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Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 16 by NigPatriot(m): 6:22pm On Apr 15, 2021
websta:
Please I need your help urgently. I have been trying to reach you but I couldn't. My visa was denied in abj on Monday. please can you mail me or PM since I can't PM you. I have something important I need your advice about. Thanks.

Sorry for the delay, please share your transcript if you can. Thanks
Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 16 by NigPatriot(m): 6:24pm On Apr 15, 2021
anjyy:
Please advise, I just got a Fully Funded US PhD scholarship Offer but I have one month to put to bed
The program is expected to start by Fall September 2021.

Please help

I don't how to go about the visa applications.


congratulations on your full funding - that's a remarkable feat. In providing answers to your question, I wouldn't want you to get nervous and make the wrong choice.

Let's assume June is your expected time of delivery. you still have ample time since your school resumes by September. So don't fret! You definitely will be going with your baby, so you have to plan for that. If your husband is willing to go with you, then that's perfect. he will be coming with you using the F2 dependents visa, you all can apply together, even attend the interview together. For visa applications, get all your passports ready ( inclusive of your newborn - I hear there has been a shortage of this recently due to the breach of contract between FG and the Malaysian manufacturers, but then it shouldn't wary of you). Process your i-20 and get it shipped or mailed to you, pay your sevis fee, book a visa appointment date, but I will advise you birth first before picking a date for your visa interview.

Deferment of your admission to Spring 2022 is another option if you think you're not fully ready for September or fear being overwhelmed, but please relay this information to your graduate coordinator, the aim is to keep in touch and carry your school along - That funding is very key, even in deferment, your funding position can still be preserved for you.

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Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 16 by marcojnr: 6:35pm On Apr 15, 2021
Hello guys I’m filling my DS160 and I realized I have Information Technology 11.0103 on my I-20 but my course in itself is Information Systems and Business Analytics .
Please house, which one should I enter on my DS160
Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 16 by Gracilicutes: 6:48pm On Apr 15, 2021
Jukwasi:
I submitted student's copy. What's your course. They have general assistantship application which you can fill online. Go to google and type WIU graduate assistantship form and then fill it. It requires recommendation letter and Sop also. So if you have submitted recommendation and sop before don't submit again. There are some you can apply separately too, contact your department. I applied 5th march. No assistantship for now, I am still hoping to get by God's grace. You have to call them fast before they end fall admission decision. They are almost done. Call the graduate school and complain and it will be attended to like wildfire.
i applied also on the 5th of march, public health, do you mean is better i call them
Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 16 by Slim4Rehani(f): 7:08pm On Apr 15, 2021
Davsidoo:
Hello guys, pls I need your assistance.

The instructions before filling the Visa application is that it must tally with the Ds - 160.

I chose Lagos as the location where I'll be applying for Visa in the Ds-160. However, in my Visa application, I chose Abuja and this was because there isn't space available in Lagos anymore. Infact I still have to apply for emergency interview by June.

Do I have to start another visa application with Lagos in it or this won't have any effect?

Pls help guys


I did the same so there is no cause for alarm
Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 16 by Slim4Rehani(f): 7:09pm On Apr 15, 2021
marcojnr:
Hello guys I’m filling my DS160 and I realized I have Information Technology 11.0103 on my I-20 but my course in itself is Information Systems and Business Analytics .
Please house, which one should I enter on my DS160

You will use what you have on your i-20
Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 16 by osadestiny: 7:11pm On Apr 15, 2021
Please I'm asking for someone who is in need of this. Is black and white photocopy of the ds-160 printout page acceptable in the embassy?
Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 16 by anjyy(f): 7:29pm On Apr 15, 2021
NigPatriot:


congratulations on your full funding - that's a remarkable feat. In providing answers to your question, I wouldn't want you to get nervous and make the wrong choice.

Let's assume June is your expected time of delivery. you still have ample time since your school resumes by September. So don't fret! You definitely will be going with your baby, so you have to plan for that. If your husband is willing to go with you, then that's perfect. he will be coming with you using the F2 dependents visa, you all can apply together, even attend the interview together. For visa applications, get all your passports ready ( inclusive of your newborn - I hear there has been a shortage of this recently due to the breach of contract between FG and the Malaysian manufacturers, but then it shouldn't wary of you). Process your i-20 and get it shipped or mailed to you, pay your sevis fee, book a visa appointment date, but I will advise you birth first before picking a date for your visa interview.

Deferment of your admission to Spring 2022 is another option if you think you're not fully ready for September or fear being overwhelmed, but please relay this information to your graduate coordinator, the aim is to keep in touch and carry your school along - That funding is very key, even in deferment, your funding position can still be preserved for you.


Thank you for this insights.

Is it true that a baby must be 6 months before it can be granted Visa?

