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Phaithy:
It’s actually possible to pay for your school fees before resumption. I don’t know about other schools but I know about mine. I paid for a year already even though the school refused at first but as soon as I registered for my fall 2021 courses and my bill was raised automatically, I was able to pay for a whole year.

Wow, that's a problem because how do you get your money back if something does go as expected.

VictorOgbolu:
Good Afternoon
Sorry to bother
There is an urgent issue my friend is facing.
She just got admission into the national university San Diego and she was told yesterday by the institution that she has to defer her admission till next year fall because of covid-19 precautions and she has to decide before the end of tomorrow unless they will cancel her I-20.
She received the admission early in March and has planned everything, she paid fees, booked plane tickets, gotten accommodations and now she has to cancel everything.
She has tried to speak with the school but for the most part she has gotten no reply and the ones that do reply reiterate the same thing.
Is there anything that she can do about this situation?

She cant force the school to open physically, what fees dd she pay? i doubt it was school fees because I dont think school will let her pay whens school ahsnt resumed
Does she even have her visa?

Mumagain:
About her children they can go as children born out of wedlock. Is allowed

The children will be interviewed as well, especially if they are not young. Will the children also be able to keep up the lie whilst be interviewed.

She will have to swear under oath at the interview to tell the truth .

If the husband is okay with not seeing his kids till how many years in the future no wahala.


Her choice, the family lives with the consequences either way.

Lee1303:
No but she doesn’t want to wait longer here. Please what are the risk involved?

Depends on whether she wants to keep up the lie, which is hard to do. If she is discovered it will be misrepresentation and that's cancellation.
Even if she keeps up the lie, will her children do the same?

If she does get the visa , her husband can not go, she will have to get there, wait and all of a sudden come back to nigeria (remarry him) then go back and file for him and somehow prove that she just happened to have met him after visas were approved. If that goes through it could take about 2-3 years for him to join.

So that's her choice - it's risky.

TWoods:
That isn't true, the CBP officer has the power to decide if your primary residence is outside the US and revoke your GC.

Nope, CBP can start proceedings but the decision on revoking is only by Immigration Judge after findings have been made so they CBP cant revoke your GC

Damilolly:
If you've got your GC but not ready to migrate for a few years how can one keep it valid?

The visa they put in your passport after approval is not the GC. You must enter the US before the expiry date on that visa. Once you arrive in the US it is then stamped. After that you wait for the actual GC which is a card , it will be posted to your address that you indicated.


Maintaining your LPR status has its own regulations, you are not expected to stay extended periods outside the US since it is to be your private residence. Some POE may quiz you, however it is only a judge that can cancel it.
Typically no more than 6months out of the US , if you want to spend up to a year outside the US then there's another application you can make so that you can do that officially and get a SB1 (returning resident visa)

uchetobi:
I have been dq for over a year but not current yet

You know the bulletin retrogresses right? Sometimes

Sadly true,

Lee1303:
Hello everyone

Please has anyone immigrated with derivatives? I am FB1 and not married but have 5 children. Will I be asked to do DNA for my children? At the interview

You will get to add your children to your case, but the DNA thing I think that depends on if they request for it.

nowhere:
Some people are current before DQed, many are DQed before being current. What's your take?

The embassy will only schedule interviews for those that are DQ and that their PD is current.

The dates for the interviews is what only consular staff can answer cos who knows what rhyme or reason they use to set the dates or whether they use first come first served or if they prioritise some categories over others.

nowhere:
Booking doesn't mean honoring it. When you get the interview letter on July 12 with the interview date as 21 July, you will understand. Again, it's valid for twelve months.

You need your interview letter to do the booking, the crowd at the medical facility there is nothing you can do about it.

Medical is valid for 6 months that is clear on the embassy site. Your visa is validity is ends on that validity, if the 6 months expires before your interview date you will pay for another one FULL PRICE.
It means if you did Medical on April 2021, interview in Aug and approval in Sept 15th (maybe due to supplementary documents) then your visa validity will be Oct. Then if you cant buy ticket or move out on time its a big problem.

nowhere:
Whoever got DQed as around October 2019 and beyond and have not got any interview letter should start thinking of refilling DS260 and keep, book medicals, do police report again (it must have been two years now), AOS (recent documents) and get your birth certificates handy for uploading. If you forgo your given date because you can't meet up, embassy has you at their mercy on rescheduling. Please try to be proactive and forestall this. Again, if anyone is aging out, try to recalculate the age with CSPA.

