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please ladiez! ladiez!!...

dont let "risks" become the new "norm".
these fit-to-fly policies are'nt made on lighter note.
37 weeks is cutting it too close...
plus, the fact that someone played a gangster move on POE and made it out with a straight face doesnt make it fool proof...lets try and do the right thing at the right time.
best regards in all y'all missionary journeys.

ozycy:
another gangster move. Houston POE here I come . How did they manage to allow you fly at 37weeks plus or they didn't notice that in your fit to fly? I want to fly at 36 weeks if possible 37 did dey send you to port health?

Oooh meehn! U should b given a medal 4 bravery
Wow...
Buh then again u had access to Internet banking real time, docs n hospital correspondence, budget sheet. ..I think those were ur tactical nukes n ace cards wch beat em n affirms your genuineness.
Cos logically there weren't so much holes in ur story. ..they are a cashless society n it's just 4 our own authenticity that they require physical cash minium at POE for us sef. .
Big ups n best of luck. ..
Give my best regards to ur lil one wen he/she arrive.

lala4sure:
Part two (secondary inspection) please bear with my long story of life but I have been getting emails To post my Houston POE experience so I had to make out this time
Good luck to everyone. Na baby arrival we dey wait ni

Wow!
You carry 9/11 waka enter d big Apple without due diligence or proper quote from hospital and doctor. ..
Meehn u gangster. ..I hail...
Jejely hollandaise at ur poeps for assist or yet ..be ready to exile ursef from d states after medicaid. ..
Lol.

Seriously though. ..u gotta think ursef outta this. Cos truly. ..no one here can really do much about fishing u outta this corner u gat ursef in.

Yonkers:
Una do well for the reply oooo. Thank you.

When hospital dey call big big money.
E dey make person head confuse.
I dey US already.
The city hospital when I see for New York say VD- mother na 4500$ child na 2500$ per day. No discount. This na the cheapest so far.

And I non get reach that amount now. So I need them to send money from najia
Although still checking for other hospital

Make Una non vex.

Thank you.

Wow. .. LME, day one intro n you already tagged an umpire in the boxing ring. ...no oooh. ....tk it easy.

Try n understand guinivere's point of view. ...she's rather she teach you how to screen the waters n catch the best fishes of your choice than feed a fish crumbs that feel of the table. ...

It's tough n cumbersome buh I'd advice n reiterate he recommendation for you to go back n read the pages. ..if you are a lazy reader like I am, then just start from page one of part 2 of this thread. I believe by the time you run it up to page 197, you will of your own volition go and visit part 1 of it cos then you'd grasp the wealth of information you are missing out on.

Good luck with reading. ..and feel free to check up on us anytime cos by then you would ve jumpedthe band wagon of folks looking for who to bring em remote from sitting room..lol (I just gotta say that. .haven't read any funny stunts today n I'm missing unwind time)....

I'll be looking out for ya. .I know by the end of Sept you wudda joined d NL vets club. ..goodspeed best n seamless carrying of your lil one in gud faith whilst his/her blue pali is cooking well. ..

LME2614:
@ladyGuinivere haba, didn't insult you ooooo, besides I have seen people become friends on the trend. No vex if I sounded somehow. In fact I will tag you in all my questions.
Biko answer me calmly.

kwaret babe there!!!!
.... congrats on your safe flight in good faith..

see how u dey waste d bandwidth not using it.

we re waiting jare..

joining you on saturday august 1st landing... buh we re taking off on thursday July 30th.... spending d whole day resting in dubai..

we ll surely look you up..

Terese69:
Omo! This Emirates Isrealite journey shaaaa!!! Its a good thing you are splitting your journey o. Oh well, I am almost there, 30mins to landing in Dallas.

Successful POE story coming up soon by God's grace. Wish me luck.

PS: I just realised that there is wifi on the flight

abeg! abeg!! abeg!!!... dude duder dudest!!!
no make dem come cross leg follow us sitdon until near EDD and deprive us of the 1 month bachelorhood again ... with no work n rest naa..
if she sights this one.. be sure of getting you a forced leave and chaining you along side ooh...
hahahaha....

