Humphman:
Congratulations!!! Please, does the guy have full or partial funding?

Partial

prosper388:
Visa approved today.
Thanks Guys
Coming back with transcript

I got to the embassy by 6am. We were around like 40 as I estimated. I didn't spend up to 2 hours standing and waiting.

Me: Good morning
VO: Good morning, your passport and I-20
Me: (passed both to him)
VO: your DS-160 and place your 4 fingers on the machine.
Me: (I did everything he told me to do)
VO: why are you going to the US?
Me: I am going for a master’s degree in petroleum engineering at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
VO: why this school?
Me: UL has a centre for optimization of petroleum system which aligns with my research interest and I was also given full funding.
VO: did you apply to other schools and name them?
Me: I applied to Louisiana state university, University of Kansas, University of Oklahoma, Texas Tech University and this University of Louisiana at Lafayette
VO: where do you currently work?
Me: I work as a performance analyst at TradeDepot Limited
VO: Trade what
Me: TradeDepot
VO: what do they do there?
Me: It's a retail distribution company and I work as a performance analyst.
VO: so how does this correlate with petroleum engineering?
Me: (at this point, I was lost; I didn't know what to say again) I wanted to start explaining how I love data science and Artificial Intelligence before the VO cut in..
VO: wait, what did you study in your undergraduate?
Me: (looking for how to regain my confidence back) I graduated with a first-class degree in petroleum engineering (me adding the ”first-class” to convince the VO that I understand the course quite well)
VO: (looking convinced) are you married?
Me: No
VO: any kids?
Me: No
VO: types to like a minutes and says, ”I will be approving your visa”.
Me: (while VO was typing, I said, ”Lord let your will be done”)


I noticed a lot from people that were denied and I easily predicted that the VOs weren't convinced.
A lady was asked why she chose a school and she said, ”the school offers a lot of courses”. The VO was like, so other universities don't have several courses? At that point, she sensed she was going to be denied.
Another guy with funding was asked who pays the rest, he said his bro. VO asked what his bro does, he said the bro works so so so and has a farm and does this and that. The VO didn't look convinced because it looked like the guy was beating around the bush.
Tips: once you have full funding, you already have a 95% chance of your getting approved; you just need to be confident and add the God factor.
If you have deficit, please try to clearly state what your sponsor does.

Thanks to everyone who has dropped his or her transcript here and those that give answers. Also thanks to my friend, Matluck and my two Gees, Kg and Karen.

Visa approved today.
Thanks Guys
Coming back with transcript

Koskos95:
Good Day.. Please I was denied f1 visa and give a 214(b) slip. Please can you help me deduce what was the problem from my visa transcripts.

This is my visa transcripts



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Stanley Kosisochukwu Okeke

to Tricia
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This is my transcript. 


This is my transcript. 


Vo: Good morning.

Me: Good morning  sir.

Vo: where are you going  to? 

Me: the University of Louisiana at Lafayette to pursue my MS in Civil   engineering with a concentration in environmental engineering. 

Why this university : I choose this university particularly because of an ongoing research at the university that deals with the production of biogas from the anaerobic degradation of food wastes ... I wanted to continue with what I had to say,but he cut in. 

Vo: what other schools did you apply to? 

Me : ODU and USC. 

Vo: why did you chose this school above ODU. 

Me: I choose the University because of its reputability and because the research at the university closely aligns with my research interest. 

Vo: what is your research interest?

Me: the production of biogas from the anaerobic degradation of food wastes. 

Vo: are you married? 

Me: No. 

Vo: are you single 

Me: yes. 

Vo: do you have any children? 

Me: no

Vo: are you employed? 

Me: No,  but I have worked as a mathematics teacher. 

Vo : who is your sponsor? 

Me: My mother and 3 of my relatives. 

Vo: what does your mother do? 

Me : I told. 

Vo: I am sorry, I can't approved your visa

”What does your mum do?”
He wasn't convinced enough that she can pay for the funding.
Notice that people without funding that said their parents are civil servants hardly convince the VO to issue them visas.
So the main problem came from what your mum does.

obexxy:
good day people, please is there anyone here whose appointment is on the 13th of November who has not been able to make the emergency request on the CGI account as instructed by the embassy?

My appointment is on the 13th of November but I didn't receive any mail from the embassy instructing me to do anything.

Peacock1234:


I’m not sure there is anything for others to learn from it cos I didn’t really know the reason for the denial Which is why the procedure in getting the expedited appointment is more important to me at the moment. But there you go

Visa Denied.

