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Hello, I need help or any ideas on this peculiar case. My mom is eligible for IW and she needs someone to accompany her as she is not able to communicate and is old. I want my sister to accompany her but she is not eligible for IW as she has never applied for visa before. I have submitted both their D160 forms, paid visa fee but don't know how to go about scheduling my sister's interview since she is not qualified for IW. Can I submit them both for IW backing it up with medical necessity and accompanying an old woman. Will they allow that? Please, I am at a crossroad and booking an interview is far from it cos the date I see is 2023 July. Looking for something closer, she needs to come for medical attention.

Hello AbujaNIV,
Thank you so much for the good work you doing on here,please I will like you to help address this issue,just curious as to what might gone wrong for it to happen.
I have a friend that was granted visa but before she collected her visa on December 22nd,she was placed on AP for about 2weeks. She eventually traveled out of the country on Tuesday,January 17 and she was deported through the same airline she flew from the country but on getting to Doha where they have like 7hours lay over she was incarcerated for the period of the lay over and on getting to Lagos,she was asked to wait till everyone on the airline was down before she could and she was handed over to the police and immigration.
Just been curious if that's the deportation procedure of US or something. Thanks

Hello House,
Please a friend of mine want to send toyota corolla 2007 model to me from America,like how much should i be budgetting for the clearing here in Nigeria.Thanks so much,urgent response will be highly appreciated.

abujaniv:
After visa refusals, the consular officer gives each applicant a letter explaining the reason why the applicant was refused. Your brother can look on the letter to find the exact section of U.S. law used to refuse his case. We do not know about this specific case, but if your brother has interest in going to the U.S., he is welcome to reapply and present his case before a consular officer.

Hi VO,thank you so much for the good work you doing right here.
Will it be advisable for me to book an appointment for visa interview in 1st week in December for a programme in the US that is scheduled for June 2015.
Thank you VO,awaiting your response.

cupid4ig: it sounds more like a corrupt os. Which os are you using?

thanks for the prompt response, still using the old OS:10.1.0.2309

Hey all,pls can sm1 help me out as my bb is messing up,i dnt know what is happening,its a Q5.this is the second time something like this is happening,my bbm wont just work,when i type message it wont drop in the upper box for delivery,there and then bb hub starts flunctuating,i can view mt text msges,calls made or received dnt register on call log,cant view my pic,cant use whatsapp,everything just stops.i can only receive calls nd make calls.plllllsss i need urgent response as i cant ping at all nd cant receive pings.

kunledox: Goodmorning,i got my visa package yesterday.plz in what format am i gonna pay d 165$,i mean Is it naira or usd inorda to knw d amount to write wen filln d online payment?thanks....

Congratulations,welcome to the Land of opportunity(Plenty), you will pay online with either mastercard or visa card.

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Good day house, saw this link online and feel it might be of help to us.
http://www.tsa.gov/press/releases/2014/07/06/enhanced-security-measures-certain-airports-overseas#.U7rtKrW4x7E.facebook

justwise: You will have cache of any topic you search for in nairaland and you can move from page to page.

Oga moderator, thanks for always wanting to assist, i tried this post:"Preparation for migrating and settling down in USA" but it didnt open as you said that we should go about it. Please what might be the cause.
Thanks so much as you assist on this.

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Good morning VO, weldone for the good job you doing here. God will continue to bless you.
As a LPR, is it possible for one to invite his/her family to the state for visiting and like how many years will the LPR holder would have stayed in the states before he/she can invite a family member.

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Good morning VO, weldone for the good job you doing here. God will continue to bless you.
As a LPR, is it possible for one to invite his/her family to the state for visiting and like how many years will the LPR holder would have stayed in the states before he/she can invite a family member.

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@Visa Officer, thanks so much, really appreciate your kindness towards us.
Have a great week and day ahead.

