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Liverpool have agreed a £16m fee with AC
Milan to sign former Manchester City striker
Mario Balotelli.
Reds boss Brendan Rodgers wants the Italy
international, 24, to strengthen his attack after
last season's top scorer Luis Suarez joined
Barcelona.
Balotelli moved to Milan for £19m from City last
year and has scored 30 goals in 54 games for
the Serie A club.
Liverpool travel to Etihad Stadium in their next
Premier League match on Monday.
Negotiations are still taking place to agree terms
with the player, but Balotelli has already said
his farewells in Italy.
Milan said in a statement on their website:
"Mario Balotelli left Milanello's sporting centre at
13:30 local time, after saying goodbye to his
team-mates.
"Before leaving the premises, the striker has
said goodbye to members of Milan's press
office."
The life of Mario
Balotelli joins
Manchester City in
August 2010 for
£24m from Inter
Milan. He scores 30
goals in 80 games
and helps the club
win their first Premier
League title.
He struggles with
discipline at City
and is involved in a
training-ground
altercation with
then-manager
Roberto Mancini,
prompting his
departure.
AC Milan sign
Balotelli from City
in January 2013 for
£19m, and the
striker goes on to
score 30 goals in 54
games.
Having impressed for
Italy during Euro
2012, scoring twice in
the semi-finals, he
nets the winner
against England at
the 2014 Fifa World
Cup in Brazil.
Balotelli was a big hit with City supporters during
his first spell in England, helping the club win a
first league title since 1968.
But he was also in the headlines for several off-
the-pitch incidents - including a training-ground
bust-up with then-manager Roberto Mancini.
In his second season in Manchester, he scored
only three goals in 20 games.
The striker agreed a four-and-a-half-year deal
with Milan in January 2013, and played for Italy
at the World Cup in Brazil.
He was heavily linked with Arsenal earlier in the
summer, but after bringing in Alexis Sanchez
from Barcelona for £35m, Arsene Wenger ruled
out signing another forward.
Liverpool have so far brought in only one
frontman for the new campaign, signing Rickie
Lambert from Southampton for £4m.
The Reds paid £10m for Lille's Belgium striker
Divock Origi, 19, but have loaned him back to
the French club for the season.
With doubts surrounding the future of Fabio
Borini, who remains a target for Sunderland,
Rodgers is keen to add to his forward line.
"I do still think we need another striker," he
said after Liverpool began their Premier League
campaign with a 2-1 victory over Southampton.
"It is something that we will look at, but it will
depend on the availability of one.
"We will search through to the end of the
transfer window."
AC Milan endured a difficult campaign last
season, finishing eighth in Serie A and failing to
qualify for Europe.
Balotelli would be guaranteed Champions
League football at Liverpool, who finished
runners-up to City in the Premier League last
term.

VisaOfficer: Good morning Politico,

To give you an idea of wait times once cases are documentarily complete at NVC: They've already scheduled September cases here, but I'm expecting them to ask us any day now if we can take more cases in October (which we can). So a case that is eligible (its priority date is before the cutoff date) and documentarily complete today, could be scheduled for an interview in October.

If a father files for his children and they're not all scheduled on the same day, we often receive requests to do all the interviews on the same day -- the earliest day. Those requests are always granted*. It's easier for the applicants and easier for us.


*Okay, so if one of the children is married and over 21 (F3), and the rest are single and under 21 (IR2), we can't expedite the F3 because his case won't be current yet. But we'll happily see all the current cases on the same day.

Thanks for ur prompt reply Super- VO

There's no case of F3 cos the petitioner is an LPR. But another question is some of the children have their own children now though they are not married to their spouses, I hope dat wont work againt them. Thanks.

VisaOfficer: Greetings! You asked whether we will reduce IV wait times in light of the delay at NVC. Well.... the delay at NVC is going to be what causes longer wait times at post. I'm not disrespecting my colleagues at NVC -- they process millions of cases from all over the world, and are working hard to do it more quickly and accurately. But there's nothing we can do, out here, to make things faster back there, or to cut wait times. We take whatever they give us as soon as they have it ready.

For scheduling purposes, I think of visas as IV, DV, Ks, and adoptions. (There are all sorts of other things that we see every week, but these four are the main ones.) NVC sends us the IV cases -- basically, everything but Diversity Visas, fiance cases, and adoptions. DVs, of course, come from KCC. Both KCC and NVC ask posts ahead of time how many appointments we can handle in a given month, and if they end up having more than we ask for, they ask us if we can add appointment slots. ( In Lagos we say "Yes, we can!" ) Fiance (K) applicants schedule themselves online. There's no wait for a K appointment in Lagos right now, by the way; we have plenty of open appointments. Adoption petitions come to us from the National Benefits Center, and we contact petitioners and let them tell us when they want to come in. We're nice that way.

So non-DV immigrant visa cases are sort of all grouped together, because NVC sends us whatever they have ready to go each month (IR1s, F2Bs, E5s, you name it). We send them a list of dates that looks like "Oct. 9: 25 applicants 7:00 AM and 15 applicants 10:00 AM," and they send us the cases.

That's probably way more information than you were looking for.

Hello VO,
1.Pls i'll like to ask how much time (days/weeks/months) does it take the embassy to schedule someone for an interview after the case's been completed at NVC.

2.Again if a father file for his children, are they all goin to av their interview together, considering thay av different case number. Or its goin to be conducted differently prolly not the same day?
Thanks for helping people from the hands of touts. God bless.