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Nozino:
As long as you’re still using a Nigerian passport, the ban applies to you.

Also consider why you want to move to the US. If you’re not going to an Ivy League or a top school, I’d strongly advise against it. It is better to do the Masters online than wasting money and time coming over unless you just want to live in the US.

Thanks a lot for this. It’s a T-20 MBA and plan is to use my OPT to work there for 2/3 years and head back to Canada.

NoLevel:
Thanks a lot for this. It’s a T-20 MBA and plan is to use my OPT to work there for 2/3 years and head back to Canada.

Unless it is fully funded or you can out rightly afford it, I won’t do it. Get your passport and move here. Or go to one of the good programs in Canada.

Ban will surely be over.

Poormanpikin:
Ban will surely be over.

Amen. It shouldn’t have taken this long. I blame Tinubu and APC

There’s 75 countries on the ban list, and are all black and brown nations. I’m not a Tinubu supporter, he’s incompetent but you can’t put this on him. Trump is just racist, he want only white immigrants in America.
Amen. It shouldn’t have taken this long. I blame Tinubu and APC[/quote]

mike1994reds:
There’s 75 countries on the ban list, and are all black and brown nations. I’m not a Tinubu supporter, he’s incompetent but you can’t put this on him. Trump is just racist, he want only white immigrants in America.
Amen. It shouldn’t have taken this long. I blame Tinubu and APC

There's only one thing he can do to get Nigeria off the ban, accepting third country deportees. US will fund their stay here in Nigeria but the Tinubu government rejected. Tinubu is completely incompetent.

Hi guys I need help with paying my visa fee. Whenever I use my Cardtonic card. It keeps rejecting. Saying there’s an error. What card provider would you advise? I need help please.

Wise,geepay,grey, Access Bank or UBA MasterCard

cavi:
Hi guys I need help with paying my visa fee. Whenever I use my Cardtonic card. It keeps rejecting. Saying there’s an error. What card provider would you advise? I need help please.

Wise,geepay,grey, Access Bank or UBA MasterCard

Just tried geepay, didn’t work

Can Universities in the US still admit students from restricted countries amidst this visa ban?

Poormanpikin:
Can Universities in the US still admit students from restricted countries amidst this visa ban?

I think they can because some students have dual citizenship, some have other visas that may allow them school in the US etc. But, overall, I believe schools are reducing admission offers to the banned countries because it’s more or less a waste of limited admission slots when you give people that can’t attend because of the ban.

Hey Boss,
My bro just got declined today at the US embassy. His spouse got the H-1B and planning to head to USA.
The usual "no strong attachment to home country" narrative. How soon can someone on H-1B get green card. By my thought spouse of green card holder can more easily secure US visa right? at least when Trump's policy is lifted?
Any advice or thoughts. I wont mind if I can get some personal conversation.

snoopy:
I went to renew my H-4 stamp on Monday, 30th March, at the Lagos consulate.

Transcript.

VO: Good morning, can I have your passport and your wife's I-797 approval notice?

Me: Here it is

VO: So is it like you travel back and forth? (She asked this because i had traveled in and out of the US 3 times in the last 15 months on an H4.)

Me: Yes (Gave her the reasons)

VO: So that means for every trip, you have to re-apply for a visa. (she said this because of the single entry rule for Nigeria and appeared sympathetic to the stress of reapplying everytime)

Me: Yes, I know it sucks, but it is what it is.

VO: when did you get married?

Me: Told her

VO: Where does your wife work, state and establishment

Me: Told her

VO: Hope it's not too cold for you

Me: We try to adapt.

VO: Have you been to Gaza or do you plan on going to Gaza?

Me: No

VO: Do you plan to go to Havard?

Me: No

VO: So we now do what we call an online presence review, to keep things interesting around here. I will start that process today and you'll get an email when to come and pick up your passport (She said this, handing me a 221g slip)

The visa status changed to Approved on 1st April after the social media review and changed to Issued on 2nd April

One thing I picked up from that interview, like many have said here, is that they are not giving anyone in the banned categories, NONE!

They will ask you the regular questions to see if they can flag anything from your responses that they can record for future reference and still deny you with the yellow slip, which contains the presidential proclamation.

A traditional ruler in his late 70's who has travelled the length and breadth of this world with children in US, Canada, Uk, and has been to the US an uncountable number of times, dressed in his full traditional regalia, was denied, and the old man couldn't believe it. He kept asking the VO, who got frustrated at a point and had to tell him that it's not her fault but the instruction they were given and that no one in those categories can get a visa unless the ban is lifted regardless of qualification.

