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University of New Haven too. Last year when I got the admission letter I got 10% off tuition fee but I deferred to fall 2021 coz of COVID. Dunno if the 10% off tuition fee will still stand. But aside that no sort of funding. Hope I good to go o? gurus pls help shed more lights.

dNairaman:
Wow, congratulations queen.

I'm up for New Haven too, interview soon. However, I dint get any sort of funding...

You mind sharing how you got yours??

Hello house. Please I applied to 5 universities and I have been rejected by 2 now. Please what do I do oo. I can't hold it. And fall admission will soon come to an end. Please!

Jukwasi:
Hello house. Please I applied to 5 universities and I have been rejected by 2 now. Please what do I do oo. I can't hold it. And fall admission will soon come to an end. Please!

More application if you can.

Good afternoon
Please I need advice and guidelines
I applied for a visit visa to the us and visa fee payment has been made but logging on to my portal was told there are currently no appointment available.how do I go about it
Thank you

Greetings to everyone in the house, I’m David leaving in NYC, one of the beneficiaries of Nairaland US travel forums, Now a United state solder serving in the ARMY branch here in NY, I am writing this because I looked back to where this beautiful journey all started from, and remembered this FORUM, It’s time to give back to my community so don’t feel shy to let me know any kind of help you need regarding travels and others.. let’s make Nigeria proud and America great

Vivien16100:
Good afternoon
Please I need advice and guidelines
I applied for a visit visa to the us and visa fee payment has been made but logging on to my portal was told there are currently no appointment available.how do I go about it
Thank you

I think this is due to pandemic going on, you probably wanna give it a little wait or try to send an email to the customer service US consulate Nigeria branch at
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For prompt attention, please use appropriate contact address

Visas

Abuja

Please Direct ALL VISA AND AMERICAN CITIZENS SERVICES enquiries to
Consular Section, Abuja (Visas)
(American Citizens Services)
Embassy of the United States of America
Plot 1075 Diplomatic Drive
Central District Area, Abuja.
Telephone: (234)-9-461-4000
If your inquiry concerns a non-immigrant visa or a student visa case, please send your email to ConsularAbuja@state.gov
If your inquiry concerns American Citizen Services, please send your email to AbujaACS@state.gov
If your inquiry concerns an immigrant visa case, please send your email to Consulate General Lagos at LagosIV@state.gov
Lagos

Consular Section, Lagos (Visas)
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Telephone: (234)-1-460-3400
If your inquiry concerns an immigrant visa case, please send your email to LagosIV@state.gov.
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EmeritusR:
@fairheart that's really a nice one from you.

Thank you. Happy new year!

Choicexx:
So fairheart has said it all. But if application fee would be a problem why not package your documents well and reach prof,program directors etc of schools that meet your needs so as to apply to as few as you can or even one school you are sure will admit you and probably fund you.
Senior fairheart nobi so?

Lols. Well, I believe it is not a good idea to depend on school that will waive application fees. While application waiver doesn't influence admission decision, one should plan to do a school that admission and funding is sure from, and pay the fee. It is part of the sacrifice.
So Choicexx, for applicants who can't afford to apply to several schools due to shortage of fund, there is always one or two schools the applicant is academically fit to apply to that will give admission and even funding. It is always worth it to have such school on the list. If you don't get a school with application fee waiver, you can just struggle to raise application fee for the sure school.
Thank you

Please have you been able to secure an admission for MSc Accounting in any of the US schools?

Oluwatosin2000:
Please, kindly suggest schools for me. Thanks

Guys...I’m traveling to USA in 2 week time. I learnt from my Travel agent that all travelers are required to do a Rapid covid 19 test which will cost another 37k at the airport in addition to the one take at the laboratory . Regardless the airline
How true is this? Help please help

Juwon21:
I want to know about the application fee waiver, and how to request for it

$70! KSU does not waive application fee for International applicants. They waive for only a limited category of underprivileged citizens.

Daodudavid:
Greetings to everyone in the house, I’m David leaving in NYC, one of the beneficiaries of Nairaland US travel forums, Now a United state solder serving in the ARMY branch here in NY, I am writing this because I looked back to where this beautiful journey all started from, and remembered this FORUM, It’s time to give back to my community so don’t feel shy to let me know any kind of help you need regarding travels and others.. let’s make Nigeria proud and America great

Hello, I just emailed you.
I would like to ask you some few questions
I hope you still have access to the email.

Help

Damian457:
Guys...I’m traveling to USA in 2 week time. I learnt from my Travel agent that all travelers are required to do a Rapid covid 19 test which will cost another 37k at the airport in addition to the one take at the laboratory . Regardless the airline
How true is this? Help please help

Damian457:
Guys...I’m traveling to USA in 2 week time. I learnt from my Travel agent that all travelers are required to do a Rapid covid 19 test which will cost another 37k at the airport in addition to the one take at the laboratory . Regardless the airline
How true is this? Help please help

it's true, at least it was when I traveled. But you'd do it before, not at the airport.

