₦airaland Forum

LagosismyHome:
O YES indeed..... Congrats great news !!!

May GOD Bless your new journey

Tunnyz:
Congratulations... Blessings!

Emmelix:
Please has anybody here used ece.org educational credential evaluators for document and transcript evaluation. I kinda link them because there process is far easy compaired to wes and have good customer service.

thou have written to Lehigh university asking them if I can use them for my document evaluation.



Lastly anybody here who knows someone in lehigh or who is currently schooling there should please holla.

Emmelix:
Please has anybody here used ece.org educational credential evaluators for document and transcript evaluation. I kinda link them because there process is far easy compaired to wes and have good customer service.

thou have written to Lehigh university asking them if I can use them for my document evaluation.



Lastly anybody here who knows someone in lehigh or who is currently schooling there should please holla.

Capitas7:
VO: okay, your visa has been approved, ensure...at the address circled on this slip. Do have a good day, and welcome to USA
Me: Thank you sir.

Capitas7:
When you a lion chases you, Mount Everest becomes a pebble - this I saw today. If the word "Grace" makes no meaning to you, then the US Embassy is not a place to experiment your philosophy. I passed the night at my brother's apartment in Akoka. Short night, I woke up at 12:59am, and searched for another nap that never came. I put a call through to my brother for the final mock he promised me - he wasn't in town (Texrem, I'm jokingly angry at you o, as you didn't reply my request for a mock interview nko?). I left his place at 4am. A good note for those planning on leaving their Yaba lodge early, I saw only three buses (the road was sleeping) moving between the hours of 4am and 4:40am, meaning it was too early. Got to the Consulate a few minutes after 5am. After all the checks, we were on the single line waiting for the VO's who started arriving around 7:03am (by now, 6:30am, 7:00am and 7:30am immigrant and non-immigrant candidates were muddled together).

I began to wonder how nairalanders observed and kept figures with pictures because immediately the interview started with the first set of applicants, I went blank, and didn't even want to see anyone's denial or approval. The brother in front of me no try at all. If you're reading this, bros, your energy was much, and your blood hot; kilode? I almost left the position behind him for another window. See as bros just dey talk like say e dey address the entire applicants, with much energy and hot blood. I heard two immigrant applicants say why is he portraying himself as being desperate? and the other replied this is serious and funny. I heard the VO ask him what do you know about this school? Brother's answer was quite superficial, then the VO made the comment "those are general knowledge about US schools, can you give me something more convincing?". Too serious or not, Window 6 approved big bros - this brings to mind the saying of Lagosismyhome that what sounds inadequate to someone's ears might be what a particular VO wants to hear i.e. only the VO decides - and I was happy for him. I just dey fear say this brother don spoil show for person like me wey dey talk with low tone.

Immediately after him, I approached Window 6. Sorry for the epistle, but the truth is God's Grace made my transcript limited to just three questions thus

VO: Good morning sir
Me: Good morning sir
VO: pass me your I20 and your passport
Me: (I did as instructed)
VO: So why Florida institute of technology?
Me: FIT internship presents graduate Biotechnology students the options of working in a research lab or in a commercial company, of which I prefer the first and most of the other schools don't have the option (VO didn't allow me mention the other point I had)
VO: How do you intend to go about your studies?
Me: A total of 30 credits are required to obtain an MS in Biotechnology in FIT spread over a period of 24months. (I mentioned two courses and how many units per session)
VO: They're offering you a very good scholarship.
Me: Yes, true (low tone).
VO: What qualified you for this?
Me: My SOP, GRE scores and my undergraduate CGPA (there's nothing special about any of them, just average)
VO: okay, your visa has been approved, ensure...at the address circled on this slip. Do have a good day, and welcome to USA
Me: Thank you sir.

I got home to discover I missed my dad's 6 calls sometimes around 5am. He told me he felt he had to wake me up, in case I was still asleep. Same with my brother who has been really supportive from the beginning. A big thank you to Lagosismyhome, Walspring, Texrem, Topdee, Zeng, Electronic, and everyone here.

Bibiakonure:
Congratulations on your visa and the scholarship. I sent you a PM please reply

sirRiddy:
If you are looking at Computer Science grad program especially
PhD, please consider Kansas State University. It is ranked 90 on the usnews ranking
and is a top program in the United States. The department is very good with excellent
facilities, faculty and opportunities (funding). The strengths are in the area of Cybersecurity,
Machine Learning, high Performance Computing, Software Specification and Analysis research.
If your GPA is around 4/5 and you have a GRE score around 315, you stand a very good chance.
The Nigerian family here is going to be 3 this fall and it is exciting to see the place becoming more diverse.
Good luck to the prospective graduate students. smiley

PS: By the way, all the talk about work experience or research experience is mostly crap talk.
What you need to succeed is your hunger and attitude. No one really has it figured out. If anyone
does, then it is useless work and not good research. If you have a healthy work ethic and work hard,
your limits are just mere fiction.

