Adolite:
@House, which Counter is Excellent in ABJ? and which one is avoidable?

biikeys:
@djunit
Really,so it can wait(SEVIS).any tips pls as touching documents to carry with me.
Plz everyone

babatulla:
@HISLOVE247 : can call u or IM u ?, my school is well ranked bt I think I can link the refusal to the SEVIS fee ish, will try and confirm that though, as I said, u r contact details pls.