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vacancy: please help out ,

.I just need your advice from the forum,.. . i have been married for almost seven years now through an islamic wedding IN 2006 with kids . we won the lottery dis year .Because of this we have to arrange for marriage certificate this year which reads 2012. if we are asked at the embassy whats our date of marriage? we ve already sent the forms to kcc before we note about this issue of 2012 .WHATS THE WAY OUT?what do u think the best answer.

Thanks. I wish you well.

Tell them you just AUTHENTICATED your traditional and church wedding at the registry since the former two are not tenable at the embassy. GBAM!!

brightmon: Yes ohh, Cali Cali. I was really suprised at that Uncle Sam comment, simple queston he can not answer, instead he write what only he can read thereby showing his pettiness.

Dullmon, la Oju e! .../&#@*$+-. Hahaha!!!

osram: AUTHENTICATION!!!

GBAM!!!

Bingo and his puppies at it again. I guess they've run short of biscuit bones. Lol!

malcon: God is great. I had a successful interview today.
i arrived lagos u.s. embassy at exactly 10mins to 6am. when it was 6:30am,a guy came to announce that all non-immigrant for 6:30am interview should queue up. shortly,the guy then came to announce for 7:00am interview for immigrant category in which i belong. lucky effort, i was the first person in the immigrant queue category. after all thier series of announcement ranging from opening the medical envelope,what not to enter in with and series of security checks,i was finally usered in. note, while you move from one point to another, make sure you secure all tally number given to you. after paying the 330dollar which was 54500naira,i was called to submit all my credentials. i submitted all i came with and the lady took just the needed ones e.g nysc cert, degree cert, neco cert, npc birth cert,epassport,three passport photo,one photocopy for each credentials and also the police and medical report. in summary, interview start after waiting for like 1hr 50mins. i was the first to be interview today in the immigrant category.

co; calld my tally no
me; good morning sir
co; do you swear to say the truth
me; yes i do
co; collected my payment slip and took my finger print
co; what do you do for a living
me; i'm a lecturer
co; what institution
me; ...... institution
co; when did you finish secondary sch
me ......yr
co; what do you teach
me; i lecture yr1 student strength of material and yr2 student water supply and sanitary engineering
co; are you married
me; no sir
co; what institution did you say you work
me; ...... institution
co; what institution did you attend
me; .......... university
co; are you married
me; no sir
co; what course did you study
me; civil and water resources engineering
co; gave me dsp230 form to sign
co; congratulation.
me; thank you sir
co; gave me a visa collection paper to go to the address as started on friday next week for my passport and visa.

many thanks to all members of these forum, success awaits everyone of us. but note, honesty is just the secret.

Congrats. It's getting easier and better by the day.

osram: @gentiger pls n pls dnt eva label me a terrorist again am a christian nd stay in d north,am 4rm d south..as 4 d cameroonians am nt a racist am jst xpressin my anger, as a NATIONALIST.pls temmy isnt d one dt recruited me,temmy is sum1 dt i truly respect and bcs of dt i wud stop fermenting troubles on this thread...if av offended any1 pls am sorry o..bt u gentiger pls respect urslf and i wil respect you....i wish all dose going 4 interview success #one love#

Gentiger is a quiet and gentle TIGER, don't pull him by the tail else you get mauled. I never knew you existed on this forum until you chose to cast aspersions on my persons. If you don't want to be messed up, don't mess with GENTIGER!!

brightmon: i really dont understand you, what the connection with temmytanny and Osram comment? Must he comment on all post or is he the only one that did not comment on Osram post?

