Let me drop this here. Visa Approved this morning for another MFA person going to study Creative Writing at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. I've been praying he gets his visa and I got to know him because he and my daughter, Naijaeclectic, were the only Nigerians offered admission into the program. Naijaeclectic got her own visa exactly two weeks back and wrote a rather long transcript.
I have not found out if he's a nairalander. He said four people before him were denied and he wanted to leave the line and go to the toilet to avoid the difficult VO; the oga VO, however, seemed to relax when it got to him and asked a couple of easy questions before uttering the magic words.
Bia, Chief, if you're a nairalander, come and write this story yourself. The offer of a place for an MFA in the school comes with full tuition waiver plus graduate assistantship.

May testimonies fill this thread today! It's going to be a good day!

solihp:


Congrats

About Royal Maroc, I read a lot of bad reviews about them but I used them when I was coming to the US . I don't have any bad thing to say about my trip or the airline

They have not started flying here since after covid; there's a documentation they said might be completed this week. Confirm from them about this before paying. Their quoted rate online is the cheapest, though.

Ifesinachi22:
Intellectual pursuits in our Contraption is like none other - we sink deeper by the day

Below are examples of what some students (undergrad and PG) have to go through in Nigerian universities. Did you experience any of these?


COPIED Compiled by the one and only Eketi Edima Ette!!


On Project/Master's Thesis Defence in Nigerian Federal Universities - A thread:

"We had to pay hotel bills for the members of the panel. You could also offer sex, if your supervisor is the devil's apprentice. Transport money inclusive."
- Erdoo N.

"I decided I'd never have anything else to do with Nigerian universities, the day I saw people defending their masters dissertation presenting coolers of rice, garden eggs and crates of drinks to their supervisors. I legit thought someone was getting married."
- Bibian U.

"We we're told we'd pay 60k each, for both entertainment and logistics of external supervisor."
-Chiamaka O.

"We spent the night prior to my mother's defense at the University of Ilorin, cooking coolers of rice with assorted meat for the lecturers."
- Omekagu.

We fed the whole department.
Paid a prior fee of 2k.
Still gave supervisor gift. This same supervisor then came on one of my Facebook posts to say how I'm too opinionated to get married. I blocked him for my peace of mind. I don't have strength."
- Sylvia E.

"My husband was so frustrated by his Uniuyo supervisor for this, that he abandoned his MBA and finally got it from a UK university without any sort of bribery."
- Uche N.

"In ESUT, students have to buy brand new suits for their supervisors."
- Udeh O.

"Envelopes filled with money. Hotel bills. Payment to the school. External supervisor's fee. The mental stress.
Ah! The only reason I'm still doing it is because I've come too far to stop. After Master's, I'll never do anything school in this country again. Never!"
- Bello A.

"Some departments will even provide you with a menu and list of people you'll feed on the day of your thesis defense.
I nearly wept for my friend, when one non-teaching staff started dragging her because meat had finished."
- Esther A.

"Ordinary B.Sc project I defended, mh supervisor collected a bag of rice. On the defense day, we went to an eatery and bought food and drinks for all the supervisors in the hall."
- Harrison P.

"The money I spent on my supervisor was enough to buy a piece of land in GRA.

-A bottle of special nonalcoholic wine and MTN airtime worth 1.5k for "consultation" before he approved my topic.
-Two months DSTV premium subscription...

-N5000 for every chapter I took to him for vetting. Except Chapter 4 - he made me pay 20k for it because, "all my project students knows I do it better."

-The day of defence, we(a group of about 15 students) paid 2k each for food and transport fare."
-Odichi R.

"We paid 40k each for 'refreshment' and 'honorarium' during internal defence. We are also going to replicate that amount, if not more, during external the defence."
- Ịhụnanya A.

"For BSc project defense we contributed money to feed the supervisors."
-Oreva E.

"My project topic was originally on aquatic snails.

My supervisor said I should bring some snails to his house, not even the aquatic snails that I was supposed to be working on. I bought half a bag of land snails for him.

A week later, he changed my topic to Catfish and demanded that I buy some catfish and and bring them to his house for inspection. I had to do it. I wish he'd asked for rice and drinks, like my colleagues were asked. If have spent less money."
- Ruth D.

"The best thing I ever did for my life and mental health was to abandon my Master's program halfway. My blood pressure was always high. They killed my zeal to study and do research. Nigerian universities? God forbid!"
- Ene P.

"I abandoned my Master's program because my supervisor wanted to have sex with me. I told him I'm a married woman. He said and I quote, "That's even better! I like them married. If anything happens, we'll both keep our mouths shut." No one listened to my report.
- Annie U.

“And Postgraduate students do multiple defenses - proposal, internal and faculty defense, then the very almighty external defense. Multiple seminars too

And refreshment is served in ALL

Aswear, MSc in Nigeria was the most challenging thing I've done in my life so far”
Seriously? Hmm

The full truth!!!!!! I've done two post graduate degrees here and I'm fed up!!

Let there be too many testimonies today!

jhidey08:

This has sincerely been my worry, like I think everyone whose visa has been approved here had full funding.
Please to the gurus, do they actually give people without full funding visas?

Yes!! There are many instances here of visa approvals without scholarships. Have faith.

