₦airaland Forum

About starting this thread all over once again. Just finished MackyNaija and Lionlee's own

Hadampson:
E make sense
He's welcome

Richdee1, wetin you think?!

That aside, have you come up with a name for our crew

Boss, is it still Germany on your mind or you won't mind the US?

Omonikansoso:
Visa denied 11th August, Abuja.
Phd full funding
Transcript
Vo; Good morning
Me: Good morning
Vo. Pass me your i20 and passport
YesMe: passed
Vo. Have you travelled before
Me; yes to Russia, Germany, Austria and ghana
Vo. What for
Me. For conferences, short courses and trainings related to cancer epidemiology
Vo: what do you do
Me: I work full time as a lecturer with the Ahmadu Bello university where my primary responsibilities borders on teaching and research.
Vo: great. Are you married
Me;yes I'm married
Vo: typing for only God knows how long.
Vo. Ypur spouse is the United states what is he doing
Me: He previously had his masters in business administration and currently doing a second degree in health management.
Vo..pass me blue p

I'm thinking of reapplying. I'm not sure what I should do right now. Your advice and input is needed. Please thanks

Depending on how your husband started his second degree, I have no doubts he's the cause of your denial. He went for masters, did he come back to Nigeria before applying for his second degree or just continued from there? Seems to me the VO want to use you as a guarantee that your husband will return from the US. However, you can try again. Goodluck to you.

Shadbay:
Visa approved at the Abj embassy. (7:30 am appointment) EA approved on 2nd August after waiting almost a month.
COA: $29,000
Funding: nil
SOA: $70,000
Sponsor: Uncle (Different surnames)

I was attended to by a white male VO. There were two windows active with VOs this morning. One male and one female.

The guy had denied about 7 applicants right before it got to my turn.

VO: Good morning. Pass me your I-20 and your passport please.
Me: (I obliged)
VO: (types for what seemed like 30 secs) First time? Have you traveled to the US before?
Me: No.
VO: Okay, first time. And who'll be paying for your studies?
Me: My uncle.
VO: What does your uncle do?
Me: He's a real estate developer and property management consultant.
VO: Oh, wow. Do you have his bank statements?
Me: Yes (I passed them to him and he perused through it carefully)
VO: What do you do?
Me: I'm a Hydrogeologist. (I didn't bother telling him where and for how long I have been working. He was fixed on his screen, typing)
VO:What did you study for your undergraduate degree?
Me: Geology.
VO: Do you have any family in the US?
Me: No.
VO: So what are your plans after your studies?
Me: I will come back and work as a consultant to my state's water corporation. I wish to help tackle water sustainability issues and other critical problems affecting quality of groundwater here in Nigeria.
VO: (types for what seemed like an eternity)
Okay, I'll be approving your visa. Pick up your passport from your designated collection centre. It might take a week because of COVID-19 rules.



I was fighting to contain my excitement. That VO was on a denial streak and God came through for me. Thank you, Jesus. I had to bone up so the hustlers no go tax me. Lol.
I'd like to point out that confidence is key. This is my second application. I was denied 2 years ago. I came back better, well prepared and more confident. If you were denied, just re-strategize and come back with a stronger application.

Selah


PS: Please, who's in Bowling Green State University, let's link up.

Congratulations

Omonikansoso:
Visa denied 11th August, Abuja.
Phd full funding
Transcript
Vo; Good morning
Me: Good morning
Vo. Pass me your i20 and passport
YesMe: passed
Vo. Have you travelled before
Me; yes to Russia, Germany, Austria and ghana
Vo. What for
Me. For conferences, short courses and trainings related to cancer epidemiology
Vo: what do you do
Me: I work full time as a lecturer with the Ahmadu Bello university where my primary responsibilities borders on teaching and research.
Vo: great. Are you married
Me;yes I'm married
Vo: typing for only God knows how long.
Vo. Ypur spouse is the United states what is he doing
Me: He previously had his masters in business administration and currently doing a second degree in health management.
Vo..pass me blue p

I'm thinking of reapplying. I'm not sure what I should do right now. Your advice and input is needed. Please thanks

I think the issue lies with your husband.

Chyjoey:
DISCLAIMER: This post is meant for genuine students.

There is no doubt that Grace plays a big role I'm getting an approval.

However, let's not attribute everything to grace and fail to see the emerging pattern here.

The VOs do NOT want to deny you a Visa. Infact, they want to approve you but the law and their training dictates that they assume you are an immigrant till you prove you aren't. So when you're denied, they are not saying 'Bleep off, we don't want you in our country' it's more like 'I believe you're trying to illegally immigrate, try the legal immigration route instead or convince me that you're a non-immigrant'.

This hurts me so much because I've seen genuine students denied because of the sins of visa abusers.

Now to the concept of ties, You must have ties to Nigeria to be considered a non-immigrant.

You see some of these people with Jobs they have worked at for more than 3 years with a work leave getting approved? Yes, it's grace but it's also Work ties.
For instance, today I saw a woman get approved who has been at a workplace for 15 years, and trust me her interview wasn't spectacular. Infact, she wasn't even vibing with the VO, but she had strong work ties and the program she was going for was plausibly going to improve her career. Hence, she was approved.

So if you're Jobless, are you screwed? Not necessarily.
Family ties - Are you married? Do you have older family members depending on you for care?(please be careful about telling fantastical stories that the VO would call bullshit on immediately)
What of dependent children?
Demonstrating that you have family in Nigeria you can't possibly abandon helps your case.

