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olenime:
who went for interview today?

I did

Visa approved today at 6:30am.

Transcript to come soon

aadeyi:
You are required to come to your interview with a passport photograph that has a particular specifications. Just do that and u will be informed there if there's anything wrong with your ds160. You cant because of that waste ur visa fee now.

Thanks bro, i really wanted everything to be perfect. Too bad...


Hopefully it wont be an issue...

Hi guys, interview comes up shortly.

Just realised I made a terrible mistake.

I used a red background passport on my DS160 form.

Should I just forget about the visa for now?

Pls what can I do next?

please a scammer is a scammer.

Many Nigerians (like me) come on Nairaland to make some transactions with some people i have never met. If such persons have been involved in a form of scam before i will like to know especially if there is a proof. Please show it, so i know to stay away from suc people.


Also if you make transaction with some people and its taking too long to finalise or it is looking like a fraud, please post it here, even if i was not there when your transaction started, i need to know how it went, if the two parties are trustworthy or not - becasue I may need to have a deal with either party later on.

Thanks

Help me thank @aadeyi, he made the SEVIS payment for me.

God bless you bro

Her body language when she was responding to questions about her infidelity was awkward.

dramaka:
Yes o! CBN forbids all banks.
I'm looking for guidance on cheap flight as well, but na only Google I know.
Does anyone in the house have expert advice abeg.

wakanow.com

gunther6:
@slimmy2005 @aadeyi I want to pay my SEVIS fee ejo nitori olorun o. I go send PM now

Please oga, me sef wan pay o.

Ive sent you mails. Please kindly check your inbox

purplesummer:
Hello sir, I got your PM and I responded on 11th April at exactly 10:18am. You could check your spam messages if it's not in your inbox. Nevertheless, I will resend the mail to you right away.

Modified : I just sent the response again.

Apparrently, i was checking the wrong mail

purplesummer:
Yes it's for international graduate students.

Hi i sent you a PM, hope you dont mind. pls kindly check up. thanks

drOdu:
Hi guys,

Been Following this thread quietly for a while. I got my F1 on Monday thanks to information here.
Visa process (lagos) was pretty easy, no documents asked.spent like less than a minute or so, I was graced but had travel history with a running B1/B2 visa already.

My school of admission is the University of Alabama at Birmingham
Grad Course of study; health care organisation and policy (mph)
Program date on my I20; May 5 2016( orientation day) for summer
Funding; non-yet

I have some few* questions, I beg to be answered;
1. when am i to enter in the u.S before the may 5 written on my I20 or after may 5.
2. If I must enter before may 5 ( which I'm not ready yet for) how can I push it further, do I request for a new I20 to present at the border or what do I do?
3. As regards funding, I can really honestly probably only afford my 1st semester fees at the UAB, and I'm not on any form of GA/RA, scholarship etc. I wanted to get my visa first before a concrete pursuit.How do I go about my search for funding/GA opportunities. How do I survive the 1st semester n beyond?
4. How is money been transferred currently here from Nigeria and at what exchange rate ( black market or normal) cos cant be carrying tuition in hand bag abi?
5. Any NL'der in Birmingham, Alabama that can help me integrate into the society and put a friend through as regards accommodation, and life in Gen. Pls DM me or sumfin.

P/S; Excuse my naievity at this stage when I'm supposed to be packing my bags, but i believe it's better I humble my self now and ask the world questions "before he clear for my eyes for Yankee"

Answers may not be restricted to my questions... Abeg I just need lots of help and clarifications and yabs tootoo ..

congrats bro

hmmmmmm

Really, you are that petty?

You're going to allow these ladies whom you tagged "rickety looking" and 'chicken legged" to influence how you live your life henceforth?

If their actions is powerful enough to influence your behaviour henceforth then you're probably just "immature" as they said.

mimzy:
Following.. OP is there still more to come or this is the end of the narrative?

cc: lezzlie



hmmmm , from your write up, this dude did not even make any attempt to have a meaningful conversation with his wife before jumping into the hands of his ex. Well... if you ask me, i will say even if his wife is a full time house wife, satisfies his desires, does monkey in the shadow style for him, cooks delicious meals everyday, he will still cheat on her if he wants to!!!

Abeg, it aint a matter of the lady being busy. Men are born CHEATS!!!

Why generalize?

Decker:
It's not always about the money for ladies. How do you guys even arrive at such conclusion?

First of all, let's establish a foundation to base this argument on. Are you referring to gold diggers and poverty stricken ladies who are desperate for a money bag to lash on, or are you referring to women who are looking for a man to build a future with? If it's the former, then you maybe right with your supposition, but if it's the later, then, sorry, you are so wrong. Mind you, it's the later I am referring to and debating on.

