vcole:
@favoredgal
Meanwhile, your baby never pop? hahahahahahahahahahahah!!!!!!!!

The stoppage of use of naira-denominated atms for forex denominated transactions is a cbn directive. so it cuts across all banks and takes effect on Jan 1st, 2016. so its not limited to china, uae or other african countries, its everywhere and also limits purchase online with our cards as well.

Re:baby....Na...still have + or - two weeks

Meanwhile, i just spoke to someone at CBN and MasterCard and they say there is no such policy o!

According to both of them (both unconnected to each other) a journalist took the Stan chart story and decided to make it a Cbn policy

Let's be watching

olokings:
hi hi
for the record.... other banks have sent out the notification also....
i recieved email last week from fidelity and stanbic... so i am quite convinced the wind will blow onto others as well..

gud luck missions legionaires

What's the message specifically, is it African countries & Asia or all around the world

The one you got from Stanbic. If you can munch pls it will be appreciated. I have two Stanbic accounts and also have fidelity and I haven't received any email

favoredgal:


What's the message specifically, is it African countries & Asia or all around the world

The one you got from Stanbic. If you can munch pls it will be appreciated. I have two Stanbic accounts and also have fidelity and I haven't received any email

me too I didn't get from stanbic

favoredgal:

Re:baby....Na...still have + or - two weeks

Meanwhile, i just spoke to someone at CBN and MasterCard and they say there is no such policy o!

According to both of them (both unconnected to each other) a journalist took the Stan chart story and decided to make it a Cbn policy

Let's be watching

Ehen...lets be watching according 'by' you

Okk. fingers crossed. maybe baby wants to come all wrapped up as a gift on boxing day. lol
here is the newspaper article. i doubt punch will publish an unconfirmed story.
http://www.punchng.com/banks-stop-use-of-atm-cards-abroad/

favoredgal:

Re:baby....Na...still have + or - two weeks

Meanwhile, i just spoke to someone at CBN and MasterCard and they say there is no such policy o!

According to both of them (both unconnected to each other) a journalist took the Stan chart story and decided to make it a Cbn policy

Let's be watching

vcole:
http://www.punchng.com/banks-stop-use-of-atm-cards-abroad/

That's the journalist : publication that has blown this out of proportion according to them

Anyways let's be looking jare

firsttymum:
it may not b myopic at all o... E get some people wey this dollar no dey touch....

Which is my point exactly, how do we know that dollar na problem for am.

Meanwhile if this is an decision that can possibly help you out of a very long arduous visa renewal, what is exchange rate?

Last last buy the cheapest ticket available, spend 5 days and come back.

Good morning house, it seems baby would be arriving late, father is currently around but might have to leave before baby's passport can be done, would like to know how to go about the notarization letter for the passport as hubby is still in the US. Thanks so much.

bizzle6:
Good morning house, it seems baby would be arriving late, father is currently around but might have to leave before baby's passport can be done, would like to know how to go about the notarization letter for the passport as hubby is still in the US. Thanks so much.

Seems That notary thingy works only in some states. My sister inlaw got her passport in Richmond Texas last week without her hubby sending anything from Nigeria...and Another friend last year got same passport in Atlanta but the passport issued was for 2 years not 5 years and their reason was she didnt present a notarized document....Oya people with contrary opinion should start typing lemme learn.

read it again. the journalist certainly implied that it was cbn policy especially as he splashed Emefele's face on the front page. however, it is more of a starvation of forex leading to decisions by banks to limit dollar denominated spending on naira cards with a last resort already being effected by certain banks to stop this altogether. knowing Nigeria, there is no smoke without fire. soon all the banks will toe the same path.

favoredgal:


That's the journalist : publication that has blown this out of proportion according to them

Anyways let's be looking jare

bizzle6:
Good morning house, it seems baby would be arriving late, father is currently around but might have to leave before baby's passport can be done, would like to know how to go about the notarization letter for the passport as hubby is still in the US. Thanks so much.

Any lawyer that can notarized without date. Only a Nigerian lawyer will agree to that tho

vcole:
read it again. the journalist certainly implied that it was cbn policy especially as he splashed Emefele's face on the front page. however, it is more of a starvation of forex leading to decisions by banks to limit dollar denominated spending on naira cards with a last resort already being effected by certain banks to stop this altogether. knowing Nigeria, there is no smoke without fire. soon all the banks will toe the same path.

Well my contact in Cbn and master card says no such policy as at today. Emefele's picture is not the same as the picture evidence of the circular I guess.

Also sent an email to Stanbic and they responded that they have sent out no correspondence! So don't know if olokings is a premium (or insider) customer o! Or is he mistaking Stanbic for stanchart.

While there is no smoke without fire, it's beginning to look like the whole thing is being over sensationalized.

Anyways 1st is two weeks away, guess we will find out soon - maybe the hard way for me, but I don't want to panic and change all the money I have left at the black market for $1 to N280

vcole:
read it again. the journalist certainly implied that it was cbn policy especially as he splashed Emefele's face on the front page. however, it is more of a starvation of forex leading to decisions by banks to limit dollar denominated spending on naira cards with a last resort already being effected by certain banks to stop this altogether. knowing Nigeria, there is no smoke without fire. soon all the banks will toe the same path.

But really, how does this policy work. The ATM card is already tied to a Naria account and one is not charged @ N199 but at N250 per withdrawal so who benefits? its the same bank and cbn not black market people and one is restricted to $100 or $150 per day...So I think this particular policy is misplaced. I read today that Nigerians import 20million eggs a day, who sells the forex to them? its the same CBN.

favoredgal:


Any lawyer that can notarized without date. Only a Nigerian lawyer will agree to that tho

Shey I heard you take the form to US Embassy in Lagos or Abuja and have it notarized? That their laws dont recognise Nigerian lawyers that are notary public. correct me please

anonymousmum:


Which is my point exactly, how do we know that dollar na problem for am.

