₦airaland Forum

Demolaxzy:
Hi guys,

My pre-approval request for the Lagos embassy has just been approved after 5 weeks of delay. But when I tried to proceed to book a visa appointment, the only available options are dates for scheduling document drop-offs with OIS. I assume this is because I have an active visa and am simply seeking a renewal. I need someone's assistance navigating this process to secure an interview date, as I am opting for an in-person interview to attend with my dependent (F2), who has previously been denied twice.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Different strokes for different folks. Hope you found a solution.

Please for the interview waiver questions , can you remember the response you gave to the question about having annotation on the visa and if the annotation was waiver, blanket, clearance or other? I chose 'other' because what I have on my visa where the annotation should be is just "PA" followed by my spouse's name and school. I suspect that's the question that made the system route me to consular appointment and not interview waiver.

[quote author=DFocus .[/quote]Thanks . The explanation helps

DFocus:
A positive update to this guys - I received an email notifying me of the approval of my preapproval request (I am applying for J1 VISA renewal at Lagos) less than two hours ago. (In case you didn't catch that before now, it's been my fifth week waiting on preapproval request processing). I have now been able to schedule an appointment to drop off my application documents with OIS next week. (A big relief. Thank God!)

I made a phone call to one of the US embassy contacts again this morning. I was directed to follow up my previous email notifying lagosniv@state.gov on Tuesday of my issue and to copy nigeria@usvisaapt.com (I somehow found out that I did not eventually copy the latter in the email but I made sure to send them a separate email referencing the one I sent to lagosniv... and how the email was yet to be addressed). I literally made a plea for consideration or feedback in the emails I sent today (and also attached a screenshot of the preapproval thing in my AVITS portal alongside the other details that was directed to be included by the form).

Not sure if that was what worked (concerned people should definitely give it a try!) but I thank God in all because I was just giving up to be honest. Growing weary of the preapproval delay, I had just taken a trip from Akure to Lagos earlier this week to attempt dropping off my application documents with OIS yesterday without the interview waiver confirmation letter from AVITS but of course, it wasn't successful. God is faithful!

Wishing everyone the best in the process.

Congrats. My preapproval was initially rejected but i uploaded more detailed doc and got approved after 4 weeks.

Please after answering the IW questions how do you know if you are approved for Dropbox. To the best of my knowledge, I meet all the requirements for Dropbox but after answering the questions it took me to a page to pick appointment date but the header has consulate appointment. Does this mean I was not approved for Dropbox?