Everyone on the line already prepared themselves to be denied, as you could hear the murmuring. Even me, I had to start praying on the line because the gloomy atmosphere started getting to me even though my category is not affected. People were looking at me like I was an alien as I walked out because mine had a different outcome, as they could obviously hear the transcript, even though they put me on 221g.

A lady came for an F-1 interview without an I-20 and said the school cited the visa ban for not issuing her the I-20. Amentum didn't even allow her to enter the embassy premises, as they told her the I-20 is the basis for even scheduling the interview in the first place, and her "trying her luck" without the I-20 won't work.

The H-1b renewal should be seamless provided you are in status and have a valid reason to travel out of your place of employment, it is even easier than H-4, aside from the social media vetting, because they will first vet my spouse's H-1b status before vetting my own H-4.

Good luck.

santos247:
Hey Boss,
My bro just got declined today at the US embassy. His spouse got the H-1B and planning to head to USA.
The usual "no strong attachment to home country" narrative. How soon can someone on H-1B get green card. By my thought spouse of green card holder can more easily secure US visa right? at least when Trump's policy is lifted?
Any advice or thoughts. I wont mind if I can get some personal conversation.

This is odd. They can't ask you about ties to your home country as an H-1B applicant or a spouse to an H-1B because typically, 90% of all H-1B ultimately end up with an EB green card. In fact, the standard is that the company that sponsors your H-1B proceeds to sponsor your EB green card application 6 months after resumption. The consular officers know this, so it's not a familiar or regular requirement unless the spouse applied for another category of visa other than H4, which is what I'm suspecting for that question to have come up.

You need to provide more information to determine what could have gone wrong. What embassy/consulate? Nigerian passport? are they legally married? If possible, the interview transcript.

Thanks. Its shocking to me as well. But I am 100% sure the main applicant is H-1B and he is the spouse.
I do not have the interview transcript yet but can get in touch if you allow me.
Thanks

snoopy:
This is odd. They can't ask you about ties to your home country as an H-1B applicant or a spouse to an H-1B because typically, 90% of all H-1B ultimately end up with an EB green card. In fact, the standard is that the company that sponsors your H-1B proceeds to sponsor your EB green card application 6 months after resumption. The consular officers know this, so it's not a familiar or regular requirement unless the spouse applied for another category of visa other than H4, which is what I'm suspecting for that question to have come up.

You need to provide more information to determine what could have gone wrong. What embassy/consulate? Nigerian passport? are they legally married? If possible, the interview transcript.

santos247:
Thanks. Its shocking to me as well. But I am 100% sure the main applicant is H-1B and he is the spouse.
I do not have the interview transcript yet but can get in touch if you allow me.
Thanks

Alright sure.

snoopy:
This is odd. They can't ask you about ties to your home country as an H-1B applicant or a spouse to an H-1B because typically, 90% of all H-1B ultimately end up with an EB green card. In fact, the standard is that the company that sponsors your H-1B proceeds to sponsor your EB green card application 6 months after resumption. The consular officers know this, so it's not a familiar or regular requirement unless the spouse applied for another category of visa other than H4, which is what I'm suspecting for that question to have come up.

You need to provide more information to determine what could have gone wrong. What embassy/consulate? Nigerian passport? are they legally married? If possible, the interview transcript.

Let's be cautious about saying things like ..it is the standard for H1B holders to get sponsored for green card 6months after resumption.
Thats not true and it can give false hopes

That choice is your employer's who still have to provide labor cert for to do adjustment of status to employment based visa EBs

EB visas already have backlogs and many H1B workers are still on that visa or considering other pathways

santos247:
Thanks. Its shocking to me as well. But I am 100% sure the main applicant is H-1B and he is the spouse.
I do not have the interview transcript yet but can get in touch if you allow me.
Thanks

He should reapply . It might be better to do that when the main applicant has moved to the US

Taal17:
Let's be cautious about saying things like ..it is the standard for H1B holders to get sponsored for green card 6months after resumption.
Thats not true and it can give false hopes

That choice is your employer's who still have to provide labor cert for to do adjustment of status to employment based visa EBs

EB visas already have backlogs and many H1B workers are still on that visa or considering other pathways

I understand your angle. However, prior to the agreement and signing, the employer already has all the benefits stated in writing, and most that I have seen have that green card sponsorship (they only don't sponsor premium processing and allow the worker to pay for that if they so wish). The bulk of H-1B sponsorships are in tech and health sectors, and most of them want to keep their workers beyond the stipulated 6 years. A lot of H-1Bs are on the backlog, including myself and spouse, BUT once you have an approved i-140, you can extend the H-1b beyond the 6 year limit. I have a lot of references in this regard, but as you have mentioned, it's not in all cases, but it would have been discussed prior to the agreement.

