Note that a valid U.S visa does not guarantee entry into the United States. Infact, the main interview is that one at the Point of Entry (POE). Also, if there are inconsistencies in your story or something does not add up, you can be sent back.

I do not think these cases are tied to the Trump temporary ban on certain countries. Check out the ratio of Nigerians travelling to those denied entry. We will see that it is not that high. Hundreds if not thousands of Nigerians are on a flight more that 5 - 6 days a week going to the US and about 4-6 get denied entry which has been happening since forever and all of a sudden we think it's because of the temporary ban?

Endeavour to get your papers intact and be consistent in your plans so that you will have no issues.

Note that there is Delta in Nigeria and it flies directly to Atlanta. Not New York. Only Arik use to fly directly to new York. United was the airline that pulled out of Nigeria and they only use to fly to Houston, Texas. Let's endeavour to get our facts right before posting online.

berrystunn:



You are right.. They said next time fly direct to NY,
It's only one airline that can fly direct to NY Delta airline

But no delta airline in Nigeria.. Because of Buhari body
odor.

To risk airfrance or klm.. It's cost 900k. Tickets

1600 euro

Thank you for still responding.

40manlappy:


This was recently addressed; you probably missed it. Use a dollar MasterCard or get someone abroad to make payment on your behalf using a credit card.

Hello ladies and gentlemen,

I have been reading through the forum for an answer but couldn't find one. Please anyone doing evaluation through IQAS, how did you make payment since we have a monthly $100 limit on our Nigeria cards.

Thanks

Hello AbujaNIV,

Thanks for all you feedback here. It has helped a lot of people. Please let me state in advance that this will be a lengthy one.

I have two questions which are regarding the situation myself and my wife currently face.

My wife went to the united states on a B1/B2 visa to write some exams and we also decided to have our baby over there with full intention of paying the medical bills ( This was not her first trip). We registered in a hospital and paid up all our medical bills as charged during ante-natal with no outstanding. When the time for delivery came, she went into labour and due to some complications at birth, she was rushed into the emergency operating room after over 12hrs of labour for an emergency Cesarean section. After delivery, the baby had some medical complications and was transferred to a specialist teaching hospital and placed in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for over 2weeks because of the severity.

At this point, the hospital hospital financial coordinator informed us that due to the nature of my wife's delivery which is categorised as emergency, she could be given emergency medicaid (NB: We planned on sorting our bills ourselves as evident by no defaulting on the ante-natal charge). At this point we thought it was a normal process in the case of an emergency and we accepted. Medicaid was extended to the baby as a resident of the state and U.S citizen also.

My first question is this, I am beginning to hear and discover that the emergency medicaid extended to the mother can be interpreted as her being a "PUBLIC CHARGE" and can be grounds for visa refusal when she wants to renew and even if she gets the visa, she could be denied entry by border control and immigration. Even though according to USCIS public charge factsheet - https://www.uscis.gov/news/fact-sheets/public-charge-fact-sheet - getting Medicaid for emergency medical services and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) are grounds for one not to be considered a public charge. We are still willing to be pay the bill if this is not the case and immigration wants us to pay the bills ourselves.

My second question; Due to the baby's extended stay in the hospital, we couldn't get his visa on time and it only came out on the last day of the mother's valid stay in the United States (we have all the papers to prove this). She had to change her ticket date and overstayed by 10days (the earliest flying date available on the airline). How do we explain this to the VO to understand the situation.

Just to point out, I am asking these questions because our baby's birth complication requires him to have follow-up appointments with some specialist doctors in the hospital where he was placed in intensive care after some months regularly until he is 18 - 24months old. That is why getting his mother's visa renewed is very important to us.

Thank you very much and I await your response.

Best regards.