₦airaland Forum

DeeTus:
How did you know that? Tell me. It's like it's nolonger as usual. Tell us more.

bhjedi:
Yes sir, F1 visa, first timer. Since i have already selected August 3rd, how do i apply for the emergency interview and would i pay any additional fee? Btw, Thank u for responding to my question.

kessel:
Good day everyone. I want to use this opportunity to say thank you to everyone who has contributed in this forum. Ve been a silent follower for sometime until now. I ve been making some research about doing MSc in United States and the responses and advice from this forum has really been helpful.
Here is my issue.... am a registered nurse in Nigeria seeking to do my MSc and also practice in the USA and a friend over there told me one of the best way was to come with a visiting visa and as soon as I crossed that the visa can be changed to student visa over there and then I can seek for an admission. I really don't know the possibility of that. I really will appreciate if great minds here can shed more light on this. Thanks.
.... .. She also said a friend would be doing his wedding wt a US citizen so d dude will be traveling with his grooms from Nigeria and he charged 1million to add me as one of his groom and then we go to embassy as a group so that the visa won't be refused I don't know if the price is a fair one or if I ve other option of getting a visiting visa would be cheaper. Thanks in anticipation.

seedord247:
You can get cheap hotel in kuje for 3-5k per night and that's like 15 mins to the embassy via cab.

seedord247:
Depends on how much they are paying you per hour and have it in mind that tax some shit still gonna be deduct from your pay check. Let say they pay you 10$ an hour and you worked 20 hours per week. Your check will prolly be between $140 and the 150,

bigfrancis21:
First, I'm going to warn you. Because of the 2m you mentioned, you are going to be receiving emails and 'offers' from scammers posing to be nairalanders for their 'services'. Be careful how you divulge your financial status on the internet, especially on this forum.

Second, 2m will not really take you that in terms of tuition alone here in the US. The cheapest US schools you can find will gulp close to 3m to 4m a year on tuition alone. Not including living expenses, miscellaneous and what have you.

Third, when you get into the US, don't think that your sufferings will 'end' and you'll suddenly start 'enjoying' life. You will be very surprised to find that life is very difficult here. I like being blunt and I say things the way they are. But the good thing is if you work hard you are sure of the gains and where it will lead you to. On average, it would take you close to 5 years before you can find your feet in this country.

For anyone who doesn't have a system going for them in Nigeria I can encourage you to come to the US. You will have an average life here. You will have a job, a house (on mortgage), a car (on loan), etc. You can change cars easily as you change okirika clothes, so far as you have a job that can afford the monthly payments. You can change phones anyhow and enjoy the latest phones as they are released. You will enjoy fast internet services and stream videos online easily. You'll have the life you never dreamed of having in Nigeria

However, for those who already have a system going for them in Nigeria - a good job, investments here and there, who want to resign from their jobs, sell their investments off all in the name of going to emelika, that would be the greatest folly of your life. With your status in Nigeria, you are way better off than your mates in the US who barely have investments and depend on that one job or as many as 3 jobs to survive, to be able to pay their house mortgage (lest the bank reposseses their house and they go homeless), pay their car loan (before it is repossessed), etc. and you can always visit the US and spend as many as 6 months if you want. Life in the US for many revolves around working, working and working. Taxation is very high. People barely have investments or savings in this country because they live from paycheck to paycheck.

The decision is left to you to make. At this point you have 2 decisions to choose from - either spend the next couple of years investing your inheritance into a profit venture in Nigeria that ensures returns every month, further invest your profits into other investments, expand your portfolio (there are good investment opportunities in Nigeria, which foreign investors are taking advantage of) or come to the US and spend the next 5 years working really hard to find your feet (going to school here because you really need a US degree to get a good job here + getting your residency) and living the rest of your life just like every other American - work, pay bills, work, pay bills, a revolving cycle. I'm just being blunt. America isn't the heaven that we think it is in Nigeria.

olandex:
yellow, and I think they said they can't find my application now, and they asked me to come back coming week. I it's network problem
Or pls what do you think?

olandex:
f1 student visa

olandex:
Good morning aus, please any body to tell me meaning of this pls, if a visa is been denied under section 221g @ the screening point without doing any interview, and they asked me to come back in next week, and check there website for update before coming back, (q1) Where can I update it, I mean Dre website (2) do I need to print another DS 160 form before going back? (3) can I go before the time 1pm been given to me? Thanks for your help in advance.