I am talking about requirements for serious relationships and not "side guys" and "part time boyfriends/ sugar daddy kind of relationship.
For serious relationships, especially one aimed at marriage, money is just a fraction of the criteria, but it's never a single, independent criterion.

Those women who are having babies for celebrities aren't having those babies because they love them and want to marry them, they are only having the babies for financial security. They only see them as an opportunity to make money.

The entire population is made up of 60% of women and 40% men. Out of the 40% percent of men, only 5% make up the wealthy of the population. If your assertion holds any truth whatsoever, then why are the 60% of women not hooking up with this 5%? How come more than half of the 35% still find themselves in healthy relationships?
How is it that there are women who still take it upon themselves to be bread winners? How is it possible that guys who aren't all that financially buoyant still are able to get wives? How is all this possible if money is all ladies want?

How can you just sit in the comfort of your zone and invent these statistics and figures confidently? As in with all authority!

I hail you o

don4ye:
Pls has anyone experience this when trying to make payment for appointment ? (No valid record can be found". )

payment for what?

slimmy2005:
if you can send western union of the amount. I can help you make payment from here. You'll need to fill out the coupon at www.fmjfee.com

Sent you a mail. please kindly check and reply urgently

Pls anyone here who could help with payment of SEVIS fee?

So his son is also his brother.

its not just about ladies, when trusts are betrayed, people generally tend to become "careful" with future relationships

slimmy2005:
you can't pay sevis fee with debit/credit card. Your best bet is to either go to seme border or get someone in US or Canada to help you out

Thanks

don4ye:
No you can't pay via debit card, western union quick pay or US bank check..

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Thanks

Please can one pay Sevis fee via debit card. And how long does it usually take before getting receipt ?

teechudleyy:
Why do u think we need to be caught up in the fantasies of movies to think we deserve some care? Look, we all know this is not even a developing country. Its underdeveloped. When i say mistreat, i dont mean malpractices... i meant the way they handle people, behave towards people.

My citations are from personal experience and therefore cannot be exhaustive of an apparent ill in our society we now see as normal

powerdiode:
Crusiant clinic, Ilupeju, Adeshiyan street is one of them ... I had an accident with my car and a keke napep guy and had to take two men with bruise to the clinic and the doctor cleaned the wound. After that i ask for my bill and the doctor said 70k for cleaning 2 bruise legs. No broken leg, no stitches ....... And I was asking the doctor before he start treatment for my charge he did not say anything that until he finish treating them. OK show me the break down of how you come about 70k the nurse said he can't show me ..... After so much story I paid 60k since the car is on full insurance. To my greatest surprise the foolish doctor refuse to give me reciept to claim damages after making a transfer to his account. He says he is not sure the money enter into his account even after receiving alert twice. Please people around that environ take note. And I think there should be a regulating body for this private hospital .... It is becoming an issue with private hospitals this days.

People here keep telling you that healthcare is expensive, because in your posts you kept emphasising the amount you paid - making it seem like you paid a huge amount.

Let me state what most patients and relatives don't know.
Healthcare is not just expensive, some charges are quatifiable most are not quantifiable.

Patients usually try to quantify the costs ( making the hospital seem like its a bakery or pharmacy store) when they come up with story such as they only gave drip and 2 tablets and asked me to pay 15,000 - how do you pay for the knowledge behind that decision?.

Hello, its not the drip or the tablet that he is selling - you could get that from a pharmacy store. It is the knowledge of the service that he is rendering that he is charging.

If you did not go to the hospital, could you have known if that friend sustained a fracture or not, could you have known what tests you needed? Could you have known if the discomfort you felt in your breast which scared you was cancer or not.

You go to a lawyer and he tells you what to do without selling you anything and charges you N20,000 for just giving his informed opinion on an issue. Some agents charge 50,000 or more for just telling you the process to get some things done. But when people come to hospitals they come with calculators in their head trying to calculate number of drips and cotton wool used. Since you know how much cotton wool and spirit costs why not go to where they're being sold and help yourself with it.

Please can one pay Sevis fee via debit card. And how long does it usually take before getting receipt ?

Im not defending our healthcare cause we all know it leaves so much to be desired. But I laugh when atients expect the kind of treatment they watch in movies but are only able to pay 2% of what these guys pay in other countries.

See despite those bills you people complain of as being exorbitant, many private hospitals can't even pay for the services of a permanent doctor. That's why you go to some hospitals and they say they ask you to wait for them to call a doctor.

