Hi TenaciousOrphan,

It is unclear to me from your post if your female friend is already in the U.S or not, Number 2 is giving the assumption that she's already in the U.S. In anycase, I'd express my personal opinion on the subject which will cover whether she's in the U.S already or not.

If she is already here in the U.S,
Summary: She should endeavor not to go out of status (fail to enroll and allow the DSO to terminate the sevis record)! If focusing on Ph.D. application for Fall 2024 means that she'd quit her M.S, that may not be a perfect idea as she will lose her F1 status and it will affect her Family in the end. If it happens that person X goes out off status, and gets admitted in a school with Full funding for Fall 2024, she'd need to apply for reinstatement of her Sevis record terminated by her M.S School. This may be a complex situation to handle. Again, based on the assumption that she's in the U.S, perhaps she should explore other means of paying the fees such as transfer to a school with a lesser COA and could accommodate payment plan or access other payment options accessible within the U.S.

Now, If she is not in the U.S already, I'd say that she should resume very early, hunt for any supplemental fundings (if applicable), and begin a conversation with the finance office about payment plan (sometimes, the conversation is different when you are already on ground, they maybe inclined to provide such pathway).

But right now, she should have a Plan B: search for smaller schools with lower COA that still have open admission window for Spring 2024. apply and get an admission. Incase the supplemental funding or payment plan conversation fails, she may perhaps seek refund and transfer her Sevis record to the new school with lower COA and have more flexible accommodation.

TenaciousOrphan:
A SERIOUS ISSUE THAT REQUIRES URGENT ADVICE:
A female friend whom I knew here in the USA is in serious trouble. She needs advice and assistance:
1. Though she has an M.Sc and 6 years teaching experience with 28 publications in Nigeria, she was admitted to one of the highly ranked Schools in USA as an Msc student without funding, she didn't admissions orientations before we met. After 30k GA was given to her, Her Tuition is still 35k yearly. She has managed to pay 11k, but the remaining 24k needs to be paid b4 registering for spring but she doesn't have the money to pay and she was advised to take leave of absence.
2. The major problem is that, she has her husband and 3 children in 9ja. The goal is to enter a Ph.D by fall 2024 in my school or any other school here and I am already helping her with that. BUT SHE WANTS TO LEAVE THE CURRENT MSC PROGRAM TOTALLY, AND CONCENTRATE ON GETTING PHD ADMISSIONS WHILE DOING UNDER-G JOBS FOR NOW.
THE BIG QUESTION IS: WILL THIS LAST STEP OF LEAVING THE PROGRAM AFFECT HER FAMILY WHEN THEY WANT TO APPLY FOR F-2 FROM NIGERIA: SHE NEEDS ADVICE PLEASE?

1. Which of these schools offered you funding? If one of them, then get the I-20 of the school with funding, If both, make a careful consideration of your options and get just ONE I-20, if none offered you funding, consider the odds for funding and make a choice, but you still getting one I-20.
I am not sure why you are considering to get two I-20 documents, you can only attend one of the schools at a time.

2. Congrats on your wedding. I do not think there is a problem with your wife having her maiden name on her passport. However, it is advisable to go with evidence to show that you are legally married such as your marriage papers (most important of course) as well as some marriage pictures etc.

3. If you are the one going to study, your wife gets F2 visa and not F1. F2 visa is a dependent visa.
I suggest that if the VO asks why she wants to go with you at this time, be ready to provide solid reason why she would leave her job to go with you. such as Our marriage is still young and about X months old and highlight how your wife will be a strong emotional support for you while you are in the U.S.

I hope this helps.

Emma549:
Hello Esteemed colleagues.
I'm new here.
I am got admission to Georgia southern university to study Msc in Electrical Engineering And university of New Orleans for this same course.
Please I intend to get my visa at Lagos Embassy.
Classes are starting in August 5 for GSU and August 14 for UNO.

My questions.
1. Can I get two form I20 from both schools.
I just got married in Dec 2021 and I intend to go with my wife.
2. My wife maiden name is still on her passport. Hope this won't have any effect at the interview.
3. What are the chances of issuing F1 visa to newly wedded couples with no kids yet.