I would strongly advise against booking your medicals please, medicals are valid for 6 months from the date you conducted it and it is that validity that would be on your passport. If your interview is finally scheduled after that 6 months you will need to do another medical.

Then the DS 260 - I dont think you can refill this form until the consulate send you that mail to go ahead and fill another form. You wont be able to access the DS-260 to update it.

cambellj:
great forum guys, please I need some clarifications.
My pd is Oct 2012 for F1 initially. I got my approval 2019 submitted DS-260, civil documents and paid fees to USCIS.
I did indicate on the application that I got married in 2017. What actually happens now that my status has changed?

I submitted supporting documents in Aug 2019 and the only message I got on my profile was in the lines of...Due to the numerical limitations on immigrant visa issuance prescribed by law, this petition is not eligible for further processing at this time...
Is this some sort of denial due to my status change? My foreign state of chargeability is South Africa

It just means you are now F3, so you need to check where the status of F3 is on the visa bulletin, I doubt your pd date is current right now. Your category changed so everything changed

IrepChrist:
It's F4 Category.... There are people who got DQ in October 2019.... No interview yet.

Not sure how they are doing this scheduling

Got DQ in Jan 2020, got interview date same year it was cancelled due to covid, rescheduled this year. F1
However I had been current for probably 9months before I got DQ'd

IrepChrist:
Not yet Bro. I have been DQ since Nov. 2019.... I wonder why so much wait. Hopefully soon.Do you have any information?

Have you sent a mail? Did you initially have an interview date scheduled?
You were DQ a long time ago.

Chloraseptic:
Do I have to write them to switch me to F1 or should I just be in this category

I think your Mum is supposed to inform them NVC or USCIS, but really it doesnt matter since NVC has already asked to submit documents.

I expect for both F1 and F2B your pd has passed so you are on the queue to be interviewed as soon as you are documentarily qualified. DQ can only happen when you have submitted your documents and it has been accepted.

Nothing you can do right now apart from submitting your docs and get DQ, then wait for interview

Irepchrist
Have you gotten interview date yet?

Chloraseptic:
I'm surprised that taal17 was acting surprised..
But it seems I'm the only one on the visa class..

Though my mum is a USC now..

That is because it is F2B in the visa bulletin and it is F2B under family category on the trave.state website, so I am very unaware of the same visa category being called F2[b]4[/b]

But if that is what you have on your profile then i suppose it can be the same...

If your mum is USC then you become F1

Chloraseptic:
Is anyone here in the f24 visa category or am I the only one

what is f24?
There is no category like that.

Paccus:
Your Police report is part of the documents that the embassy sends to homeland security/cbp. If your Police report is yet to expire before you do your interview but it expired before you moved to the US, you will need a new one to clear cbp..

what are you saying?

adycatus:
Good day, Please is it true drop box is now available?

Not true

Nimmadiji:
Visa approved
June 8th
Time: dunno couldn't go in with a digital watch.

Doubt my transcript would be of any help because my interview was incredibly brief.

I was asked only 3 questions:-
1. Why are you going to the US?
2. Where are you going?
3. What do you do?

I noticed that people who were interviewed before me were asked more questions than I was.

The man barely looked at me. He spent more time typing away on his computer.

My appointment was for 9am but my big head didn't make it to the consulate till like 9:30.

There was no queue at the entrace of the screening hall probably because everyone but me came early enough. The security guards asked for bribe before letting me in. Typical.

There weren't a lot of people there so I didn't have to wait long before proceeding to the interview hall.

There were 3 VOs and for some reason they took their time with the applicants and asked quite a bit of qquestions. They weren't even rushing.

I saw a few F1 applicants young and not so young get denied. Some parents who went with their kids got denied as well after tensioning them with more questions.

NOTE: those who agents for their entire application process should be careful. Filling a ds-160 form isn't hard, take your time and do it yourself.

Two people who used agents were sent back at the screening hall. One of them had a confirmation printout that said june 8th 2021 but when they checked their records it was for March 2022.

Try to at least log into your profile to see the thing yourself. Print your confirmation yourself instead of showing up with some document some shady guy gave you.

I had a similar interview for mine, it was short. VO barely looked at me just looking at the computer.
Then I have had visa interview denied that was that short, I have had approvals that I had a longer interview where the VO asked a good number of questions too.

I truly believe its the DS 160 that's the determinant of how the interview will go.

