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Gentiger: 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.

Very funny....
Congrats to Obama on his re-election.

ahmedgafar7: what is this 666 thing that I'm hearing about obama's new tenure ?

666
Nothing of such please.

Obama all the way.
Congratulations to you and enjoy your tenure.

[quote author=adesojiaderemi@]ALL IS WELL,YOU ARE NEXT ON LINE,FIRED UP AND READY TO GO.[/quote]Amen oooooo.

[quote author=adesojiaderemi@]Leripa how far about your processing, hope is ongoing?[/quote]Yes o, my brother. Waiting patiently for the visa bulletin to see when I'll be current. Though I sent my forms to KCC via email in early october and has since been confirmed received.
Case no: thirteen thousand plus.
Wish us (a family of 3) well my brother.
Thank you.

[quote author=adesojiaderemi@]Yes my bro, there are somethings we don't need a Prophet to tell us;weather forecast, ultrasound test,statistical outcomes.. scientific polls can do that[/quote]Absolutely.

Here is KCC email address:
KCCDV@state.gov

lorddom: what am saying is instead of lorddom@yahoo.fr i felt in lorddom@yahoo.com

Your email is an essential means of communication between you and the KCC.
My advice, therefore, is that you quickly send an email to KCC, requesting it to correct your email address. You will need to state clearly your case number, names and year of birth in the correspondence.
Don't forget to also state the correct email address in the email.

Good luck.

Tiwanna: i hope so, cuz he was prophesying seriously concerning the nation america.

America is an 'organised' nation. Maybe the guy has been following the pre-election polls, thereby assisting his permutations and combinations.

GOD BLESS AMERICA.

lorddom: Dv lottery winner i realy need the adress to email kcc pls help me

KCCDV@state.gov

[quote author=jidedon2000@yah]i did my wife change of name in 2010 in GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER for 5k,u ll ve to pay per word. it is not compulsory u tk a change of name wth u 2 d embassy just ur marriage cert is ok[/quote]Thank you very much.

[quote author=jidedon2000@yah]yea! u re 2 use ur husband name since u guys re legaly married and had done a change of name in Newspaper.[/quote]Thanks, and how much does it cost to do the Newspaper change of name?
Secondly, does the embassy also request for it.

dawton: I want to know if KCC will send another 2NL letter to my mailing address,apart from the one I received through dv lottery website.

Why not ask the question on the DV 2013 section?
Anyway, no 2NL will be sent to your mailing address. I stand to be corrected though.

Toluwa Evelyn: Hi everyone,I'm new here...I filled d form last year no luck,I've also filled this year's form...I pray I'm lucky and I pray for others too..we shall all testify...IJN

You are a winner already.
Be faith-filled.
Goodluck.

ferdiii: Pls house, has dv 2015 opened? Confusion aplenty!

Unnecessary confusion indeed.
Can't stop laughing in spanish like Mr Temmytanny.....lol

[quote author=adesojiaderemi@]HOUSE PLEASE IGNORE ANY UPROAR, it is just a noisy gang![/quote]God bless you sir.

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

The "misunderstanding" has since been laid to rest please.
Let us not bring it up again.
Thank you.

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.

Congratulations to your family.

justwise: @ swisstourist

You are banned from this section for the main time.

Serves him right.
Many thanks to you Mr Justwise.

bobshina: NEWBIE:

Hi , This house has been so helpful and i just owe this great forum by sharing my interview experience for others to gain from as i've also benefited immensely from the forum.
I give all glory and thanks to God for HIS favour over us . I did my interview with my family and it was successful.
I did on same date with brigthmon at the same time but different window. I guess it’s d only 2 of us they interviewed for dv within the 1 hour spent there. We were calm and tried to listen to questions being asked other people that were interviewed.

*2NL submitted at the gate
*Security Check Points
*Made DV Payments
*A guy called to submit the Originals and Photocopy of all our credentials

Then after waiting a while,CO Called my wife’s number to d window

This is how the questions goes: just about 6 questions in all (me & wife):

Co: Good Morning
we: Good Morning

Co: where is ur payment slip
we: gave to him

Co: Right Hand up and Promise you will tell me nothing but the truth
we: we Promise

Co: Take your finger print
we: we did

Co: asked me to go and sit down for a while
Co: why have you not been working?
My wife: answered him---applied for some but yet to get one.

Co: asked again : why have you not been working?
My wife: answered him---applied for some but yet to get one and because of my present pregnancy, my husband told me to hold on for a while.