How true?
Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 16 by Jukwasi: 7:31pm On Apr 15, 2021
Gracilicutes:
i applied also on the 5th of march, public health, do you mean is better i call them
With no hesitation. Call them immediately.
Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 16 by iire(f): 8:20pm On Apr 15, 2021
Hello guys I have a question, what does it mean when you are given a white paper but your passport was returned to you?. To be mailed to them later
Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 16 by horlahsunbo225(m): 8:36pm On Apr 15, 2021
iire:
Hello guys I have a question, what does it mean when you are given a white paper but your passport was returned to you?. To be mailed to them later
Maybe you were told to send additional document or your 120 days has not started
Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 16 by BirdieBeaz(m): 8:59pm On Apr 15, 2021
Hello House!

Does anyone know of cheap hotels around 5k which are close to Abuja Embassy. Thanks for your insights!
Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 16 by Choncoo: 9:05pm On Apr 15, 2021
BirdieBeaz:
Hello House!

Does anyone know of cheap hotels around 5k which are close to Abuja Embassy. Thanks for your insights!


New Rendezvous 6k-8k
Pridemark 10k

I don't know if there's a hotel for 5k

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Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 16 by obajoey(m): 9:39pm On Apr 15, 2021
Pls house,
What are the likely questions that could asked by the interviewer during a GA interview?

Pls kindly be of help.
Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 16 by Nobody: 9:49pm On Apr 15, 2021
James241:
Please can I change the sponsor name i used to received my I-20 to another name when filling ds160? Because am having issue with the sponsor. Hope it will not be a problem for me

No! Do not change the sponsor's name otherwise it might be a straight denial. Experience from a friend.

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Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 16 by Ikenna04: 9:57pm On Apr 15, 2021
Schrodinger1:


No! Do not change the sponsor's name otherwise it might be a straight denial. Experience from a friend.
do you mean the part of who's paying for your trip because I put my father's name. But my sponsor is my aunt. Is that a problem
Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 16 by kastgeraldino: 10:11pm On Apr 15, 2021
Hey guys. So my school's MBA was made a STEM MBA (many MBA programs are becoming STEM), and this necessitated some changes to the I-20 that I got since last year. But I noticed that the description under Major 1 is Management Science and does not mention Business Administration. So can I still say I'm going for an MBA to a visa officer?
Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 16 by Bigsecret(f): 10:31pm On Apr 15, 2021
obajoey:
Pls house,
What are the likely questions that could asked by the interviewer during a GA interview?

Pls kindly be of help.

Research, teaching or administrative assistantship?

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Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 16 by NigPatriot(m): 11:33pm On Apr 15, 2021
anjyy:

Please what does good home ties mean?

Yes, my husband works.

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Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 16 by martins2021: 3:34am On Apr 16, 2021
Good morning nairalander, please I need help on a research topic that has to do with information retrieval of text documents.I need someone with library and information science or a computer science programming expert either deep learning,Text retrieval congress (TREC) or extension mark up language (XML) the course has to do with digital libraries.Anyone with experience can pm me thanks
Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 16 by thekingofafrica: 4:53am On Apr 16, 2021
My fav forum, and I’m back after 4 months in Uncle Sam’s land, I bid everyone preparing for interview good luck and also Gods speed to those processing their admission, one topic we fail to discuss and I’ve barely seen on here is survival in the United States, this issue concerns those without a GA, I’d advise you get a survival skills, you’d need it I swear. You’d also need all the money you could come with, Let this thought resonant at a lower frequency in your mind as you go about processing your travels, I wish everyone the best.

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Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 16 by obajoey(m): 4:58am On Apr 16, 2021
Bigsecret:


Research, teaching or administrative assistantship?

Administrative.
Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 16 by sogba1145: 6:32am On Apr 16, 2021
Any university of Idaho PhD student on the forum, let us discuss and exchange ideas
Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 16 by iire(f): 7:01am On Apr 16, 2021
horlahsunbo225:

Maybe you were told to send additional document or your 120 days has not started
Thanks so much for replying but 120 days to what ?
Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 16 by James241: 7:31am On Apr 16, 2021
Pls how do you changed your sponsor's?
BabyI24:
Visa approved for masters in computer science
School: Maharishi international university

After passing my passport and i20
VO: where have you traveled to in the last one month?
Me: last time i traveled was in 2018.(he looked at all my passport pages) he asked me to thumbprint
VO: What’s your plan?
Me: (I assumed that was the question he asked because I did not hear and He already repeated the question twice) I replied I am going to Maharishi international university to obtain a degree in computer science).
VO: I can see your uncle is no longer sponsoring
ME: yes. I think I was denied because of that. My mother is cable of sponsoring me.
VO: what does she do?
Me: I said what she does
VO: can I see her bank statement?
Me: I passed the bank statement.
VO: what will this degree do for you?
Me: the degree will enable me apply to senior software developer position here in Nigeria.
VO: what’s your qualifications?
Me: I have a national diploma, higher national diploma and a bachelors degree all in computer science
VO: where will you be staying?
Me: will be staying in the school’s hostel.
VO: how much is your mother paying?
Me: my mother will be paying 5000 then the VO completes “then the you will pay up the remaining from your internship?” I said yes.
VO: has the school told you who you be working with?
Me: No. will be working with a company approved by the university
Note: all this while he read my i20 carefully and was on his computer too
VO: everything is fine from my end
VO: what do you do?
Me: I work as a front end developer at......
VO: this paper will direct you on how to pick your passport. He gave me my old passport, kept the new one.
And I said thank you.

