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millionboi2:
Foreign cultist

sweetseth:
Congrats o. Is it abuja? Cos I was there today and hundreds of people were denied

Valentino25:
Hello everyone, my name is Valentine, i'm a lawyer, my tourist visa got approved today, I have no travel history and currently married, it was just the mercy and favour of God, the guy at window 7 today had denied so many people, even people with better profiles and travel history, my interview with him was more of a chit chat than interview.
My advice, do not falsify any document or lie to get a visa, even people with Virgin passports like me still get visas, be truthful and sincere, know your onions in your profession cus Dude asked me a question regarding a course I did way back in my year two as a law student. praise God people

amos4real:
Good afternoon everyone. I congratulate those pple that visa has been granted .also to those who are yet to get or denied keep trying success is urs . though the visa is not a piority.

I have a question. ; I applied for b1b2 visa for a conference on my d- 160 saying sensitive but unclassified SBU. on my application. plz


thanks

goldcoinhub:
Just three weeks to walking down the aisle with his fiancee, a Nigerian man was heartbroken to stumble upon a dirty secret between his heartthrob and his best man.

It was gathered that the man’s girlfriend of 5 years was sleeping with his best man. Here’s @Jenniieey’s tweets;
No need to continue just cancel d wedding


https://i2.wp.com/lailasnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/bb.png?resize=447%2C410&ssl=1

https://lailasnews.com/nigerian-man-finds-fiancee-sleeping-best-man-3-weeks-wedding/

Olusheee:
Hi everyone, I had my interview today at US Consulate in VI. The interview goes like this:


VO: Good morning
Me: Good morning and how are you?
VO: I am fine
VO: Your passport please
VO: Where are you going to in the US
Me: I am going to fox theater, in Redwood city, California to attend a conference for tech entrepreneur. The conference is organised by Startup Grind and google entrepreneur. The conference is for tech entrepreneur..............
VO: Wbat do you do?
Me: I work at bla bla company I founded in 2014. We are into so so so.
VO: How did you know about the conference..?
Me: My. Friend who attend the conference every year told me about it. He said the conference has helped me grow his business because he had learnt new techniques that he used for his company.
VO: Are you travelling with anyone
Me: No, I am going for a business trip so I am alone.
VO: Are you married?
Me: Yes I am married to a beautiful lady and we are blessed with two boys
VO : What does your wife do?
Me: She works at so so so bank in the HR department
VO : Does she has a visa too?
Me: No she does not
VO: Pick up your visa in this address after 3 day
Me: Thank you
Thanks guys, your contributions helped. I saw lots of blue and white papers flying around. Nust prepare yourself well enough before you go for the interview and prayer help too o. The lady before was asked for her bank statement and pay slip. The VO collected them and asked her be checking her email to know when she will be called after verifying her documents. I was surprised but I was not asked of any documents.

Armadaij:
I have been a silent reader (a member of the silent readers association of this group you'll say) since about 3 months ago. I took my time to skim through part 1, read part 2 into detail and I've been following part 3 so religiously.

Our Interview (I, Darling Wife & Son) went for our interview yesterday at 7:30AM and below is the transcript:
Congratulation to you guys

VO: Good morning

I and DWF: Good morning (together, smiling)

Me: Carried our son in a carrier. He had slept off while waiting on the queue for fingerprint capture having gone through the preliminary clearance

VO: Passports please

Me: Gave him.

VO: why are you going to the US?

Me: We are going to Houston Texas for family vacation and to visit my brother who tried to attend our wedding in October 2015 but couldn't make it due to his intense work schedule at the firm he was working with at the time. We have also been wanting to take the vacation and visit on his request since then but our work schedule and our inability to synchronise our leave wouldn't allow us

VO : (cuts in) how long are u going for?

Me: 14days.

VO: What do you do? (That was the VO's undoing....)

Me: I'm the Head of IT for blablabla managing the entire IT enterprise infrastructure across blablabla (mentioned all the regions my company covers) ......I oversee. ...bla bla bla (until the VO stopped me).....sincerely, I needed a stopping.

VO: How much is your salary? (Gbam!...another land mine just triggered by VO)

Me: I earn approximately blablabla, exclusive of revenue generated from the annual rentals of my real estate and also incomes from private IT consultancy to SME's
All the while, DWF was smiling and looking straight into the VO's eyes.

VO : Madam, what do you do?

DWF: I'm an assistant manager, sales in an IT sales and solutions company, blablabla....... I build and maintain close relationship btw blablabla... and her customers in particular sectors like blablabla and blablabla, till VO stopped her.

VO: (to me), tell me about IT Infrastructure. ....(inadvertently unleashed the dragon) that was how I went on a roll.....when I join blablabla....there was nothing like structure as the entire network was on a WORKGROUP, So I commenced the design of a full fledge domain infrastructure, implemented on blablabla Server blablabla R2 Datacenter Edition mounted on blablabla Server Machine and hosting over 7 VMs representing core services delivered on the infrastructure....... VO couldn't help but smile through my long epistle until and had to stop me after a while.

