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bamiDee1:
Quick help on this scenario please

I-20 letter came with the below:
Personal funds: 24k
GA: 10k
Family funds: 5k

What I submitted to school:
SOA, Uncle: 25k
Personal: Approx 3m, eqv 6k

For DS-160 form filling, should I write the school to change family funds to be 24k while personal, 5k?

Or please how do I best complete this part on my DS-160 form?

Thanks in anticipation...

You might want to explain why your uncle will essentially set aside what amounts to his entire bank account to fund just one year of school for you.

Gamesmart:
You are a creeetin!

Show us where I said Jews were imported from Europe.

You realised you had no argument and decided to fall back on a strawman?

Fooool, that wanted to lecture me on Balfour declaration!

Islam will warp the mind... leaving you bereft of reason, easily prone to foaming at the mouth in the type of rage that has left the entire middle east and large swaths of Muslim Africa as intellectual deserts and terror-filled morass. Anywhere you have a majority of Muslims, peace is usually absent. You're a classic example.

It's no surprise... as much as Arabs hate Israel, they will rather live there than Jordan or Syria. It's no different here... Nigerian Muslims will overwhelmingly choose to live in the West... even Israel. I've NEVER seen a thread on Nairaland devoted to Muslims desperate to travel to Saudi Arabia or Kuwait or Iran for work or school. I wonder why. I'll leave you to continue to fulminate.

Gamesmart:
You are a creeetin!

Show us where I said Jews were imported from Europe.

It's "Cretin" young man...
Sounds like you're triggered... i wonder why. Sounds about arab muslim.

Gamesmart:
Who said there were not always Jews on that land?

But you told us they were imported from Europe no?

Gamesmart:
Who are you trying to spew Israeli propaganda nonsense too?

There you go again, claiming that easily verifiable history is merely Jewish propaganda.

Gamesmart:
"Always Jews on the land" equates to "Jews owned the land"? What crap phrase are you hiding not answering the questions behind?

So explain to me why those cities like Hebron, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, Galilee are all Jewish names... but not arab names, even though arabs allegedly owned the land.

Gamesmart:
So the land the Jews are on today and building settlements on were owned by Jews pre-1948?

The answer is yes... you should read your history books rather than listening to Hamas.

Gamesmart:
Answer all those questions!

I already did, in my post you quoted. Note that none of your responses provided any proof whatsoever that my assertions were wrong... other than the typical Islamist belligerence.

Gamesmart:
Then "familiarize" me with the Balfour Declaration!

I thought you knew the history of the land... find out for yourself.

gaskiyamagana:
Only fool will be surprised about your defense. Your defense is nothing short of defending Bible as holy Book with its variant, version, Reviewed VERSIONS with sects.

Interestingly enough, you provided zero evidence why anything I said was wrong. As usual, you are emotionally invested based on your religion... no facts whatsoever. Always remember, insults are the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Onlyonebuhari:
Even Wikipedia don't dish out this thrash. Hitler cleansed them and British relocate Israelis on Arab land and since then they have been killing Palestinians including Muslims and Christians but idiot like you don't even know the percentage of Christianity in Isreal is 2%

1. You don't really care about Christians... you have simply inserted them here as a red herring... a way to pretend that this conflict is anything more than Islamic intolerance to the Jewish people right from the days of Mohammed.

2. Britain did not "relocate" Israelis on "arab land". It is funny that what you call "arab land" has so many historical Jewish cities that do not have arabic names - Judea, Samaria, Hebron, Galilee, Jerusalem... which one of those cities on so-called "arab land" are arab names?

3. Again Britain did not "relocate" Israelis... there have always been jews in Jerusalem for centuries.

4. Don't get your information from Wikipedia... you make yourself sound sadly ignorant.

Gamesmart:
Tell me you point, my friend!

Explain to me why Jews should be able to take Palestinian land from 1948.

Make sense.

No they didn't. This is a tiresome falsehood that arabs have successfully perpetuated. There were always jews on that land. The entire land of Palestine was divided into 2 - 75% is Jordan today, the remaining 25% was for Jews. The Jews took their portion in peace, arabs decided they wanted 100%... here we go today.