Social ties - Do you lead an an organization here in Nigeria that would suffer in your prolonged absence? Are you a prominent member of your community that a lot of people depend on? What of your church or political party? Is there anything there that would compel you to return?

Try as you may, some people may not have plausible ties.
Then your plans for the future come into play.
What steps have you taken to secure your future in Nigeria (at the completion of your program) ?
You may have no ties now to Nigeria but you can be able to convince the VO that you plan to return by applying for a position here in Nigeria that would be provisionally accepted pending your program completion. (This is just an example).

If you have no ties or plausible compelling future plans, then your profile becomes really important.

Young, straight outta high school applying to a bachelors? Likely genuine student, more likely to be approved than someone in their late 20s, 10 years out of high school, being doing a 'computer diploma program' in the interim applying for the same bachelors.

Mid 20s, recently graduated (best months after graduation), going for a masters in a course related to their bachelors, likely to be approved regardless of ties compared to someone in their 30s, years post bachelors, masters in sth totally unrelated and no career benefit.

My point is Grace plays a huge role but we need to learn to analyze people's profiles when they are approved.

Check in this order
1. Ties
2. Plans
3. Profile

Hmmm. Wisdom

Osheyy

Kassidy4luv:
My friend's VISA was denied today @ Abuja embassy.

He said the VO asked him 3 questions about funding his studies.
His COA is 32k
He has partial funding/scholarship of about 8k
Personal funds about 11k
Sponsor( uncle) will take care of the 13k deficit.

What could be the reason for his denial

Drop his entire transcript. It may not be about his funds alone.

Lol. If it was possible to make visa hard for Nigerians to enter Nigeria, I would honestly do it. Something is fundamentally wrong with Nigerians.

Drella:
Congrats bro!

Did you go for undergraduate or postgraduate studies?

Start from Page one

MackyNaija:
Back for 5mins from my hiatus..

Unexpectedly received my 10 year gre3n card today. Took 1/3 the time I thought it'd take.
Too little chance to 'celebrate' it as I am busy cooking something.

This Cali, we MUST comot!


And for the Fall 2021 batch of incoming students, may your journey be fruitful.
I recently completed 4years in the US and I have totally forgotten I ever schooled here. Life's too fast!

You'll be fine, just stay strong and always keep your morale high. Las las... All will be well.

Congrats bro

Miss Lagos is fireee

wildchild1:
Kanan's mum needed to do something to protect her son, the game is not easy.

Who did she kill?

She's ugly Sha. Unlike her mom

codemaniacs:
most top rated domain investors use specific registrars... the registrar can also determine the amount of traffic a domain name receives.

Lol, this is strange

This woman is fucking ugly! Damn

sodiquisty:
Good morning fellow domainer

Please I need the services of a good email scrapper for my domain.

Opistorincos

Wasiu Olatunbosun, the hungry man is about to become a political orphan. This is the end of his political career in Oyo State

Reno Omockery, I never thought I would ever have cause to agree with you

You're mad, Lalasticlala. The opinion of one "woke" Indian now represents the entire India? Why don't you bring up other Indian tweets in support of the twitter ban and push it to FP?

Forthispost:
Hello Nairalanders. I need your honest feedback on this issue.


There is this ex of mine I dated for approximately 4 years. During the course of our relationship, I Was totally in my best power not to be the toxic one and never cheated on her but she eventually left with no viable reason. There were times she messed up and I forgave her even while we dated.
Close to the time of her graduation from a reputable state university in Nigeria, she started messing up and eventually broke up the relationship.
I was pained though but I had to forgive her and move on.

After the break up (which is about 3 years away now) we still talk (greetings on phone) once in a blue moon.

Now the issue at hand is, a male boss of mine requested that I recommend a female staff that matches a particular vacant role in our organisation .
Note: This is an internal recruitment and who ever I recommend stand a 95% chance of getting employed ( the other 5% if for village people). The role is an entry role with pay centered around 80k-100k monthly. She currently earns 22k where she works now at at our last conversation. Though she use to be a cool person before her village people entered the relationship. Over three years of not being close as before gives me no clue of the type of person she might have become now. Maybe a scorned woman or a more sensible person. I'm doing far better than when she left me and it's super glaring to her.

The reason why I need advice is this: I work at the same organisation in question and I have no plan to leave soon. I'm trying to avoid a case where she will be the one to facilitate any issue for me at the said work place. Just avoiding anything that will result in regrets.

Update: I forgot to add, she's one of the person I know who suits the role. I don't have sister who matches the role.

I created this new account for just this thread hence the moniker "for this post"

Kindly advice biko. Bashing is allowed.

The fact that you work there should be enough motivation not to recommend her. At the end of the day, she'll start fucking your boss and eventually get you sacked.

Richdee1:
did you say over 200 pages??
Joke bro��

I'm damn serious. Took me three days though

Just reread this entire thread again. FrankNetter, we still dey wait you.

movado19:
Ramadan/ Jumma Mubarak, Firefox01 !!!

Thank you, and I hope you are doing well, InshaAllah?

Alhamdulillah, I still remember you. (S.O.), abi?

Yes! I am Good to see you.

movado19:
Wa Alaikum Salam and Ramadan Mubarak, Hkana.

I am terribly sorry for just replying to you since last year.
I haven't been on NL for some time now.

Yes, please do send me a PM, InshaAllah.

Welcome back Movado! I hope you still remember me