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BabsofAbj247:
Visa approved.

VO: What school are you going to?
Me: Stated the name of my school
VO: How many schools did you apply to?
Me: Told him the schools I applied to
VO: What program are you going for?
Me: Stated my program (Masters)
VO: What do you intend to use the program for?
Me: Upon the completion of my program, I intend to come back to Nigeria to focus on at my company. In addition, I intend to use the knowledge obtained from my masters to improve my start-up.
VO: What do you do currently?
Me: Explained in detail the nature of my job and the companies I have worked with
VO: Wow
VO: How do you intend to fund the program, I can see you got some scholarship?
Me: I would be using my savings and MPOWER. In addition, my uncle would provide financial assistance.
VO: What does your uncle do:
Me: Told VO the companies my uncle own
VO: I would be approving your VISA blah blah blah

It is very important to know what you have on your DS-160 form. While I was talking about the things I do for my Company, the VO kept looking at the screen to verify what I said.

I hope this helps. Good luck.

Ask yourself Oga , is this make sense to you? Idiot

Janet200:
I had to check your profile and notice you just open your account last month, no need to exchange words with you, na waste of time.

See ignorance & Pride affecting your mentality.
You have nothing to offer, Go and sleep

Janet200:
No body deserves rejection, some did not even answer as much as he said they still got their visa.

TRUE. But the content matters I hope you’re educated do that level anyway?

chuksmanred:
I will try it and I will get it. It's not my first bachelor's, it's my second. The problem would be if it's my first, and at 29.

V.Os are humans and not Robots. I'm only awaiting my EA to be approved at Abuja. And I'm hopeful I will scale through.

Thanks for ur advice anyways!

A big Amen to your prayers. Just give us the feedback here after your interview. Thanks

chuksmanred:
I will turn 29 this October. Actually my dad is a radiographer. I chose biomedical engineering to be a technical consultant based on servicing Medical equipments to give good results. Cuz the guy that services my dad's medical equipments bills him high knowing the technicians are scarce.

I have the full funding from my dad for the four years.

I don't know if my genuine reasons are convincing enough.

You better not waste your money at all and cause a setback for yourself bro. How can you be going for your Bachelors again at age 29, who does that bro? Have you ever see someone here that got that visa approval at that age for bachelors. Be reasonable and be truthful to yourself man.

shams040:
Sorry No,Course alignment has nothing to do with admission and visa. I studied urban planning in undergrad, civil engineering in masters and now going for PhD in geography. As a matter of fact I got offer in Forestry department in MTU. What matter most is ur interest, work domain or research experience.

To date, I don't know much areas in civil but my research interest in GIS took me there. So research interest and career path is the main thing.

You got your visa approval this Fall right ? If so, you will hardly understand less about the process anyway as i have checked via your past advices

HushTee:
Visa Transcript

F1, F2 (wife and baby)
Location: Lagos (initial date was Jan 2024, but we were able to reschedule to July 8 2021 - we didn't apply for EA, we just found that we can reschedule)
Time: 7.45am
Status: Approved
COA: $104k approx. Fully funded (no deficit)

God did it.

I was interviewed first..... Dude seemed nice, he also did our fingerprint.

VO: What are you going to the US for? (I requested he repeat the question again though cos my baby's cries didn't make me hear the first time)
Me: I'm going for my PhD degree in Evolutionary Biology at Yale University.

VO: Can you say the name of the school again?
Me: Yale University

VO: How many programs did you apply to?
Me: Seven (six admits)

VO: So, why Yale?
Me: I talked about how the professors research interests aligned with mine, with specific research topics. I also talked about the presence of a strong network of researchers in my field who produce some of the best research in that field in the US. I forgot my practise (but uncrammed) lines at some point but replaced them with whatever came to mind regarding my research interests - they kuku have almost no idea what my research is about,

VO: Have you been to other countries before?
Me: Yes, India.

VO: For what?
Me: A research fellowship. I got a research fellowship and I went to India for a year to carry out the research.

VO: That's great, excellent. So, I see you're fully funded, are you aware of the kind of apartments there for you?
Me: Yes, one bedroom flat... One bedroom apartment

VO: Has your school settled it?
Me: I was about saying "no, but I've paid for it," only for him to say "I'm sure they have." I kuku kept quiet.


All the while I was being interviewed, my baby was crying seriously. When I finished mine, I collected her from my wife so she too can be interviewed. She cried all through, we didn't stay in any of the queues cos of that.


Then he moved to my wife
VO: What do you do?
Her: I'm a fashion designer, I run a fashion business.