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packaging: Gentiger, y nw ? Temmytanny had demostrated dat by advicin we stick to d reasons dat gat us here. Osram is only bin NUT cos I knew temmytanny neva signed his dummy skull as apprentice...lol. Fr our cameroon bro/sis u ar always welcum to dis forum, Osram is only bin stupid. Frm his username u can tel d kinda of being he's. Wanna use diz medium to wish every selectee a successful interview. D lord shal go with u n mak d visa urs... Amin

My brother you won't understand. Try reading previous posts by Osram in a couple of previous pages then you'll understand my reasons for rebuking Temmy. Osram is a RACIST & A TERRORIST. If you doubt me look out for his previous posts on Boko Haram bombing churches in Kaduna and you'll understand who he really is.

mannet: Guys please kindly help answer this question; assuming u're a military or paramilitary officer in Nigeria and u are pursuing ur DV visa,what is ur chances of been granted the visa cos i understand ur application will be subjected to administrative processing and some tough verifications which could either be positive or otherwise,and how best do u think is good to respond if CO ask why are u resigning ur miliatry/paramilitary job to live in the states? My friend is actually trying to do this cos of the future of his kids,he doesn't want them to grow up or experience all this Nigerian academic and social wahala.ur kind advice will be appreciated

Let him be TRUTHFUL about his military involvement because they will find out after all. Each DV winner is subjected to secret background checks. Just thought you should know.

temmytanny: Please,lets get back to the main issue of this thread

I expected you to demonstrate leadership by shuting that thrash called Osram up. It's no surprising afterall he's one of your anointed disciples.

Just thinking aloud.

I don't know what to make of January visa bulletin. Those of us who were currentl since October have expected 2NL to no avail. I just hope they don't schedule for January.

Godhelpmeooo: tanks u gentiger,i was scared wen i saw ur name cos u were d 1 dat said its nt accepted

No I didn't say so. People who had been interviewed and had witnessed others denied on that ground reported. I am also aware they adopt the University admission requirement standard. You must agree with me you can't get admitted to any Nigerian University if you haven't got English and Mathematics.

As an act of gratitude for our collective goodwill message to Obama on his re-election, he has ordered Lagos embassy to issue all DV 2013 winners with visas whether they have F9 in maths AND English or not. Up Obama!!!


Just kidding.

Godhelpmeooo: GUD DAY HOUSE,WEN I GOT 2 KNW DAT I WON IN MAY 2012,I ASKED DIS FORUM IF AM GUD 2 GO WIT 5 CREDIT IN NECO WITOUT ENG,AND EVRBODY DEN SAID AM OK BT I SAW SME COMENTS SAYIN ENG IS COMPULSRY.I'LL B CURENT IN JAN,PLS WAT CAN I DO.I AV CREDIT IN MATHS N 4 ODAS

You got no problems. You are good to go. The case may have been quite different if you had ordinary pass in English AND Mathematics.

Yusmash00: Osama or what you call yourself, Are you blind to see that Controversy have end. You just want to start another trouble. This is Congratulation time. We will call your number when the DV lottery 2013 end.

It's no surprisung that Dullmon supports Osama's abi Ostrich position. They are children from the same mother.

osram: u must be a bastard for insulting temmytanny#let dis b ur first n last or i wud bann u from nairaland completely#CONFUSED LAWYER

I thought Osram Bin Laden abi na Osama the terrorist, rapist, criminal and armed robber was executed by Obama 2nd May 2011. Could he be speaking from the grave?

[quote author=godcherisher]DV Experience Testimony

Alhamdulillah, All praises go to GOD.

Exactly one year after submitting our entry to the DV 2013, we got our visa delivered by courier today. As a token of appreciation for all the insightful information I have been able to gather from this forum I would like to share with you our whole DV 2013 experience.

Thursday, November 3, 2011: Application to DV Lottery 2013
This was the second time I applied since 2008 and it was the first time I entered my wife as an applicant. t all started on that date at exactly 1:37:46 PM EDT when I entered two separate applications for my wife and myself. It was quite stressful because I remembered that it was the last day to enter the application and I was on a business trip overseas but somehow I really wanted to give it a shot. I called my wife and elder daughter to ask them to send me scanned copies of their passport pictures and passport numbers. After much tweaking on the photographs to match the required specifications as per DV guidelines, I managed to complete the submissions.

I carefully saved the confirmation numbers, sent them to my private email and put a reminder in my outlook to check back on the result by May 1, 2012.

