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don4ye:
I arrived Lagos embassy 5:30am. Does street boys no carry last, I told them I am good and I don't need their service..
After all the security checking and finger biometrics, I joined line to canna land.. We waited about 30mins before VO's arrived. I am number 5 on the line..
I was directed to window 3 by the CGI gal.. She insisted I should stand on the number 3 written on d floor.

Now the show begins

Me: good morning ma
VO : good morning.. Pls pass your international passport oh include your I 20 and servis fee.

Me : passed

VO: where are you going?
Me: I am going to university of Bridgeport in Connecticut to pursue ( she cut in)

VO: what course?
Me: Global development and Peace and to be train like Martin Luther King Jr. A renowned lecturer of peace.

VO: oh that is a great man.
Me smile

VO: who is your sponsor?
Me: my maternal uncle( I no stop there) he is a successful architect and he owns a company into sales of building materials, he supply Lagos state government and oyo state government and the reason why he is sponsoring me is that, he has been part of my success since my high school until my university days (VO cut in.. Me very fast)

VO: what did you said he do?
Me: I give same answer

VO: do you write any test?
Me: oh yes, I wrote ielts as you can see on my I20 student is proficient.

VO: why university of Bridgeport ?
Me because university of Bridgeport holds NGO status with United Nation ( VO stop typing and raised her head up looking at me) and is also part of united nation academic impact initiative and I am inspired by the on going research work at the department on the topic No sustainable development without peace a case study of Africa by prof. Justin Hume, this research work will help me in eradication of insurgency ( VO cut in)

VO: where did you do your bachelor degree?
Me: at national open university of Nigeria

VO: what courses will you be talking in your first semester?
Me: international issues, issues in economic development, socio political implication on the world religion, international conflict and negotiation and international development

VO: good
Me : smile

VO: do you apply to any other schools?
Me yes ma, I applied to 3 other schools.. UNI of Alabama, UNI of Oklahoma and Valparaiso uni.

VO: again where did you do your undergraduate?
Me National open university of Nigeria.

VO: when did you graduate?
Me January 2016

VO: oh this year ( eye communication)
Me: yes ma

VO : congratulations your visa is approved. She give sermon about port of entry and I should not forget to hold my i20 and my admission letter
Me: ok thank ok thank ok thank ok ma thank thank ok..

It's been God.. She is very calm and friendly..
Many thanks to everyone..

Singed
Don4ye..

aadeyi:
Nice transcript..... Congratulations once again.

don4ye:
I arrived Lagos embassy 5:30am. Does street boys no carry last, I told them I am good and I don't need their service..
After all the security checking and finger biometrics, I joined line to canna land.. We waited about 30mins before VO's arrived. I am number 5 on the line..
I was directed to window 3 by the CGI gal.. She insisted I should stand on the number 3 written on d floor.

Now the show begins

Me: good morning ma
VO : good morning.. Pls pass your international passport oh include your I 20 and servis fee.

Me : passed

VO: where are you going?
Me: I am going to university of Bridgeport in Connecticut to pursue ( she cut in)

VO: what course?
Me: Global development and Peace and to be train like Martin Luther King Jr. A renowned lecturer of peace.

VO: oh that is a great man.
Me smile

VO: who is your sponsor?
Me: my maternal uncle( I no stop there) he is a successful architect and he owns a company into sales of building materials, he supply Lagos state government and oyo state government and the reason why he is sponsoring me is that, he has been part of my success since my high school until my university days (VO cut in.. Me very fast)

VO: what did you said he do?
Me: I give same answer

VO: do you write any test?
Me: oh yes, I wrote ielts as you can see on my I20 student is proficient.

VO: why university of Bridgeport ?
Me because university of Bridgeport holds NGO status with United Nation ( VO stop typing and raised her head up looking at me) and is also part of united nation academic impact initiative and I am inspired by the on going research work at the department on the topic No sustainable development without peace a case study of Africa by prof. Justin Hume, this research work will help me in eradication of insurgency ( VO cut in)

VO: where did you do your bachelor degree?
Me: at national open university of Nigeria

VO: what courses will you be talking in your first semester?
Me: international issues, issues in economic development, socio political implication on the world religion, international conflict and negotiation and international development

VO: good
Me : smile

VO: do you apply to any other schools?
Me yes ma, I applied to 3 other schools.. UNI of Alabama, UNI of Oklahoma and Valparaiso uni.

VO: again where did you do your undergraduate?
Me National open university of Nigeria.

VO: when did you graduate?
Me January 2016

VO: oh this year ( eye communication)
Me: yes ma

VO : congratulations your visa is approved. She give sermon about port of entry and I should not forget to hold my i20 and my admission letter
Me: ok thank ok thank ok thank ok ma thank thank ok..

It's been God.. She is very calm and friendly..
Many thanks to everyone..