Mitchely:
Visa Approved yesterday. Transcript goes thus.. ...

Vo good morning
Me good morning mam

Vo can I have your passport and I-20
Me went blank temporarily and forgot which Form was that and was giving her my ds confirmation

Vo no your i20
Me started flipping through looking for i20 (already panicking)

Vo The one with an F1
Me OK, sorry mam, quickly produced it(in my head that Form is an F1 form)

Vo How did you hear of this school
Me I did an intensive search online using sites like usnews, princeton review to narrow down to Schools offering PhD in electrical and electronic engineering, then consulted websites of such schools and found wsu to have an ongoing research in my field of interest.


Vo Do you have a letter for your scholarship
Me yes I do mam, produced it

Vo Can I see your academic transcripts
Me yes mam, produced both

Vo Did you take the GRE
Me yes mam

Vo what was your score
Me I had 307 (forgot to mention the writing)

Vo Are you married
Me yes mam

Vo Any kids
Me yes mam, have a 1 year 6months old daughter

Vo are they coming with you
Me no mam

Vo what does your wife do
Me she works with a govt parastatal, and about to start her Masters program over here

Vo so who will look after your daughter
Me we have a cousin staying with us that helps with that

Vo When did you finish Masters and what have you been doing since
Me finished in 2014 and been lecturing since

Vo do you have any specialization in electrical engineering
Me yes mam, my field of specialization is mobile communication and networking.

Vo OK, everything looks good. I will hold onto these (my scholarship letter and transcripts) for verification. Hold onto your i-20, you will need it at the point of entry. This shows you how to pick up your visa, hands me the white paper.

Special thanks to God for His Grace and favour, to everyone on this group, those who shared past transcript, to texrem for the mock interview.

Please hope the fact I went with student copies of academic transcripts will not be an issue?

Heykayxx:
Good morning fam,

Anyone heading to Auburn university in Alabama in this coming Fall? How's life in that city? Weather? Survival tips?

I look forward to reading from you all.
Thanks.

cc: Lagosismyhome, Texrem, Femi321, happyday, sir Twoods et al

koczee:
Hello guys! Please I need someone that can help me pay eshipglobal for I-20 form to be sent from the US to Nigeria or does anyone has an idea how to pay it from Nigeria since they don't accept payment with cards and PayPal? Thanks

princeGee23:
Blessing follow us follow follow follow us. Alubarika follow us follow follow follow us.
We went we saw and we conquered cc @shabol24

V =Victory
I= Inspired by
S= Sacrifice
A=Action,
A=Analysis
P= Prayer
P=Peoples ( NL group)
R=Resilient
O=Optimism
V=Vision with
E=Extreme
D= Diligent

You guys did it abeg NOT me. Embassy gave Seun(NL) and two of his worker visa. Thanks to great minds like @lagosismyhome, @Shayune @princedekunle @texrem @ctemi @shabol24(My sweetheart) @walspring @michael18.. and everyone with your post.
Na chinko n fine girl gave us Visa ooooo

adewotired:
Visa got approved this morning.

Really grateful to God, and to everyone that helped me on here(Texrem, PrinceDekunle, electronic, tomisinobm and abujaniv sef )

Transcript goes thus.

VO: Pass your documents
Me: Here you go sir

VO: What are you going to do in the United States?
Me: I am going for my Bachelors degree in Computer and Information Science...

VO: (cuts in) In which school?
Me: Coppin State University in Maryland

VO: How did you get to know about the school?
Me: It was introduced to me at a workshop by EducationUSA and I did some more research about it using the CollegeBoard BigFuture portal and
CommonApp

VO: When did you graduate?
Me: Last year, sir

VO: (typing) And who is going to be funding your education?
Me: The school sir. I am on a full ride scholarship.(VO then flipped the i20 to check it)

VO: (still typing) You have any family in that area?
Me: No sir. But I have a brother in the US though.

VO: And where does your brother stay?
Me: He is in Oklahoma sir

The VO stood up and went somewhere, I don't know where.

VO: Are you married?
Me: No sir

VO: You have kids?
Me: No sir.