Meanwhile if this is an decision that can possibly help you out of a very long arduous visa renewal, what is exchange rate?

Last last buy the cheapest ticket available, spend 5 days and come back.

Abi o...

jacksparow:


Shey I heard you take the form to US Embassy in Lagos or Abuja and have it notarized? That their laws dont recognise Nigerian lawyers that are notary public. correct me please

She and her husband are currently in America if I read correctly

firsttymum:
Abi o...

Mummy, ur thots on my favoredgal comments o...

favoredgal:


She and her husband are currently in America if I read correctly

Yea.. but Hubby leaving before everything.

jacksparow:


Seems That notary thingy works only in some states. My sister inlaw got her passport in Richmond Texas last week without her hubby sending anything from Nigeria...and Another friend last year got same passport in Atlanta but the passport issued was for 2 years not 5 years and their reason was she didnt present a notarized document....Oya people with contrary opinion should start typing lemme learn.

To the best of my understanding the only way that works is to put unknown father on the birth certificate o!

Either that or she came with the notarized document. Find out

jacksparow:


Yea.. but Hubby leaving before everything.

That was my situation last time I came to have my daughter but we were able to notarize here in Houston without date

favoredgal:


To the best of my understanding the only way that works is to put unknown father on the birth certificate o!

lol...sorry say i lol. its the thot of unknown father on birth cert.

jacksparow:


lol...sorry say i lol. its the thot of unknown father on birth cert.

A couple of people on this thread has towed that path if u read part one. You can go back and amend it with an affidavit if memory serves me correctly

favoredgal:


That was my situation last time I came to have my daughter but we were able to notarize here in Houston without date

Ok. noted. Hope its works in Florida. cause i dont know if i can travel this time

jacksparow:


Ok. noted. Hope its works in Florida. cause i dont know if i can travel this time

Well, you can just go to the American embassy and notarize it and send it down. Not a biggie

I did mine in Houston cuz hubby and I were here but baby din't come

favoredgal:


Well, you can just go to the American embassy and notarize it and send it down. Not a biggie

Ok. well I used to think i know plenty. but this thread and everyone on it are wonderful. thanks

Hello house,

I was at stanbic today and asked how true is this story of ATM not working next year and she said it isn't true and they haven't received any directive from CBN as regards ATM. She said the only thing she knows is that maximum amount that can be used for POS transactions abroad has been reduced from 2k dollars to 1k dollars and maximum withdrawals at ATM still remains 300 dollars a day.
I asked if they have PTA,she said Allen branch sells and I can get from there but i can only get for some countries and she mentioned I can't get for china and I just said America and she said they will sell.

So for anyone who is interested and in Lagos, try and check stanbic Allen branch.

Emeraldchic:
Hello house,

I was at stanbic today and asked how true is this story of ATM not working next year and she said it isn't true and they haven't received any directive from CBN as regards ATM. She said the only thing she knows is that maximum amount that can be used for POS transactions abroad has been reduced from 2k dollars to 1k dollars and maximum withdrawals at ATM still remains 300 dollars a day.
I asked if they have PTA,she said Allen branch sells and I can get from there but i can only get for some countries and she mentioned I can't get for china and I just said America and she said they will sell.

So for anyone who is interested and in Lagos, try and check stanbic Allen branch.

ok. nice effort. thanks for info

Hi. well, if "father" lol! is still around when baby arrives, then you do not need a ds3053 aka notarised consent form. he will go along with you to the passport office. however if he is absent when baby arrives, then he would have to download and print out and fill a ds3053 and get it notarised at the us consulate in lagos or abuja alongside a copy of his passport biodata page and send by courier to you. ideally, he should not notarise consent for application for the baby's passport prior to the baby's birth, seeing as at the date of consent, the baby was not "technically" in existense yet.although some people have done this in the past, but some passport offices do not accept those, mine didn't. although that was over a year ago so my info may be obsolete. lol!

bizzle6:
Good morning house, it seems baby would be arriving late, father is currently around but might have to leave before baby's passport can be done, would like to know how to go about the notarization letter for the passport as hubby is still in the US. Thanks so much.

@Nerf pls help with the cargo persons deets ooo....abeg in need of such affordable shipping oo... thanks in advance.
For both my kids, hubby never went to the embassy to notarise, we used a random notary public/ lawyer and it was accepted, though there was a lil issue with the date of hubbys signature being different from the notary publics date, but we were issued a 2yr temp one, whch we changed to the 5yr one in the embassy in Nig.

Shey I heard you take the form to US Embassy in Lagos or Abuja and have it notarized? That their laws dont recognise Nigerian lawyers that are notary public. correct me please[/quote]

jacksparow:


Shey I heard you take the form to US Embassy in Lagos or Abuja and have it notarized? That their laws dont recognise Nigerian lawyers that are notary public. correct me please

It does not apply to all states..we used a notary public here in lag and it was accepted in DE.
If they can't notarize it in the US, kuku wait and do it in Nigeria then send via DHL.

I'll go thru my mail trash tmro. .cos I just read n deleted it

favoredgal:


What's the message specifically, is it African countries & Asia or all around the world

The one you got from Stanbic. If you can munch pls it will be appreciated. I have two Stanbic accounts and also have fidelity and I haven't received any email

@ favouredgal I know of a Doctor in Georgia that has delivered twins vaginally recently for some Mamas I know. I was told that he encourages you to go for it unless there is a medical indication not to.