VO: How long have you worked for?

Me: I'll be 7 years by February ending

VO: you madam (to DWF)

DWF: I'll be 7 by April ending

VO: Have you travelled before ?

Me and DWF at the same time: Yes.

VO: Flips through my passport rapidly

Me: Given my job role, I have travelled between Nigeria and Ghana multiple times...while at it, I noticed he was trying to check through DWF's passport and taking I initiative, I immediately said - - you may want to see this (passing DWF's old passport containing her trip to Ghana in 2011 to him)

VO: Flips through the passport, checking the entry and exit stamps seems to be amused about the Bank's stamp of the $ amount of PTA purchased for the trip at the time, smiles and returned it to me.

VO: Do you have any other child or children?

DWF and I : No, he's only 8 months, DWF added.

VO: Went back to his computer and started typing away as if he was on a hacking adventure......and the typing continued like it was going to be for eternity only for him to lift his head after about 2 minutes beaming with smile and the magic sentence spilled from his mouth......Your VISA has been approved! ("Gbam!!!" - not part of the sentence).

DFW just packed all we had resting on the platform and didn't wait to hear the rest.

My hand of its own accord outstretched to collect the white paper whilst I managed to mutter the words "Have a nice day and happy new year"

I practically floated on air out of the building.

Rushed to catch up with DFW and told her to keep a straight face because I wasn't ready to give shishi to no security. One even tried asking how it went, we just walked past completely hushed.


NB:

I was denied F1 back in July 2006 for not having enough tie and went ahead to study an almost identical course in the University here in Nigeria.

I have since been working after graduation.

Went to the embassy with, introductory letter from office, salary breakdown, statement of accounts - DWF's and mine, Properties documents, training and school certificates but not a single document was checked.

Elder brother is a citizen while younger sister (non-immigrant) is presently attending a University for Masters

I need to thank the brains behind this platform immensely for ensuring the sustainability of the platform and standing resolute in the face of all sorts of insults and castigation.

The advices that everyone brings to bare is unquantifiable and may the FORCE reward each and all accordingly.

I wish intending applicants and those reapplying good luck

fifeayanfehanmi:
thanks everyone for all the inputs I got on this platform. I got my visa approved yesterday...virgin passport,single,no travel history and all the documents I went with were not even checked.I have been following this thread for over 3months.had to start reading from part 1, to part 2 and part 3.first time commenting.

Champora:
I had my visa interview today, 9am at US consulate.

Thank you guys so much for all your efforts in putting out information here. As I've received information, so will I also give out my own transcript. I learned a whole lot about being confident and not "cramming your answers." I learned about dressing well from you guys and coming early. Be free, flow and have a discussion if you can with the V.O. My V.O had denied like a family and ... In fact if I was watching well, I think she denied quite a number of people exactly before me.

I left my house around 6am and got to the U.S consulate around past 7am meanwhile my interview was by 9. So I just paid for a place where I would drop my bag safely and then I sat down there till 8.20.

Those photocopy and business guys were just telling me "have you stappled your passport to your DS-160 and done this and done that?" I just told him not to worry that I have everything under control. He even offered to give me his stapler to use for free, I just said thank you, no and I smiled. I did this because the first time I went for my first visa interview, a man working at the Consulate asked me if he'd instructed me to staple my passport picture to my DS-160. I took cue from the last time and didn't bother stapling anything.

So as I was saying... By 8.20 I carried my file and all and went to stand on the line. The queue was long and after passing through all necessary checks. We sat down and waited for the CGI people to tell us to proceed for the interview proper.

Inside the interview room I must've stood in line for almost 1 hour. People wore all sorts of different things, sandals, cover shoes, palms, native, casual, cooperate, etc.

The lady in front of me was quite shaky and I could tell as I stood behind her. I can't exactly conclude but to me, I thought she had crammed all she was saying especially when the nervousness got to her. As they dashed her blue paper, I was up next!

***

Here is my visa interview transcript. It may not be exact cause I've forgotten some but it went something like this:

V.o: Hi good morning.
Me: smiles. Hi good morning.
V.o: pass me your passport.
Me. Alright
V.o: so how old are you?
Me. I'm 19 years old.
V.o: where are you going to?
Me: I'll be traveling to New York as a selected Bleep to meet with 33 other teens like myself from around the World and attend the Bleep Summit in New York City.
V.O: How long are you staying?
Me: I'll be staying from so so to so time and it's roughly 1 week I'll be in New York.
V.o: (Nods) how was your last visit to the US?
Me: Smiles (because I just remembered my last visit and the memories were so good). It was really good!
V.o: where and where did you go?
Me. We went to California State University, University of Missouri Kansas City, U.S Department of State...
V.o: (cuts in, she looks up quickly at me and her eye shone like something caught her attention and she was just nodding)... in D.C?
Me: Yes in DC. Smiles back.
V.o: Nice! Are you single?
Me. Sorry? (I didn't hear her well). She repeated like 2-3 times before I gave her a puzzled look.
Me: Yes.
V.o: Do you have any children?
Me: I gave her an even more puzzled look (well in all sincerity, I was a little puzzled and I smiled too) No
V.o: (looks friendly and maybe smiles too). Are you a student?
Me. Yes I'm a university/final year student studying English.
V.o what university?
Me. I'm studying at so and so university in Nigeria
V.o (stamps something inside my passport and her face is still friendly) you can get your passport/visa by Tuesday at this location here. (Slides me a white paper.)
Me: Thank you.
V.o: have a nice day.
Me: Smiles back thanks you too.