May 1, 2012: Selected and 1st NL
On that day, I attempted to check but the server was quite busy so I waited till the next day. At first, I checked with my confirmation number and I saw the message “ENTRY HAS NOT BEEN SELECTED”. Without much conviction, I checked for my wife and oh my god, the page looked different and I immediately new that she was selected. She was on a long phone call (women) and I waited patiently for her to finish. She completely forgot about the fact that I even applied for both of us so I let you imagine her surprise when I told her that she was notified by KCC. When we saw that about 100000 people are preselected but only 50000 visas were available we immediately rushed to collect the documents needed to pursue the application. We took pictures, completed the forms, checked diligently that everything was OK and sent the forms for my wife, my two daughters (my third daughter is already US citizen by birth. We lived there for about 4 years in the past on a L1 visa, which is inter-company transfer).

May 1, 2012 – August 17, 2012: The long wait
Her confirmation number was quite low DV2013AF00005XXX, so we knew that we should start gathering our documents as soon as possible especially with the nomadic life we have had (we lived in about 6 countries for the past 20 years).
However, we didn’t want to do it to early because we knew that some police certificate for instance are only valid 3 months from the issue date and the medical is only valid for six months. Therefore, we waited till we got our 2nd NL which arrived on August 17th 2013 which stated that our appointment is scheduled on October 3 at the US consulate in London . From that moment we started rushing to get all the documents pending and made arrangements for our medicals at Knightsbridge doctors in London. Everything went well but we started realizing that time was flying fast especially for the documents we had to get from countries where we had limited connections available.


October 3, 2012: DV Interview at US Consulate in London
We had our appointment at 8:00 AM so we left home (we live in London area) very early in the morning to be on time for the interview. Before arriving at the embassy, we stopped at a pharmacy nearby to consign our bags and non-essential effects for the interview. We found already a small queue ahead of us but most of them were non-immigrant visa. We handed our 2nd NL and the reminder letter we got from the US embassy two days before the interview and quickly passed the security check (airport style baggage scan)

At the reception, we were issued a calling number (I906) and were directed to a large waiting hall where we found lots of people waiting. Again most of them were non-immigrant visa and US citizen coming for their passport renewals.

At about 9:00 AM we were called at a window where we met a nice and friendly lady. She requested the notification letter and went to check if our medicals were sent by the Doctor’s office. After a while she came back with an envelope containing some XRay CD which she handed back to us stating that we should keep them and be ready to present it if ever it was requested at the port of entry She started collecting our documents in the order specified while asking few questions at the same time and scribbling some notes. I noticed that she had also the pictures, which we sent to KCC back in May and realized that there was no need for us to bring additional pictures.
Everything was in order except that we were missing one police record from one of the country where we were living before.
She then asked us to go pay the DV visa fee at the cashier which I did using my debit card. After that, she asked us to go wait in the hall again for somebody to call us for an interview.

At about 10:00 AM, we were called at another window for the interview. It was a young person who was conduction the interview. He asked my wife to step forward as the principle applicant and asked us all to raise our hand and perform the oath.
Here is how a short synopsis of the interview:
• C.O: Good morning, blablabla
• Wife: Good morning, blablabla
• CO: When did you play the lottery
• Wife: about a year
• C.O: Did you pay somebody for that
• Wife: Surprised, looked at me (for advice) and I nodded no because I was suspecting this to be a trick question
• C.O: What did you study
• Wife: XYZ
• C.O: One of your kid is US citizen, how come
• Wife: We lived there for more than 4 years while my husband was assigned there
• C.O: I have to cancel your current non-immigrant visas (Each of us had a 10 years B1/B2 visas which were still valid at the time of the interview). He stamped the visa pages with “CANCELED WITHOUT PREJUDICE”
• C.O: Called my elder daughter and asked her what she is doing
• Daughter: XYZ
• C.O: Please sign this paper to swear that in case you are issued a visa, you will not get married before going to the US
• Daughter: signed
• C.O: All your documents are in order but I will have to follow due process and wait till I receive all police records before granting the visa. He then gave us a blue sheet saying that the visa could not be approved today and indicated that we need to submit to them the missing police records along with our 4 passports as soon as possible through a secured courier service (DXSecure).