Friedpotato:
it's true, at least it was when I traveled. But you'd do it before, not at the airport.

I know about this but my agent wakanow said right now no matter where you’re traveling to, The airport will require you to do another test in the airport again

fairheart:
People are still going for spring, those very small in number and most likely with extension letter. A lady from this thread got her visa yesterday at 4th attempt at the U.S embassy, Abuja. There are is another guy from here planning for interview next week.
For fall 2021, I believe applicants can start going to the embassy from late April, that is in roughly 3 months from now.

For those who are going for interview for fall, please read thread 15, at least from October 2020. Learn from others experience so that you can avoid setbacks and unnecessary refusal.

When I have time, I will post a list of to-dos for fall 2021 prospects.
If you have questions, don't hold back; ask! There are always people on this thread that will answer.
All the best guys!

Thanks for your input, I'm always learning from this board. please can you post schools that are blacklisted. so we can avoid those schools.
I'm applying to New jersey university, kean university, Monroe college, Stratford uni and Bowie state university. Any red flags in those?

Vivien16100:
Good afternoon
Please I need advice and guidelines
I applied for a visit visa to the us and visa fee payment has been made but logging on to my portal was told there are currently no appointment available.how do I go about it
Thank you

It means exactly what is there.

You need to keep checking often...about 2 to 3 times daily to know when appointment dates are open.

Daodudavid:
Greetings to everyone in the let me know an

Hi sir, please how can one be a military medical doctor in the USA army?

Chonco:
More application if you can.

Okay, thanks dear. But they require more money.

fairheart:
Lols. Well, I believe it is not a good idea to depend on school that will waive application fees. While application waiver doesn't influence admission decision, one should plan to do a school that admission and funding is sure from, and pay the fee. It is part of the sacrifice.
So Choicexx, for applicants who can't afford to apply to several schools due to shortage of fund, there is always one or two schools the applicant is academically fit to apply to that will give admission and even funding. It is always worth it to have such school on the list. If you don't get a school with application fee waiver, you can just struggle to raise application fee for the sure school.
Thank you

Please can you recommend the schools that give funding
thanks

Schrodinger1:
$70! CSU does not waive application fee for International applicants. They waive for only a limited category of underprivileged citizens.

They waved for me thou.

LeviAckerman:
Who is applying or has applied to Illinois State University
Please how did you apply for graduate assistantship
Thanks

I applied o. Have you gotten admission?

fairheart:
Lols. Well, I believe it is not a good idea to depend on school that will waive application fees. While application waiver doesn't influence admission decision, one should plan to do a school that admission and funding is sure from, and pay the fee. It is part of the sacrifice.
So Choicexx, for applicants who can't afford to apply to several schools due to shortage of fund, there is always one or two schools the applicant is academically fit to apply to that will give admission and even funding. It is always worth it to have such school on the list. If you don't get a school with application fee waiver, you can just struggle to raise application fee for the sure school.
Thank you

Certainly...... Bro

Daodudavid:
Greetings to everyone in the house, I’m David leaving in NYC, one of the beneficiaries of Nairaland US travel forums, Now a United state solder serving in the ARMY branch here in NY, I am writing this because I looked back to where this beautiful journey all started from, and remembered this FORUM, It’s time to give back to my community so don’t feel shy to let me know any kind of help you need regarding travels and others.. let’s make Nigeria proud and America great

Nigeria Great and Proud ,No include America abeg na

Munaxara:
I applied o. Have you gotten admission?

I applied too oo. Still waiting for admission

Ykxcels:
‘’How Many Rejections Now? 10!’’
How I got a Fully Funded Master’s Scholarship in The United States of America.

It had always been my desire to study abroad right from high school. So fast forward, having seen my final year result, graduating with a first class, I took 7 days off praying and fasting to ask God for the next agenda, what is next in His will? God began to speak to me about going abroad and confirming it in outstanding ways, details withheld. Okay, what destination? Having consulted with my Professors, my priority was Canada, USA and manageably UK. What do I need to get scholarships? Get my transcript, international passport, take IELTS/TOEFL and write GRE. While planning all these I was also praying towards my NYSC and God was telling me some things which were not very clear to me until I got to Ogun State NYSC Orientation Camp in Shagamu. Then it became very clear that though I have obeyed the clarion call of my fatherland, there was a demand of my father God on me that year to serve as State executive at Nccf Ogun , March 2018 to April 2019. It was a great sacrifice which took a lot of my time and attention because I was also serving as a Graduate Assistant, in the Electrical / Eletronic Engineering department at Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, (MAPOLY), Abeokuta. And, I was lecturing. How I got my placement there is a story of faith for another day. Thank God service year ended and I was asked to apply as an Associate Lecturer by my HOD who wanted to keep me but somehow the application was declined by the Dean. I had applied for Mastercard Scholarship of McGill University, Canada, 3 Commonwealth Shared Scholarships (CSC), EducationUSA OFP and the PTDF scholarships while serving and they all looked promising. Despite the rigor of being the State Rugged, I stayed up late every night punching the computer, reviewing my application essays and the likes.