Singed
Don4ye..

bukunmmy:
Congrats Bro........ Dat is real Birthday Gift from God........ God Favour Me in Sight of Men and Woman June is My Month of Testimony IJN

daaz001:
Congrats and enjoy ur stay in the US. More to come this june.

don4ye:
I arrived Lagos embassy 5:30am. Does street boys no carry last, I told them I am good and I don't need their service..
After all the security checking and finger biometrics, I joined line to canna land.. We waited about 30mins before VO's arrived. I am number 5 on the line..
I was directed to window 3 by the CGI gal.. She insisted I should stand on the number 3 written on d floor.

Now the show begins

Me: good morning ma
VO : good morning.. Pls pass your international passport oh include your I 20 and servis fee.

Me : passed

VO: where are you going?
Me: I am going to university of Bridgeport in Connecticut to pursue ( she cut in)

VO: what course?
Me: Global development and Peace and to be train like Martin Luther King Jr. A renowned lecturer of peace.

VO: oh that is a great man.
Me smile

VO: who is your sponsor?
Me: my maternal uncle( I no stop there) he is a successful architect and he owns a company into sales of building materials, he supply Lagos state government and oyo state government and the reason why he is sponsoring me is that, he has been part of my success since my high school until my university days (VO cut in.. Me very fast)

VO: what did you said he do?
Me: I give same answer

VO: do you write any test?
Me: oh yes, I wrote ielts as you can see on my I20 student is proficient.

VO: why university of Bridgeport ?
Me because university of Bridgeport holds NGO status with United Nation ( VO stop typing and raised her head up looking at me) and is also part of united nation academic impact initiative and I am inspired by the on going research work at the department on the topic No sustainable development without peace a case study of Africa by prof. Justin Hume, this research work will help me in eradication of insurgency ( VO cut in)

VO: where did you do your bachelor degree?
Me: at national open university of Nigeria

VO: what courses will you be talking in your first semester?
Me: international issues, issues in economic development, socio political implication on the world religion, international conflict and negotiation and international development

VO: good
Me : smile

VO: do you apply to any other schools?
Me yes ma, I applied to 3 other schools.. UNI of Alabama, UNI of Oklahoma and Valparaiso uni.

VO: again where did you do your undergraduate?
Me National open university of Nigeria.

VO: when did you graduate?
Me January 2016

VO: oh this year ( eye communication)
Me: yes ma

VO : congratulations your visa is approved. She give sermon about port of entry and I should not forget to hold my i20 and my admission letter
Me: ok thank ok thank ok thank ok ma thank thank ok..

It's been God.. She is very calm and friendly..
Many thanks to everyone..

Singed
Don4ye..

bukunmmy:
Congrats Bro........ Dat is real Birthday Gift from God........ God Favour Me in Sight of Men and Woman June is My Month of Testimony IJN

Christian129:
Hello House,

I am a recent graduate of Political Science and I'm thinking of getting an MSc in a choice school in the USA. However, I don't really know much about USA grad schools and how they function. Please, i'd like suggestions of schools that offer MSc program in Political science or international relations around New Jersey or Philadelphia that are cheap and affordable and have high acceptance rate especially for internationalstudents. More so , I want a research based masters but I'm confused about the choice of research area. My undergraduate project was on a public policy related topic. Please, help me out as I plan to begin my application of Spring ASAP. By the way, I don't plan on writing GRE so I need schools that don't require GRE
as I'd still write IELTS and the cost might be too high for me. PLEASE HELP A BROTHER!!

jatsay001:
Congrats

monsieur2016:
Congratulations to all those who got their visa's approved today. Mine was also approved earlier today. Many thanks to God and everyone who have posted useful information here. I'm currently in a state of......... I still cant remember the questions I was asked. All I know is that I answered and I did not take my passport home. As soon as i'm okay, i'll post my transcript. Thanks for ur understanding.

profojah2:
No shaking bro.. Anytime from 4pm, your guy dey available

gentledoj:
What is plan B? Am afraid ooooooo. Hope the school can issue another I-20 sha?

AshBammy:
@don4ye
Congratulations, that's a good onr
Happy birthday to you
God bless you
I tap into your blessings, I shall testify this June in Jesus name. Amen

F1 Visa Experience

Yesterday evening, I traveled from Ibadan to Aja to stay with an aunt who would take me to the embassy. The night was very bad and mosquitoes really fought with me a lot but I was dogged. At 2am, I had a dream where I saw myself during the interview. see the transcript below;

Dream Transcript;;
VO; Good Morning
Me; Morning
VO; why william and mary?
me; because its a very good school
vo; am afraid i can't(i cut in)
me; you cant sekini? (i shouted ni o)
everyone; slap for my cheeks (pa)....... so i woke up to see that i was actually killing the mosquitoes on my face.


so i said may God forbid bad thing. At 7am, i went to have my bath rehearsing an anticipated question with the toilet mirror. See Below;

Hypothetical Transcript;
VO; why william and mary
me: i chose the college of william and mary because of the particular nature of my research work which is on the archaeology of defensive ditches in Southwestern nigeria having seen that the Anthropology department at william and mary has a long history of african archaeology and focuses more on the defensive ditches in ghana, senegal and republic of benin. so i believe the institution aside being a public ivy, has in its disposal faculty members who are well equiped to supervise my doctoral work on nigeria's defensive ditches.
VO; good. how did you get o know bot the school
me; through a professor of history at the university. he was in nigeria last year to study the people of ile-ife so he invited me because he needed an archaeologist. it was this time that he suggested that i apply to the anthropology dept at william and mary.
VO; great. whats your plan after the completion of your program;
me; my plan is to come back to nigeria and set the pace for the archaeology of defensive ditches by training the next generation of archaeologists in nigeria. i belief strongly that my input would be good for the three nigeria universities where archaeology is being taught considering the fact that we do not have too many personel who would study our ancient ruins.
VO; okay i will approve your visa...... blablabla.