*stretching at my desk....#yawns..

shawlar:
lol, my own na
I can't sleep...
midnight massages...
Why is d AC off..?? (even though im sneezing and my nose is wetter than a dogs own)
and she no dey crave for things wey u fit buy near the house, U gotz drive 4 hours in Lagos traffic b4 u c am buy

I swear these are some of the additional reasons why I subscribed to the US birth thingy.
Make I first relax for the next 4/5 weeks b4 going to join her over there

*sighs* The 'joys' of pregnancy...

nowadays, hmm.. we dudes help our babes carry the pregnancy as well ooh...
*rub my tommy..
*get the remote...
*nightly massage....
*daily leg rubs...
*cravings...
do you want me to go on?....
i just tut u were one of us few dudes in the house....

dudes in the hux, i lie? we are very pregnant oooh lol

modath:
How many pregnant "bros" do you know ??

I am not James Beattie, "on your marks, get set, Google.

boss,

you are forgetting an angle to this, the choice whether or not to reside in the states and/or enjoy the benefits is entirely yours.
simply put, the states prepared a buffet for you (for which it is mandatory you pay as long as you are a guest*citizen) however if/not you eat from the table is totally your call.

there is a very easy way out of it... drop the blue if you dont like d conditions.. lets not be claiming the US citizen name n not wanna pay the piper when its required of us.

shawlar:
@shelly,

Let me give you a scenario - Imagine you earn like 2million naira a year and you where born in the US but has never gone back since birth. You are therefore a US/Nigerian Dual National. Out of your annual income, lets say u pay like 100k (an assumption) a year as tax to the Nigerian govt for the socail amenities you enjoy here. (Which amenities I know, I know - please indulge me )

Due to the fact that you are also a US citizen, you have to pay another (lets say) 60k to the US govt [b]every year [/b]even though you have not benefitted 4rm any of their social amenities since you have never gone there.

A dual EU/Nigerian national resident in Nigeria would not have that additional tax to pay. If you think its a small amount, multiply it by the no of years one intends to live..

There is nothing wrong in paying tax. I am certainly not against it as long as I get to enjoy the benefits. This is the reason why most of us complain/grumble when we pay tax in Nigeria, cos we are enjoying next to nothing from the govt..

bro... 2-3m is even on the extremely prudent ones...

others have gone and debitted themselve of well over 9-10m sef....
this missionary journey is a project all on its own...
buh then again.. we as parents are ready to do anything for our lil' ones...

modath:
@Ralphlauren,

You do realise you are preaching to the choir

Folks here have weighed their pros & cons & have made their choices...No one(unless with unfettered access to stolen govt funds ) will want to spend 2-3m without doing a proper introspection. ..

This is being done to give the children an option in case the Country refuses to improve (my case & the visaless rntry to 177 countries will not hurt either).. Nothing stops anyone from renouncing citizenship , Tina Turner did not long ago, so whats the fuss? My 2k...

nice one there!..
however, logically looking at it from your apparent point of view, may i point to the fact that on the premise of one holding a dual citizenship (UK/EU & US on this ground) you are entitled to benefits of both states.
now its a whole different ball game altogether but the simple logic is that your tax is used to ensure that the entitlements / benefits due u as a citizen are available when needed however when, where, and how you need it is up to you. you are paying taxes for the entitlements, bear in mind that its not a "pay as you go" thing.

do you pay your insurance only when you have planned to have an accident and make insurance claims over a period?

trust me i am not sentimental about my arguments so don't think i am.

but then again, if you feel the FACTA is causing you double taxation and perceive it as a rip off, you could easily denounce one of the citizenship and stick with the other. the fact that you are holding on to both of them is because it is beneficial to you. that is a plus all on it own..

please feel free to school me so i can dust off my keyboard n employ google search engine..

infact i dey jealous you weh get US & UK/EU.... me na kpako naija garage (not even kuma church sef) rat i be..

peace mahn.!

Ralphlauren:
you are wrong there.

i have dual citizenship and i am under no obligation to pay any taxes to the nigerian government - legally or otherwise.

as long as you do not work/reside in a country or enjoy any 'benefits' from that country, there is no reason why you should pay taxes in that country and that is why FATCA rubs off on so many people in the wrong way.

i insist again that my post is directed at parents with citizenship of another developed country and not parents with only nigerian citizenship, so spare me the whole okada/life expectancy argument I am not here to convince you lot not to go to the US to have your kids. However, i am sure there will be a few people here that have learnt one or two things from my posts.

it pointless having a child live and work in UK/EU and pay taxes in the UK/EU while at the same time paying taxes to the US government (a country where he or she does not live or derive any benefits from). So parents holding a foreign citizenship should think twice before going through this US route - Canada right now, is a better alternative.