You should familiarize yourself with the Balfour declaration.

salykely:
How God will support an oppressor baffles me. How God will support land grabbers and illegal occupiers beat my imaginations. Pls allow your sense of justice function optimaly

You mean the Egyptians, Syrians and Saudis who make up much of Jordan today? Or you just mean Jews?

salykely:
It is laughable if you say that Israel never started the six day war. when histroy itself recorded the fact that the Arab forces were never expecting any attacks. Egyptian air force were grounded and were bombed from the air without any air cover. compare that to the October war

let me leave you with this Map

Your map is misleading... it only shows 25% of "Palestinian" land. Guess where the remaining 75% went? The country of Jordan. Why aren't you demanding that the Hashemite (Saudi) King of Jordan gives back the land to the "Palestinians"?

salykely:
You dont even know that Israel is occupying Golian Height which is internationaly recognised as Syrian territory.

Further to your unbridled ignorance you never knew that Israel occupied the Sheba Farms in southern Lebanon and were only chased away by Hisbulla gorilla activities.

Maybe the Syrians shouldn't have attacked Israel unprovoked in 1967? Just saying...

dayviheed91:
No I sent my employer's bank statement to school but the I20 came with family funds.

Your employer gave you their bank statement? See why it would be hard to believe that?

Aishat89:
I have applied 4 times for an F1 visa to study in Houston community college ( liberal art and science) and got denied all through * though I have a bsc degree in biochemistry.

My Previous experiences in the american embassy have been heart acheing because I am yet to get approved...

I seriously don't wish to get denied again. It's why i have questions for the my people here it seems i was doing something wrong or it was just the system that wasn't helpful. Regardless whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well..

My questions are
1. Is it advisable to apply again since my last visit was in 2019, but now requesting for a visiting visa (looking into conferences) is this okay.

2. I have always been denied on the basis of "not proving enough ties back home" what do i do to get through this. Plus I intending to sponsor my self ( presently employed as a scientific officer in a federal hospital) and i am currently in year one out of a three years Midwifery program here because i believe it will count as enough ties plus my personal funding... How much more do i need to do to get approved... Plss anybody's knowledgeable advice will help me out of this dilemma. I am married with no kid yet... Anybody's guidance will be highly appreciated thank you

You have a BSc, why would you want to go get an associates degree which is a level below what you already have? Should explain why you've been denied 4 times.

QueenRebecca:
Some Nigerian Christians think only Muslims are suffering from the attack made by the Israel. Majority of you don't know that Christian Palestinians and Jewish Palestinians also suffer from the brute Force attack of Israel. You all comment out of emotions. The believe of present day Israel is that if you are not 100% Jew, you are not worth of human, you are a GOYIM to them. I refuse to be an ignorant.

You are indeed ignorant. 20% of Israel's population are arabs. They enjoy freedoms in Israel that are non-existent in any arab Muslim nation today, including Gaza, Egypt, Jordan etc. None of them will swap their Israeli passports for anything else. They are fully represented in Israel and even have a powerful political party that represents them in the Israeli Knesset. Permit me to ask... how many Jews are permitted to live peacefully in Egypt, Jordan, Gaza, the West Bank, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Qatar?

IjapaTiroko:
Israel VS Palestine is a dicey situation.
I can't support either party.
Israel is hell bent on collecting all their ancestral land. Palestine is hell bent on keeping their country.
I'm trying to see things from Palestine angle but:

Palestine has never existed as an Arab “country”. This is revisionist history. Until 1949, the term “Palestine” referred to Jews.

Palestine isn’t he’ll bent on keeping their country, they are hell bent on killing Jews. It’s just that simple. 75% of historical Palestine became Jordan in the 1940s, ruled by Saudi kings… why aren’t Palestinians he’ll bent on taking back that land too?

Farid24224:
May Allah (SWT) grant them Aljannatul Firdausi and may he return normalcy to Israel-Palistine..... Amin

Normalcy will be restored when Muslims value peace more than killing Jews.

Smartini:
So the whole family is a family of Pastors? You mean God called all of them and anointed them ALL as a family?

Listening to the brothers, it is clear that they are genuine and faithful children of God. We should worry more about our own salvation.

Lamideyy:
It now seems like getting full undergraduate funding from US universities is a real struggle
I feel most of them are going broke
I dont even know anymore
I applied to 8 different schools
1360SAT 102 TOEFL
Received a full funding from none

The schools aren't broke, full funding for undergraduate degrees are hard to come by, even for US citizens. Most of the full funding opportunities are in research PhDs. To get full funding at the Bachelors level, you need to have a stellar application... at minimum, in the 1% of applicants.

