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Hezzyluv:
I think it should be over 80%

If someone had told me I would still be in Nigeria before Buhari left office, l for no believe am. But still on still, life goes on.

Wait, people can still live in Nigeria without dying? I thought everyone is hungry in the country, there’s famine, insecurity, poverty, and at least 150 million people are dying everyday.

When you japa, you’ve automatically escape death. I don’t think people fit die abroad. They have a working country

Laredoph:
I never hear say naija dey deny people visa

Lol. Nigerian visa is one of the hardest visa to get. As a Nigerian, you’ll get an American visa before an American get a Nigerian visa.

Favor99:
If a Nigerian-American had made a video like this….
Would the reception be this warm and jovily? But an oyinbo, everyone dies to claim him. lol

Nigerians suffer from a deep inferiority complex. We use our inferiority complex and high sense of self deprecation as a people to create the perfection that does not exist out of other people and nations.

@Blackfinegirl, @yinkhar, @Mobil567, @GboyegaD, @ImportsnExports, @Showkey1313

This screenshot can do a little justice to the argument we had the other day. Just to end that conversation and forget about it, and for future reference. I didn’t mean to bring it up in an argumentative way again, I just want to post it here and that should end it.

yinkhar:
Yeye is smelling with you!!!
Check me out on LinkedIn: Olayinka Olajiga https://www.linkedin.com/in/olajiga-olayinka?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app

Because I come here to give advice and didn’t agree with others view, I don suddenly turn agent 🤣. E pain you that we caught your agent friend @OyotunjiUSA 🤣🤣🤣

Show me where I ever asked anyone to contact me or I can help anyone to get to America.
Don’t think I’m here to seek validation, I only come to help because I got the same help from this thread in 2020 when I needed help navigating so I felt it’s a good thing to do same.

If you don’t need my advice, scroll past it and stop spilling allegations!

You prefer agent OyotunjiUSA who hasn’t left the shore of Nigeria or attended F1 interview advice over actual students advice who has gone through the process just because he answered your dual citizenship question that is unrelated to F1/student experience. Enjoy!!!

Don’t waste ur time. Both account are the same. He quoted himself on July 28th about Ghana US dual citizenship for a purpose. See the way he mentioned some username as the best? Yeah he’s doing that for a purpose; to warm his way back in (gathering supporters, the people he mentioned are popular here, and their heads will swell when they see this…)

FVA89:
Hello everyone, If a person’s interview is rescheduled on the night of her interview, yet the portal is still showing the original date, what do you advise her to do?
Secondly, she and the Child (3 years old) date were separated, with a day difference. What advice do you have for her? Can she be allowed to do the interview on the same day with the child? They both have the same date and time before before suddenly they got reschedule email on the night proceeding the date of the the initial interview. Any one has experienced this before?

I think you should try and go and see what happens. They might attend to you

Mobil567:
I have Swedish PR and an existing 5 years visit visa. I dont need no interview as I dont intend to migrate again. Only here because I enjoy reading travel threads from time to time. But thanks for the wish.

I wish you well brother. Wherever you are, life is what you make of it. Live, impact and spread peace because nothing is guaranteed. May all of us succeed and be truly free and happy.

GboyegaD:
In this age and time, it is the easiest thing to do. A fuzzy match coupled with a logistic regression would generate plausible relationships. If such is done, it will be at no effort. Besides, why do you think it takes some time to print out visas for some and others very quick? It might not be everyone that is investigated but I am sure, there are some investigations that go on.

I already explained what it’s going on in my post earlier why and how they carry out investigation

GboyegaD:
Let me help you a bit, mind you this is my perspective.
A potential student says the father can afford $36k USD per year for 2 years ($72k in total). At $1/N1600, this is about N115million. In the past, a small business owner could afford to pay the equivalent of $72k as it wasn't much however, in recent times, whoever can afford to pay such has to be a business owner that is doing well, considering the state of the economy.
Asking if the father has ever traveled out is a way of measuring the kind of business the father owns to fund the program. Think through this from the position of a VO and tell me what you would do if you were a VO. The current situation of the country has put us at a disadvantage whether we like it or not. Now, there's more of luck/grace in getting a visa than your intention particularly if you are not funded or on a scholarship.

So if he say the father has travelled to the US twice and the UK 3 times, that tells the VO the father is capable of paying the fee? Ahaha, these are just cases where I say “Lol” VO deny visa for anything..but this reason is so extraneous to discard its possibility.

The truth is if you don’t have funding, they don’t trust your word but they approve some people even at that and they deny some people. They know 80% of the time, your parent don’t have the money u claim they have store somewhere..but they approve and they deny..it’s all just hinged on the VO’s disposition.

