jonnywalker: @edesoji,thanks.my host is a citizen.he came here through lottery at tender age.he said he pays his and his wife's financial support debt they obtain durin college days.also they pay for their car loans so it will be difficult for them to do that.now,he is hostin me.he is suggestin this.the idea is illegal.i dont know wat will happen if i refuse.in fact this situation is critical
if i refuse he will say im not good,he is helpin me n im refusin to help someone.thus my worry.is there somethin i can do to settle this peaceful in ur view

I'm very happy you know the idea is illegal and also you are an adult. So, as an adult if you willingly do something illegal in this country, be willing to go to jail someday. This is not naija - take note.
If I were you, having gotten the SSN already, I would use the time between now and July when the guy will come and seriously look for a job and then move out.

Your SSN should never be given out to someone else to use, your identity can be stolen and lots of attrocities committed with it. In Houston here I saw in the news 2 days ago how the SSN of a little child was stolen and lots of debts put in her name, the parents were shocked when they ran a credit check on their little child.

Be wise !

missannie:

Rolling_138, This is the USCIS Tel1-800-375-5283) Just get your Alien Number & reciept Number available. Where do you stay in Houston, cus i live in Houston too. God help me, i've still NOT gotten my GC after 2 months.

Thanks Missannie.
I stay close to Sugarland, we could see someday if you stay close.
Any update on ur issue yet?

missannie:
I made d call today & i was told that they have mail it since 20th of May @ my old address, but when i got to the point of entry; I gave them the new address. I wonder why they still posted it to the old address. Though, they gave me a tracking number & told me to call US Post office services. But if am still unable to get it, that means i'll apply for a New one. I pray i get it oo!

Thank you so much Adesojiaderemi, my prayer for you today is that God will bless you mightily. Thanks, am greatful.

Missannie, Please what number did you use in calling them and what information did they ask you to identify you?
I think I have to call them too 'cos I changed my address and I've been in the US (Houston) for over two weeks now without receiving my GC. I think it's safer if I call them now to confirm the address they want to or have mailed it to, that way if it is the old address, I can start going to look for it before it is late.

@ All, Please is there a website I can watch this match online?

@ All, Please is there a website I can watch this match online?

Apologies for the late post, I didn’t take my laptop along to Lagos and just returned to my base.
We had our interview on Thursday 21 March and God granted us success. We got to the embassy around 6:20am and we didn’t wait for long when a man came out and asked us to cue for 6:30 non-immigrant and 7:00 Immigrant visa interview appointments. Got through all the rigorous security checks and finally entered the interview hall, paid the visa fees for our family of three, and submitted our documents at window 16. It didn’t take so long when the CO’s started showing up and the interview started. We were the second to be interviewed by the CO at window 15. He spent up to 25 minutes looking through our documents before our number flashed on the display for us to approach the counter.
My wife is the principal applicant and the interview went as follows;
CO: Goodmorning
We: Goodmoring
CO: Asks us to raise our right hand and does the oath thing; Do you swear to say the truth today and nothing but the truth
We: Yes we do
CO: Takes our fingerprints and asks me to go sit down with our baby while he chats with my wife
Me: okay, I went and sat down carrying our baby who had fallen asleep after a lot of play.
CO: Why is your husband’s passport full of stamps?
Wife: He was studying in the UK and had to come home every break ‘cos of his work
CO: What was he studying there ?
Wife: Mechanical Engineering
CO: I can see your baby was born in the UK, tell me about him
Wife: Told him baby’s DOB and few things
CO: What is your highest level of education
Wife: B.Ed degree
CO: Tell me about your course
Wife: Explains her course to the CO
CO: Have you ever taught before?
Wife: Only during my teaching practice, I taught Bleep Bleep Bleep
CO: When did you meet your husband?
Wife: Bleep Bleep Bleep
CO: Where did you meet your husband
Wife: Bleep town
CO: were you schooling in Bleep town?
Wife: I schooled in YYY town but met my husband in Bleep town, the distance is not that far, moreover our family house is in Bleep town.
CO: When did you travel to the UK?
Wife: DDMMYYYY
CO: Did you travel together with your husband?
Wife: No, he had to leave before me for his studies because my visa was not ready then.
CO: When did you come back to Nigeria
Wife: I can’t remember the exact date but it was Bleep month
CO: Opens wife’s passport and checks to confirm the date she was stamped back into Nigeria.
CO: Did you do your child naming?
Wife: Yes, we did
CO: Did any of your family member come over for the naming / dedication?
Wife: No, it was just friends and church members
CO: Can I see the pics
Wife: Sure; flips album to show him pics and talks about some people in the pictures.
CO: Can you please go and sit down and call me your husband.
Wife: Calls me and collects our baby from me.
CO: You studied Mechanical Engineering in the UK, what year did you start?
Me: I started in 2009
CO: Have you ever applied for a US visa before?
Me: Yes, I have.
CO: at that time what were you doing?
Me: I was working with company A
CO: so what happened, you left company A for B?
Me: No, I am still working for the same company; I’ve been with them for a long time now.
CO: Can I see your work Identity Card?
Me: I brought out my work Id. Card alongside a letter of introduction from my company and gave it to him. He collected both items and read through.
CO: oh that’s true; it’s like company A & B merged or something
Me: Yes, the companies merged.
CO: so was it the company that paid for your degree in the UK?
Me: No, I paid for my studies myself.
CO: Your mechanical engineering was it General Mechanical engineering or was it specifically related to the oil &gas industry
Me: it was general mechanical engineering.
CO: When did you get married?
Me: 2010, did the church wedding on December XX, 2010.
CO: Can you tell me where you met your wife?
Me: I met my wife in a supermarket in Bleep town.
CO: one moment please. He left and went to pick some documents
Me: okay
CO: comes back with 2 sheets of paper and hides them under his counter.
CO: I will ask you one last thing
Me: okay
CO: This gentleman you’ve added here; (he points to a sheet of paper we submitted to update our hosts address) do you know him personally, have you met him before?
Me: Yes, he’s a very close friend, I opened the album to show him pictures with our host, but he stops me. (I guess he realized he had spent so much time with us; about 30 mins)
CO: oh don’t bother.
CO: Throughout this whole process, has he or anybody else asked you to pay money for anything ?
Me: No, not at all.
CO: Please call your wife to come
Me: I called my wife and she came to stand with me at the window carrying our baby.
CO: I am satisfied. I will give you a visa today. He picks the two sheets of paper he had hidden under the counter and circles an address for us to pick up the visa on one, then started explaining the proxy pick up process and the $165 payment on the other sheet of paper.
We: Thank you very much, God Bless you and God Bless America. We hurriedly packed our things and left before he remembers more questions to ask us.