Please admin add me to Lagos date search group.
08165552412

Hello,

Anyone got an interview date recently? Please any idea of current interview dates available at the Lagos / Abuja embassy?

Thanks.

Also,

Please how long does it take NYSC to effect correction of name submitted during the online registration process?

Thank you

(asking for a friend)

Thanks @matex97

Appreciate your response.

matex97:
Exercise patience till Thursday. If it remains the same,just submit as NYSC will deploy the person to any state.

Hello,

After filling the entries of the state as required, it said error and then it later said no slot available.

Please what is the way forward on this ? Has anyone experienced this ? Please what did you do? or can anyone suggest what to do

Thanks

(asking for a friend)

TheLee:
I got my visa approved today. I am grateful to you all who give tips, helps and mock interview and people who have shared their transcripts. God bless you

Transcript
V. O:Good morning, please pass your documents
Me: (passed it) Good morning
V. O: What's your highest level of education
Me: I have a Bachelor's in Microbiology
Vo: When did you get this degree?
Me:2014
Vo: What have you been doing since then?
Me: I finished my youth service in Oct 2015 and I've been a freelance writer since then
Vo:How many schools did you apply to?
Me: Two
Vo: Georgia Southern University and University of Memphis
Vo: Why did you choose this school
Me: I chose the school because the curriculum allows me to specialize...
Vo: What's your specialization?
Me: community health. While also taking core competency courses in other vital area of public health. Also, Prof Lawrence's research interest in Sickle Cell Disease....
Vo: Who is sponsoring you?
Me: My dad
Vo: What does he do?
Me: He owns a plastic factory
Vo:Have you gotten your accommodation yet?
Me: No, I will when I get there
Vo: No, you have to book it before traveling...
Me:Yes that's what I....
Vo: Listen please. At the PoE, you would need a forwarding address and so you must have one where you will be living
Me: Of course, thank you.
Vo: I will be approving your visa (circles white paper)
Me: (blanks out, collects white paper, packs documents and walks like a whined robot out of the room)
Took a minute for it to register that it was approved.
A lot of blue papers were flying and I got the VO I had hoped not to get yet my case was different.
3 factors helped a lot: God, Preparation, confidence
I'm grateful to my friend for the mock interviews
Thank you all so much for sharing, teaching and correcting. God bless you

Congratulations!!!

teepee4Him:
Greetings and Congratulations to all Fall 2017 Students. Just thinking I should drop few words in a bid to assist those travelling in here. I will tag it - THINGS I WISH I DID/KNEW BEFORE TRAVELLING TO THE U.S.

Thanks

akandry:
I booked my flight with them...you are good man

Thanks

LagosismyHome:


I personally have not used them....but u can put the name in the search above and see what comes up

Thanks

I will check

Pls has anyone booked flight on Travelstart before ??
I will appreciate any inputs before going ahead to do so.


cc:
Lagosismyhome,texrem,icool,time2smile,femi321,walspring,oludare01,profojah,imperiouxx

Thanks

imperiouxx:
@ Temitope746, Sbrainy, Classic90, damiliano, patovicy2k, gspeed360, olarich30, Ndawe, onispark, Lamexx, chinemomah2020, kallowdean, preciouschydo

Cheers guys!

Awww....Thanks a million

Ndawe:

Congratulations dear and all the best on your new journey

Thanks.

Time2Smile:

Congratulations.

Your inputs are greatly acknowledged

LagosismyHome:


na so una get brains . Those days Maths was the hardest subject, yet so many Mathematician in this
NL family ... na wa ooo .before I digress

Congrats. GOD bless your new journey....

Smiles.....

Amen

Thanks ma'am

Your answer to the question Why Arcadia University isn't convincing enough, articulate your point together as one with convincing points
You allowed the VO to play around that question for you.
And is the VO saying that IPCR isn't offered by your school ?? because I can Infer that from what you typed.

Get more reasons why the school, make some findings about your course and articulate your point.
Don't give up!!