This guy can go to the embassy tomorrow and say the same thing and get approved. He can say the same thing and still get denied. The best he can do is to review his case himself, try and get funding if possible, and if you can’t get funding, let your case be convincing especially when it concerns who’s paying ur fee and how they’re going to pay that

GboyegaD:
What makes it difficult to find if you have an immediate family member in the US? You supply your parent's name, date of birth, and mother's maiden name. It is unique to a large extent to tag applications.

You know what’s funny? The VO won’t do this. And if they do, you’re telling me it’s easy to link me with Ajanlekoko Tade who applied for a visa 3yrs ago and didn’t come back just cuz my surname is Ajanlekoko, and we seem to enter the same maiden name and parent date of birth in the DS-160?

If the VO do that, he/she is simply discarding the million of different permutations of names that’s possible for each applicant that’s ever applied for a US visa in the world —not just Nigeria. I’ve seen at least 5 people on Facebook that has the same name as me. And it’s easy to google search and find a name just like anyone else here and that name is linked with a crime, and it’s not just you.

The case here is that we overestimated and overemphasised these things

Blackfinegirl:
You've summed it up perfectly. During my interview, the visa officer didn't bring up the fact that I gave birth in the U.S. until I mentioned it, which caught her by surprise. It's worth noting that I initially applied for a medical visa and fully disclosed this information at the port of entry. While I don't recommend hiding any details, it's clear they don't always have the time to scrutinize everything unless you're flagged as a criminal or terrorist. Some of you over analyse this visa process too much, most times the decision to refuse is more subjective.

That’s because they won’t know until u tell them. The moment you tell them you had a baby in the US (a US traveling history), they will check their computer and they can see the last time you came to the embassy (last time you were given visa). Except you didn’t pay your medical bills in full, or you overstayed your B1/B2, or you gave birth in a cheap hospital (they know it’s cheap when they ask u and u tell them), there’s nothing wrong giving birth on a B1/B2 visa as long as u disclose this during interview and at the POE.

Believing the embassy check your DS-160 or they check anything about you before interview is a ridiculous belief. It’s not true. Only God can know what you didn’t disclose, humans can only try.

In fact it’s easy to tell the information the VO have access to from ur DS-160 when they have access to ur passport during interview, but it’s not information like “this applicant uncle applied for F-1 visa in 2010 and didn’t came back pls reject him” 😂 you need to tell them this yourself.

Mobil567:
you can disagree in a learned way. There's no correct response here as we are not professionals. If one gets advised, he or she can crosscheck and select which one to adhere to. Attacking everyone that shares their opinion will discourage others and after you people wanted why a thread becomes dormant. Even your opinion is not 100% correct because you are not a US visa officer. Just drop your take and rest.

Alright bro. When you get there for your interview, simply do you!

Mobil567:
do you know if her sister previously mentioned the applicant as her sister and the same parents in her immigration applications? US is not Nigeria that has no track record. If she has been mentioned in her sisters immigration application before, it wouldn't take any effort to do a quick search and link the two. There's enough time from when you submit your ds160 till your appointment date for them to run background checks on you. The 2 mins interview you have is only like 20% of the decision. Decision is usually even made before your arrival. Again this my take and to counter that no take is 100% accurate. Everyone should be allowed to share their opinion respectfully.

Yeah. We just have to continue disabusing these misconceptions. Decisions are not made before you arrive. They don’t check your DS-160 until you hand in your passport to the VO. The VO scan your passport , and since u already enter your passport number in your DS-160 application, relevant information about you pop up to the VO and it’s ready for check. If your visa is approved, that’s when they do background check in some cases. And what they do is basically send your record already captured in the CLASSIFY system and the transcript of your interview to USCIS, USCIS simply verify and they ask the embassy to add sticker to your passport. In some cases, when you check your ceac, you’ll see issued after the 3rd day or 4th, and if they have doubt, the status change to administrative processing (AP)— probably the proof of fund you use has some issue or your i20 isn’t okay (maybe the school isn’t an approved institution), they’ll deny the visa even after the VO approve it during interview.

No! No one checks your DS-160 before you show up for interview! No one checks it. The embassy do not have such time. They only do some background verification if you’re approved..hope this is clear?

Lastly, it’s what you disclose that thw embassy work with. If you didn’t tell them you have a sister in the US, the VO won’t basically know this. The VO has no time to check whether your name look like someone that applied for visa 10yrs ago. Even green card application don’t require all these, not to talk of an F-1 visa

Ayomide98:
Ohh, you’re in the US already?

Yeah.. I was applying for my wife’s F-2. But she was denied. Last switched to Abuja that time and she had her interview on October 9

Ayomide98:
@shueld06, how was your interview then?

Did you get the visa?