A 1360 SAT is unlikely to get you full funding where there are people coming with perfect scores.

chrisadigwe:
Yea I have deficit of about 17 thousand dollars but I got a full tuition waiver the only thing I notice was that there was a difference between the estimated fee and tuition waiver by some 200 dollars of which I wrote to the school and they told me the estimated fee was just an estimated because the tuition fee could increase or decrease

My problem is the 2nd interview I want not given any opportunity to explain and this one they are saying home ties now I was thinking maybe I use a sponsor that had the same surname with me to help prove home ties


But any advise you give me will be appreciated abeg...............

Do this and you will be denied a 3rd time. How can you have 3 separate sponsors?

chrisadigwe:
First interview

VO: Good morning and how are you and pass me your documents
Me: I am fine and I passed him my documents
VO: Is your funding a full tuition waiver
Me: I said yes
VO: but I can see that it’s not a full tuition waiver
Me: I replied it’s a full tuition waiver and I have a letter to prove that
VO: no I don’t need to see that but I can see there differences in your estimated fee and actual tuition fee
Me: I replied I don’t know probably might some insurance fee not covered
VO: he went on and asked why is my company sponsoring me are they so generous
Me: I said because I have been working for over five years with the company and we have a policy of rewarding staff to allow them go on study leave but before I ended
VO: are you married
I said no
VO: have you travelled out before and then
I said no

Before he said sorry you do not qualify for the visa. He even emphasized that I reed the green slip

2 problems here:

1. Your I-20 is the official document detailing your cost of education. If the VO thinks that you don't have full funding clearly stated on the I-20, then you do not have full funding. You should have reviewed this in more detail before your interview.

2. In your first interview, you said your company was sponsoring you for study leave as a reward. In the second interview, you reverted to your uncle. If indeed your company was sponsoring you the first time, it is extremely unlikely that they would withdraw the offer just because you failed the first interview. The VO now assumes that you were lying the first time.

Roniee:
Ok thank you. So why Mexico, do you feel going back home is risky for an interview?

It is no riskier than applying in Mexico... the reason you are advised to apply from your home country is because if you were denied, you don't want to be stranded in a foreign country.

adesco2k9:
Need to show whos paying for the trip

No, you don't need to.

FutureSenator:
Hello,

May the best person win in court.

It depends on your I-20. If your program start date is different from the first day of class, then you may arrive not later than the first day of class. Now if that date (first week of July) is later than the first day of class, you should contact your school (international office) and ask for written permission. In some cases, a new I-20 might need to be issued.

In summary, if you are arriving in the US after the first day of class ( start of class on I-20), you might need to show additional documentation at the point of entry, that you have permission from your school.

Regards.

I will rephrase that - "you WILL need".

Olomojola:
Hello everyone
I had a denial last week
Please can anyone help identify my weak points from this transcript

VO-Have you travelled before
Me-Benin republic
VO-You are going for Master's in management
Me- Yes
What was your previous masters?
Me-Accounting
VO- what year
Me-2017-2018
VO- why did you choose grand canyon?
Me-i find them very credible and their course program fits my career
VO- who is funding
Me-I'm self funded
VO- which other school did you apply to?
Me -Texas A&M

NB: My actual course of study is Business Analytics,but on the i-20 my school code for their business courses for the sevis system is management science, so I don't know if the VO officer felt I was doing business management after a previous master in accounting..
Please gurus help a brother.
What can I do to improve my chances my next time

You find the school more credible than Texas A&M?

kastgeraldino:
I don't understand. You say one does not need anything else to stay in Canada within 30 days if you are in the US, but you also talk about mailing in an application for visiting visa.

You need a visiting visa to Canada - which is easy because you won't be expected to leave your education in the US to live illegally in Canada. You can request the visa by mailing your application + passport to the Buffalo office - I think this is still the case (you get your stamped visa and passport in the mail after a few weeks).

What you don't need is a visa to return to the US after your visit. Say your F1 visa expires after 2 years, you can re-enter the US after a visit to Canada or Mexico if you were away for less than 30 days. Comes in handy if you don't want to have to return to Nigeria every year or 2 to renew your F1 visa.