Co: what are the Subjects you did in your WAEC? Note: my wife used NECO(6 credits) but we also filled WAEC(only 2 passes) in our form ds 230.though we did not attach the WAEC result but they asked for it---just to be sure we have d 12 year elementary schooling.
My wife: answered him

Co: how did you study for the exams?
My wife: Told him--- reading at home, in d library and group discussion with course mates

Co: asked my wife to call me
Co: how did you meet your wife?
Me: I told him------ through her sister who was my classmate

Co: when did you got married
Me: I told him

Co: do you have any picture you took together?
we: we brought out 2 albums (wedding) and opened one for him page by page . We opened about 4 pages and stopped. He said we should open more pages and we did.

Co: Kindly sign the column on the form (Form DS-0230 Part 2 )
we: signed

Co: he waved to our son and asked : is he your only son and we said yes?
Co: congratulation. Your Visa has been approved. You are welcome to America
Co: he circled one of the 2 addresses on a white paper, gave it to us and asked us to go picked our visas on the address
we: thank you .

And that was it !!!!!!!!!!

Please, go with all your certificates but make sure you put the required ones in one envelop and others in another envelop. I wonder what would have happened if we don’t have my wife’s WAEC result with only 2 passes that was demanded.

ALSO, PLEASE BE HONEST EVEN IF YOU HAVE ISSUES. THEY ARE ALSO HUMAN BEING.

I really thank God for this and everyone in this forum that have been contributing in one way or the other. We were over prepared using all the information we gathered from this great forum people. This forum has really helped us and we really give thanks once again. I also pray that everyone here we surely share the same success story.(AMEN)

GOD BLESS 9JA , GOD BLESS USA

NOTE: AFFIDAVIT OF SUPPORT OR STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT WAS NOT DEMANDED THOUGH WE HAVE OUR STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT WITH US JUST IN CASE.

HOUSE PLS, MY WIFE IS 7MONTH/3WKS PREGNANT AND A SON. WHICH AIRLINE DO YOU THINK IS REASONABLE TO BOARD, THEIR LIKELY CHARGE AND HOW DO WE GO ABOUT IT PLS?
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THANK YOU ALL

Congratulations to your family.

brightmon: Thank you sir, Na God do am and he WILL do same to all member of this forum.

AMEN.

@Brightmon: AMEN.

Tick tack says the clock. To those of you that are yet to register for the 2014 DV lottery, please make hay while the sun shine. Tomorrow may be too late.
And to those that have registered successfuly, your testimony is on the way by the special grace of God.
It is well.

brightmon: i was wondering same too.

Abi oooo.

@Justwise: I think it's high time you did justice to this guy called swisstourist, to stop the nuisance he creates.

honeydee: Can sm1 pls answer jbmohd's question and ignore any unnecessary comments from attention seekers. lets not deviate from the true purpose of this thread by allowing inconsequential comments distract us. Thank you.

Hmmnnnnn........ Passing

@Mannet: Thank you.

mannet: House,please kindly ignore swisstourist,his only very lazy and i guess he's one of those who always had the illusion that the streets of America is tarred with dollars or dollars grow on trees in USA,imagine even from his analysis it shows he's either very lazy or extravagant;if u have a job that pays $7(N1120)/hour in USA,pls tell me where the hell in Nigeria will u be paid such amount on hourly basis,even after tax i believe u will still take home like N900 Naira.
It's his type that don't want hardworking people,friends,families and co-workers to succeed,he will always feel threatened anytime he sees people struggling to make it.Even when some of my friends in UK,USA and other European countries complain about the hardship/economy i just smile and ask tell them if life is that hard for u then pack ur load and come back to Naija but they will never try it,some them have spent 8 years overseas USA inclusive they are yet to come back home due to "hardship"...so guys don't let anyone discourage u from achieving ur dreams,No matter how bad USA is,it can never be as rotten and destroyed as Nigeria.Period! At least their leaders are even making efforts to salvage the economy but our own leaders are plunging the country into debts,embezzlement,corruption, and the masses suffering like hell....come to Chinese and Indian companies in Lagos and see young men,factory workers working for 8k/month.

Well said.

[quote author=jidedon2000@yah]Happy New Month to all NAIRALANERS, i pray we ll all hear good TESTIMONIES in dis new month more than what we had in October IJN. and to those who re waiting for their case number to be current and those waiting for 2NL i pray it ll land safely in ur emails IJN. AMEN favour ll locate us.[/quote]AMEN.