That was for my wife.

yinkhar:
Please leave them! I await their arrival from the interview. The ones claiming they know better by ditching useless advice won’t provide help when the time comes.
The main reason I see in that denial was funding but since they are all claiming he should go fill another interview without addressing that instead he should go claim his sister that stayed behind in US. Goodluck to them!!!

If you all take time to read past years on this thread, you will learn your lesson on why you should focus on funding as your number one priority and know that no VO has ridiculous information of linking your siblings with you unless you want to put yourself in that difficult situation.

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Which VO even have the time to be doing such tenuous research of linking whatever with whatever…. Thousands if not millions of people share the same surname.. how then is a VO going to know you have a sister 10 yrs ago who applied for a US Visa if you didn’t tell them 😂. I mean they’re human being not God! Even if they have such system algorithm to match it, why’d a VO decide to do that when there are other applicants on que who just want to know their fate real quick

odukames:
Lol, una no dey dip this thing. Westerners typically work hard to travel and see the world. Okay, in your opinion, why did the VO ask for the father's travel history?

The easy way to win any interview is to be able to see into the head of the interviewer. Anyway, I pointed out several things in my original response. It's fine if I'm wrong with this one. I'm also not denying the fact that visa interview outcomes can sometimes be random.

But the interviewee came here for diagnostics of their previous experience and that's what I offered.

The VO’s question about the father travelling history was just random. That’s not the reason he was denied. Ahaha that sound so ridiculous. How does my father’s travelling history has anything to do with mine? Must my parent travel? My father probably never even know nor see what a visa look like before in his life neither did he even have interest in one, and he lived his life satisfactorily!

The OP could be denied for so many reasons— the VO could have doubt about being able to pay like they doubt just about everyone else without funding. If you’ve visited a US embassy before, you’ll understand. They can even randomly deny a PhD student with full funding and who sounds very convincing of his purpose

liliberth:
Allow him to be saying rubbish. Our parents generations didn't like to travel out. In their generation they saw people who travelled out as failures. It's our generations now who are making moves and then we make our parents visit. And when they visit most of them do not want to return. So dunno the rubbish that OP is saying.

Even these parents go there, do omugwo and can’t even wait to come back. It’s not uncommon to see friends who take their parent to do omugwo and the parents can just wait to leave due to cold, loneliness and their inability to attend their usual ceremonial functions and move around

odukames:
1. Do you have any funding? How much is showing on your I-20? If it's over $10k and your Dad is paying all of it, then it's rather weird that he's never travelled before. It might sound normal to a Nigerian but not so much from an American perspective (though some of their rich people only travel within the States but they would expect that a rich Nigerian would wanna see outside Nigeria).

2. Denying your sister isn't a good move. But we can't tell conclusively whether they connected the dots or not. While telling them about your sister might put you in a tight spot, everything really depends on how good a story you can tell.

The problem now though is that if you're applying again and you just magically pop out a new detail about your sister, wahala! I'll recommend you talk to solid immigration experts, preferably a former VO. You can check out "ZF Visa" on YouTube. Me I no trust all these Naija agents, sorry!

Lol. Poverty in Nigeria has really affected us with this japa issue. It wasn’t like this many years ago. So everyone that has money in Nigeria must travel out? Or you mean everyone is interested in travelling out? Why’d you think that’s even the reason the OP’s visa was denied? lol do you even know VO denies visa for any reason at all ranging from mood to just “let this guy apply again”?

solihp:
Hmm, that’s very strange, if the number is correct since you are copying and pasting, ensure there is no space at the end of the number, that might be another reason.

Good morning .

I was wondering if I can reach out to you via email. I have a very personal question to ask you about graduate school issue I was currently having.

ImportsnExports:
Hi. I agreed with your points especially no 3. Some are advising people to deny their families in the States so that they can have a good visa case which is absolutely wrong. Pls all visa applicants should go back to the beginning of this section from page number 1 and read good visa advice from the experts. There are many new self acclaimed experts who give out unrealistic visa clues.

Yall should stop being this way for once!

Mobil567, this is also for you

How will a VO be so sure someone who got a visa 10yrs ago is your family member when the said individual didn’t mention ur full name nor upload your picture? Even if they mention ur full name, the CLASS system the embassy uses isn’t able to match these things and the embassy do not even care. How can the VO match these things? Just how? Just like someone said everyone in the US is being monitored in their room and the government is watching what everyone is doing in their room and that’s why he can’t offer immigration advice on call or chat cuz the government in the US see all things.. you see how that sounds ridiculous? Yeah the same way your assertion sounds

(2) mentioning you have a family member: here’s what’s going to happen.. the VO will want to know more and ask you how they got to the US and when,, they’ll know it they’ve overstayed or not or they can simply search their name in the CLASS system.. if they overstay their visa or they now get green card in some ways, the VO can judge you using that or they might not., it’s a two way thing.. that’s why some people just advise not to

This individual was denied for other reasons. Sometimes you even get denied for no reason at all!