Senatorbee:
Good day.
This is my first time of posting on the thread but ve been reading lot of post which has enrich me with advice from my broda Walspring, my issue now is that i applied for the fall semester at murray state university inwhich i gave my login details to a friend of mine when i couldn't get d statement of account of my sponsor on time due to some circumstances my friend uploaded d statement of account of his uncle as my sponsor without my consent, surprisenly i received a congratulatory email from murray dat my admission process is completed and my I-20 has been issued i was surprised that has d policy of statement of account for verification before granting admission status been cancealled to cut the story short my I-20 arrived today and on checking it i found out that d sponsor name was written boldly with his bank balance on d I-20
i felt so depressed cos i neva know d owner of d bank statement but my friend does.
And its my dad that want to sponsor me, pls which bank statement should i take to the interview and how should i defend it.
Ur advice is highly welcome, save a dyeing broda please

profdot:
so I can send it to the school for my 1-20?. can I also take it to the embassy? I don't want a situation where the SOS would be returned because of letter-head.

olumix365:
thanks for the advice, am trying to know is a guy of 31 0or 32 can still apply as an undergraduate ?

profdot:
please guys help me out. The SOA my sponsor got for me from Ecobank is not on bank letter-head. all the pages is on A4 paper with bank stamp and signature. I told my sponsor to get a a new SOA from the bank with their letter head but the bank insist that they don't usually issue their SOS with letter head. that the bank stamp and signature is enough. Please what do I do?

DARKLIGHT:

Sam, can I do everything today and still get the result today?

DARKLIGHT:
Hello guys! Please do anyone know any government-owned health centre where one can have his mmr, meningitis and hepatitis shots, and also do tuberculosis skin test at a cheaper rate in Lagos? Location closer to Mile 2 or Cele or Isolo or Festac with be a plus.

benjaminiyke:
well said... But I want to ask does VO keeps record of answers relating to such questions in previous attempts.

holakunle:
No I haven't. The yet-to-be submitted DS-160 has the new passport number.

Then you have nothing to worry about! if you cannot change passport number on your first created appointment website, leave it and schedule another one, then proceed to book your interview date.......




@deetus.. what do you suggest I do?

DeeTus:
Not me. U quoted wrongly my brother.

DeeTus:
Expired passport? Lol, are you a comedian? How will you fill the online form successfully?

Jahbless82:
SELF

Jahbless82:
Thank you @ SAMadex.
After filling self, can I go to the embassy with my SOA and my sister's SOA?

Jahbless82:
I mean while filling DS-160 form can I fill in Self and my sister at the space where they are requesting for who is going to finance my trip?

Stewee:
I'm not sure what "Investment Papers" mean...
Please know that funds in such accounts should be fluid and ready to go. Fixed deposit accounts and the likes are not accepted except they'll mature before you hit the embassy.

Don't give them reason(s) to deny you, a savings or current account is more like it.

Here's wishing you God's favour!

#Bless

12inches1:
thanks.
Please is there any other way I can pay the sevis fee besides going to cotonou or paying thru someone abroad?

Jahbless82:
Hello Guys,

When filling financial support information submitted to the graduate school, I filled in self sponsorship.

Pls can I change it to joint sponsorship when filling DS-160 form and at the embassy?

benjaminiyke:
Pls I have been denied student visa twice based on 214(b) and I suspect it's due to funding. I have a bachelor degree in chemistry but I want to further by going for a begree in pharmacy,am 23 years old and my yearly school fees is about 6 million but my bank balance is about 8 million and pharmacy is 4 years. VO says everything looks good after my interview but when he saw my bank statement he changed his mind. Pls I need assistance,is it the funding?

slimmy05:
the bank will always tell you that, I know it should be registered company, but I don't think they trade, since their primary purpose is to finance/lend. I don't know how they operate. Do they offer retail banking? Savings/ current? Or just lending

slimmy05:
in as much as it an approved microfinance bank as the name goes, I think you should be fine