Fire back

lalahhh:
Congratulations.........
I was scheduled to go for the interview today. I went there but I was denied. Here is how the interview went.
VO - Good morning
Me - Good morning, how are you?
VO - Fine thank you . Please pass your passport and I 20.
Me - I did
VO - so why Arcadia University
Me - I did an online research and I liked the structure of the program at Arcadia. Arcadia offers better expose and ...
VO cuts in
VO - why Arcadia University
Me - apart from this, one of my undergraduate lectures told me to apply to Arcadia University
VO cuts in
VO - You are still not answering the question I asked you ...
Me - like I said I did an online research and my sister did too and we decided for Arcadia University
VO - U know what, I did the same course you are going for. So why Arcadia University why not the school I attended . I bet if I google schools who offer IPCR I won't find Arcadia.
VO presses the keyboard and says you see I can't find Arcadia but I can find the school I went to.
VO - I regret to you inform but you cannot be granted the visa at this point . Pls go back and do your research well and come back.
Me - when should I come back ?
VO - you can come back tomorrow if you get a space while booking .
So I left , I'm planning to try again.
I don't know if I said anything wrong or probably the answer I gave him wasn't enough. Pls tell me so I can prepare for the next appointment.

With deep gratitude to God for answered prayers, am grateful for HIS pleasant surprises.
I want to appreciate every contributor on this thread, time will fail me to mention all but to mention a few, lagosismyhome,oludare01, femi321,walspring,texrem, time2smile, dr hopeful, ovestreet, icool (I can't remember all, the list is endless)
Ovestreet I appreciate u greatly
You all are great you kept this thread moving (I have been on thread since part 11 , I followed almost all the pages in part 11 and am happy to share my testimony in part 12). Got to the embassy around 5.30am , left around 7.30 with a smile.

God made the interview easier than I thought,

Straight to the Transcript

Window 6 (the V.O was a man should be in his 50's) , a lady was denied before me.
(Pls note approval comes from any window , just pray for favor and not a window)

VO: Good morning

Me: Good morning

VO: Pass your documents

Me: passed

VO: So why this school?

Me: the school has a well structured masters degree program in Applied Mathematics and offer a concentration which aligns with my research Interest.

VO: Which other schools did you apply to?

Me : Georgia State Uni, Oklahoma State Uni

VO: what's your research interest

Me: Mathematical Modeling for Biomedical problems

VO: What course will you need for this?

Me: Advanced Ordinary Differential Equations, Advanced Numerical Analysis, Advanced Real Analysis and Operations Research

VO: typed for some seconds and circle and address on a white paper and ask me to get my passport there.

Me : Joy just blow up from my inside and I said Thank you Jesus

N.B:
If you are silent or active follower on this thread , pls it will be wrong for you to fall into the hand of the hustlers! You don't need those photocopies. We have been told and thanks to part 11

#Giving back to the thread by posting transcript, pls odas should also do.

Hundreds of person are leading from this

With deep gratitude to God for answered prayers, am grateful for HIS pleasant surprises.
I want to appreciate every contributor on this thread, time will fail me to mention all but to mention a few, lagosismyhome,oludare01, femi321,walspring,texrem, time2smile, dr hopeful, ovestreet, icool (I can't remember all, the list is endless)
Ovestreet I appreciate u greatly
You all are great you kept this thread moving (I have been on thread since part 11 , I followed almost all the pages in part 11 and am happy to share my testimony in part 12). Got to the embassy around 5.30am , left around 7.30 with a smile.

God made the interview easier than I thought,

Straight to the Transcript

Window 6 (the V.O was a man should be in his 50's) , a lady was denied before me.
(Pls note approval comes from any window , just pray for favor and not a window)

VO: Good morning

Me: Good morning

VO: Pass your documents

Me: passed

VO: So why this school?

Me: the school has a well structured masters degree program in Applied Mathematics and offer a concentration which aligns with my research Interest.

VO: Which other schools did you apply to?

Me : Georgia State Uni, Oklahoma State Uni

VO: what's your research interest

Me: Mathematical Modeling for Biomedical problems

VO: What course will you need for this?