VO: What will happen to your business here? (this was a slippery slope question that we already prepped for)
Her: I've handed over to my second in command for the duration I'll be away

VO: What will you do when you get there?
Her: I'll spend time with my husband, I'll take care of my baby

VO: So you don't have any intention of working in US?
Her: No, not at all.


After she was interviewed, she was told our visas will be ready in a few days. I heard that and passed her our baby to collected the white paper containing the pickup address. We had a long day celebrating.

I have a fairly okay profile. I'm a 2:2 BSc grad, really good MSc, a few publications and conferences, a few years of research experience (about 5 years including and a research fellowship abroad), I did TOEFL and scored 101 but didn't need to use it cos I did it because of only one school - Cornell (that rejected me), and had solid references.

I've been a silent observer here, but I'll just share my 2 cents / tips on a few issues that I find worrying on this thread.
Firstly, I searched and searched and for transcript from someone going for a visa interview the same day with all family members (to predict my chances. cos I'd been told by some people that we have low chances of approval if we apply together - terrible information) and someone who's going to an ivy league (to know if I'll get any privileges). But, that was ineffective, I guess my research skills just got the better of me (not sure I was mistaken to do that though). When I didn't find specifics on nairaland or quora or reddit (and generally on the Internet), I decided to read all transcripts in this particular thread from beginning till the end. The few transcripts from one-traveling parent and their F2 child(ren), and every other transcript including unsuccessful and proposed ones were very helpful in many different ways.

I'm indifferent to not sharing/not-sharing programs and schools in transcripts, everyone has a reason for not wanting to share theirs - I particularly don't like being bugged with questions that a simple googling and DIY can fix. But IMHO, sharing helps a lot in linking possible questions with program, cost of attendance, work/research experience, exams done, and CV record - a DYOR person would easily be able to put 2 and 2 together from your transcript.

One other issue that got me worried initially was the DS-160 question of "who's funding your trip." I picked "self." Apparently, it wasn't something to worry about. Also, I changed my current work on the form from my paid jobs to my volunteer (unpaid) research assistant job, just to avoid questions that I may not be able to answer clearly. I updated my profile four days before interview and went with the updated confirmation page only (since it was over 72 hours).

My wife and I practiced every kind of question regularly including slippery slope questions, and had my sister do a final interview for us using almost 70 questions (of cos, she had no idea whether our responses were good, but we know when they're not good). Every question we were asked was practiced - not one wasn't practiced. I feel like it's just good to prepare for every kind of question and have very specific and clear (not vague) responses to them all - you'll know if your responses are vague. Also, don't lie!

I'll rest. I'm deeply sorry this was long.

I wish every other person going for an interview (whether F1 or F2) all the best. God's favor!

Congrats man

wonderiks:
Pls I need your opinion. I’m going for my undergrad at visa application. Do I need to go with my waec result , Nysc discharge cert. and my hnd certs. ??

Sure!

bashir1234:
hello everyone
please i need guidance regarding to how to apply for the cheapest university in the US but am not Nigeria presently

What is actually your profile ?

Attdfb:
Dear Scholars on this forum,
Please help me clarify this, I received a GA of $21k leaving a deficit of $4k. The deficit on my I-20 indicates personal funds which I actually have well covered since I’ve worked in a good firm for sometime now. I see most people use their family or relatives to cover their deficit. Hope this won’t be an issue that I used personal funds?

No. It doesn’t matter in as much you can afford or pay for your deficit. Go ahead and get your visa approval.

A Sponsor is a sponsor

JoeEINSTEIN:
Good morning NL

Please my friend has a situation and needs help.

She has a funding of 30k and a deficit of 13k
She was denied visa 1st of June and wants to reapply.
Please is it advisable for her to make changes to her DS 160? In her first attempt, she filled the school as the sponsor and her actual course of the study.
Now she's not sure whether to leave the school as the sponsor or use her guardian who will be covering the deficit.
She's also not sure whether to change the course to the one on her I-20 or leave it as the one she initially filled.

Please kindly help.

Thank you.

Yes!! He can fill the name of his guidance as his or her sponsor now and evict school sponsoring him already. The ignorance part is that he or she wasn’t fully funded as that is when you can select your school been responsible fir your educations but if you have any deficit your parents or a family fund like uncle , Aunty etc will be responsible for that.

Dongatzby:
Hello please how did you go about the application for funding?

What’s your profile? GPA you graduated with, courses you read in your UG degree , your intending degree , Any GRE and TOEFL score yet etc.

Laworldz:
Congratulations!!!!!

Please is there anyone who got his or her visa the 5th of 6th attempt. I need to talk to you to hear your experience.

Have you been rejected before ? What’s the issue all about ?

Kassidy4luv:
Having I20 from different schools, hope it is cool. Before deciding on which to attend!

No issue concerning that at all !!