Greetings guys.
While I admire the valuable research n information, I believe it is obligatory and a civic responsibility to pay your taxes to your country(s). As such of u re a dual citizen, u don't have a choice than to pay taxes to both states because you are entitled to d civic benefits of both.
Plus if you are going to a foreign country to work it's illegal for one not to pay tax. As such in as much as letting the poeps know, it's really not so much as a negating factor on whether or not one should embark in d missionary journey on that premise.

because we in naija pay lil or no tax n gets nothing in return from d govt, in developed countries every penny of ur tax money is accounted for in a whole lot of entitlements which we over here are yet to even dream of.

Take for example, a John doe was hit by just a mere okada could stay beside d road n bleed to death n not stand a chance to life, ... that's near impossible over there. ...where med evac functions like breeze. ... if not for anything the life expectancy as a citizen beats ours jare lets face d fact.
So if paying my kido's taxes grants him those opportunity/privileges n more, sure y not!

Peace meehn. ...
Keep feeding us info n best regards to you n y'alls

shawlar:
Its amazing that most peeps on this forum don't know about US tax laws or the FATCA and how it affects their lil ones
For me, it was one of the major aspects of this US birth thingy that I considered extensively b4 making up my mind



I'll post some additions to what @Ralphlauren posted later. Just know this, your lil americana will pay taxes to the US govt for life....

..unless he renounces sha,

more later

abeg @Ralphlauren how person go take get EU/UK passport..?
My wife never travel #itsnottoolate

its actually true...

made a couple of payments as per accommodation and stuff... and they charge just over N199+ to the dollar.

woaini:
Really? . That sounds too good to be true.
amazing deal!

Doctors fees are non specific.
Diff docs with their own fees. .buh ur averages abt $2,300.00 give or take


[quote author=yuugo post=35900933][/quote]

hi...

yeah we are sept.

travelling this month's end. all set

i am getting a failure delivery on your replied pm..

you can try contacting me directly on
olokings@yahoo.com

Lalaska:
Wow, thanks for this. Well appreciated. If you're August/September, my wife could meet up with you then.

Hellos. .
Find attached. ... I emailed the hospital and their financial counselor responded with the attached.

I tried replying ur pm buh apparently yahoo is having their normal log in glitches again. ..
I how this helps.
As per physician, you have a lot of choices. ..
Any further info pls feel free to consult the veterans I bliv u know dem..

Lalaska:
[Hi Olokings please how much is the quote from Doctors hospital, im considering using them. Called severally but no response from the hospital. Trying to send you a pm. Thanks

quote author=olokings post=35803437]okie... this is just ... wow!

okie... this is just ... wow!

kaakaa:
Hand fan

you!

people are trading market in amazon, walmart et al.. na superbowl u wan enter abi..?!

nefertitiram:
Abeg shift small lemme manage ds space with you
Is the popcorn salted?

Hey.
1. Send the embassy a notification email on change of travel purpose.
2. Get in touch with an hospital to get quote and correspondence.
3. Get appointment from an ob/gyn as well as correspondence.
4. Prepare your funds. ..

Research the thread wch I believe contains answers to most questions may arise.

algfred:
Hello Mamas and FAthers in the house. This trend post to me has been very helpful and seam to build once confidence on subject matter. But some thing still dey confusing to me. We have been to the usa once (last year) now madam want to go to NY for child birth she is Oct. Mum. After reading the reply the embassy sent to some guy on this trend. Saying its POE dat determines once elegebility. My question is do i still need to send dem same email to get same answer? Pls advise. And secondly how much cash in usd does madam need to hold cos we are not paying from naija untilk she reach NY. Thanks and urgently looking for answers to our concerns. God bless all the mamas una too much

Noted.
@myelle pardon/sorry d joke's on u ystrday....we just being human prankin abt.
I hope u sorted ur atm funds issues dou. ..
Fellow shooters, watch your back cos now eyes are on us else we get a WMD in the face. ...
It's a happy sunny Sunday y'all. ..

FinanceFitness:
Agreed, jests are needed, but then again at whose expense? Myelle could not have found it funny - look at her response.

I also agree with teaching people how to fish and all, but it really shouldn't be through direct or indirect insults. A simple response to say, why not try their website should be more appropriate. The responses were not in that direction - please read them again.

Folks have directed people appropriately without giving then answers on this thread, that was not the case with your post and some others in this instance.

Greetings.
No offence, buh on as much as dt series of post started as a mild reprimand/correction, the following were just folks taking an opportunity to kid around n unwind from all the seriousness (which was achieved cos truth be told we had a good laugh from funny line of thoughts, not at mylle buh at what we could think up et al).

