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endowedlee:
@ bold.... Are you scare to tell us what you told VO? Common

Oh I'm so sorry I didn't state all that, I was too happy and felt it would be a long tying.

But there are proper ways to ask a person for information.

Wouldn't you agree?

Anyway, See u at UB, Cheers.

Visa approved in Lagos today. 1pm

I want to say a big thank you to everyone that posted their transcript and comments here, whether approved or denied. Your experience contributed to my success.

And @walspring,
* My God will give His angels charge over ur life,
* Everything concerning you will be a priority in heaven.
* You will continually experience the manifestation of God's presence in your life.

Thank u so much for the time spent answering all my dumb emails.



My transcript

There was a mix of approvals and denials, the guy infornt of me was given but his sevis payment was not reflecting.
Then my turn

VO: why do u want to go to America
Me: I answered with a shaky voice
VO: what course
Me: MBA (Business Analytics Intelligent)
VO: what is BAI
Me: I explained
VO: When did you graduate university
Me: 2010
VO : what did you study
Me: Marketing
VO: What have you been doing since u graduated
Me: I work as a Business Development Manager at ****
VO: Is it an NGO
Me: No a Proper Hospital
VO: So what does a BDM do at a hospital
Me: I answered
VO: Who is ur sponsor
Me: my uncle
VO:what does he do
Me: He imports and distributed vehicle spear parts
VO: Have you paid your service fee
Me: Yes (them he started typing for a while)
VO: pick up your visa on Tuesday at this location.

dicapino:
profojah2 I sight...you...don..forget your boy.....I dey..see yur Sixpacks on Facebook.....hope everything is well. In other news how are gonna get legit dollars to hold on my way to Texas...not pinky's dollars ..

Gurus I am going on a 2stops flight...incase I am hungry in at Doha and Frankfurt. ...Would dey..accept dollars...as a legal tender. Thanks

You can spend dollars at Doha airport.

Walspring:
Okay.. Safe trip and shine your eyes well for border and make sure you enter inside the Cotonou and make the payment at the Ecobank inside and not outside oo

Good morning house.

Went to pay my SEVIS fee at Cotonou yesterday and here is how it went.

I first went to Maza Maza to take Young shall grow and they said 10k because I have not travelled to Cotonou before with that passport so it is technically a virgin passport according to the immigration.

I was advised to go back to mile 2 and take a cheaper bus that will take me direct into Cotonou which I did, it cost 3,500 (4 passangers). When we got half way, the driver asked if we wanted to stamp our passports or not.

I asked how much and he said to stamp is about 5,000 but if we don't want to stamp it, we will pay 2,000. We all decided to pay the 2,000.

Getting to the boarder, he took a back end and was paying some money at every stop and they were so many. At some point he asked the guys to assist him with some money.

Anyway we got to Seme and I saw the Eko bank, it has a western union banner hanging from it.

I went in and told them I wanted to pay SEVIS fee and was told it would cost 134,000 CFA and I have to go outside to change my money as I had naira.

I went to change at 1,700 CFA for 1,000 naira. My cash wasn't enough so I went to use the ATM which didn't work with my card.

I was advised to go back to Nigeria to use the ATM which will cost me alot of money because of the immigration fees.

Luckily , I met a Nigerian bike guy who told me he could take me across the boarder for 1,000 naira, I agreed but told him I wanted a place to keep my money just incase of any thing, he took me to an igbo food seller who agreed to keep my bag.

I gave her the bag but before then I took my money and hid it on me, and so we went just with my ATM card and phone. (The reason I decided to keep my bag with the woman was to make the bike guy know I did not have any money on me just incase he wanted to set me up which is something they do).

We started the journey and he took some shady routes (which also has check points), we got somewhere and he asked me to come off the bike and get on another, I was scared but obeyed, he reassured and explained that the other guy was a custom guy so he will not be stopped, that it was just to cross the Cotonou boarder and he (my bike guy) will take over.

I got on the other bike and we crossed without disturbance. When he got to the Nigerian part, I got off and continued with my bike guy and I went to withdraw the money and we went back same way.

(Please note that it was because I did not have enough cash that is why I went through all that, so my advice is to carry excess cash just incase)

After we got back, I went to get my bag and also changed the money and went back to the bank.

They assisted me to fill the form and requested for my ( I20, international passport and the printed copy of my I901 form that has the coupon number), I showed a picture of my i20 I took on my phone, gave them my passport which they made a copy and also my I901 form.

I filled the form and submitted, paid the money and 1,000 CFA was returned back to me.

And I returned back to Nigeria paying another 1,000 to the bike guy.

20mins later, I received a mail from fmjfee.com that my payment has been received.

*******THE END *********

Igbiboi:
Gee, do you wanna do MSC? If so, have ever heard of the school called University of Bridgeport? It is one of those schools in Connecticut U.S. That admit low grade students. But before I go further I want you tell me your Nigerian undergrad GPA not the evaluated one, and the reason is this: most people do not realize that some schools do not ask for evaluated transcripts and as such might have a more lenient grader than many of the evaluator companies.

I know University of Bridgeport personally and I can guarantee you that with a good application and if you show enough ability to pay schools fees they will admit you straight away. And luckily also the U.S. Embassy recognizes the school and I've never seen anybody denied visa because of that school. Presently, there are over 30 Nigerians in the school.

Yay! Just got admitted to UB plus $3,000 scholarship, going for MBA. CGPA was 3.6 sha

Walspring:
You can go to Cotonou/Seme border and make the payment yourself or someone in US can help you.. Maybe Canada or UK and Europe but I am not sure of other countries aside from US..

I am on my way to Cotonou to pay my SEVIS fee. Will update when I get back.