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fairlytreated:
You can imagine such obvious error from IRCC. These guys make too many errors and its so unacceptable. You will surely get approval with your profile.... It's just the little delay.

The same thing happened to me when I requested for the renewal of Travel Exemption Letter for my children because theirs expired since it wasn't used within the 3 months validity period. The guy that handled the request said the application with my UCI number wasn't approved so I was not eligible to request Travel Exemption Letter for my children. And I attached everything o - I mean my student visa, their visitor visas and the expired exemption letters.

In fact my other letter quoting the refusal reason was filled with anger questioning IRCC standard. I got their responds after 16 days with the new Travel Exemption Letter. These guys make too many errors.

Just stay positive and shoot again.

19CannyMum:
This thread was my only source of info. Eligibility and background check started within 2 days after applying. NSE requirements provided at submission with good ielts (highest band) and 1 year MBS. Self sponsored. Upfront medicals. Sibling in Canada (PR). Travel history to Europe and US.

Document list
Letter of acceptance (1 year post diploma certificate, but career progression was very clear)
Passport
Proof of means of financial support:
Conversion table
Official fee schedule
My Bank statement certificate 1 (joint account)
My Bank statement certificate 2 (Dom account)
My Bank Statement certificate 3 (personal savings)
Spouse consent letter
Pension
Digital photo
Medical exam slip
Client information (I merged everything below into one file):
Statement of Purpose (I addressed career path and ties)
Newspaper and marriage cert
Police Clearance Certificate
Letter of intent (the one presented to the school to gain admission)
CV (showing career progression)
WAEC
B.SC
NYSC
IELTS
Current contract
Past contracts
Contact currently being negotiated
Salary account my bank statement
Payslips (last three months)
Birth certificate
Birth Certificate of spouse
BC of children
Spouse's employment letter
2 C of O and one deed

My employment letter stated that I was going on vacation lol and my current contract ends before December. Those were the main weaknesses of my application and I tried to address them in my SOP.

Total money in all bank accounts far exceeded $30k and there was serious inflow and outflow... Like up to 15m can leave today, 5m come in tomorrow etc. This was another weakness.

However grace covered the weaknesses.

Thanks to everyone who shares their experiences here. Especially to those who are brave enough to share their delays. Delay is never denial, pick up and refire please.

I ordered GCMS notes yesterday (21st business day after medicals passed), I will share it here once received.

School resumes in September and I had already registered to resume online. [b]No tuition payment has been made. [/b]Crossing over to SOWP thread now.

Thank you for all the congrats and good wishes. It will go round and you will be celebrated too.

Freshestc:
@ justmellow. Please pick me

Bro!

Mighty congratulations and prosper in every endeavours. This man gave me a full goat.


I will be picking 10 SOPs/LOEs here on Nairaland for either rewrite or vetting for free. But the prospective applicant must be following GCMSWriters on IG,
Telegram, or Twitter. Selection will be done randomly.


Cheers!

shagamite:
Fall starts around late August or early September, and visa do take at least 4-6 months to get the final decision. i think you may have to defer when the admission come in, you should be looking at winter or spring '22

shagamite:
sure, i guess you are for winter 22 intake

shagamite:
i think some schools process applications after the deadline date

RELAN2446:
Also inform the agent.

Chukwuemekatehi:
Brother run away from agents. They will sound nice to you now but when they know they have gotten and edge over you, you will see their true colour. Biko runnnnnn. You can do all these yourself.

Enjay316:
my personal opinion is use ur wife. I dont think they will believe u dont have a BSC at that age.wen she gets there, she can apply for SOWP 4 u.but it means u must have skills to even find a work ooo.what skills do u have sir

maralina:
I landed in Manitoba, as at then jobs were very difficult to find, couldn’t get a job even when I started school. 7months later I moved to Ontario transferred to humber college. One week after moving to Ontario I got a job, something I wasn’t able to get in Manitoba though. I guess Manitoba wasn’t for me haha, plus the cold there is brutal

maralina:
I landed in Manitoba, as at then jobs were very difficult to find, couldn’t get a job even when I started school. 7months later I moved to Ontario transferred to humber college. One week after moving to Ontario I got a job, something I wasn’t able to get in Manitoba though. I guess Manitoba wasn’t for me haha, plus the cold there is brutal

deepwater:
Below was my post on this thread weeks ago - 11OCT 2019

https://www.nairaland.com/5465156/border-closure-daily-pms-consumption#83037303



truth is that most nigerians are new to the internet and react newly to things that has been happening for ages!
it pains some people when they see the Christians celebrate heavily at yuletide season, one way to stop this is to instill hardship by closing the borders....

Guy your brain is functioning far better than anyone on the Nairaland

as earlier mentioned, argue with your talisman

ORIENTATION101:
The frog voice will be making noise my father money. This babe is richer than Davido no doubt .but u cant see her making noise everywhere.

The house is the best house on bourdilion road after Tango towers tinubu built opposite his house .

sonnie10:
I will vote Joe Biden if he decides to run.

morgan100:
RIP to him...

Any time I see the word "BURIAL" here, my brain first read it as "BUHARI" before correcting myself.

hajidel:
True for the most part



The adjudication then refusal or issuance of a visa is in law I hope you know that? Most likely not.

The VO has to apply the law for the adjudication to either refuse or issue. Some VOs will dislike someone and don't want to issue them visa but that said person is qualified and must be issued a visa. On the other hand you might be liked by the VO but by law you don't qualify for a visa and you will be refused, sentiments are out of the window.

So if you know the LAW and your visa application is truthful and honest, you are very likely to be issued a visa. And when you get refused, in as much as you get served the 214(B) template, you can ask the VO nicely as to the specifics, most times you will yield the answer from them.