My Profile

GRE;YES
TOEFL;YES
DEGREE AT HAND ; BSC ARCH (HONS)
DEGREE SOUGHT;MA/PHD
SCHOOL ATTENDED;UI
COURSE;ARCHAEOLOGY
TRAVEL EXPERIENCE;LOCAL TRAVEL-OGUN,OSUN,OYO AND LAGOS (LOL)


SO at 10;30am, i got to the embassy for real. Thanks to the steps i read here. i understood evrything about the queue. it was a great mental template. i decided to haVe a chit chat with the brother next to me who would be going to North Carolina university. the pressure and stress disappeared at this juncture and i felt very free-both of us tho.




At exactly 11am i got to the front of this oyinbo man and here goes the real transcript;

Real Transcript (ABOUT 40 SECONDS);

me; Good morning (with a very big faked smile)
vo; hello good morning. your documents please (He smiled back-real one maybe)........(i was like thank God)
me; here please (passed i20 and passport)
vo; (checked i20 and saw full funding and he gave a very big grin) what are your course work?
me; well i shall be taking anth 603-introduction to anthropology theory, anth 604(intro to arch theory), anth 665- west african societies during medieval time, (i continued till like the 6th one and never knew he had been stopping me)
Vo; Mr distinction its okay ts okay its okay (he laughed)
me; hahahaha(a mild laughter from me)
vo; your visa has been approved (then dis part looked like a movie as i saw him drop my passport among some others and circling the pick up address on the white sheet then it got dawn on me that i have my visa granted) ,do this that port of entry kinikan blablabla education usa blablabla i20 wahtever (i pretended like i was listening and remain calmed)

me; thank you (i waited for the other guy outside and yes he got His too)


NO DOCUMENTS ASKED



Appreciation;
special thanks to everyone here and there.




my conclusion;

BE ANXIOUS FOR NOTHING



CHEERS AND BEST WISHES

Holudarey01:
let's give the thanks to God.
which education if I may ask
you have a good GRE score.
Are you planning to write TOEFL?

sirRiddy:
Hi. You have impressive test scores. What is the breakdown and what is your AWA score?
I am sorry you will likely not get good suggestions here if you come
empty handed. You need to look for some schools yourself, come back
and people can discuss your choices with you and maybe suggest others.
Look out for state/public universities as they usually offer assistantships(funding) more.
Also, chose states that have low cost of living too.
Most importantly, look out for good programs.
These sites might be useful:
1. msinus.com
2. gradcafe
3. usnews.com
4. quora.com
Good luck. Do not hesitate to ask further questions.
tanks bro. I will do dat.

zt:
F1 Visa Experience ;

Real Transcript (ABOUT 40 SECONDS);

me; Good morning (with a very big faked smile)
vo; hello good morning. your documents please (He smiled back-real one maybe)........(i was like thank God)
me; here please (passed i20 and passport)
vo; (checked i20 and saw full funding and he gave a very big grin) what are your course work?
me; well i shall be taking anth 603-introduction to anthropology theory, anth 604(intro to arch theory), anth 665- west african societies during medieval time, (i continued till like the 6th one and never knew he had been stopping me)
Vo; Mr distinction its okay ts okay its okay (he laughed)
me; hahahaha(a mild laughter from me)
vo; your visa has been approved (then dis part looked like a movie as i saw him drop my passport among some others and circling the pick up address on the white sheet then it got dawn on me that i have my visa granted) ,do this that port of entry kinikan blablabla education usa blablabla i20 wahtever (i pretended like i was listening and remain calmed)

me; thank you (i waited for the other guy outside and yes he got His too)


NO DOCUMENTS ASKED

abnice2004:
I wil prefer educational management or Educational policy. Am not planning to write toefl.

dickoflife:
Haaaaa. Aiye akamara o... Ticket has risen astronomically... Who loves trekking? Make we trek for hilary clinton. Next stop new york.

motifoluwasolami:
Congratulations don4ye, bigbenoski, Zt and every orher person who got approved today. more testimonies to come

NairaSea23:
@Zt, don4ye and all those that got their visas approved today I say a big congrats. Wishing you greater things ahead and a successful travel plan....

Holudarey01:
Happy for you Don4ye.
God rewarded your hardwork.
Enjoy your stay in the US

don4ye:
Thanks baba mi.. Sleep no come o.. What can I do o?