Poormanpikin:
There's only one thing he can do to get Nigeria off the ban, accepting third country deportees. US will fund their stay here in Nigeria but the Tinubu government rejected. Tinubu is completely incompetent.

So because u want to japa to the USA, Nigeria has to agree to be a dumping ground for stranded foreign criminals. It's u and fellows like u that are dumb headed.
People like u wont even hesitate to sell the country off for your selfish interest if u had the chance.
What an audacity!

heykims:
So because u want to japa to the USA, Nigeria has to agree to be a dumping ground for stranded foreign criminals. It's u and fellows like u that are dumb headed.
People like u wont even hesitate to sell the country off for your selfish interest if u had the chance.
What an audacity!

yES pLEASE. ARE THEY NOT RELEASING BOKOHARAM PEOPLE?

I wanted to reply him, but I thought it's a waste of energy.

Now, see another guy's reasoning above me. You tend to wonder maybe we deserve the kind of leaders we have.

heykims:
So because u want to japa to the USA, Nigeria has to agree to be a dumping ground for stranded foreign criminals. It's u and fellows like u that are dumb headed.
People like u wont even hesitate to sell the country off for your selfish interest if u had the chance.
What an audacity!

InvestorHalal:
I wanted to reply him, but I thought it's a waste of energy.

Now, see another guy's reasoning above me. You tend to wonder maybe we deserve the kind of leaders we have.

You people are not serious. 🧐 What about the Bokoharam guys been released back into the Nigerian streets.

First and foremost; there is no evidence to prove that indeed US asked Nigeria to take their prisoners, its all speculations. Secondly wether you like it or not, us is more superior and advanced than nigeria, more economical powerful. If they place a ban on us, dont you find It crazy that there has been no response or coordinated response from the Nigerian Government; what are they doing, how are they doing it; just plain tinubu silence. It shows something, Nigerian Government has never had regards for Nigerians. as far as I am Concerned, the reason im Japaing is because Nigerian Government who you are willing to die for simply doesn't care. Do you know i have been without electricity for 6 months now, and nothing has been done? Lets even assume America aksed Nigeria to host its deportees, hows that more dangerous than the boko haram re-integration that you are supporting?

Okay.

TaxLawyer:
You people are not serious. 🧐 What about the Bokoharam guys been released back into the Nigerian streets.

First and foremost; there is no evidence to prove that indeed US asked Nigeria to take their prisoners, its all speculations. Secondly wether you like it or not, us is more superior and advanced than nigeria, more economical powerful. If they place a ban on us, dont you find It crazy that there has been no response or coordinated response from the Nigerian Government; what are they doing, how are they doing it; just plain tinubu silence. It shows something, Nigerian Government has never had regards for Nigerians. as far as I am Concerned, the reason im Japaing is because Nigerian Government who you are willing to die for simply doesn't care. Do you know i have been without electricity for 6 months now, and nothing has been done? Lets even assume America aksed Nigeria to host its deportees, hows that more dangerous than the boko haram re-integration that you are supporting?

TaxLawyer:
You people are not serious. 🧐 What about the Bokoharam guys been released back into the Nigerian streets.

First and foremost; there is no evidence to prove that indeed US asked Nigeria to take their prisoners, its all speculations. Secondly wether you like it or not, us is more superior and advanced than nigeria, more economical powerful. If they place a ban on us, dont you find It crazy that there has been no response or coordinated response from the Nigerian Government; what are they doing, how are they doing it; just plain tinubu silence. It shows something, Nigerian Government has never had regards for Nigerians. as far as I am Concerned, the reason im Japaing is because Nigerian Government who you are willing to die for simply doesn't care. Do you know i have been without electricity for 6 months now, and nothing has been done? Lets even assume America aksed Nigeria to host its deportees, hows that more dangerous than the boko haram re-integration that you are supporting?

Another deluded individual, what a pity.

please do you mind if I message you?

snoopy:
I went to renew my H-4 stamp on Monday, 30th March, at the Lagos consulate.

Transcript.

VO: Good morning, can I have your passport and your wife's I-797 approval notice?

Me: Here it is

VO: So is it like you travel back and forth? (She asked this because i had traveled in and out of the US 3 times in the last 15 months on an H4.)

Me: Yes (Gave her the reasons)

VO: So that means for every trip, you have to re-apply for a visa. (she said this because of the single entry rule for Nigeria and appeared sympathetic to the stress of reapplying everytime)

Me: Yes, I know it sucks, but it is what it is.