Only you know how much you want to or can spend. So my advice is do your research about disneyland, flights, food, transportation etc and see if it falls within your means then you can decide.



Cannot be said any better. We tend to neglect the DS-160 form but it is huuuuuge and very important. The form dictates the line of questions in the interview, then its up to your answers verbally that they correlate.



Laziness = Not so favorable results most times



Not true at all. The VO might admire your honesty unlike some that will blatantly lie about the situation.

Nothing in the law states it is illegal to go to the USA to give birth. What is illegal is using taxpayers money for hospital bills (a lot of visitors do). So because of that, they want to make sure you won't be a public charge that you have enough funds to cover medical emergencies. Medical emergencies are so expensive (can run in hundreds of thousands for just something minor) in USA very few people have that financial capability without an insurance.

So make sure you have a super healthy bank statement, if you have correspondences with doctors, hospitals etc include them, ties compelling your return back to nigeria and can convince a very skeptical VO at the interview window because of previous statistics of applicants befitting that profile.

It is a tough ask but it is not impossible. Many a people have successfully applied for visa being pregnant and are issued.

OmoBendel24:
Are the Abuja/Lagos NIV bosses "Nicodemusly" back on this our thread ?

Oh well, AOS[b] brother's mum will hardly ever get that visa, particularly if his name appears on anywhere and at any stage during that her application.

My Disney World family, your budget didn't cut it. Most likely too, your communication during the interview could have sent some message, even for as little as not saying things from your mouth just as stated in the DS160 form you signed off.... Previous contributors have done you well with their contributions, build something from there....

Sjvictor21:
Hello Nairaland,

It’s been a while since I last came on here. Almost 2 years. Well, I have a couple of questions to ask and I would appreciate your kind efforts to help me out. I’m currently in the USA undergoing AOS and I want to invite my mom for my wedding which is in December. My concern is if she would be given the visa. She has an interview scheduled already and i’m worried. She was supposed to come with my dad but he passed away 2 months back, so she will be coming alone. Is there any tips or things to pay attention to? My wife sent out the invitation letter to her, alongside other documentations like bank statements, international passports and all. Please help me my people, is wedding invitation a solid ground to be granted B1/B2 visa? Is there anything we should consider? Can my status in the US affect things?

N.B. She will only be staying for 3 weeks.

Sjvictor21:
Hello Nairaland,

It’s been a while since I last came on here. Almost 2 years. Well, I have a couple of questions to ask and I would appreciate your kind efforts to help me out. I’m currently in the USA undergoing AOS and I want to invite my mom for my wedding which is in December. My concern is if she would be given the visa. She has an interview scheduled already and i’m worried. She was supposed to come with my dad but he passed away 2 months back, so she will be coming alone. Is there any tips or things to pay attention to? My wife sent out the invitation letter to her, alongside other documentations like bank statements, international passports and all. Please help me my people, is wedding invitation a solid ground to be granted B1/B2 visa? Is there anything we should consider? Can my status in the US affect things?

N.B. She will only be staying for 3 weeks.

Sjvictor21:
Hello Nairaland,

It’s been a while since I last came on here. Almost 2 years. Well, I have a couple of questions to ask and I would appreciate your kind efforts to help me out. I’m currently in the USA undergoing AOS and I want to invite my mom for my wedding which is in December. My concern is if she would be given the visa. She has an interview scheduled already and i’m worried. She was supposed to come with my dad but he passed away 2 months back, so she will be coming alone. Is there any tips or things to pay attention to? My wife sent out the invitation letter to her, alongside other documentations like bank statements, international passports and all. Please help me my people, is wedding invitation a solid ground to be granted B1/B2 visa? Is there anything we should consider? Can my status in the US affect things?

N.B. She will only be staying for 3 weeks.

TheCongo2:
Some people with no travel history have been given US visa.
Conversely, some people with extended travel history have been denied visas.

So travelling to Ghana, Kinshasa, Mogadishu ... before applying for US visa may or my not help.

mrnatural:
Hello everybody, greetings to you all most especially the person that created this thread. Been informative, educative and otherwise.

Straight to the point.
My wife and I got married August 2018. We plan on going to the US for our honeymoon.

I run a business here in Lagos with a registered company since 2012 and I have a eoburat turnover in my cooperate bank account
As for my wife, she's an interior decorator. She just finished her NYSC last year.

What if she gets pregnant in the process while waiting for our interview?

We have No travel history and both passports are virgin. As a matter of fact, her international passport just expired and she's going for a renewal.
Do we have to go to Ghana,Togo and Benin to disvirgin our passport or just apply with the virgin passport without any travel history?

And is it too late to go honeymoon now

NB: we haven't applied yet o. The travel should be around February 14th (Valentine)

greatgod2012: This is soooooo soooooo sad!
And this is a big lesson for all of us, both young and old.....no two individuals are d same, d rate at which we absorb issues differ, when some pple are bullied, they bounce back to d bully with full, fuller and fullest force, that even d first bully will regret ever bullying them, while, some cant absorb at all, you bully them, they start thinking of how to permanently avoid you, either by taking their lives or by totally avoiding having anything to do with d bully.........that is what psychologists call....individual differences.
And since we might not know d type of person we are dealing with, whether strong willed or weak willed, its advisable to try and avoid bullying our fellow human beings, because, we might just get more than what we bargained for, just like this case.
May God help us all.
May d soul of d departed rest in peace.

freecocoa: Hmm is this really happening in Naija? Shey na because na big man pikin die ni?

Well its all good, i just hope this will teach others a lesson on how to do things right.

ogbeche77: Some of us, our tv dey always shock... Make we still lay hand on top am like that... Abi can I hold my remote.