VO: Hi Pls pass your documents the way it was arranged for you
Me: Hi. Good morning. (Passes them)
VO: where are you going to?
Me: University of Illinois
VO: what are you studying:
Me: Masters in finance
VO: finance you say?
Me: yes please
VO: why did you pick this school
Me: it has a graduate public service internship programme. (Then I went ahead to explain how the programme benefits me)
VO: okay where do you work presently
Me: I told him
VO: how long have you been there
Me: About 3 years; precisely 2years and 9months.
VO: who is sponsoring you
Me: My dad
Have you travelled before
Me: No; I haven’t had a reason to
VO: Married?
ME: No
VO: any kids?
Me: No.

VO: okay I won’t be issuing your Visa. I wish you best of luck.

I don't think this transcript is complete. I feel there are other things you didn't include.
Once a VO asks who's sponsoring and you state the person, the next question is what does the person do? That question is always a must and that's the part VO denies visas a lot.

BrTune:
US Visa Approved!!!

Sent a strongly worded email with convincing points for an emergency visa appointment on Tuesday Night - 6th.


Received an email from the US embassy at 7.30am the next day - Wednesday, scheduling me for an interview on Friday at 6.30am.

Today, Woke up at 5.00am, joined hands with my sister to decree divine Favour.

Bath, dressed and booked an Uber, got to VI at 6.20am.

Went in for my interview at 7.00am

Sent back out because I did not print my DS-160 confirmation.

Rain flogged me, some soldier men even gave me umbrella my who cloth was wet.

A lady helped me to print the DS - 160 form, said I should pay her 5K, I didn’t have any money on me. Begged the lady and eventually paid 3500 outta my reciprocity fee.

Went back into the embassy.

VO: Good morning
Me: Hi, Goodmorning

VO: Pass me ur I-20 and visa and da-160 form

VO: where are u going
Me: Going to ...Ivy league school

VO: Great school, but very expensive too, how are u funding it?
Me: Received 80,000 USD in Fin Aid and taking a loan of 20K from my uncle to complete the rest.

VO: Ok, what does ur uncle do?
Me: My Uncle is a real estate developer and deals in wichtech roofing sheets.

VO: Any evidence of ur uncles ability to pay?
Me: before I could Pass him my uncles statement, he said I shouldn’t bother, he believes me.

VO: Have u travelled out before?
Me: Yes, I have been to the US, Germany France, Qatar, Kenya, Uganda...etc

VO: What did u go for?
Me: Explains

VO: Your visa has been approved, do u have the reciprocity fee?
I knew my reciprocity fee was short by 3500 but I answered yes, I did not want wahala.

VO: Go over there and pay, and enjoy ur stay in America

I go over there, praying for a miracle and the money to double...didn’t happen.
Went out and was looking for whom to borrow money from as I didn’t have my atm. One guy who just finished his interview saw me and asked what the problem was.
I told him, he then called his driver to bring money and dashed me 4K. I quickly begged him to wait for me, so I follow him and drop off at my stop.
He waited for me to pay the reciprocity fee and then told his driver to drop me off the stop close to my house.

Good luck every one

Pls was it printed electronic i20 or mailed hard copy?

Congrats bro

Anybodie:
The thread is coming back alive ...sweeet .
Please what's the earliest date available for Lagos? I'm scheduled for October 16th, any earlier date?

Is your I-20 emailed or mailed copy?

fairheart:


I didn't say it is 100 per day for this particular case, considering they only plan to take applicantions academic class visas. But during normal operational hours, the US embassy in Lagos and abuja interviews more than 100 people (this is based on crowd I have seen at these embassies and looking at the total number of visas approved and refused by per month in Nigeria).
What I was saying is that, if they stick with the 6-day slots, then it is more than enough to take in all F, J, M applicants in Nigeria--for Spring 2021.
I think the slots did not get filled; I think they pulled the dates down, paused, or something happened. I am not sure, but I do know y'all will be able to book appointment for Spring if truly embassy is opening for interview in October.

It's not lost hope for those who are yet to book. Fingers crossed!

From my guess, I think they were just 30 slots per day. When I chose my date, I saw 7:00am (9) which indicated 9 slots left. When I booked and got the appointment pdf, I saw 7:00am (22) which I feel the 22 indicated I was the 22nd person to book that day slot.