VO: when did you get married?

Me: Told her

VO: Where does your wife work, state and establishment

Me: Told her

VO: Hope it's not too cold for you

Me: We try to adapt.

VO: Have you been to Gaza or do you plan on going to Gaza?

Me: No

VO: Do you plan to go to Havard?

Me: No

VO: So we now do what we call an online presence review, to keep things interesting around here. I will start that process today and you'll get an email when to come and pick up your passport (She said this, handing me a 221g slip)

The visa status changed to Approved on 1st April after the social media review and changed to Issued on 2nd April

One thing I picked up from that interview, like many have said here, is that they are not giving anyone in the banned categories, NONE!

They will ask you the regular questions to see if they can flag anything from your responses that they can record for future reference and still deny you with the yellow slip, which contains the presidential proclamation.

A traditional ruler in his late 70's who has travelled the length and breadth of this world with children in US, Canada, Uk, and has been to the US an uncountable number of times, dressed in his full traditional regalia, was denied, and the old man couldn't believe it. He kept asking the VO, who got frustrated at a point and had to tell him that it's not her fault but the instruction they were given and that no one in those categories can get a visa unless the ban is lifted regardless of qualification.

Everyone on the line already prepared themselves to be denied, as you could hear the murmuring. Even me, I had to start praying on the line because the gloomy atmosphere started getting to me even though my category is not affected. People were looking at me like I was an alien as I walked out because mine had a different outcome, as they could obviously hear the transcript, even though they put me on 221g.

A lady came for an F-1 interview without an I-20 and said the school cited the visa ban for not issuing her the I-20. Amentum didn't even allow her to enter the embassy premises, as they told her the I-20 is the basis for even scheduling the interview in the first place, and her "trying her luck" without the I-20 won't work.

The H-1b renewal should be seamless provided you are in status and have a valid reason to travel out of your place of employment, it is even easier than H-4, aside from the social media vetting, because they will first vet my spouse's H-1b status before vetting my own H-4.

Good luck.

NoLevel:
Thanks a lot for this. It’s a T-20 MBA and plan is to use my OPT to work there for 2/3 years and head back to Canada.

This might be coming late. I think you should listen to the people that talked earlier. With your Nigerian passport every benefit from the US government is presently on hold.

Even the students that just graduated now are stranded because processing of OPT and even CPT (which you get as a student o) are both on hold.

Although they are authorized to be in US for as long as it takes them to process the OPT (even if 10 years) but THEY CAN'T WORK until their EAD is out.

So that your OPT plan e get as e be unless of course, the ban is lifted. Many people are hoping things might change after the mid-term election though when the Dems in the house will be able to dictate things better.


Thank you for your attention to this matter

Is Abuja embassy still closed?

ijayalolo:
This might be coming late. I think you should listen to the people that talked earlier. With your Nigerian passport every benefit from the US government is presently on hold.

Even the students that just graduated now are stranded because processing of OPT and even CPT (which you get as a student o) are both on hold.

Although they are authorized to be in US for as long as it takes them to process the OPT (even if 10 years) but THEY CAN'T WORK until their EAD is out.

So that your OPT plan e get as e be unless of course, the ban is lifted. Many people are hoping things might change after the mid-term election though when the Dems in the house will be able to dictate things better.


Thank you for your attention to this matter

Even if Dems get more seats they can not override an EO, that's the right of a President.

The in country adjudication pause for those from banned countries was an add-on by USCIS. It wasn't part of the EO visa ban.

Ideally USCIS should rescind that decision or at least make allowances for it. Too many people stuck in limbo because of it.
Students, spouses ,employees, those applying for citizenship.

Hello guys, can someone recommend or connect me to group or forum for Canadian study plans, student Visa and other updates pertaining to international students please? Especially for Nigerian applicants. Thank you

mike1994reds:
There’s 75 countries on the ban list, and are all black and brown nations. I’m not a Tinubu supporter, he’s incompetent but you can’t put this on him. Trump is just racist, he want only white immigrants in America.
Amen. It shouldn’t have taken this long. I blame Tinubu and APC

If i was white, I'll also ban or enforce strict and tough immigration measures for black and middle Eastern people.

All getto places in the west today, from Europe to America and Australia are majorly caused by these ethnicities. You might not like what Trump is doing, but j wish black people will have envy for their nations like this.

We can see how UK is crumbling already and turning into a ducking third world. So say what you may about Trump, but thr west needs to use an iron fist on black and middle eatern citizens or else the whole world will be a third world dump because we have shown we can build anything