congrats Abefeokin on your smooth POE. Those items are not missing, they were seized ! They randomly search checked-in baggages for contrabound items

@ LadyGuinivere and other dear Mums & Dads. My family & I renewed our visas via dropbox in 2014. However, I have used mine twice. My wife & child haven't used this current visa. Now my wife will be going for childbirth soon. Please which is a more appropriate title for the letter to the embassy: "Notification/Change of Intent" or Change in Travel Plans. I already have the format of the letter. Thanks

I think 'Intention to Deliver in the US' is more appropriate. Since you did drop box, you weren't able to fully declare any intent. Just ensure you have the right visa. Just tell them you (wifey) intends to deliver in the US and were wondering if its okay to go ahead.

My thoughts...



quote author=gratefulalways post=43266260]@ LadyGuinivere and other dear Mums & Dads. My family & I renewed our visas via dropbox in 2014. However, I have used mine twice. My wife & child haven't used this current visa. Now my wife will be going for childbirth soon. Please which is a more appropriate title for the letter to the embassy: "Notification/Change of Intent" or Change in Travel Plans. I already have the format of the letter. Thanks [/quote]

Thanks @happytbaby. Yes we did the dropbox renewal in 2014 when my wife wasnt pregnant. It's a B1/B2 visa.

[quote author=happytbaby post=43267459]I think 'Intention to Deliver in the US' is more appropriate. Since you did drop box, you weren't able to fully declare any intent. Just ensure you have the right visa. Just tell them you (wifey) intends to deliver in the US and were wondering if its okay to go ahead.

My thoughts...


quote author=gratefulalways post=43266260]@ LadyGuinivere and other dear Mums & Dads. My family & I renewed our visas via dropbox in 2014.....

another yawn, today is kinda boring...anyway nairaland keeping me occupied till the next .......walks in TGIF

bbaby84:



#sleeps

happytbaby:
I think 'Intention to Deliver in the US' is more appropriate. Since you did drop box, you weren't able to fully declare any intent. Just ensure you have the right visa. Just tell them you (wifey) intends to deliver in the US and were wondering if its okay to go ahead.

My thoughts...



quote author=gratefulalways post=43266260]@ LadyGuinivere and other dear Mums & Dads. My family & I renewed our visas via dropbox in 2014. However, I have used mine twice. My wife & child haven't used this current visa. Now my wife will be going for childbirth soon. Please which is a more appropriate title for the letter to the embassy: "Notification/Change of Intent" or Change in Travel Plans. I already have the format of the letter. Thanks

IMO, the headingis just semantics. As long as you convey your situation across, you are ok. Cos looking at it, your plans changed from the ds 160 and you are notifiying them.see? Alll of them join

Okay. Thanks a lot.

LadyGuinivere:

IMO, the headingis just semantics. As long as you convey your situation across, you are ok. Cos looking at it, your plans changed from the ds 160 and you are notifiying them.see? Alll of them join

Nairalanders,

I and my wife are preparing to travel for vacation/birthing and our POE is HOUSTON.
I have the following documents with me.
Both of us are business people so we don't work for any company
Please kindly go through and adivse what we are missing.

1. Doctors Correspondence/Payment Receipt/Appointment Letter
2. Hospital Correspondence/Hospital Registration
3. Notification of Intent/Embassy Response
4. United Air Travel Policy for Pregnant Passengers
5. Medical Report including fit to fly report
6. Budget Sheet.
7. Accommodation Confirmation / Address
8. Cash - US Dollars (to be declared)
9. Statement of Account

hello peeps

quick question.

For smone who didnt pay all her bills n is on a plan of monthly payment, can she still go renew her visa and travel to d us?

pls urgent response as my cousin needs to renew her visa urgently.

[quote author=bmanbaba post=43258210][/quote]


It shd come in 3 days. Add baby's tkt

If she is still paying it shouldn't be a problem as they would not have reported her as a delinquent accounts.

However, if she is called for interview she will need her receipts.

Another angle is this....did she get the visa for birthing showing capacity to pay? If yes e fit b e somehow if she is chosen for interview.

shimk:
hello peeps

quick question.

For smone who didnt pay all her bills n is on a plan of monthly payment, can she still go renew her visa and travel to d us?

pls urgent response as my cousin needs to renew her visa urgently.

nefertitiram:



It shd come in 3 days. Add baby's tkt

Thank you so much. I really appreciate

Abefeokin:
Hello mamas n papas ,mommas2bes , wiffy2bes ,monitoring spirits . My full blast xperience from lagos to dallas goes thus:

Let me use this opportunity to pray for those searching for the fruit of the womb, May the Almighty bless you with good seeds that will blossom into very good fruits and to us mothers, May God preserve our children and make us reap the fruits in good health. God bless Nigeria, God bless America. Ciao ciao

Thank God for journey mercy and safety.