Note: all these are assumptions.

oracle009:
People.. It is opened already. Kindly go and schedule o. November 20th here

Please, do I have to cancel the old appointment before I can see date to pick a new appointment?

ormorteey:
The interview slots are open for lagos if you are trying to schedule an interview. You can check now.

I initially picked abuja but I want to change to Lagos, I am seeing no appointments available.

nitdude:


I spoke with my school international program officer he said the USICE guideline is that 120s are to be issued via email not posted by mail till further approval from the government. He said they hv issued emailed i20 to many international students who hv obtained th their visa before there fall semester including those from Africa region.

Same here

Please, what can be done in this case?

Please can you add me, 08142749493.

Pls for the shell masters scholarship do you need to have completed your nysc at the time of application or you can still apply even if you have few months to complete your nysc?

Okay lemme post mine.
This embassy people are just eating our money for no reason.
Trust me those VOs are really heartless except for one young lady that stays in window 9 in Abuja embassy.
The man is window 8 uses just 15 seconds to give out pink while the woman in window 9 takes time to listen to you. She gave out to 75% of the people she interviewed while that man gave like 5% only.
My interview was on the 13th of September that's two days ago.
Before 13th other students going for this same competition about 3 that were lucky to go to window 9 were given visa. After the first the two Ddnt even need to talk much immediately they mentioned the competition the woman gave them the white print. Other students that went to window 6,7 and 8 were denied instantly. So Sept 13th we were 15 students from different schools that had interview that day. Lucky a student had gone in very early he was lucky to get window 9 he got his visa. So it was remiaining the 14 of us. We were interviewed around 11. Unluckily the woman in window 9 wasn't on seat anymore. So we were shared to different windows. I was given window 7 which had a black American.
VO: passport (I gave it to her)
Vo: why are u traveling
Me: I told her bla bla bla. Told her I was in final year currently working on my final year project (note this is supposed to be something that will bring me back cos a friend of mine got his visa last year because of the project he mentioned he was working on)
Vo: wow, what's your project topic?
Me: prediction of solution gas oil ratio in saturated reservoirs using neural networks.
Vo: can u explain it to me?
Me: I explained everything
Vo: who's sponsoring?
Me: I told her and I handed her the letter from the organization and the bank statement (last year I was rejected after handing the bank statement to the VO in Lagos cos it was as if the money in the account was too small to take care of 15 students that were going last year)
Vo: (looking surprised cos the money in the account was very big) why would they give you such a confidential bank statement. Don't u know this is very confidential, was there not a better way of them to do this?
Me: (looking surprised at the question she's asking because she seeing the bank statement is supposed to tell her I won't be stranded in US, but because she Ddnt want to give me the visa and had no question to ask again she asked that) that's the bank statement from the organization it's a prove of the organization sponsoring.
Vo: (thinks for like a minute) then gives me the pink print
All this while other VOs have already rejected other of my guys going by asking them questions like are u married? Said no and he was given pink print.
I had the longest interview
I feel nothing disqualified me they just ddnt want to give to us.
It was so painful to the organization
I will advice anyone going to Abuja embassy to avoid window 6 and 8. Window 9 woman is the best. Very generous

Hello guys,
This is my first time posting here but I have been following this thread.
I applied for a B1/B2 visa
I will be going for my visa interview next week Thursday in Abuja. Am going to Texas for a conference to represent Africa region in a competition alongside my team members. It's a competition of five players. Five schools from Nigeria will be going. We won the competition last year where I also represented my school but everyone from my school was denied visa last year. Just two students of the five got from another school and they represented Africa well by coming second. With the determination again we won this year. So we are to travel to Texas for the finals.
Last year during my interview, it was at Lagos. I had a lovely conversation with the VO. She was interested in the competition I told her more about it and how we qualified she was like wow interesting. We had a conversation for like 3 minutes where I tut I was gonna get it even my teammates tut I would get it because of the way the conversation was going. But to my surprise I was denied.
Already two students from one of the five schools going were denied visa this week.
I need advice on how to go about the interview this year so as not to get denied again.
Cuz it's really heartbreaking after preparing something long for a competition then you get denied.

friends Mobil just shortlisted and guys that went for mtn ceremony how is dat side

national theatre is at costain it depends on wer u are coming from

please did anyone have this problem on that day of mtn. u got to d centre nd u were told ur username I.e d three digits numbers heard another person's name and that your centre was moved to another destination, but u were later told to write. pls did any?