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Obatide: Good day my people, thank you all for your prayers, encouragements, supports and every other thing I can’t mention because of space. I was overwhelmed with the encomium and the way you celebrated us, May ALMIGHTY GOD repay you in many folds beyond your imaginations. On the thread here, my whatsapp, BBM, series of phone calls, I know it’s only God that can appreciate you, you gave me and every other members (now and future), reasons to do more.
On behalf of my family, we say a big thank you
Merry Xmas and happy New Year

Appreciation
To God ALMIGHTY, whose Glory cannot be shared with anybody, we say thank you sir
Im specially grateful to the following people (Batch one):
Sendtodeji, Malcolm28, okeymen, seubis, ItyRoyal, Kevwe-flex, baba-ajala, femishow2005, G2Glory, Roodboy, timimoyegun, candytos, XYZZ, odewenwa, TCPonly, buklan4real@yah, lagbabe, lagdude, mr-Rule, Apex555, justdre, kaybaba65, firewami, fancywendy, Madu77, daudsmart, komakan, bamidelealayo, gokman4u,adeboy007, temmytanny and friend - Gentiger, olutola1, amedino, atandaishola794, rantileye, Godsspeed, westcodes, akingenge, onye-baresi, Adesojiaderemi, Leripa, agbeke17, darmhee, chinny2014, akiayo, kennex89, coop, sayonara01, geogec, bukiemma, samolaniyi, penielnig, elena22, Leripa, doublegold, thuyahky, gius idowu, pipsland78, jollywin, justwise(the moderator) God bless you all.

Very special thanks to The Visa Officer on https://www.nairaland.com/1359935/u.s-consular-officer-ask-me and seun osewa (the brain behind Nairaland) God bless you the more

The making of our America Project:
It all started on October 23, 2012 when the four of us in the family as of then, entered for the lottery.
I checked mine on May 1, 2013 and was not selected, and then on May 4th, I checked my lovely First Lady’s status and discovered we have been selected for further processing.
At this point, we had no idea of the processes; hence, I started searching Google for resources and later found NAIRALAND 2013 & 2014 threads, which signified the new era.
Twice in that Month of May, I mailed KCC, requesting for additional information and medium of submission of our documents, they replied that both hard and soft copy are acceptable (detail posted sometime ago in one of my responses)
On July 4, 2013, we finally sent our forms via e-mail to kccdv@state.gov (note that we updated twice after this). We were current in November’s bulletin for interview on December 23, 2013 for 7am.
We received our 2nd NL on October 18, a day after birth of our new baby-Princess. We notified the embassy and invited them for naming, to my greatest surprise, replies received in both my mail and VO’s thread were word for words, then the waiting game continues as I always pray for easiest interview which came to pass on the 23rd.

Documentations:
I practiced what I always advice on the thread, we secured all documents before October, except for the new baby that was done after her birth in that month. Medicals and Police Certificate (#2500) were done on December 12th, this enable us to relax a bit.

The ‘D’ Day.
We lodged in a 20minutes drive location close to the embassy, got to the embassy around 5:40am.
Did all necessary security check as you are all aware of, paid the total sum of #272,500.00 being processing fee.
Window 17 called for documentations, to my surprise, the woman seeing us for the first time just asked a familiar question which Looks like those people are spy on NL (can’t ascertain though,so don’t quote me)
Then around 9am, the white Lady called us at window 14 for the real thing
CO: Good morning ma’am
We: Good morning and how was your night?
Co: very ….., thank you
We: Merry Xmas and she responded as well
Then Finger prints for both of us.
CO: raise your right hand and …………(swearing)
We: we do
After this, I lifted my first son (whose name is of one of America president’s name, to say Good morning to her) she called his name, and the laughing began, then the second son did the same and I was joking with her that, the new baby want to say Hi too, then laugh again.
CO: turned to my wife and asked, what’s your highest qualification?
My first Lady: AAAAAAA
CO: when did u finished
My first Lady: AAAAAAA
CO: She’s typing and was explaining that she think my wifey does not performed to her best in her first result, that’s why she submitted the second one
My first Lady: Yes
Me: I said ‘As if you know’ and she laughs again.
While I was trying to carry my children, who are playing around, she said your VISA is approved smiling and the rest of pick up infos. & we say thank you and God bless America
That’s it oooooooooooooooooooo, it was just like a chat