Funfav:


Even I am interested in this response pls reply guys. Can one use printed electronic i-20 for interview

Yes.

Good News!!!! My daughter just called to say, "Visa Approved." She'll later find a way to post her transcript.
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, Creative Writing. She said it was a friendly chat and is wondering whether it'll sound like a 'normal' transcript.
God bless all of you for answering my numerous questions! Good luck to everyone.

tarantino1:
Please am I the only experiencing this problem while filling the ds-160 form.

Every single step I take basically redirects me to the home page asking me to start from scratch again.

I managed to move forward one time and even got my application ID and while I was filling the form, the page just reloaded to the homepage and asked me to start again.

I tried to retrieve the form so I could continue from where it logged me out and I've been getting errors ever since.

I've been stuck here for over three hours and have accomplished nothing.

I no even know whether na network sef. Go do am later for midnight

Use a VPN. I downloaded ProtonVPN. In an hour plus, I was done. I highly recommend it.

Hi house
Please has anyone received any update from Lagos NIV for the rescheduling of interview cancelled for 23 Oct?

Been wondering about this, too.

It's good they are rescheduling, many are stuck outside Lagos with the curfew and cancellation of flights. Travelling by road isn't an option for some with the violent activities in many cities.

lifeofgolden1:

The truth is if you are coming from another state, ensure you leave a day or two(if possible and affordable) to Lagos State. This will do you lots of good and help you ease off any inconvenience caused by the protest.
If you are in Lagos state, kindly leave your home a day before your interview and go lodge in an affordable hotel closeby. My advice o.......

Thank you!

Please, is anyone thinking of cancelling/rescheduling their embassy appointment? Has anyone done this already?

I hear the roads are blocked!

Mosminic:

It's no more necessary

Thanks.

Congratulations my people!! Please ooo, I'm still asking, this online/in person lecture mode, is it written in on i-20s being issued for Spring? It's not on my ward's i-20 that just came in via email.

Good day everyone! Please, are the embassy people or anyone for that matter still checking the online-in person class stuff? Are schools reflecting that on new i-20s being issued for Spring? Thanks my people and I wish everyone luck

Lildairo:
It's like no one likes answering my questions.

I ask again, has anyone gotten appointment recently in Abuja?

It seems Abuja is not conducting student's visa interviews and that is probably why no one is saying yes or no to your question. Abuja suddenly cancelled all interviews scheduled there late last week. Try and schedule in Lagos like everyone else.

Good day my people. Please oo, I'm here again with a question. We're about to get a bank statement and our branch is in a somewhat rural location where the staff can easily make format mistakes. Is there supposed to be a covering note attached and addressed to the Consular section before the statement starts running? The staff here said they can just print and stamp the bank statement at the branch and that's all. We're using First Bank. Thanks in advance because I know I'll get an answer soon.

sholay44:
pls Can you share the message? I have also filled the form thrice now but no response.

Please, don't fill it one more time, you'll confuse them. Some guys that filled the form once last Friday are already being scheduled for interview this October.

missuzoma:
Good morning everyone! So we're all rushing now to fully prepare for the interviews; please who knows how recent the bank statement has to be? I mean if your interview date is November 20, for instance, is it okay to get a bank statement ending on like November 5?
Wishing everyone God's grace.

Waiting.... I know it's best to print for six months but can we get a statement a month before the interview?

Good morning everyone! So we're all rushing now to fully prepare for the interviews; please who knows how recent the bank statement has to be? I mean if your interview date is November 20, for instance, is it okay to get a bank statement ending on like November 5?
Wishing everyone God's grace.

Some people that booked dates in November are holding tight and praying that those dates will be allowed to stand. Confusing times! I recall the consulate saying in that video way back that the earliest dates will be in November.

Schrodinger1:




It's not possible. You ought to have booked for an appointment with SEVIS fee paid before an expedition could be applied for and granted.

Some of those that got date today haven't paid the for SEVIS. So, It nullifies the impression that the dates were reserved for some group of persons.

I know someone who paid around July for an expedited appointment, never saw any date to book and got the reply that expedited appointments weren't happening. He got the mail last week and was able to book this morning.
We need to be clear what is happening and who these dates are meant for.

Are these dates not exclusively for people that paid for expedited interviews? Can any one just log in and book?

The main thing is that this won't be implemented, na audio something. Umahi and his bosses know he is just joking. He also owns most of the cows roaming at Ebonyi.

Congratulations Dr Nsude!!!

AdoChel:


I think it is for visa renewal.

Thanks.

TrojanSnail:
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Please, what's the implication of this??

LLobiorah:





Our child has gone mad again!!

Just tell your paymaster that all Ebonyi communities are ready to resist his land grabbing moves.

Umahi paid some clowns to come and hold a meeting at Abakaliki and someone is taking that serious?
Umahi is a land grabber, looter and ritualist! He's moving through communities in Ebonyi trying to steal huge plots of land for his personal use and for giving out to Fulanis in case that is given to him as a condition for winning favours from the north.

Abeg, let's drop this new 'hubris' argument now before it stretches to three pages like the GRE score nonsense!!!

I believe we've had enough of this GRE and allied tests argument; let's face something else or just chill. I honestly feel like wiping the contents of the last two or three pages. Enough!!!!!