Disgraceful. We are basically admitting we have no capacity to provide security to our citizens so the US should come set up a base here and fight Boko Haram... while our military officers continue to get paid millions just to pose in uniforms. Why did we even bother to fight for independence? We should have remained a British colony... Nigeria would have been far better of.

frapzkid:
Approved

8am

I said God forbid that the man in window 3 conduct my interview
And God decided to shock me
VO - Good morning how are you
me -Am fine
VO - Just give me a minute please, (Calls a lady over the mic, likely the local admin and gives her instructions my mind no de there)
VO - OK pass your passport and i20 pleasE
(I passed it )
VO -so what you going to the US for.
Me- I am going for my masters in Data Analytics
VO- Have you been outside Nigeria before
Me- yes i been to the UK
VO - how many schools did you apply to (Those typical questions i normally see in people transcipts, I appreciate this forum for that)
Me- I applied to three (But it was just one )
VO- Why did you choose UNT
Me - I choose this school because the course of study have concentrations that pertains to what is needed in my workplace
which is Coporate management in Data Analytics.
(You see i was being sneaky,I wanted to remind the VO that in my profile I am employed and also tell him the employment has potential,
thereby giving me a good home ties)

VO- Oh i see, so where do you work
ME -Mention my company
(I actually work in a multinational company but for those of us that does not, I would advise you just say you do or you wish to cos
it improves your profile, but make sure it syncs with what you put in your ds-160 form)

VO - ok and who is paying for your trip
Me- My mom
VO -What does your mom do
Me - She is an estate agent and a fashion designer.
VO - Can i see her statement of account
Me - (i cried in thanks inside cos my mom forgot to print it , we haD to begged a bank staff to bring it for us around 7pm)
VO - OK you can have it back ( to me, I felt he did;nt really looked at it. just wanted to know if i had all the evidence with me )
VO -Do you have any relatives in the US
Me - Yes, my younger sister
VO -What is she doing
Me -She is doing her Bsc in Olkahoma
VO - How old are you
Me - I am 24-27 (lemme not expose my age here abeg)
VO - Are you married
Me- No
VO -Are you in a relationship
Me- Yes i have a fiancee (sincerely though it just a casual relationship)
VO - What does she do
Me - she works in an accounting firm
VO - OK thank you very much (immediately he said that i felt like dying)
then he said
VO - Take your i20 for now, then i would hold on to your passport for now
Me (in my mind) - Oga is yours , i want you to hold it well please no give me today.
Then he hands me the white paper.
Omo

I thank God
I thank those who posted their previous transcripts whether success or not
I thank those who answered questions pertaining to school application

US Visa secured
now
Canada can go and rest
I guess i start saving up for the rainy days cos US VISA no be the endgame..


My humble advice to future candidates
1. Always answer your questions simple and clear. Long answers are a turn off for them
2.No need to fake accent, cos it would just put unnecessary pressure and you may end up saying what you wish not to say
3. Always be relaxed, don't do like you having a job interview. see it like as if you telling your friend about your goals and achievements
4. Also don't allow those touts to exhort telling you to print unnecessary documents, the documents you need are stated already. Those guys chop up to 10k from me

Once you get to the US and settled, mail-in an application for a Canada visiting visa and go have fun. You don't need anything else to travel to Canada and return to the US, provided you do so within 30 days. Congrats!

ChyGirly:
Hi everyone �

Is it okay to include only your LinkedIn profile as your social media presence?

Does one have to include other social media accounts like Facebook, Instagram et all.

I included just LinkedIn and would want to be sure I'm on track.

I anticipate your response.

When it comes to US immigration, ALWAYS err on the side of caution. If you have other social media accounts, add them.

Jukwasi:
Oh! Jesus. I tap into this grace. Congrats.

Don't just "tap into this grace", look at his profile and do likewise - good school, good program + excellent funding.

Elnon:
Hi TWoods....I'm interested in spring 2022 for masters and really need funding....Undergrad in medicals, currently a data scientist and want to switch to tech for masters....Any list or idea of universities that fund admitted students for the spring semester or generous with funding?....fairheart, walspring and other gurus in the house pls help....

No idea. You have to do the search yourself.

Slim4Rehani:
it's very risky not to go straight to where you have on your I-20 first, you can be returned back at port of entry.

Why? that's not true. If you have a valid reason to be elsewhere, why should anyone deport you?

Malone122:
Greetings to you sir
can I mail sir would have asked on here but it’s very personal
Looking forward to hearing from you

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Sure.

kastgeraldino:
It's quite a hassle to have these things on you at all times. How do you prevent them from getting torn or worn out after having them with you all the time?

If you don't live near the border, don't worry. Get a license or state ID, not everyone recognizes a school ID and I don't think you can fly on that anymore.