I was trying to hold my smile as I walked out of the Consulate to go and carry my bag and I thank God a whole lot for the success. This is my second successful Visa interview in different categories just roughly within 6 months and I'm grateful to God.

It may be true that the V.O's may not be able to see what you're wearing but I'll say please do your best to dress decently or well enough whether they're looking or not. Be confident and audible, try, even though you're scared. Pray too because the visa anyway isn't always
given to the best dressed. Good preparedness and good chance and you maximizing the opportunity happen to all.

By 10.15 or 10.20 I was done.

Hotfreeze:
Who is this uncouth illiterate typing nonsense and disgracing his generations?
Who's a dumb mofo? You think we're like members of your family?

Maggi is a brand name for seasonings produced by Nestlé. The general name is seasonings and brand name is Maggi.

Even an illiterate herdsman has more sense than you. Better get off Nairaland and work on your depleting IQ.

Tessyama1:
A Nigerian man O'Larry Abimbola Turner
@Clan_Clueless has taken to Twitter to search for a husband for his pretty sister. He shared photos of the pretty lady and gave a little description of her and what they are looking for.


https://mobile.twitter.com/Clan_Clueless/status/95260340684521472
He tweeted"
Keep looking for the man,instead of praying to God
http://www.amagitesblog.com/2018/01/this-nigerian-man-is-looking-for.html

CurrentEffort:
Went in as family and did ours 3 weeks ago .We were meant to enter 9:45am but didn't do the interview until almost 12pm .After a very long queue and bar code stage we

got into a big square room where pictures were scanned ,the fingerprints and finally the interview stage . You wont even know you are on the interview line as people

queue up in all stages. Congrats,plZ did u upload ur passport on ur ds 160 or u just took it along

The interview goes this way :

VO : Good morning
Me : Morning and Happy New Year
VO : Your passports Please
Me : Here is it.
VO : Where is the last person? (He couldn't see my son very well)
Me : My Son moved closer and waved to the VO. At the same time my Son and Daughter say Good morning and he waved and Smiled back at them.
VO : Why are you going to US?
Me: We actually going on Vacation and we are considering New York being one of the largest Tourist centers in the world.
VO : Where do you work?
Me : I work with bla bla bla as an bla bla bla as an bla bla bla
He looked at his desktop obviously looking at the form we filled .
VO: What is your salary?
Me: bla bla bla
VO: What type of bla bla bla do you use in your office? (Some IT items indicated in the form)
Me: We use bla bla bla in the office (He saw this from the form I filled)
VO :How long are you staying in US?
Me: Just 14 days (This time myself and Madam say it at the same time)
VO: Any travel history?
Me :Yes I have been to United Kingdom twice.
VO :He flipped through my attached old passport.

VO: Madam what do you do ?
Madam: I am the bla bla bla of bla bla bla ...
VO : Did you travel as a family before?
Madam : I only went to Ghana with my family .......
VO: Any relative/friend in US? the background was noisy and people were so close to one another
pardon i asked .

He repeated again !
Me: Not at all.No relative/friend in US.
VO: He typed for like 1 minute

We: Some silent prayers going on within us here.Looks like the judgement day.
VO: He pulled out the drawer and put our passports there. Flipped out the white paper .....You will be notified through your email/sms when to pick your visas.

It's only God lots of Blue papers that day oo

You need to be very conscious of what you are doing. That is :

1. Many people doing fingerprints and interviews at the same time.
2. Don't let blue papers flying around bother you as lots of people got denied (Be prayerful, positive and hopeful).
3. No enclosure for interviewers - You hear all the conversations of others easily (so don't get distracted).
4. Questions may come from form Ds-160 (read it very well)
5. Don't staple the 2x2 passports (A guy did that in my front and was asked to go out) as this will affect the scanning of the pictures .So keep them separated.
6. Dress neatly and smartly.Tie and Suit not a must .I was even surprised seen a lot with natives and cap.

Wish you all good luck !

decatalyst:
E be like say there is something about being 'a school drop out' in advance countries. In Africa, you automatically become a street urchin in most cases.

itsandi:
Hmmm. Just a leg wound and someone is dead When are we going to be serious with our health in this our nation?

HungerBAD:
Extend my condolences to her family please.

gocac:
lol.... e pain you well well, eya, this is what happens when people from your locality go about doing nonsense and tarnishing the image of everybody in your locality.
Please pardon him!
Today in Nigeria (edo state + prostitution + Italy ) is mathematically = 1