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This is a very nice one @ladyGuinivere,pls could u look up my posts and advise me what ties I've got. The ties and purpose is my major ish right now! Truthfully, I want to attend my bro's wedding n catch up with my cousin n family too .

LadyGuinivere:
@LadyTomi
Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well. If you want something, invest a bit of hardwork- it ALWAYS pays. In this case, the hardwork os research. Go thru this thread to get a basic understanding of the process.
You are concentrating on purpose of trip. That , however is secondary to ties. If you have ties according to the vo's assesment then any purpose u choose is ok. I can't speak about your ties, I'm not a vo. But I'll ask you to self evaluate. Read the thread, then mentally weigh yourself. If u believe you are qualified for a visa, then pick the purpose that is the truth and fill it. Are you going for a wedding? Say so. Are you going for a vacation? Say so. Don't fill wjat you think will give u a better chance.
The truth gives you the best chance
Then when you read, you will also see tht your belief about 3 month visa is ill concieved. Visas are usually 2 years

Meanwhile, my dad was d major applicant then. So to this, he was faced with most questions even wen d VO asked if I was married, he answered No on the advise of d said agents b4 d VO turned to me and personally asked me,the whole fam still answered I couldn't even say a word. Now I want to re-apply alone. What are my chances? And what z ur advise pls?

lorietta:
Please advise. I really want to attend this my bro's wedding in NY though my invite is from a very close friend of mine in illinois. He'd be sponsoring d trip,I'd be staying with him and we'd attend d wedding together since his wife and I are a part of d maid of honors. What will be my purpose of visit? I intend spending just 2 weeks cos my leave would lapse by then! What should I do? The wedding is this feb ending as earlier mentioned and I was denied together with my family members including parents last mont on d same wedding note!we were served 214b denial act or so.

Please advise. I really want to attend this my bro's wedding in NY though my invite is from a very close friend of mine in illinois. He'd be sponsoring d trip,I'd be staying with him and we'd attend d wedding together since his wife and I are a part of d maid of honors. What will be my purpose of visit? I intend spending just 2 weeks cos my leave would lapse by then! What should I do? The wedding is this feb ending as earlier mentioned and I was denied together with my family members including parents last mont on d same wedding note!we were served 214b denial act or so.

LagosNIV:
First of all, neither a letter of invitation nor a letter of introduction is a requirement for the visa. We don't care about them and we won't even bother to look at them... I don't know how many times I have said this.

If you don't plan to go for the wedding, then why say that? Even if you get the visa today it could raise suspicions down the road as to why you didn't travel as planned.

Here's an idea: BE HONEST

DH and I tried to no avail for him to fill us in but he insisted he doesn't involve 3rd parties in his jobs even at our own peril!

Damilare5882:
me I was even thinking if someone had p go through an agent ..the agent should have provided someone all the infos he filled in so that there won't be any contradiction .. Just a thought...cos I can't imagine an agent filling infos on my behalf without letting me know the content ..*someone will just be like an English graduate going for an engineering interview*

Imagine! This same agents were the ones that led to my family and I's denial last month. I am a graduate student and also a civil servant. Married too but he didn't fill any of this for me o. In my occupation he wrote only student and filled single for me.purpose is to attend brother's wedding february ending. I didn't want to contradict the form when the vo asked if I was married or had kids. It was my 1st application. Now, I'd love to reapply again but what would my purpose be? Should I still go for the feb ending wedding? Should I apply again as single though engaged cos it would have been to soon to be married?and as graduate student again ?since my job status wasn't filled in d last application?please house help a distressed sis out!

Damilare5882:
the painful part is I partpayed him already ..

Wowww lucky you. My family and I were denied on this same day. I hope to apply alone again this month but I'm scared of my purpose of vist.then my occupation also reads graduate student. Advise pls?

proddey:
I just have to share my transcript as this forum really helped me in preparing for my US Visa interview. Had my interview on Wednesday, 25th January 2017 in Lagos. Before the interview, I had prepared a list of 19 potential questions that they could possibly ask based on the information that I gathered on this site. I had adequate responses for all of them and rehearsed them several times thoroughly before the interview date. Documents I took with me are:
- int. passport,
- one passport-size photograph,
- DS-160 confirmation page,
- interview appointment confirmation page,
- and GTBank visa payment receipt.

All other documents such as bank statements, pay slips, letter of employment, whatever whatever are absolutely not required. There's no point taking them to the embassy because they're not even going to look at them. You can take previous passports with you if you've traveled out of the country before and have visas on them but that's all. I left my phone at home also since they wouldn't permit you to take it inside. Don't patronize the touts, you don't need their services if you have the above documents in order. Just ignore the touts.

VO: Good morning
Me: Morning, Hi, how's work going?
VO: Pass me your passport
Me: I passed it, fidgeting a little bit.
VO: Why are you going to the US?
Me: I just finished a very hectic project so I just decided to take a vacation and visit my brother. VO nods affirmatively
VO: Where are you going to in the US?
Me: Miami, Florida
VO: What do you do for a living?
Me: I'm a Civil Engineer by profession
VO: Are you married?
Me: No I'm not, but I have parents with health issues that I take care of. VO nods affirmatively
VO: Do you have a child?
Me: No I don't
VO: I can see that you've been to the US before
ME: Yeah
VO: When was that?
Me: blah blah blah… I told her the year.
VO: Oh, you were a child?
Me: Yeah I was a minor then
VO: Tell me about your work?
Me: blah, blah, blah.... I gave her a very detailed and lengthy description of my work exactly how I filled it in the DS-160 form while she's reading from her screen and constantly nodding affirmatively. Before I could finish telling her about my job, she's flings the white paper at me and tells me to pick up my visa in 3 days’ time

The interview didn't last up to 45 seconds.

Lessons learned: I had told myself that the visa interview is not a do or die affair. It's not a matter of life and death. I believed my chances of getting the visa was 50/50. I prepared well enough and planned that if I didn't get the visa I'd reapply in 3 months’ time. It’s when you take this visa thing like a do or die affair that you’ll start fidgeting during the interview and you wouldn’t answer the questions with confidence.
Once I left the embassy, I got to the bus stop outside the embassy about to take a bus to Obalende. While waiting for Obalende Bus, a danfo bus, with about four police men in it, parked in front of me and one of the police officers got down to search what was in my bag. After searching and found nothing incriminating, they let me go. I didn’t really know why they stopped to search me. Were they just doing a random stop and search or had they been trailing me from the embassy? Then one guy at the bus stop started talking to me about why these police men do stop and search and said sometimes they could be fake police men who could drop something incriminating in your bag and later arrest you for nothing.
As for me, I'm always very cautious of strangers who start talking to me at the bus stops in Lagos because I've fallen victim of them twice so I was on high alert throughout his conversation. This guy acted like he wasn't going anywhere but when the Obalende bus came, I waited to see if he would enter but he didn’t. As the bus was about to take off I quickly got inside. Immediately he saw that I had entered the bus, he also quickly jumped inside the bus. That was when I suspected that this guy must be up to something. It's possible that he had been trailing me from the embassy. I immediately got off the bus and waited for the bus to go far before I joined another bus. I beat him to his game!. I suspect that he was either trying to follow me to my destination to know where I was staying or he was probably working for the police who had stopped to search me earlier. Outside the embassy earlier, I had seen a friend of mine who asked me if my visa application was successful and I said yes. It's probable that this tout heard our conversation and started following me.

Anyway the lesson is that once you get your visa, always keep a straight face and don't talk to anyone. you never can tell who might be following you. Always be on high alert.