Visa approved on the 11th of July,8am appointment.so sorry its coming late,better late than never.
I was denied B2 visa last year April and was also denied F1 visa last month June.
I got to the Lagos embassy around 7am, those guys at the gate were telling me ehn 'have you photocopied ur international passport,you need to arrange your documents and staple them together',in my mind I was like see this one o,i be customers for this side o...just shift one side abeg(please guys don't let them confuse or deceive u,u don't need any photocopy of your international passport- I asked him how much the photocopy was sef, he said 1k. I was like shoooooo,issokay!!!. You also don't need any arrangements for your documents,you will be told what u need to arrange while on the queue.Just ignore those guys abeg,one even went as far as telling me not to mention to the VO that i searched for the school myself,I should tell them it was recommended by my uncle who is an almuni of the school.I was like ehen,thank you.I had to sit down somewhere first to calm my nerves,then i dropped my bag with those people outside-paid #500.

I was interviewed by the woman in window 7,late 50's. The VO in window 5 was just giving out blue papers,in my mind I was telling God that I am not leaving this place with my passport today o,I really do not care who interviews me.
It sha got to my turn after standing on the queue for close to 3hours.

Me:good morning
(I don't know if she answered or not, no wahala,that is not why I am here)
VO:have i spoken with you before(I don't know why she asked tho cos on those 2 occassions that i was denied,she wasn't the one that interviewed me)
me:No
VO:pass me your passport and I-20
VO: what is your highest level of qualification
me:Bsc. Computer Science
VO:when did you graduate
me:2015
VO:what have you been doing since then
me:After graduation,i had an internship at ***, i later left for my NYSC and just completed that April this year.Now i work as an ICT instructor or at *** computer institute
VO:So why did you choose Oklahoma state university
me:i chose OSU because of the quality research that is being carried out at the bioinformatics resource facility of the school,the facility has a lot of researchers employing big data analytics tools to tackle issues like extraction,interpretation and analysis of biological data.I have also been in contact with Dr.Thomas,the program cordinator ,one of his research area is big data analytics.I contacted him before applying to the sch and after exchanging mails for a while,he encouraged me to put forward my application.
VO:how many schools did you apply to
me:4
VO:how many gave you admission
me:2
VO:Who will be sponsoring you
me:my brother
VO:what does he do
me:told her
VO:where will you be staying
me:on campus
She started typing away on her computer and was muttering something to herself,i heard her saying that I have been denied twice,so i quickly told her that yes i was denied twice,last year and this year.I stopped there...didn't go into details
VO:she was like yes,i can see that,am checking your previous applications
As i stood there while she was typing,I kept staring at her and praying in my mind.
AND NOW THIS IS MY TESTIMONY
She picked one of the blue papers and folded it and was about to put it in my passport and pass to me,my mind just cut here.I was like God i know you are faithful still sha but why nah?
All of a sudden- I don't know what happened,she just dropped the blue paper and picked one of the white ones and was smiling and saying something i- didn't really understand,maybe because immediately i saw her picking up the white paper I kinda went blank and it was like i was floating on air.I sharpaly grab the white paper and ran out before she changes her mind.

A big thank you to the beautiful people here.(Texrem,Lagosismyhome) you guys are too much,its only God that can reward you.
Am sorry my transcript is long.Typing this on a BRT queue(apologies for any typo)

Ability247:


Congrats bro. Congrats

Am not a bro o... Lol

Visa approved this morning at Lagos consulate.... Transcript loading. Olowogbogboro did it

emmy994:
Pls gurus in the house. Happy Sunday to u all. Pls am having issues with my DS 160. I entered the phone number of the person paying for my trip and it's displaying an error message saying :telephone number accepts only digits 0-9. I have been trying it since last night. I have also tried 23480...,234080.... It's still not accepting it. Pls who do I enter the number cos I have tried different ways. Thanks. Lagosismyhome abeg help out

Check and be sure there are no white spaces before and in between the numbers

bigfrancis21:


To me, your prior b1/b2 visa application to visit your fiancé smells of immigrant intent (the visa officer's thoughts: she is only applying for this student visa to join her fiance abroad, seeing that she was denied the b1/b2 visa last year, she may not have any intent to study). Honestly you didn't have to give all that extra explanation after you answered 'yes' to his question, except if he asked you further why you applied for that visa. Keep your answers simple, short and straight to the point. Giving more information than necessary gives room for you to say something that could strike against you.

Asides that, everything else you answered looks good. I'd say try again. Or it could just be that you were unlucky and met the wrong visa officer.

There was no extra explanation, I just said yes. The explanation was meant for Nairalanders

bigfrancis21:


To me, your prior b1/b2 visa application to visit your fiancé smells of immigrant intent (the visa officer's thoughts: she is only applying for this student visa to join her fiance abroad, seeing that she was denied the b1/b2 visa last year, she may not have any intent to study). Honestly you didn't have to give all that extra explanation after you answered 'yes' to his question, except if he asked you further why you applied for that visa. Keep your answers simple, short and straight to the point. Giving more information than necessary gives room for you to say something that could strike against you.

Asides that, everything else you answered looks good. I'd say try again. Or it could just be that you were unlucky and met the wrong visa officer.

There was no extra explanation, I just said yes. The explanation was made want for Nairalanders

LagosismyHome:


The bold did you say it , or you just said Yes or it was noted on your previous DS160 .... If you said it with your mouth then maybe that was too much information .

This thing is just how questions are been asked and in what manner ......... The first questions and answers already raises a red flag ........ you tried to go see your finance you were not given so now let try with student visa ......Not that anything is wrong but it can raise a flag.......... It can set the tone of any interview to go down as the followup questions shows your work experience has nothing to do with Computer as such even though its your first degree .

In this case you might not have done anything wrong but just the tone of the whole line of questioning .... you could have meet another VO with totally different sets of questions that would have gone in your favour ... I cannot give any feedback but to say you can only hope for another VO who asks you questions that goes in your favour .

No I didn't say it with my mouth, I just said Yes

LagosismyHome:


I am very bad with pm.....fear dey catch me to check that email self . The pm is too much

When people see u comment here they forget u too get life outside NL.... demanding job , pickins, hubby, house to run... so sorry if i dont get to pm on time. Will try but i am best reached here

I understand ma
My interview is scheduled for Monday by 6:30am at Walter Carrington. My brother just sent me his acc statement today (I have the scanned copy), he is in the UK. Is it possible for the document to get here by Friday and(DHL) if it doesn't, can I still go for my interview?

LagosismyHome:


Hummmm actually a good point

I sent u a PM