JohnZak:
I second everything that DFocus has shared.

I was previously on a J1 a while ago so I will add that, during the interview, ensure that you are able to distinguish between your program sponsor and your place of primary of activity. Depending on why you are on the J1 (au pair, exchange student, student, residency, clinical fellow, or postdoc), the location of your program sponsor and place of primary may be the same or different locations. Some VOs may not know this difference. Additionally, if your program is a government-sponsored program, your SEVIS fee may be waived. If this applies to you, ensure that you are able to explain this to the VO. J1 applicants are not as many as F1 and some VOs may not be aware of some these differences. Be able to confidently speak to your program choice and how this program ties into your previous work and your future career.

Lastly, check to see if you are subject to the 2 year home residency rule. If you are, weave this into your interview as an additional home tie. This can improve your approval chances since your visa "demands" that you come back home for at least 2 years.

Good luck!!

Hi

ednut1:
She can go for both. Once she gets her PR she goes into Canada and does soft landing. Find a friend’s address to use for PR card that will be sent via post. Then return to USA

To maintain your Canadian PR status you need to live in Canada cumulatively for 2 years in the next 5 years. She doesn’t have to drop any of them.

You also dont need to be in Canada to apply for jobs, some people got jobs with their PR before landing

WOW. But won’t her research and studies in the US be disturbed if she’s flying in and out of Canada every other time to maintain 2yrs out of 5yrs requirement for PR? I initially advised her to take the Canada option, get her citizenship after few years and leave for the United States ( there’s a certain work visa US gives to Canadian 🇨🇦 citizens I may be wrong on this correct me), but her eyes is focused on the US as she’s really interested in getting the PhD and working in the biotech sector in the United States (Novartis, Pfizer, etc). She actually got a mouthwatering fellowship for her PhD in a university in the Boston area. She also talked about the possibility of filing her own green card herself, but I fear that the trump presidency era might not make that promising

So a friend is in a dilemma. She was nominated for express entry (provincial) in Canada 🇨🇦 and her visa was also approved today to begin a fully funded PhD program in the United States 🇺🇸 in January. Note that, for Canada, she’ll need to get there before shes able to secure jobs with her PR. If you were in her shoes what would u advise?

So a friend is in a dilemma. She was nominated for express entry (provincial) in Canada 🇨🇦 and her visa was also approved today to begin a fully funded PhD program in the United States 🇺🇸 in January. Note that, for Canada, she’ll need to get there before shes able to secure jobs with her PR. If you were in her shoes what would u advise?

pansophist:
Only the Nordic countries make sense in your list. The rest are like capucinno coffee, with white sprinkling on top (eg beautiful in pictures) , but dark under (messed up to live in).

Sweden, Finland, Norway and Iceland are near heaven on earth. Canada is worse, I recently came back from Toronto and don't see why Nigerians go there.

What about the United States? The greatest country on earth

Timgreat31:
Hi!

If i may ask, so, you just ignored Lagos, filled another ds-160 and chose Abuja right?

How long did it take to get confirmation email, if there any?

How long did the whole process take to get schedule a date?

I'm considering switching to Abuja if that will help. Thank you.

Yep. When u book a new post for your visa, just edit some information otherwise the website won’t let you go

Adaobiiiii:
Pls, has Lagos approved you now?

No. I paid another MRV in Abuja. It rained pink paper alll through in Abuja yesterday

nerdymufasa:
I am stuck here too, for Abuja..

I raised a ticket yesterday, and it was responded to check back later yesterday, or today. Still no changes till now

Since when? Have u upload ur i20?

Ebubu2:
Is someone really choosing an ESUT state government sponsored scholarship over a US PhD full funded scholarship if I were to get one?

Can you elaborate more why so I'll be on same stage as you?

How did you win a state government MSc scholarship? Well, it depends actually. Will you be given a lecturing appointment upon finishing your MSc? Your credentials can be a solid point to apply for PhD program abroad (Europe or USA or Canada). If you have a solid MSc, it can open many opportunities— your school can retain you, u can decide to travel out for PhD etc . OyoTunjiUSA might have a point in that having a MSc can give u opportunity to apply for a PhD program and get offers since you have already tried with your BSc

Roon9:
Gm Sir, please how do I link my son's mrv to mine so we could be interviewed the same time. He's 3 years old

You a single father right? Just create his own profile and chose the same interview date and time. Or better still, OyoTunjiUSA, hiw else can one make sure you attend interview together with your dependant son since it’s not possible to add them under your own profile this time