Sleekyomon:
Hello everyone....pls I need your help,my interview is coming up next week in Abuja.....looking for a cheap hotel I can stay around..thanks

gentledoj:
Hello my people, a friend of mine wan pay visa fee today ooo, come see wahala. The guy enter four different GTB bank, they told the guy they have problem with the site and they have been attending to customers before.

Please when is the best time to go and make the payment?

Donprada:
yes I perfectly understand..right now..na help I dey find

gentledoj:
Hello my people, a friend of mine wan pay visa fee today ooo, come see wahala. The guy enter four different GTB bank, they told the guy they have problem with the site and they have been attending to customers before.

Please when is the best time to go and make the payment?

Mekurexx:
Who has GRE textbook materials He/she is not using? Thanks! Help a brother

calfavour:


CGI system doesn't just work sometimes. your friend should keep checking.
I encountered such when I wanted to make payment around May ending.
System down time is temporal.
You friend should try again on Thursday.

Mekurexx:
Who has GRE textbook materials He/she is not using? Thanks! Help a brother

bolaji92:
hello house how una dey?

please i will appreciate if i can connect to anyone in new Hampshire majorly southern new Hampshire university.

Anybody going to new Hampshire this July

Igbiboi:



De way to go about it is this: first get a school in the USA for example you can get admission into technology management (which BTW, at Uni Bridgeport has the highest Nigerian student concentration) at UB for university of Bridgeport. Then after your first semester hopefully you will be able to get good grades, then using the grades you got at UB you can then transfer to another school that offers your course. I think University of Massachussets Lowel offer courses in renewable energy in the dept of mechanical engineering. You may check them out, but I'm almost certain they will not give u admission because of GP matter.

I know UB, as I was once at the school before I later transferred out. And secondly, if u don't know anybody in the U.S. You've to first go to the school that will be easier for you to survive and after geting the orientation about USA then you can go to those places which are more alien to your culture. Even though Texas has a lot of Nigerians there, I know UB will be easy for you to adapt because of its high Nigerian student population, the downside is that it is in Connecticut and during winter Connecticut gets so freezing, sometimes it could get as low as -7 degrees.

LagosismyHome:


check this page out, tuition is 17k but with 1800 + SAT you can get USF Green & Gold Directors Award.
http://usfweb2.usf.edu/admissions/scholarships/international-freshman.html

Also Southeastern Uni has Academic Scholars Point System so you might get something off with that SAT score

Walspring:


Nah make God help us and make him send us confirm help if not.... E get as e be oo

diggy4real:


What of a case of someone going to UB vie scholarship..... I.e the fees has being paid to the school by the awarder of the scholarship.......and the person feels like changing school...will UB transfer the fees to the new school?.....pls I need answers
..Thanks.

Source: http://desiopt.com/news/896/Hillary%E2%80%99s-Automatic-Green-Card-proposal-to-benefit-Indian-students.html

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has promised automatic ‘green card’ or permanent residency to students who complete a master’s degree or a PhD from a U.S university.

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There are 1,32,888 Indian students in the U.S currently, second only to the Chinese, and most of them are in the STEM category.

Indian science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) students in the U.S could be the biggest beneficiaries of a proposal in Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s ‘Initiative on Technology and Innovation’ released this week.

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Ms. Clinton has promised automatic ‘green card’ or permanent residency to students who complete a master’s degree or a PhD from a U.S university

Indian students mostly in STEM

There are 1,32,888 Indian students in the U.S currently, second only to the Chinese. There are 3,04,040 Chinese students. Indian students are mostly graduate students, and mostly in the STEM category. Of all the international undergraduate students, 30 per cent are Chinese, where as Indians make only three per cent of the pool.

Immigration experts who are familiar with the trends approximate that as high as 80 per cent of the Indian students could be in the STEM category and therefore in a position to benefit from Ms. Clinton’s policy.

Proposal around for a while

Automatic green card for STEM graduates has been a proposal that has been around for a while, and Republican Mitt Romney promised it during his presidential campaign in 2012.

For decades, foreign students who come to the U.S on F-1 visas could be employed in the country under what is called the Optional Practical Training (OPT). In 2008 the Bush administration allowed STEM students to stay as long as 29 months, and in 2015, the Obama administration extended it to 36 months.

“Indian students stand to benefit a lot if this policy [Ms. Clinton’s] comes through. As of now, a STEM graduate can continue to stay in the U.S. for a maximum of three years after the course. If they have not got an H-1B visa by then, they either go back to India or go back to a student visa. This uncertainty leaves them in a state of flux immediately after graduation,” said Aparna Dave, an immigration lawyer based in Washington.

Always in demand

Applications for H-1B visas exceed the stipulated quota by several times every year. For several years now, annually, there are 65,000 H-1B visas that are in the general category and an additional 20,000 meant for STEM graduates from American universities under the category ‘advanced degree exemption.’