Buh then again, it's said the best you can do for someone who needs #fish isn't really giving them fish but how to catch the fish n cook it for themselves. ...

Truly I must say with the lil time I've spent on NL ystrday was like d only time counted wch I just saw fellows kick back n just have fun without fighting. ...pls i commend mylle because the whole session wudda gone the other way. .. I bet even she was laughing at some point. ..lol
peace fellas. ..

FinanceFitness:
I don't know which I find most intriguing. Granted, myelle asked a question she could have googled - but she got a response in one post. On the other hand the jests, sarcasm, reprimand e.t.c that followed took multiples of posts - mine included.

So I'm here wondering- what's the purpose of this reprimand? Is it really to make the thread compact? If yes, what's the difference between Myelle and others? If just irritation - why should anyone be personally irritated on a free for all faceless forum?

My view on this is therefore that if someone posts a question that irritates you, just ignore and let the ones who are more tolerant respond. No need being indirectly abusive in my view.

See me see market ooh. .
I dey find pin mouth charger, you are telling me about amazon prime. ....if I wanted transformers I ll goto box office na. ....or even cinema serf. ...

Oya oya! !!... back to the matter. ... please nlers if you got real topic bekoo present am. .

We have played plenty today. .

anonymousmum:
Hmm you are one of them, lol ...Why don't you try Amazon. Do One Day delivery using Prime...problem solved

Abeg who know where dem dey sell blackberry javeline or pin mouth Nokia charger for Manhattan. ..?
Everybody here dey form big man the stores here no get am...
Dudes in the house, please help as I no fit send big madam maw by this time!

Once in a whole we just need to crack up and de-stress.. lol

U guys really got me laughing n exercising my ribs this evening. ..afternoon for those weh dey up yonder obodoyibo!

Abeg who know where dem dey sell blackberry javeline or pin north Nokia charger for Manhattan. ..?
Everybody here dey form big man the stores here no get am...
Dudes in the house, please help as I no fit send big madam maw by this time!

Once in a whole we just need to crack up and de-stress.. lol

U guys really got me laughing n exercising my ribs this evening. ..afternoon for those weh dey up yonder obodoyibo!

Nairaland is the new Google. ...

Sooner or later or it ll be
"Please can someone locate my hux and help me get my TV remote from the sitting room!

anonymousmum:
seriously though? on this thread

Hi.
I'm using doctors hospital at white rock lake dallas.
Ob/gyn options re Dr Esedebe n Dr Denis Abbas.

Others include:
Arlington medical center, Arlington
JPS hospital, FW dallas. ..
You could check them out.

I'll still be in dallas by Sept when u coming in..hola

Pm me for more details.


@terese69 I guess I'd be joining u in dallas by the month's end.
Where are u putting up.?
I n myy family will be staying at kozi Corporate Apartments, Lenox at West village, uptown dallas.
Let's hook up.

aolatunde00:
Hello Olokings,I would appreciate if you can help with some doctors" contact in Dallas.im a nov mum and will be travelling in sep.
Thank you.

Okie. ..
I'm in transit now. ...will respond accordingly later in the day.

aolatunde00:
Hello Olokings,I would appreciate if you can help with some doctors" contact in Dallas.im a nov mum and will be travelling in sep.
Thank you.

She collected using my account.

[quote author=Toks07 post=35643874][/quote]

I used the branch at ceddi plaza. Buh apparently all of their major branches in Abuja does it.
I bought using my passport n after I maxed out on d limit, I bought using my wife's passport...
Apparently u can use a relative's passport and ticket as long as both personalities are there.
The guy made me called wifey out to meet me up at the branch n physically collect d Benjamins.

PS: I have ran the account 9 years going now.


[quote author=spagg56 post=35637244][/quote]

hmmm.. this is getting serious...

happy i did PTA with fidelity more than enough at 198.95 to the dollar.....

boy.. this is scary.. make we begin hoard USD keep underground for farm ooh.. lol

teeboy95:
who give you that kind gist

Terese69:
Oh that's great. Did you find any cheaper docs/hospitals too or are you still banking on Dr. Michael?

at the moment.. i am sticking with Doctors Hospital Dallas and gonna hang on to Michael.

although when i arrive dallas i ll take a day or two to finalise options on physicians before checking in with dr. michael.

Terese69:
10 days before you...

okey then.. thats kool..
apparently #spykid got me taking a whole new perspective into scaning the net for new better deals as regards accommodation in dallas and i must say i have found a few.

guess whats left now is to place calls over to them and see what happens there on..

have a safe flight n smooth POE experience..