When my application was declined at MAPOLY, I moved to Lagos to stay with one of my mentor’s mentees, who works with Shell. I never knew he had been following my What’sapp status and by the kind of things I post there, he had judged that I am someone he could accommodate to stay with him, support and bring up to speed while I get sorted my applications. There in his house, I had access to electricity 24/7, food 24/7, even though I had already became a fasted man in NCCF. I settled down preparing for my GRE and though it was good, it wasn’t good enough for me with a score of 311. I could not write TOEFL or IELTS because of money and since many schools waive it. While preparing for GRE, the first rejection letter dropped. It was McGill’s, then the 3 CSCs and then the PTDF scholarship. After so much investment in preparation for the interview, I was not awarded. Then, I applied for Skoltech scholarship, a school in Russia, it was not successful. I applied for Mastercard Edinburgh, declined! Chevening, it failed then FSB Commonwealth Masters. I even paid a consulting firm to review my application, it failed. I was also applying to schools in the US But the problem was writing to Professors, requesting for GRA/GTA and getting no response.

How many rejections now? 10! While in this struggle, I got the idea to write to professors in Covenant University, to volunteer as a Research Assistant with anyone in line with my research interest, drawing from a scholar who challenged me by telling me, I didn’t have any online research presence apart from social media. He said the first thing most professors do when they get your mail is to put your name in Google to know if you have been in the corridor of research work and publication, to know if your mail is worth their reply. Personally, I did not know anyone in Covenant University so I went through the school website, went through the CVs of some lecturers in the Electrical and Information Engineering Department and I wrote to 5 of them. I made contacts in Unilag, especially because I had a comfortable accommodation at Surulere, and OAU because I could be accommodated in our mission house in Ife and I would be able to survive on tutorials. I got accepted into the 3 – OAU, Unilag, Covenant for voluntary research assistant work. I got a response from one of the Professors in Covenant who was willing to take me but on a condition - no accommodation, no stipend! That was a great challenge especially for someone from my background but I had learnt to walk by the leading of the Holy Spirit. September 2019, I resumed at Advanced Signal Processing and Machine Intelligence Lab, Covenant University Centre for Research, Innovation and Development, Covenant University and, by December, I got a scopus-index paper published in a conference held in Madrid, Spain.

After this I started getting a few responses from the Professors I was now contacting in the US. I kept writing, I kept searching for schools and I kept applying to schools. I applied to 6 schools in the US, I was getting admitted even for direct PhD but full funding was the main challenge. In another 3 months, by April, 2020 I had already gotten 4, all scopus-indexed publications, with one as the first author, and 2 other ongoing journal papers. I also got a fully funded scholarship to do my master’s at Covenant University with World Bank project under the supervision of my Professor but with a condition that I was not going to travel abroad untill I am done with the 2 years. That was the first opportunity in two years but, I had to decline it even though I was yet to secure one scholarship abroad because while I prayed about it, I heard God telling me that Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness. I also remembered how in March, while at a church anniversary meeting, the guest minister from nowhere picked me up and began prophesying about my journey abroad with some instructions and revelation of the future and so I did not seek counsel with any human being until after I had declined it. I did not want to be pitied out of God’s plan for my life.

Shortly after, Covid-19 broke out, and with it, the global lockdown and ban on international flights, all hopes became very gloomy. Those who had secured scholarships even in the US prior to this time were being faced with the possibility of losing them. I know people who lost theirs, how much more I who was still just hoping to get one. Anyways for me, it was a journey of faith with God saying to me ‘let the bird in your hand go for two in the bush’. Who does that? My faith had built from faith-based teachings I had been listening to, I soaked myself into them and interacted with friends of like-faith who in the heat of the lockdown, started a whatsApp group where we pray and share God’s word with each other, just the three of us. In the lockdown, our lab was not locked down and I was working on some research work when we got this grant from the university to design and build an automatic solar powered water, soap and sanitizer dispensing machine with automatic temperature sensing functionality which we were also working on. This was the 8th month of volunteering without any pay. How was I being accommodated and fed? Those are testimonies of grace and favor for another day. God is too faithful to fail His children who serve and call upon Him in truth. Meanwhile, I was not really scouting for jobs. Maybe I would have gotten one, but that was not in the plan I received when I was leaving campus after my week-long wait in fasting and prayers.