Me: Advanced Ordinary Differential Equations, Advanced Numerical Analysis, Advanced Real Analysis and Operations Research

VO: typed for some seconds and circle and address on a white paper and ask me to get my passport there.

Me : Joy just blow up from my inside and I said Thank you Jesus

N.B:
If you are silent or active follower on this thread , pls it will be wrong for you to fall into the hand of the hustlers! You don't need those photocopies. We have been told and thanks to part 11

#Giving back to the thread by posting transcript

No death was recorded



About yesterday's Accident Alert!!!

Thanks all

*NYSC JIGAWA* & *NYSC ABUJA* have intervened and they have begun their journey to Jigawa in about some couple of minutes ago

Thanks for saving Lifes

cc: Concerned Citizens

Dated: 23/05/17
12:20pm

Paste this below...on d platforms u av

URGENT HELP NEEDED!!!

*Prospective corps members* deployed to Jigawa state just had an accident in Abuja (Gwagwalada Express way)

Pls if you could render them help pls do

Pls re-bc to all social media platforms until they are helped....

URGENT!!!


Moderator pls help push to front page....

Urgent!!!!

Please I have a question

I have a friend who when the school pasted nysc list, they mistaken fixed 2.1 as her class of degree instead of 2.2 which is her class of degree. She corrected it in the school but seems it was not done and now on NYSC portal for registration, its saying she graduated with 2.1

Please how can this be rectified??

Thanks

Please I'd like to ask , 1. Is there a deadline as to when to apply for I-20 for Fall 2017 ?
2. whats the next process after getting 1 above?
3. In how many weeks should 2 above begin after receiving 1 above?
Thanks

Thanks

Mekurexx:
DHL should be 20k or more. USPS is Nipost I guess. Cant remember

Oseni007:
DHL is the best,3days top....#16400

Please which is best in sending transcript to the US? via DHL or USPS? Any idea on how much it cost?

@dr hopeful congrats

@scholastica16, I pray everything works for your good

Pls I will like to ask, this April 15, is it that all U.S schools must complete their admission decision by then? What about those waiting for decision on TA or GA or research assistantship? do dey all get responses by the April 15

Congrats.
Whats your profile like?
School?

ipledge01:


MS Mathematics, no word on funding yet but I've mailed the grad coord to ask if decision has been made on my graduate assistantship application.

Thanks I appreciate

seeker88:


From d day I ordered for a copy of my evaluated transcript from WES to be sent to a school, to d day the school received it was approximately 3 days....so it doesn't take much time to get ur evaluated transcript across to a school in d US.
You will get all other necessary info here: www.wes.org

Should u have more specific question after checking d site, please don't hesitate to ask....

Please, I need help on transcript evaluation.
How do I evaluate by transcript by WES? How much is it? How long will it take to get to the school after the transcript is evaluated.

Thanks

Thanks Andradeze

Pls has anyone applied to Georgia Southern Uni here?? M.S Mathematics

andradaeze:
Link to Mathematics Graduate Programs with Financial Support for MA/MS Students

http://www.math.ku.edu/~jmartin/masters.html

Please, I suggest you still do your research and mail the Graduate Coordinators before applying. All the best to future applicants.

@Time2smile @scholastica16
registered with erudite consult
I discovered that it was their mail they even used to register my GRE and as such, I wont have access to it so now am forced to still transact with them and even at a higher cost.

Congratulations @drhopeful

I need clarifications in these area

1. How long does it take to send ones GRE score to another school?

this second is a bit long. pls read

2. I didn't register my GRE by myself, its from a consult that helps in registration . I want to send my GRE score to some other set of schools , and since I read on earlier threads here than it is cheaper to send the money via ones bank and not third party because they will charge with the parallel market rate.
I have consulted the person and he is like he cant remember the password he used to create my account but if I need to resend, I should send the money to him and he will use remember password to ask GRE to send my score to the other school.
What should I do?


Thanks in Anticipation.

Congratulations!

iCool:
Decision 3/5
University of Houston, An ACCEPTANCE.

Accepted in the 3 decisions received so far - I am humbled...

Got a $1k scholarship and in-state tuition.