Debbieeeeeee:

Prior to then I had been to the office for check ups(tests & consultation) and registration. Beginning of my pregnancy I was also there for confirmation u/s , all these docs put together are correspondences. Cbp officer didn’t check these docs although I had them ready but he asked and I answered in the affirmative.

Debbieeeeeee:
Got into the US via delta airlines Atlanta and it was pretty seamless.
Why are you in the USA, I went straight to the point and told him to have my baby.
How long will you be staying?
How much do you have?
Dr’s correspondence?
the conversation lasted less than a minute.

My visa expires in this month of April but I was allowed in for 6 months as no more physical stamps, check I-94 website.
My passport will be left with less than 6 months of validity by this April too.

I got this visa for holidays in May 2021 via interview renewal (dropbox was suspended then) and I used it thrice for its purpose prior to this trip, so plus this trip made it 4 times. This is my 10th trip in total to the USA also.
I hope this helps someone.

babyfaiz:
Hello house,
My case is perculiar. My last visa expired in the first quarter of 2018. I was on a b1/b2 visa with my family. I used the same visa for vacation & childbirth. When our visa expired, I opted for Dropbox. As expected, I got the dreaded 221g letter. I had to reschedule in person interview. For some technical reasons, I couldn’t reschedule for wifey. I contacted the embassy but no specific replies just some generic stuffs. I had to go for the interview without my wife. Getting there, the first question I was asked was - where is your wife? I explained the tech glitch which wasn’t my fault but the VO wasn’t having it. She gave me the blue paper. Same year, I reapplied with my wife & the interview was very short. The first question asked was - why didn’t you declare, you were going to have your baby the last time we got our visa. Answer was - she wasn’t pregnant before the interview. More so, we stated our intent at the point of entry. The VO asked for the child’s birthday & left (I think she went to use the calendar to see if what I said was true). She came back and asked how much we paid in total and the receipt? I told her 8k & it was a c section. She requested to see the receipts and we tendered all, including the zero balance. She then specifically requested for itemized bill, which we didn’t have. I told her, the receipts & agreement was all they gave us. We had our baby in HNWMC, Tx. She then reached for the white paper & circled the Muri okunola address, saying we should submit our documents, together with all receipts & itemized bill. It was difficult getting the itemized bill as we had pre signed a document saying we’ll not be given itemized bill. When we eventually got the itemized bill, the statement says - ‘this cannot be used for insurance purposes as patient paid reduced amount’. The itemized bill had 33k. I submitted our travel documents together with receipts, zero balance & the ‘no itemized bill agreement’ with the hospital. I didn’t submit the itemized bill because(I thought it would be difficult to defend the bill, since it wasn’t a physical interview). Long story short, our passports were returned without a visa. I’m aware, a higher percentage of those who had a child on their visitors visa were denied (all thanks to Trump). I had a friend who was able to renew earlier in 2018 but his visa was revoked before he even traveled. My questions are - have things changed aftermath of Trump? Is anyone in any similar situation- how did it pan out? What are our chances after 4 years? This time, I intend to submit the itemized bill if requested for. Someone on this platform was able to renew her visa & she paid 4K in total and submitted the same itemized bill of 33k( same hospital). I believe (know) the itemized bills are just the same template for every patients. I’m not expecting our next interview to be a big deal, besides, how much money was paid (maybe considered too small)? I’m hoping all this childbirth thing will not come up again and we’ll just be treated like someone who wants to vacay in the US. Any helpful thoughts will be appreciated

Kemo88:
Thanks for your response. I have another question.
When you wrote to embassy, did they reply your mail. What was their response like? Which email address did you send to? The documents that you have was it just a print out of your evidence of informing the embassy?

I got my visa last year first quarter of last year. Got pregnant this year. So I had to inform the embassy. Hold all the documents you can and be prepared. I was ready to declare especially cos I had come previous complications. But I wasn’t asked anything close to “why are you here or what’s the purpose of your visit”
If you look at my POE questions you will see there was no chance to squeeze it in there.

Kemo88:
MY POE STORY

Left naija through Qatar last week, my POE was Washington Dulles. Qatar at the Nigerian airport sent me to the port health downstairs MMIA despite having my fit to fly from their website and having all documents and letters from the doctors.
When I got to port health, the two so called “midwives” were rude and wicked. They kept saying I wasn’t 30 weeks despite my scan saying I was 31weeks plus or minus 2 weeks. Showed them 5 different scans all through my pregnancy and argued that how can the scans life. They asked for my LMP I told them and they counted it on the calendar got 30weeks and still said I’m lying. They said I’m over 36, They said “madam, keep arguing and see if you would travel tonight”.
They threatened that they would write something that wouldn’t make Qatar take me on that flight. I guess hubby knew were they were going and told me to be quiet, he told them that we could sort this out amicably, I was upset and went outside. Hubby then gave them money, they collected about 15k naira …. They even told us not to go and pay the 5k that was meant to be paid in the bank, they asked us to give it to them. I was very upset.
Anyway, asides all of that , the Trip was nice….. couldn’t upgrade like I wanted to cos the flight was full but I slept almost through out ….. I was so tired from days and days of going to bank headquarters on the island to chase my PTA.

At the point of entry? I joined the citizen line as I was traveling with my 6years old who is a US citizen. I had all my documents with me; change of intent letter from the embassy(cos I got my visa March 2021) , letter from my doctor in the US, estimated bills and so on. I didn’t hide my pregnancy cos I wore a fitted top on leggings.
The CBP officer we were going to had sent two people for secondary inspection right in front of us and I wondered why. So when it was our turn…..

CBP: Hi, how are you?
Me: I’m good, thanks for asking , how about yourself?
CBP: im good ….
Handed him all passports with the US passport on top of our own naija one
CBP: so where are you traveling from?
Me: Nigeria
CBP: how long will you be staying ?
Me: 10weeks
CBP: and who are these ?
Me: my mum and my daughter
CBP: do you have cash ? How much do you have ?
Me: I have 9k dollars but my mum has 1k… the rest are in my dollar master card
CBP: any Nigerian money
Me: yes about 8 thousand naira which comes to about 22 dollars
CBP: any good stuff ?
Me: some cereal (Ogi) and some soup.

CBP: face masks down please…… welcome to the United States
*stamps us in till January*

After he was done , I was going to tell him I’m here to have a baby blah blah blah …. but my mum was like (in our native language) “keep moving, he didn’t ask you why you are here , he saw your belly and didn’t ask you , keep moving “ lol
If I was asked I would have declared cos I was “document ready”. I declared during my first pregnancy
so I have no problem declaring.

I wasn’t sent to agriculture so all my edikaikong, Ogbona and other soup made it safe. Lol. Been eating correct soup with poundo yam since I got in. Thank God for His mercies. Wishing everyone the very best with their POE experience .