Then came this fateful day, the last Friday of May 2020. we had just finished our normal weekly research cluster meeting and I was about to close my computer to leave the lab when I refreshed my mail and saw a strange email subject titled ‘Assistantship offer and SEVIS form’. I opened it and could only manage to read it halfway as tears roll down. A fully funded master scholarship worth thousands of dollars. The application fee was waived, my documents were sent free of any charges, I didn’t have to pay a dime, it was all covered and overflowing. Even if I were to bring a spouse, she would be covered as well. What a great God! I was to resume for the fall which was in August, 2020 but because of the international flight ban in Nigeria, I had to defer it to spring 2021, which is January. And so, for the first time in my life, I was on board an an airplane, on a flight to the United States of America. This is my third week in the US and everything has totally changed. Everything I struggled for in Nigeria, I am settled with in the US. I can clearly see pathways to the kind of future I desired and ofcourse fulfilling God’s master plan in the earth is my priority.

Eventually, I spent 14 months volunteering in Covenant University, and though I was not paid by my Professor, the school paid for every scopus-indexed publication and I was able to achieve the following:
1. Two fully funded scholarships; one declined, one accepted and one pending interview results
2. Assisted with Experimentations on Machine Learning Techniques Towards the Development of an Automatic Nigerian Currency Recognition Model, and published a conference paper.
3. Conducted research on Automatic Modulation Recognition Using Cepstrum Descriptors and Feed-Forward ANN and then using Constellation Diagrams with CNN for publication as two journal papers
4. Researched on the Transmit Power of a Universal Software Radio Peripheral Using GNU Radio Framework and a Handheld RF Explorer, published a conference paper.
5. Assisted with Experimentations with OpenStack System Logs and Support Vector Machine for an Anomaly Detection Model in a Private Cloud Infrastructure, and published a conference paper.
6. Three ongoing research works and manuscripts.

For me, the rejections were divine directions because even though I have left Covenant University, I am still a member of my Professor’s research cluster and we are still working and collaborating together on projects.

ykajalas@gmail.com

Wow this is a big testimony, indeed what God cannot do doesnt exist! you put in the work despite the refusals and challenges. Congratulations brother. i am now in line for such a testimony. God bless you for sharing.

Ykxcels:
‘’How Many Rejections Now? 10!’’
How I got a Fully Funded Master’s Scholarship in The United States of America.

It had always been my desire to study abroad right from high school. So fast forward, having seen my final year result, graduating with a first class, I took 7 days off praying and fasting to ask God for the next agenda, what is next in His will? God began to speak to me about going abroad and confirming it in outstanding ways, details withheld. Okay, what destination? Having consulted with my Professors, my priority was Canada, USA and manageably UK. What do I need to get scholarships? Get my transcript, international passport, take IELTS/TOEFL and write GRE. While planning all these I was also praying towards my NYSC and God was telling me some things which were not very clear to me until I got to Ogun State NYSC Orientation Camp in Shagamu. Then it became very clear that though I have obeyed the clarion call of my fatherland, there was a demand of my father God on me that year to serve as State executive at Nccf Ogun , March 2018 to April 2019. It was a great sacrifice which took a lot of my time and attention because I was also serving as a Graduate Assistant, in the Electrical / Eletronic Engineering department at Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, (MAPOLY), Abeokuta. And, I was lecturing. How I got my placement there is a story of faith for another day. Thank God service year ended and I was asked to apply as an Associate Lecturer by my HOD who wanted to keep me but somehow the application was declined by the Dean. I had applied for Mastercard Scholarship of McGill University, Canada, 3 Commonwealth Shared Scholarships (CSC), EducationUSA OFP and the PTDF scholarships while serving and they all looked promising. Despite the rigor of being the State Rugged, I stayed up late every night punching the computer, reviewing my application essays and the likes.

Padi, you can drop this on LinkedIn. Way better!

Munaxara:
They waved for me thou.

I think it should depend on your department. How did you do it?

Hello guys, please how can I get the link for part 15? Someone should kindly assist me with it..

EboniAd:
Hello guys, please how can I get the link for part 15? Someone should kindly assist me with it..

https://www.nairaland.com/5233208/general-usa-student-visa-enquiries-part

Thank me later.
I wish you well.

Legit215:
Been a while since I checked up here, COVID ain't messing around this place is real quiet and lonely for those coming in, that knows no one�

You are right. It’s very lonely and very cold too.

Myralison:
Please I need to be clear on these issues before I start hustling on this journey.
1, what will be the faith of someone who has given birth in the states. Will it raise a red flag?

2, also the person presently have b1/b2 visa which was gotten outside Nigeria due to fear of denial because of birthing in the states.

What is the chance of getting F1?

Thank you.

Is this question irrelevant?

can someone answer me please