Healthcare is that expensive. if you were to take your mum who suffered stroke to one of those hospitals in the foreign movies we watch, guess how much you would have paid without insurance?

This particular thread is filled with many ignorant posts. Most of the things the OP complained of are not even malpractices. There are serious malpractices going on in private hospitals, but these things you wrote, well except for poor communication are all normal.

I intend to relocate to US but i don't expect it to be all smooth and easy afterall most good things don't come easy.

You think its easy to leave your country to another without struggling? Even Israelites that left Egypt to the promise land , their eyes saw WHEHNNN!!!!

How can one get dollars in order to pay for tuition in American schools? And at what rate? Thanks

I own a hospital in Southwest- (not Osun state Nigeria ...lol). I currently have about 17 patients on my ward each of whom I have admitted at several occasions through emergency. None of these patients has paid upto 30% of his/her bill. Some of them have stayed upto 7 weeks on the ward. I admitted and attended to them based on the fact that their conditions were life-threatening as at the time they came. I made their bill known to them - and they signed before they were treated. But there is a common trend, as soon as they felt relief and became stable they pleaded for their bills to be reduced - this I vehemently refused.

About 4 weeks ago a woman was rushed in with Eclampsia having just convulsed while pregnant and she was unconscious. I promptly took her straight to the theatre without collecting a dime though i had informed the relatives of the charges - #120,000 for her operation and medications. They signed and I carried out the surgery succesfully. Mother and baby survived. Within the following 6-days they paid a total sum of #12,000 and they began pleading to go home for the child's christening ceremony. I looked at them with disdain. Till now, they have only managed to pay a total sum of #14,000.

Another man who was managed for strangulated hernia has only paid 20,000 out of 75,000 bill. And the list goes on. Their failure to pay has made it difficult for the hospital to replace consumables and medications needed to manage other people's condition.
In the early hours of today 1:30am, a woman was rushed into the hospital following delivery at the referrral center. Blood had refused to stop gushing out. I did a quick assesment and realised she would need more materials than the hospital pharmacy currently had in store. I could have my staff get from a nearby pharmacy too. However, the husband said he had no money on him and so did the numerous relatives that accompanied. It was indeed a familiar pattern. I decided to let them go. I referred her to a government hospital. Ofcourse they pleaded for me to help but there was nothing I could do. Few minutes after they left - just few metres from my hospital gate, she collapsed. She had lost a lot of blood. I rushed there and rigorously tried resuscitating her right there outside the hospital 2am early morning, but all efforts proved abortive. A young woman of 28years had just died after having her first baby. Screams, wails, cries ensued. I felt bad - this is not why i became a doctor. But her blood is not on my hands.

Her blood is on the hands and heads of all the patients on the ward who can afford to pay but refused to - on the grounds that - "What will they do?. Her blood is on the hands and heads of the government officials past and present who have made it difficult and impossible for workers to get paid for their work. But the government officials are not the target of this my narrat. It is aimed at those who take hospital healthcare and medical doctors for granted. Those (including myself) who emphasise that doctors should not put money first before treating emergency conditions. In emergency cases, relatives would go to any length through any struggle to get money. As soon as the situation becomes calm, they relax and then they refuse to pay.

Last year a distant relative of mine was delivered of her baby via Caesearian section (in a hospital in Lagos- not mine). They were billed #180,000 which they accepted before the operation. After the surgery, her husband called me and asked how much I charge and i told him. He then began pleading with the management of the said hospital to review his bill. They declined. The husband being who he is, paid #120,000 and absconded with his wife and his newly born son. How he did this, I do not know, but i know that at the christening ceremony a week later, he had two cows slaughtered to celebrate the birth of his first son.

Many times we complain of doctors who ask for charges before treating patients but no one has ever bothered to ask the doctors why they do? Doctors are humans too, we need to pay bills. This is our trade, our profession, our means of livelihood. We have needs too. We can not go to the market place with the ID showing that we're doctors and hope to get food items on credit. We need to pay our children's school fees, we need clothes , shelter etc just as you. Everywhere in the world healthcare is expensive, both services and materials are exepensive. Well we understand that you may not have money. The government should find a way. The government should find a way/policy that ensures that we get our money back after we have rendered our service. In the UK there is the National Health Scheme, in the United states they have health insurance schemes too in addition to Medicare, Medicaid. In Nigeria we have the barely effective, poorly regulated and massively corrupt National Health Insurance Scheme.

Well i have decided to change the modus operandi of my institution. The previous one has not benefitted anybody. Henceforth if any one comes to my emergency room without a dime. I will not attend to. If such a person dies, the blood is not on my hands, its on the hands of those who have received treatment in the past and failed to pay afterwards.