Amen to your prayer. I recieve.

Zilly,

Please do you know if Insurance card is accepted in Doctoresprati? not Nigerian Insurance card though, i will not be travelling from Nigeria.

omodadi:


Doctores prato is an agency stuff..so their hospitals and doctors are been paid by them after they've removed their own commission, think that's how it works.

hello everyone, pls has anyone here used Dr. Glenn L. Morgan or about to

mrsbw:
okay guys..wanted to wait to be debited before confirming the Form A stuff.

I intend using Dr La and WHMC. WHMC does not accept wire transfers, so I got Dr La's wire transfer details.

I went to Stanbic IBTC on Thursday for the processing.

Documents required:
a) Letter of reference from specialist doctor, or specialist hospital in Nigeria -
b) Completed Form A
c) Passport, visa and air ticket
d) Correspondence with overseas specialist doctor stating the cost of treatment etc.

Filled the form; requested for payment of doctors fees only (paid $3,000) and included my doctor's bank details. The requirement doesn't state just hospitals can be credited. It only states that it must be for medical treatment. So, I guess if you can provide your doctors correspondence (with his letterhead) and they can match it to the bank details. I guess they can also check the doctor online if they want.

Got debited the ffg this morning: Transaction: 598500; telex charge: 4000; offshore charge: $25 = 4987.50; Bank commission 0.5% = 3142.13
Total was 610629.6 which came to about N203.5 per $.

So you can actually pay for just doctor or doctor and hospital if your hospital accepts transfers.

Noticed in the CBN requirement page that if the doctor includes cost of maintenance, that cost of treatment can be made payable to the hospital and the cost of maintenance to the applicant if the applicant is an outpatient; but I did not explore that oh. Only paid doctor's bill.

Also, I had initially gone to UBA and they said they dont process Form A for childbirth. GTB said I'll be on a wait list for at least a month. Went to stanbic after @onlineise post on Wednesday, and it got processed in 48hours. Thanks so much @onlineise you are a life saver!

Pls remember to collect your telex copy from the bank as proof of payment

Hope this helps cc: @biollar1 @chloe7 @kemo88 @beautyx5

Hi, thanks for sharing. Please confirm if your have to be a stanbic ibtc bank account holder to benefit from this service?

Hi all,please i have a concern which i'd love to be addressed. My trip is in a few days, however i previously had hosp & Dr correspondence wt Dr's appointment letter which i got during my trip to d US in December but i recently changed plans to a diff hosp due to proximity to accommodation(about 36mins closer than previous hosp; i am a first time mum n scared abt journeying 1hr30mins to hosp during labor) and price (saving me over $3k). However my mum got all the necessary info for me via phone (as shez based there) and general letter showing Dr & hosp cost was mailed (not emailed) to her. Bcz of this i do not have a direct correspondence wt hosp nor Dr and i do not wanna pay yet as I'll like to visit d hosp n Dr before concluding. Do you think the letter i have would suffice as proof at POE? If not,what do you suggest?

Pls il appreciate all possible advice. Tx

shimk:
hello peeps

quick question.

For smone who didnt pay all her bills n is on a plan of monthly payment, can she still go renew her visa and travel to d us?

pls urgent response as my cousin needs to renew her visa urgently.

In my opinion, it depends on a few things. Did she inform the embassy when going to give birth? She might or might not be called for interview. When does the payment plan end? Does she have evidence if called to the embassy. If I were her I'll probably wait till I've paid all but then it's a confidence thing. A friend of mine renewed and is doing payment plan and she wasn't called for an interview. I know people that paid all and were still called. There's no hard or fast rule to these things . It's a 50/50 thing. She should make sure she has evidence and can defend her reasons.
Good luck

My wife got charged at 199/$ by GTB yesterday. You can test the waters with you card first and hurriedly pay your bills at this rate. Good luck guy's

bigfido:
My wife got charged at 199/$ by GTB yesterday. You can test the waters with you card first and hurriedly pay your bills at this rate. Good luck guy's

Bigfido please don't break my heart o because if it isn't so you will see me crying in your dream o.
Lemme quickly go and test it

bigfido:
My wife got charged at 199/$ by GTB yesterday. You can test the waters with you card first and hurriedly pay your bills at this rate. Good luck guy's

@bigfido, Thanks for the Info..I really pray this is true, i have been thinking of the flight fees for almost a week now, due in August but need to make the bookings now because of Summer fees and with the card restrictions, I tiree oooo

Mamas,
please help oooo!!! how did you go about your bookings?

bigfido:
My wife got charged at 199/$ by GTB yesterday. You can test the waters with you card first and hurriedly pay your bills at this rate. Good luck guy's

Confirmed
I was just charged $199 too

Hey peeps make your payments today just Incase it's a fluke

START MAKING YOUR PAYMENTS.