Till now, we are still thanking GOD

Biggest Congratulations to you and your family,it can only be Almighty God not man,i wish you success in all your future endeavour both in Naija and in God's own country,go forth and leave your Yankee dream

Mr Obatide,go forth and claim your visa,Almighty God has already ease the interview. Success shall be yours

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walcolm: MTN bis doesn't work on BlackBerry 10 devices. You have to get the MTN bb10 data...although there's talk in a post today that MTN bis is now working

So that explains why you ran into that problem

Thanks boss,am not even bother with the BIS subscription but for the phone to work,it's on the agreement page I am and without accepting it won't go to the next Page. What do you advice me to do?

Thanks

walcolm: the sim you are using to activate needs to have active data subscription...if you are using glo, the default apn works out of the box so long as you have an active bis subscription...APN tweak on airtel on the other hand can only happen after you have completed activation of the phone so even when you have a BIS subscription on the airtel loine, the phone will not be able to use that data because the default apn is not the right one for BB10

confirm which network you tried to use to activate the Q5

Thanks boss,it's my mtn and I have valid bis subscription on it.

Really appreciate your swift response.

walcolm: I switched to my z30 a few days ago and I found out the monopoly is for z10 and q10 while monster brick breaker is for z30 and q5 today

Well, I now have the monopoly sha I hope it links to the BlackBerry games app. might challenge you to a game soon

Boss,you doing a great job on here,just got a Q5 yesterday,i have cut my sim,welcome me to bb,swipe left to continue,did that,connected to mobile network,select a Wi-Fi network,diddnt bother myself with that cause all the network that it sees,has password but since i dont know the password, i swipe left to skip,then took me to the agreement and this is where i encounter the problem,the error message it bring is that ''Unable to connect to the network.Please try changing your settings.'' I dont know how to change the settings thats where am hooked.

Please kindly assist me ooooooooo.

Thanks boss.

olutola1: Praise Jesus, bless the name of the Lord, interview successful and visa granted! Details coming up soon!!!

Congratulations boss

Adeniji Pupa: Hello pple, i love this family, have been reading post on this forum all this while, a big thank you for the good work you are doing. my challenge is that, i was selected in the dv 2014 and i sent my form since june 29th, form received july 10th. am worried no 2nl yet, my case number AF00012xxx. When do you think my case number can be current? Quick response will surely calm me down, thanks.

Worry not boss cause you are not current yet, February bulletin is 8,700,so just keep cool and calm. The visa is already yours.

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Boomshakar: Good morning house. I'm sorry for not posting my interview details in all this while. Here are the full details. The C O was a black American beautiful lady.

co: good morning

me: Good morning ma

co: can I take your finger print?

me: yes you can. Then she took my finger print.

co: pls lift up your right hand and take oath that all you're going say here would be the truth.

me: I took the oath.

co: is this only the qualification you have?

me: yes

co: pls sign here

me: she gave me my form to sign

co: what have you being doing since you finish your school?

me: still seeking for admission

co: its over seven years you got this certificate

me: Yes, but in 2009 I went to the bible school

co: do you have any evidence to proof that

me: yes then I brought out the bible school certificate and the photocopy. she checked it and returned it to me.

co: do you have children?

me: no, I'm single

co: what have you been doing for living

me: driving

co: Government, Commercial or Private?

me: Private

Then C O started typing... then brought out two white paper for me and start explaining on how to pay my USCIS Greed card fee and circled one of the address on the other paper showing me where I'm going to pick up my visa same day the following week.

co: congratulations.

me: Thank you.