During the whole interview, I kept a low profile and let my wife responded to the questions without intervening since she was the principle applicant.

October 17, 2012: Sent missing documents and passports
We finally received the police records 10 days later and it was picked up by the courier service on Tuesday 17th for delivery to the US embassy. They also gave us a tracking number to allow us to monitor the progress on our application.

November 2nd, 2012: Visa processing completed
I was systematically checking twice a day to see if there is an update and even sent an email to the US consulate to inquire about the progress of our application to which they replied:

“Thank you for your email.

We can confirm that your documents have been received and your application is under final review. We regret that we are unable to guarantee that the visas will be issued by a specific date. Please be assured that you will receive the documents as soon as possible.


Sincerely,

Consular Information Unit
U.S. Embassy, London
CONS/CIU/GS

This informal method of responding enables us to respond to you within a shorter time. No record is being made of this correspondence. If you need to e-mail us again, please return this e-mail.


This email is UNCLASSIFIED.”


On November 2, I received a text message saying that the documents are ready for collection on November 5. As I couldn’t bear the waiting anymore, I immediately called the company to arrange for a delivery on Saturday at a premium fee.

November 3rd, 2012: Visa delivered
Today, exactly one year since we entered the lottery, the courier arrive with a big sealed envelope containing 4 envelopes each labeled with our respective names along with our passports. I checked with my wife the visas and they are all valid for six months.

We often spend xMas period in US and we have already made arrangements to travel to Atlanta during that time in order to activate our green card. We are looking to move sometime in the summer once the kids have finished school and to give us also time to prepare our departure smoothly.




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Congrats bros.

ferdiii: Lawyer, some lose.

Thanks Ferdii. Just a minor misjudgment.

usmandjuri: why still this
Based on the information provided, the Entry HAS NOT BEEN SELECTED for further processing for the Electronic Diversity Visa program at this time. More entries will be selected in early October 2012, so please keep your confirmation information until at least that time.

Please verify that you have entered all information correctly. You may re-check the Entry status by clicking on the ESC Home Page link below.

Cos it's a game of luck. Some win, some loose.

femsoj: Gentiger,how ‎​U̶̲̥̅̊ dey?any news on the 2NL

Not at all. BBC and CNN didn't feature it in their breaking news. Hopeful next week.

adesojiaderemi@:
this is my area of specialization, even if you change it in Naija, they will never effect the change from NVC,even you get to the point of entry and change your address, NVC will not effect the change on your file, so my advice is that you should stick to your first address spent the first one months there and obtain your green card, then Notify USCIS of change in address.You can now go to your intended State and file for your Social Security Number.I dont want you to experience what I went through buddy,my Green got lost in transit and I paid additional $450 for replacement.

Wow! $450? That's a lot of money. Ok, I'll stick to the advice. It's better than loosing my greencard in transit.

Leripa: @Gentiger: that's it oooo. The Visa is yours already in Jesus' name.

A bigger AMEN to that. God bless you.

Kemzone2003: During ur interview in Lagos you can change ur POE.
Give the CO ur new address or and updated DS-230 form.
That all

Thanks Kemzone. God bless you.

xtonosa: I rejoice with u all that moved from one stage to another and finally gotten ur visa. My entrant status still has Has not been selected, wait till early october for more mayb selected. I'm still waiting. Plz people, pray along with me. I rily want to b part of the winners sharing their xperiences. Plz people, pray for me!!!!!!

God will fix it. Remain hopeful but live beyond the American dream.

adesojiaderemi@:
...weep may endures for a night but joy comes in the morning

Amen and Amen. You must be a prophet. Lol!

Pls tell me Adesojiaderemi, at what point can one make a change to POE? Can it be done from Naija before travelling out? I suddenly realized I gave greater job opportunities in LA than TX. What do you advice?

owobabaisabella: [b][color=#000000]Babbs45, most one stay in the state for the whole five years before becoming USC or if one do travel within the five years is he/she still qualify for USC?[/[/color]b]

You must have lived for 30 months of the 5 yrs in the US to quality.