That was it.

Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 16 by James241: 7:34am On Apr 16, 2021
Please how did VO know you changed your sponsor's?
BabyI24:
Visa approved for masters in computer science
School: Maharishi international university

After passing my passport and i20
VO: where have you traveled to in the last one month?
Me: last time i traveled was in 2018.(he looked at all my passport pages) he asked me to thumbprint
VO: What’s your plan?
Me: (I assumed that was the question he asked because I did not hear and He already repeated the question twice) I replied I am going to Maharishi international university to obtain a degree in computer science).
VO: I can see your uncle is no longer sponsoring
ME: yes. I think I was denied because of that. My mother is cable of sponsoring me.
VO: what does she do?
Me: I said what she does
VO: can I see her bank statement?
Me: I passed the bank statement.
VO: what will this degree do for you?
Me: the degree will enable me apply to senior software developer position here in Nigeria.
VO: what’s your qualifications?
Me: I have a national diploma, higher national diploma and a bachelors degree all in computer science
VO: where will you be staying?
Me: will be staying in the school’s hostel.
VO: how much is your mother paying?
Me: my mother will be paying 5000 then the VO completes “then the you will pay up the remaining from your internship?” I said yes.
VO: has the school told you who you be working with?
Me: No. will be working with a company approved by the university
Note: all this while he read my i20 carefully and was on his computer too
VO: everything is fine from my end
VO: what do you do?
Me: I work as a front end developer at......
VO: this paper will direct you on how to pick your passport. He gave me my old passport, kept the new one.
And I said thank you.

That was it.

Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 16 by Bigsecret(f): 7:39am On Apr 16, 2021
obajoey:


Administrative.
Okay.

* a detailed introduction of who you are and why you are interested in that position.


Look at Supervisory questions

* Your supervisory style ( when talking about this, use the STAR to give an example of a time you supervised people)
* what you like in a supervisor ( remember to emphasize that you can work with anyone while you state what you would like)

Look at time management questions ( emphasize prioritizing, flexibility)
Look at how to support students with different identities ( especially if your interview is Student life or Reslife)

How you deal with changes ( you can use Covid as an example for this. Just emphasize your ability to adapt and flexibility)

Some of them might even ask why you chose the school. So prepare for it as well

How you show support for students


And situation questions like

* describe a time when you worked with a difficult person

* describe a time when you worked independently

* describe your ideal work environment

* describe a time follow up made a difference

* describe a time you had to respond to a crisis situation

* if your position involves mediating conflicts, you might be asked to describe a time you mediated a conflict situation?




Go to the website of the department and be aware of what they do so you can tailor your responses to suit them.

Overall be sincere and natural.

I once told an interviewer that I had no idea what she was talking about ( I did not say it like this though) and funnily, I got the assistantship. One last thing I do is that I try to push the fact that Higher Education is different in Nigeria and this helped me in all my interviews. I wish you all the best!

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Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 16 by kelechi1771: 7:42am On Apr 16, 2021
Guy, Put the Information systems and business analytics. That's your course.
marcojnr:
Hello guys I’m filling my DS160 and I realized I have Information Technology 11.0103 on my I-20 but my course in itself is Information Systems and Business Analytics .
Please house, which one should I enter on my DS160
Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 16 by kelechi1771: 7:49am On Apr 16, 2021
Expedite now!!! Mine is in August too and i booked for october and expedited, so now i hve mine scheduled for May 27th. if you don't know how to expedite send me an email: kellyokpala17@gmail.com
Amat04:
For clarity please,

My start date is in August, and I was able to schedule an appointment for Ocotober.

Should I expedite now (because I'm hoping to fix my interview date for June ending, or I have to wait till that June ending to expedite?

Kindly do justice to this.

Thanks!


Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 16 by adesco2k9: 7:59am On Apr 16, 2021
[quote author=kelechi1771 post=100836287]Expedite now!!! Mine is in August too and i booked for october and expedited, so now i hve mine scheduled for May 27th. if you don't know how to expedite send me an email: kellyokpala17@gmail.com[/quote

I'm expecting it's like 60 days to ur resume date ]

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Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 16 by Bigsecret(f): 8:15am On Apr 16, 2021
[quote author=adesco2k9 post=100836521][/quote] Thank you for this information. Lagos or Abuja please?
Re: General USA Student Visa Enquiries-part 16 by BabyI24: 8:16am On Apr 16, 2021
James241:
Pls how do you changed your sponsor's?
While filling the Ds-160, I specified that my mum will be sponsoring me and on the interview day, I went with her bank statement

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