Hello Everyone,
Any June mama in the house heading to El Paso....

Hallo People! Reporting live from Maryland

Journey was quite smooth.... Was able to get only 4K PTA from standard chartered (mums application was not successful) so we are working on using form A to pay hospital bills. Please people that have done this should confirm if someone I.e my husband can process this on my behalf??

Anyhoo... I travelled with Lufthansa/united to Washington Dulles. The Lufthansa leg was esp nice. Fit to fly was asked for at NAA but customs and every1 else was nice. Booked for a wheelchair for my mum and I @ Frankfurt (this was an absolute life saver) As people have said here in the past, the distance btw departure and our gate is quite far oh Do yourself a favor and make sure you book for wheelchair services if you are transiting tru Frankfurt.

The United leg was ok but the plane was old and somehow jor .... Even infant seat belt they did not have My only consolation is the 23kg boxes il have with my infants on the way back.... They better not fall my hand oh!

POE was a breeze... The CBP:Hello. Passports please. What are you here for?
Me: Hello. I'm here for medical purposes. I'm having a baby.
CBP: I'm sure you know what next I'm going to ask you
Me: Smiles and say I can guess but I'm not sure
CBP: you were here in 2014 to have this baby (points at my son), how did you pay?
Me: With cash and cards.
CBP: Do you have receipts to prove this?
Me: yes and bring out my receipts
CBP: starts smiling and says I love this. Did you take any assistance of any kind?
Me: No.
CBP: Just so you know it's not illegal to have your baby in the US, what's illegal is not paying coz then tax payers like me have to bear the bill. Do you know the procedure if you have a complication and have to extend your stay?
Me: No ( I no wan expose us for here )
CBP: it's very easy, even google can explain it. What do you do?
Me: blah blah blah
CBP: I can tell you have a good job, you are very well spoken. (for my mind I'm like you never jam naija folks then)
CBP: For the next few years, please always travel with your receipts so we can make a determination here and not have to send you to sec inspection where they might waste up to an hour of your time. Do you have food?
Me: yes but not the type listed on the form.
CBP: ok put your fingers.... Have a nice day ( I travelled with my mom and toddler)

We were almost home free in less than 10 mins until the devil wanted to try himself in the form of one cute dog that just came and pounced on our carry on luggage. Dats how they flagged us and sent us for agric inspection... Fortunately for us when they started interrogating us on what we had in the bags we remembered that we had apples and that apparently was what triggered the dog. They trashed the apples, asked us if we have yams? No. Cocoyams ? No. Fish? Yes but it's dried. (all this while they were scanning our bags) so my mama no gree lie

That's how they cleared us and said have a nice day too without searching our bags. Whew! Can't tell y'all how much I prayed to not go to sec inspection and to not have our bags searched coz we carried all sorts.... Palmoil, spices, dried vegetables, even ogili/dadawa Godwin oh!!

All in all i bless God. Now chilling and waiting to see the doc next week. Washington Dulles POE is bae in my opinion.

@Dtone and Babymandy I've sent you guys PM's. Respond Biko and holla @ ya girl. I wish everyone else traveling soon, a stress less, favored journey.

We shall all deliver like the Hebrew women IJN, Amen! Cheers.