Glory be to God for His Exceeding Grace! Now i have my visa with me.
I also want to use this opportunity to thank you good family for your support of advice and prayer.
Also to those that are preparing for their interview go and return with testimony because the visa is yours already and congratulations to you in anticipation.

Congratulations

adeadebayor: 3 Gbosa for the people of this forum..... My appreciation goes to everybody on this forum, u guys re doing a wonderful job.

The whole thing was just like a dream because I hv been playing DV lottery for a while now...my broda it don tey, wot gave me confidence to go on was dat 2 of my friends dat we used to stay together won n now live in us ...When God says yes nobody can say no.

In 2012, I played for mysef and wife, at dat tym we re looking up to God for a child. To cut d long story short, when d result came out in may, 2013 my wife was already 6 months pregnant. I checked mine...same story but when checked my wife's result i saw a different page then i realised she has won.

We filled and submit our forms by email on June 15th and got our 2nd notification October 22nd. All documents ready December 3rd and countdown to interview begins. I used d remaining days to prepare my wife cos she is d principal applicant, in fact it was a drill.

Interview day: We got to d embassy 5.30am our appointment was 7am, by some minutes after 6am security checking started, security checking plenty o. We were checked in and we collected blue card and payment voucher and I paid for 3 pple, @ d rate of 165 to a dollar, including my boy of 3.5 months.

After which we were called at window 21 to submit our document and waiting for interview starts, during this tym my boy was in happi mood laughing in loud voice then slept off. At 10.10am we were called to window 17 where we met dis young beautiful black America.

The interview goes thus:
CO: raise your right hand, are you prepare to say the truth today?

We: we ans yes together. The CO gave us our forms to sign and my wife sign for the baby

CO: What re u doing presently?
Wife: bla bla
CO: what course
Wife: bla bla
CO: mention some of the courses u offer
Wife: bla bla
CO: hw long hv pple known each other
We: bla bla
CO: when did u get married
We: bla bla
CO: what kind of marriage
Wife: bla bla
CO: show me pix
We: wife opening wedding album
CO: any before pix
Wife: shown three and even explain
CO: baby pix
wife: wife flip through christening album.
CO: bring out two white papers, one for visa collection and d other for guidelines to pay ucis fee.

The interview didnt last more than 10mins..in fact we re the first family to b granted visa.

Observations:
1- ur interview wil b based on what u filled in ur forms. for those of yet to submit ur forms, fill it carefully wit info u can defend. dont put anything u cant defend in d name of impressing the interviewer. They re nt after such. like the case of my wife, we didnt include her nd because her statement of result is not available.
2- get there before tym and adhere to all instructions.

This goes to those that hv done their interview. How do I get d alien number?

Congrtaulations

adeadebayor: My pple help me to rejoice cos my family visa has been approved, detail later. God I thank u.

Congrats

chiwuike20: Heading straight down for my 10am interview, i need d prayer of my nairaland efamily. God bless

Go forth and claim your visa,success is yours.

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kevwe_flex: YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. Halleluyah. My friend who is a family of four whom I was helping, his visa has just been approved. Oghene Doh. Pls join me in celebrating. This guy played as single and won as married and went to interview as a family of four with twins. their 2NL came without babies name. I encouraged him to go ahead with all his family whether it was not in the initial eDV. Please, I will give the details I can later.

Congratulations to your friend, this is the Lord's doing.

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bukiemma: Halleluyah!!! Visa has been approved!!! Details later pls... Driving home wit full speed at d moment

Congrats bro, take am easy boss,drive gently o

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penielnig: @lagdude and @lagbabe....pls open december bulletin and read to the end..pls note each month bulletin carry two months info..hope it helps.

As you said, the Decmber bulletin carries for December and January, and we are awaiting February cut-off,pls check very well so as not to confuse forumites.