VO stated typing for about 2 minutes.

VO: I will be approving your visa,(gave me white paper), use this at the DHL office to collect it.... ( I didn't really get the remaining words he
spoke)
Me: Thank you so much sir. I will do that. Do have a nice day.

Capitas7:
When you a lion chases you, Mount Everest becomes a pebble - this I saw today. If the word "Grace" makes no meaning to you, then the US Embassy is not a place to experiment your philosophy. I passed the night at my brother's apartment in Akoka. Short night, I woke up at 12:59am, and searched for another nap that never came. I put a call through to my brother for the final mock he promised me - he wasn't in town (Texrem, I'm jokingly angry at you o, as you didn't reply my request for a mock interview nko?). I left his place at 4am. A good note for those planning on leaving their Yaba lodge early, I saw only three buses (the road was sleeping) moving between the hours of 4am and 4:40am, meaning it was too early. Got to the Consulate a few minutes after 5am. After all the checks, we were on the single line waiting for the VO's who started arriving around 7:03am (by now, 6:30am, 7:00am and 7:30am immigrant and non-immigrant candidates were muddled together).

I began to wonder how nairalanders observed and kept figures with pictures because immediately the interview started with the first set of applicants, I went blank, and didn't even want to see anyone's denial or approval. The brother in front of me no try at all. If you're reading this, bros, your energy was much, and your blood hot; kilode? I almost left the position behind him for another window. See as bros just dey talk like say e dey address the entire applicants, with much energy and hot blood. I heard two immigrant applicants say why is he portraying himself as being desperate? and the other replied this is serious and funny. I heard the VO ask him what do you know about this school? Brother's answer was quite superficial, then the VO made the comment "those are general knowledge about US schools, can you give me something more convincing?". Too serious or not, Window 6 approved big bros - this brings to mind the saying of Lagosismyhome that what sounds inadequate to someone's ears might be what a particular VO wants to hear i.e. only the VO decides - and I was happy for him. I just dey fear say this brother don spoil show for person like me wey dey talk with low tone.

Immediately after him, I approached Window 6. Sorry for the epistle, but the truth is God's Grace made my transcript limited to just three questions thus

VO: Good morning sir
Me: Good morning sir
VO: pass me your I20 and your passport
Me: (I did as instructed)
VO: So why Florida institute of technology?
Me: FIT internship presents graduate Biotechnology students the options of working in a research lab or in a commercial company, of which I prefer the first and most of the other schools don't have the option (VO didn't allow me mention the other point I had)
VO: How do you intend to go about your studies?
Me: A total of 30 credits are required to obtain an MS in Biotechnology in FIT spread over a period of 24months. (I mentioned two courses and how many units per session)
VO: They're offering you a very good scholarship.
Me: Yes, true (low tone).
VO: What qualified you for this?
Me: My SOP, GRE scores and my undergraduate CGPA (there's nothing special about any of them, just average)
VO: okay, your visa has been approved, ensure...at the address circled on this slip. Do have a good day, and welcome to USA
Me: Thank you sir.

I got home to discover I missed my dad's 6 calls sometimes around 5am. He told me he felt he had to wake me up, in case I was still asleep. Same with my brother who has been really supportive from the beginning. A big thank you to Lagosismyhome, Walspring, Texrem, Topdee, Zeng, Electronic, and everyone here.

Zeng:
I just give thanks to God. My visa has been approved this morning at Lagos consulate, 7am batch. Will try to post a transcript soon.

Zeng:
I just give thanks to God. My visa has been approved this morning at Lagos consulate, 7am batch. Will try to post a transcript soon.

Zeng:
I just give thanks to God. My visa has been approved this morning at Lagos consulate, 7am batch. Will try to post a transcript soon.

Helkayklassic:
Does Kansas State University has MS Computer Science? Like i saw only PhD on their site, not sure though.

mendes911:
Please, how can I get across to you?

Rasengan02:
how about [/b]INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING? [b] u gat any clue abt d dept?

sirRiddy:
Yes there is an MS program in Computer Science there.
Funding priority, however, goes to PhD students.

LagosismyHome:
All this our NairaLand Family plus silent and active reader

Una too much this week ooo .......

I cannot even say Congratulation to each an every one because it just overflowing . . Welldone

So to all Those recently successful F1 Visas, May God bless your new Journey . Amen . Congrats Ladies and Gentlemen.

To those who were delayed .... Its only the end if you give up . So refresh and go again but learn something new for next time and May Grace go with and before you .