Mamatukwas:
Hallo People! Reporting live from Maryland
Journey was quite smooth.... Was able to get only 4K PTA from standard chartered (mums application was not successful) so we are working on using form A to pay hospital bills. Please people that have done this should confirm if someone I.e my husband can process this on my behalf??
Anyhoo... I travelled with Lufthansa/united to Washington Dulles. The Lufthansa leg was esp nice. Fit to fly was asked for at NAA but customs and every1 else was nice. Booked for a wheelchair for my mum and I @ Frankfurt (this was an absolute life saver) As people have said here in the past, the distance btw departure and our gate is quite far oh Do yourself a favor and make sure you book for wheelchair services if you are transiting tru Frankfurt.
The United leg was ok but the plane was old and somehow jor .... Even infant seat belt they did not have My only consolation is the 23kg boxes il have with my infants on the way back.... They better not fall my hand oh!
POE was a breeze... The CBP:Hello. Passports please. What are you here for?
Me: Hello. I'm here for medical purposes. I'm having a baby.
CBP: I'm sure you know what next I'm going to ask you
Me: Smiles and say I can guess but I'm not sure
CBP: you were here in 2014 to have this baby (points at my son), how did you pay?
Me: With cash and cards.
CBP: Do you have receipts to prove this?
Me: yes and bring out my receipts
CBP: starts smiling and says I love this. Did you take any assistance of any kind?
Me: No.
CBP: Just so you know it's not illegal to have your baby in the US, what's illegal is not paying coz then tax payers like me have to bear the bill. Do you know the procedure if you have a complication and have to extend your stay?
Me: No ( I no wan expose us for here )
CBP: it's very easy, even google can explain it. What do you do?
Me: blah blah blah
CBP: I can tell you have a good job, you are very well spoken. (for my mind I'm like you never jam naija folks then)
CBP: For the next few years, please always travel with your receipts so we can make a determination here and not have to send you to sec inspection where they might waste up to an hour of your time. Do you have food?
Me: yes but not the type listed on the form.
CBP: ok put your fingers.... Have a nice day ( I travelled with my mom and toddler)
We were almost home free in less than 10 mins until the devil wanted to try himself in the form of one cute dog that just came and pounced on our carry on luggage. Dats how they flagged us and sent us for agric inspection... Fortunately for us when they started interrogating us on what we had in the bags we remembered that we had apples and that apparently was what triggered the dog. They trashed the apples, asked us if we have yams? No. Cocoyams ? No. Fish? Yes but it's dried. (all this while they were scanning our bags) so my mama no gree lie
That's how they cleared us and said have a nice day too without searching our bags. Whew! Can't tell y'all how much I prayed to not go to sec inspection and to not have our bags searched coz we carried all sorts.... Palmoil, spices, dried vegetables, even ogili/dadawa Godwin oh!!
All in all i bless God. Now chilling and waiting to see the doc next week. Washington Dulles POE is bae in my opinion.
@Dtone and Babymandy I've sent you guys PM's. Respond Biko and holla @ ya girl. I wish everyone else traveling soon, a stress less, favored journey.
We shall all deliver like the Hebrew women IJN, Amen! Cheers.

@ Mamatukwas, Congrats.
i wish all mamas safe trip IJN

Has anyone else tried using his/her gtb card?

[quote author=Mamatukwas post=43280168]Hallo People! Reporting live from Maryland
Journey was quite smooth.... Was able to get only 4K PTA from standard chartered (mums application was not successful) so we are working on using form A to pay hospital bills. Please people that have done this should confirm if someone I.e my husband can process this on my behalf??
Anyhoo... I travelled with Lufthansa/united to Washington Dulles. The Lufthansa leg was esp nice. Fit to fly was asked for at NAA but customs and every1 else was nice. Booked for a wheelchair for my mum and I @ Frankfurt (this was an absolute life saver) As people have said here in the past, the distance btw departure and our gate is quite far oh Do yourself a favor and make sure you book for wheelchair services if you are transiting tru Frankfurt.
The United leg was ok but the plane was old and somehow jor .... Even infant seat belt they did not have My only consolation is the 23kg boxes il have with my infants on the way back.... They better not fall my hand oh!
POE was a breeze... The CBP:Hello. Passports please. What are you here for?
Me: Hello. I'm here for medical purposes. I'm having a baby.
CBP: I'm sure you know what next I'm going to ask you
Me: Smiles and say I can guess but I'm not sure
CBP: you were here in 2014 to have this baby (points at my son), how did you pay?
Me: With cash and cards.
CBP: Do you have receipts to prove this?
Me: yes and bring out my receipts
CBP: starts smiling and says I love this. Did you take any assistance of any kind?
Me: No.
CBP: Just so you know it's not illegal to have your baby in the US, what's illegal is not paying coz then tax payers like me have to bear the bill. Do you know the procedure if you have a complication and have to extend your stay?
Me: No ( I no wan expose us for here )
CBP: it's very easy, even google can explain it. What do you do?
Me: blah blah blah
CBP: I can tell you have a good job, you are very well spoken. ?
All in all i bless God. Now chilling and waiting to see the doc next week. Washington Dulles POE is bae in my opinion.
@Dtone and Babymandy I've sent you guys PM's. Respond Biko and holla @ ya girl. I wish everyone else traveling soon, a stress less, favored journey.
We shall all deliver like the Hebrew women IJN, Amen! Cheers.[/quote

Congrats mamatukwas. More grace

Those yet to get tickets..you might want to try Delta to new York....I hear its 111k

[quote author=Harjeehbaday

Has anyone else tried using his/her gtb card?[/quote]
Its true but I couldn't do much because of the $1000 monthly limit

Bisoye82:


Bigfido please don't break my heart o because if it isn't so you will see me crying in your dream o.
Lemme quickly go and test it

Kikikikikikikikiki