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Obatide: I came across these tips for succesful interview and feel it could help some of us,
kindly discuss to have it edited, addition or subtraction

Tips for interview
1. Wear formal clothes as if for a formal business meeting. The interviewing officer will always be an American (the interpreter if required may be local). If possible the man should wear a tie. Americans always appreciate formal attire, so they will not find you over-dressed if you wear a tie.
2. Arrive early. You don't want to miss your interview just because you got stuck in traffic.
3. Do not get nervous. Be confident. You will be more confident if you have prepared thoroughly. Smile when you meet the visa officer for the first time. Don't show signs of nervousness such as flickering of eyes, trembling of fingers as that could go against you. Look into the eyes of the officer while speaking.
4. Both candidates should greet the officer with a smile and a "good morning", as soon as you enter the interview booth.
5. Both candidates should have a confident posture and look at the interviewing officer straight in the eyes throughout the interview.
6. Be confident in your answers, whatever you say. Make short, clear, to-the-point replies, in a loud and clear voice. Do not tell anything that is irrelevant or not asked. By mistake, you may give some unnecessary information that may lead to your rejection.
7. Be polite, do not argue and do not ask unnecessary or unrelated questions. Do not unnecessarily elaborate your responses as this may not work in your favor.
8. Demonstrate respect in your language even if you don't feel this is being reciprocated.
9. Often times you might not understand what the interviewing officer is saying because of his/her American accent and/or the microphone system. If you do not understand one of their sentences do not feel afraid to say, 'beg your pardon; I did not understand you.' If he/she repeats the question and you still do not understand, that is not a problem, do not panic. Calmly and confidently say, sorry sir/madam. I still did not understand you. Could you kindly repeat what you said?
10. If you know English, it is preferable to have the interview in the English so that you and consular officer can understand the each other. Interpreters mess up sometimes.

Wishing everybody due for interview all the best

You are on point boss,thanks for the reminder always.

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penielnig: Helloo people,Visa bulletin for JANUARY out with Nigeria retaining 8000 cut off number..so much wait to do.....

Please from where did you get this, because on their website for January 2014 cut off is coming soon,or do you call them over the weekend.

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Boomshakar: Morning to you Good family, Praise God! My Visa as been approved. Details later!