Ms. Dave pointed out that while IT companies are aggressive in using the H-1B visas, companies in other sectors are usually lukewarm to the programme. “Many companies that are not primarily in IT are averse to getting involved in the immigration process,” she said. As a result, a mechanical, chemical or environmental engineering graduate has lesser chances to continue in the U.S, even if a corresponding job may be available with a company. If STEM graduates are automatically eligible for a green card, they could compete in the open job market and companies will find it easier to fill vacancies or expand with fresh talent, said Ms. Dave.

Move to tap top talent

Ms. Clinton explains her policy proposal as a move to “attract and retain the top talent from around the world.”

“As part of comprehensive immigration reform, Hillary would “staple” a green card to STEM masters and PhDs from accredited institutions, and support visas that allow top entrepreneurs from abroad to come to the U.S., build companies, and create jobs for American workers,” the document said.

Controversial topics, in poll year

But OPT and the number of extra STEM talent that the American job market requires every year remain controversial topics, more so in an election year. Donald Trump, the Republican candidate, has made vague remarks about retaining international students who come to the U.S, but his politics remain anti-immigration.

“The STEM OPT extension program masquerades as a mentoring and training program for foreign graduates with STEM degrees from U.S. universities; in practice it is a large temporary work-visa program for foreign workers with virtually no rules …There are no enforceable wage standards or protections for the foreign students in the OPT program or for the U.S. workers with whom the OPT workers compete. Employers are permitted to deeply undercut locally prevailing wages for jobs in STEM fields. Employers are not required to first recruit U.S. workers or even publicly advertise jobs to them before hiring OPT workers, meaning that employers do not have to establish the existence of a labour shortage before hiring workers through OPT,” Ronil Hira, Associate Professor of Public Policy at Howard University, Washington DC told the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this year. Automatic green cards to STEM graduates is not a proposal that will go unchallenged.

borie4u:
Hillary Clinton for president oooo. Oti sure juu.

LagosismyHome:


Hehehehe how is that possible na. UB go dash another school money. Lol. Think am na .Not possible , if its a school scholarship program

if its an outside scholarship then u need to ask the people running it if its possible to switch school . ...then yes maybe if u withdraw from Ub (within d allowed time frame ) the money will be returned back to sender and maybe sender can reallocate it .. but only that scholarship can answer it based on their rules

diggy4real:


How true is it that 2nd tier schools like UB graduates don't get level playing grounds from potential employers.

Cambells:
Good day everyone, I've been observing this forum for a while now and found it informative. I have a friend who is going for interview soon but the thing is, he is going to be 18 years on his interview date. Will he still need his parents to follow him?

LagosismyHome:


I dont know much about UB but when it comes to job it depends on the different sectors. Fine yes the very good schools make it easier for their students because they have good internal recruitment drive so lots of their student get full time offer from school career fairs and all and what i like abt some good schools. They invest in training the students how to interview and sell themselves well ....so yes tier 1 gives u an edge

Outside of school recuitment i wont say other schools are in different playing field. The key would be how to write your resume in such a way that it stands out and sell u and then once picked how u can shine in the interview. FINDING A JOB IS A FULL TIME JOB IN ITSELF. ... But yeah na fight to finish .

Most of our naija people coming from naija at masters level . Their resumes are not written well, also time is not invested in them on how to interview well either, as within 2years u are so focused on grades, keeping ur ga ,adjusting to a new culture, GETTING USE TO NEPA NEVER GOING OFF and all that ...so job is not the focus until the end . ..... and then when u get to the end companies would only file H1b for u if u stand out and they notice your qualitites so its all not so easy ......tap into the black networks as companies go there to fill the quota. So if u are engineering u better be at all NSBE conferences if MBA answer present at National black . Dont just attend but prepare well before the event . If ur school having any career fair clear ur calendar that day and be there prepared.

Regardless of how the road seems, people succeed somehow and u got to believe , pray and hope that you are among those.. .. see how one sentence bring all these long typing like a jobless parrot

Cambells:
Good day everyone, I've been observing this forum for a while now and found it informative. I have a friend who is going for interview soon but the thing is, he is going to be 18 years on his interview date. Will he still need his parents to follow him?

Cambells:
Good day everyone, I've been observing this forum for a while now and found it informative. I have a friend who is going for interview soon but the thing is, he is going to be 18 years on his interview date. Will he still need his parents to follow him?

Cambells:
Good day everyone, I've been observing this forum for a while now and found it informative. I have a friend who is going for interview soon but the thing is, he is going to be 18 years on his interview date. Will he still need his parents to follow him?

qhutetomsel:
your friends parent can follow him to the embassy but I don't think its necessary for them to go in with him for the interview ( well, except they will be travelling with him also)..
I went in alone..
Just my opinion, others will comment

LagosismyHome:


Some people say anything to get in and when they are in story dey change........ Make we sitdown look them and hope for the best for our hustle .