Chloraseptic:
Please house I'm currently uploading my documents. I just want to know if my sponsor's drivers license or tax papers can be uploaded as proof of domicile.

If not I'd like for you guys to suggest which other documents can used .

Secondly, can I upload pictures of me and my sponsor together or should I just wait to present it at the interview.

Lastly, in the picture below, is it passport photograph I'm to upload or normal picture

linearity
rekeson
IrepChrist
Nowhere

Proof domicile

Utility bills
Bank accounts
Lease agreements
Voting records
US passport or evidence of legal residence
employment contract

lucaschukwuka:
Hello, thanks to everyone who's contributed to this thread. It's no small job that is being done here.

I have a situation and I'd like to hear our experienced persons' take on it.

I want to visit the states so as to satisfy the fiance visa meeting requirement. Been more than 2 years since the last meeting between me and my gf of 10 years whom I now intend to marry.

Is the above a satisfactory answer when asked why I intend to visit the states? Do I need to bring proof of relationship to support my answer? I do have tons of those.

Also, I intend to run my masters degree in a university close to her home after we get married and I'm legally residing in the states. But just in case I apply for a visit visa and don't get it, will that affect my chances with f1?

What would you advice?

Thank you sincerely.

Just focus on the student visa
F1 - you can always get married whilst you are there as a student then adjust status in the US

Applying for a US visa just to see you fiance ..nah you would have immigrant intent so its very 50 50, unless you have had US visa before.
Besides to fulfill the requirements of K1 you can meet in any country so that isn't necessarily a reason for travel to the US

Taal17:
People keep checking at odd hours

The reason there are few dates for 2021 for nonIV is that they have a backlog of almost half a million immigrant visas that require interview dates. Immigrant visas are being given priority now.
Backlog is due to corona and the bans from Trump's administration

Just to clarify the number of half a million is worldwide not specific to Nigeria.
There is a backlog across all embassies, delays with embassies differ

Chloraseptic:
Will I get documentarily qualified if I use that of 2019

that is what you have that's available right now so use it


if at the time of the interview they ask for 2020 or it is ready then you simply submit that


Many people who DQd last year submitted 2018, by the time of the interview scheduling they were asked to submit the recent one that's all

Chloraseptic:
No, I'm about to start uploading documents.

My sponsor don't have 2020 individual income tax return yet. I don't know why he doesn't. That's what halting the whole thing

Use that of 2019

family6644:
You have made a lot of sense, you have made me even more weak. More like she has refused to leave, I have discussed it amicably, she has pleaded that she will change, I should give her more time. Her apt is till there but she doesn't want to go back claiming she's in love with me and she can't stay away from me. I think I am in trouble, I don't feel right about this anymore

Kick her out
She is not your wife!!

What is it?

Do you even know where her husband is?
Who is she?
Is this how you developed relationship with your own wife?

If you need help get your family to kick her out before she traps you with a pregnancy
THINK OF YOUR KIDS , THEY JUST LOST THEIR MUM

ddoi:
Can someone reschedule the date

Yes you can but I think there is a limit of how many times you can reschedule.

If the trip is not urgent, just keep checking till a date closer to your preferred date coms up

ddoi:
Hello, Please how can one get the earliest date for B1/B2 visa appointment?
The available dates are January 2023 for Lagos and June 2022 for Abuja.

How possible is it to get a date in 2021?
Also, can one reschedule the appointment if peradventure one decides to go for another available date if it is B1/B2 visa?

Thank you.

People keep checking at odd hours

The reason there are few dates for 2021 for nonIV is that they have a backlog of almost half a million immigrant visas that require interview dates. Immigrant visas are being given priority now.
Backlog is due to corona and the bans from Trump's administration

At least they are prioritising immigrant interviews over non-immigrant interviews
But even with that I doubt the schedule more than 30-40 a day more due to corona than anything else

As it is I think nonIV interviews are attended to for just one day a week

Those days of 100 plus people day are long gone, even the touts are complaining

ark4sunshine:
Thanks.

You should be concerned, not indicating you had a child and then she has your name on her passport? wouldn't she have had to show a marriage certificate or some other evidence to do that change of name?

Nancyamah:
Mistake from my part thought f1visa is for fiance something something1����
Thank you my dear

Fiance visa is K1

And I am not sure if she can apply for that from the UK since it means a relocation and technically abandoning her studies if she wants to leave during her student year

There is a K1 thread here on NL you can check that out.