Guys, na so the thing be o !, the guy ask us questions so tay we tire.
We thank God immensely for granting us Divine favour.
I also wish to use this opportunity to greatly appreciate my lovely wife for the way and manner she answered the barrage of questions that the CO fired at her. (I have been playing the DV lottery every year since 2000 and never won, we got married and just played once, then she won.)

As the guy doing the door shift, I just opened the door for the much awaited "January Bulletin"
Not as we expected; NIGERIA : 11000

loconzo00:
HOUSE....
I CAN HEAR A KNOCK ON THE DOOR.
ITS JANUARY VISA BULLETIN AT THE DOOR.
LET'S GET UP TO OPEN THE DOOR....

I love your sense of humour !
I guess I'll have to do the door shift then.
lol

I nominate Temmytanny.

@Don Kool and Foworola thanks so much - APPRECIATED
@Foworola, I was in the UK for studies and had to come back to my job in naija, ordinarily I would have prefered to process the whole DV stuff in the UK.

Don Kool:

in support of foworola has said:

3.Police reports - You can also get your police certificate from your state of residence. just go the state CID office and they'll take your prints and send to Alagbon who will issue you your certificate. Give some time for the sending to/fro lagos while keeping in mind the certificate is valid for three months.
Medical - ideally takes 3 working days. (let's assume a worst case scenario of four working days)

4.Not a conclusive list - birth certificate(s), marriage certificate, police, medical, passport (valid for at least 6 months), 2 passport photographs.
5.Don't think so. However, they give priority to families with infants so hopefully, you wouldn't spend too much time there.

Congratulations to all that have been successful in their Visa interview and may God grant those of us that are yet to go for our visa interview success too.

I have a few concerns;
1. We(myself, my wife and baby) were residing in the UK when the DV results came out and we processed our UK police certificate around end of May 2012 before returning to Nigeria. The report was posted to us in Nigeria in June. Now, our interview will likely come up in Jan. 2013 (case#:2013AF00010***), will the US embassy still accept the UK Police cert. we got in June or will they reject it?

2. My wife needs to do the NPC birth certificate, should she do this using her marital name ?

3. We reside far from Lagos and would want to make the trip once to reduce the cost and stress of flying to Lagos as this will be much for the three of us. If we go to Lagos 1 week before our interview can we complete the medicals and the Alagbon police certificate before our interview ?

4. What are the documents required from the dependant family members.

5. Are families with babies allowed to take baby food inside the embassy ? .... considering the expected long wait

Thank you for all your responses.

seal777:


It was my mistake : Sorry about that, its 8 pages in all.

kaygee1977: Hello Seal,
How are you? I am Kaygee77 on Nairaland. What I have is not a 10page o!
The winning notification is 2 pages, DS-230 Part 1 is 2 pages
DS-230 Part 2 is 2 pages
DSP-122 is 2 pages
That makes 8 pages...please confirm cos I can't afford to make any mistake. Thanks.

I think you should only include page 2 of the 1NL ie the bar code page and not the whole two pages.

emebeteaderashn: Anyone in the house...?

Yes nah
Waiting and hoping the November bulletin drops tomorrow ...

I have been following all the posts in this thread and even went to read through that of DV2012. I must confess that the information here is very useful and valuable as we prepare for our interviews.
I also agree with an earlier post that a lot of women won in the DV2013 beacause my wife is the principal applicant in our case - 2013AF0001****.
And to all the gurus in the house, I salute all the good work you're doing here.
TemmyTanny .... Safe trip bro!