Congrats

Malcolm28: Good day Forumites, please permit me to give a detailed account of my experience at the embassy during my interview on 3rd December. Been very busy on some other issues that why its coming a bit late.
We left the place we were staying at Anthony Village at 4:30 am to avoid the morning traffic to the Island. We actually got up at 3:00am to get the kids ready. Arrived the embassy at about 4:55am. There were like 5 other persons waiting. My Mother-In-Law drove us there so she had to look for a place to park and was directed to a parking lot that can be accessed by car only through Obalende (but open to the embassy by foot, so people can park there and have close proximity to the embassy surrounding).
While waiting, around 5:30 my wife and mother-in-law retreated to the car to feed the children again so they don't get cranky when the process begins.
We were called to move out and join the queue for screening at 6am.
After the 1st screening where they make sure you don't have phones on you, etc, We were made to all pile around the 2nd point where a lady came to address us stating the 2 broad visa categories and how the process will run. We were at this point separated into Immigrant and Non-Immigrant categories. She also talked about timing of our interview etc. We were then told to bring our interview notification letters and open our medicals at this point and fix in our passports which we all did. There were repeated warning about what must not be found on us. My wife explained to them about items for the kids but they would not bulge. They insisted that we can only take in biscuit for the kids. My wife had to go out of the time 2 times to return items to my Mother-In-Law who was waiting in her car at the parking lot.
We eventually went through the 2nd Screening were the bags and everything was thoroughly checked. We were then issued blue slips, a small form to fill in your name and address, email and telephone #, we were also given a sheet payment (Please ensure you keep every sheet given to you so as not to have issues when they are demanded).
We went through a 3rd screening again after which we were ushered into the main embassy building. We were asked to remove our belt, shoes and our bags were again screened at this point before we were allowed into the interview hall after picking a slip that gave us our number for the day (B415).
On getting into the hall, the security man asked what Visa category we were for, and told us where to sit and where we would make the payments, Immediately my family found a place to sit, I proceeded and made payments (N218,000) for 4 of us (at rate of 165/$).
Immediately I was done paying the fees, my number blinked in window 14. I was asked to come for submission of documents. That lasted for about 5 minutes, the guy would asked for one document after the other, I would produce them and give him, he would ask for duplicates I would give him, friendly black guy. After that process, I went back to sit. My daughter was all over the place, walking and playing. my wife held my Son do there wasn't any issues. Many Children were crying, tried to help one Women whose Son was crying profusely but to no avail.
For a while there wasn't any activity at the windows, (they were probably reviewing the documents we submitted).
At about 8:30, the interview process began at window 14 where an old woman was interviewed and placed on administrative processing because she couldn't provide some details to the CO even with the help of a Yoruba interviewer. I thought I was gonna be interviewed at this window since my documents were collected here. The man at Window 16 was also there and interviewed a pregnant lady who I think filled to go an unit with her husband. It took a while for the process to be over and I could remember the scare of window 16 and was wishing that my interview did not take place there. Shortly after the lady left, my number appeared at window 16 and my wife called my attention to it.
Went there with my whole family, my daughter was sleeping at this time so I had to pick here while clutching the documents too.
The process process went thus:
CO: Are to XYZ (pointing to each of us)
We: Yes
CO: Asked me to raise my hand a swear to tell the truth and nothing but the truth
Me: I did
CO: Asked to take our finger prints (me and wife)
We: We did (left hand, right hand (4 fingers) and then both thumb
CO: Gave us our forms to sign (asked that one of us sign for the children on yellow marking)
We: Did that
CO: Asked when we got married
We: Both me and wife responded in unison
CO: Asked me have I been married before this marriage
Me: No
CO: Any Children apart from this 2
Me: No
Co: whats your highest qualification?
Me: 2 Masters Degree
CO: I can see the MBA is the most recent. When did conclude the course
Me: Told him when I completed the program and submitted project
CO: Tell me about you project
Me: Told him about the project and the major findings
CO: He was nodding and smiling and very happy with my analysis of the project and the findings
CO: Brought out 2 sheets and tells us this is where you will be collecting your visa on Tuesday next week. Tells me to not bother coming with my family to collect the visa. Also suggested I nominate someone to pick up the Visas for me since I don't live in Lagos. Then said congratulations.
Me: Was kinda taken aback! Thanks him and leaves
As we were about to exit, I heard my name. Turned around to window 16 and the CO motioned to me
Went back.
CO: Please can I have the receipts of visa fees payment?
Me. Reached into my pocket and gave him the receipts. He collects one and gives me the other
Me: I tell him I almost forgot to update my details on the place of residence when I enter the US. I then hand him a sheet of paper containing the address. He promises to update the info for me.
The whole interview process lasted for about 3 minutes.
We then walked out of the embassy.
It can only be God! The process was swift just like I had prayed to God it would be. And the fact that it was window 16! The dreaded window 16? God works in awesome ways.
For those waiting for their interview or awaiting 2NL, God will do it.
Congrats to the forumites who were in the same venue with me that morning. We were the family of 4 I was wearing a brown trouser, with and blue stripped short and a navy blue blazer jacket, my daughter was wearing a red trouser while my wife wore a black suit. We were the ones echoing peoples numbers when they are called, Remember?
Thanks so much to everyone here who prayed with us, I understand so many people were praying for us. @Obatide and Glory2Glory, God bless you specially, you were there. Thanks everyone. We will continue to keep in touch and we will all see in the US.

Congratulations bro,go and live your yankee dreams

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ItyRoyal: @buklan4real@yah....You ladies are wonderful....i am advocating that all the ladies in the house be given a very special treat at a day we'll all agree if all the suggestions scale thru....

Yes o,am in full support of this,a special treat to all the ladies in the house.
Is it going to be in Nigeria or when we all get to the States?

Daudsmart: No, your ok bro. It never was. Good luck to your family.

Thanks boss

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