odungboriAO: Please what are the likely question the US Consular would ask me during the interview - my spouse file for me

Fortsucc: Thank you vo, I have just been called by the embassy to come next week, my question Ϟ•ώ is how am I going to enter into the embassy since I did not have any appointment letter and are they going to interview me again? Thanks for your reply in advance.

Okontami: Hello Vo, pls i have a challenge with the DS160 part for Month Salary in Local Currency: I get paid in 3 currencies. USD , NGN and CFA. My basic salary is in CFA while my monthly allowances is in NGN. My annual once off payment is in USD. These funds comes in at different period of the year. My monthly salary is the basic and not a true representation of my actual income. What should i do? Should I add these 3 monies together and divide by 12 or just convert the CFA to Naira since i will be coming back to Nigeria to apply. Even though I have a resident permit and work permit as an expat where I am . Am so so confused.

Boomshakar: VO, pls I didn't right my name and case number on the upper right hand side of my forms sent to KCC in JUNE hope it doesn't matter? though my barcode sheet was attached with them as instructed. Secondly pls my case number is 3*** i sent my forms in June and was received by KCC in JUNE ending but have not yet received my 2NL pls when will I be current for interview.

emmamaraihe: goodmorning vo, how are you today? i want to know how you can be of help to this my case, last week i went to the interview, but i was found ineligible because of education and job skill said the interviewer, but i think i did the right thing, in the sense that i did not forged a fake result start tell lies, which is not good be fore my God jehovah rather i said the whole truth about myself which i stated in the form sent to kentuky that i finish my junior secondary school but due to the death of my parent i could not further i went for a biznes traing in pharmaceutical company i learn dis job for over six years n iam good at it.pls vo is it not a skill?why do they hav to do dis to me.

bamideleniayo: VO, please am new here and a friend of mine needs an urgent help.. He is one of the Lucky winners for the DV 2014 fiscal year but while filling his forms for the lottery the highest Qualification he put in was Bsc hoping he would get his results/certificate early in case he won..but now the results are not ready and the school would not listen to him.. So the qestion now is that, should he fill in jst his SSCE which he has already and submit h
is forms to KCC for processing and will KCC or even if it gets to the CO ''ASK'' of the BSc he intially entered as the highest qualification he has while entering for the loterry. His case number is 7*** .and submitting his forms now,when is he likely to be current or interviewed?. Pls help..

Melson1: Sir.thank you for your help you have been rendering to the people in the forum,sir my elder brother wants to get married to a u.s citizen lady,she came down here in Nigeria for the first time,so both of them decided to get engaged,now his fiancee has gone back to u.s,they are now trying to get married in Nigeria here when the lady visit for the second time,the u.s citizen lady is older than his fiance with 7years,the question now is if the 7yrs is a large gap between them,they are preparing to get married when the lady visit for her second time,pls sir your advice is needed,thanks

olivialuv: Good morning VO thanks for your immense support on this thread, I want to ask if it is accepted for my wife to bear my first name as her surname also my child becos that is what she have on her passport too. Thanks for ur quick reply.

joechima: Visa officer Sir,pls is marrying my spouse a USC on a first time visit a red flag considering the huge financial burden of several visits,and is her being there with me during the interview considered as well being a bonafide relationship,provided I am able to proof the relationship is real

Wile.E.Coyote:
I accompanied my Spouse to the interview recently.

Had nothing but good feedback for the staff that was encountered. The interpreter was a God sent and we are indubitably eternally grateful.

I wasn't allowed to join the interview as expected but I used the restroom and the staff for that process was very professional.

It was emotional for me to see our flag at half mast.

bamideleniayo: Thanks so much VO for ur reply.. But my other question is that;is it better to fill in the highest academic qualification as SSCE and send to KCC for Processing leaving out the BSc since the results are not ready. And will the CO ask what he has been doing all this years because the gap between him getting his SSCE till date is quite much (8years); that's incase we leave out everything about the BSc..

And secondly, should in case by Gods favour he gets to the US and wants to further his education and request for a transcript from the said sch, would it be said to a concealment of a material fact that he has a Bsc which was never mentioned in the forms sent to KCC... Thank u so much.! VO

VisaOfficer:

Greetings! So was it his cousin or was it him?

If he can demonstrate that he has a bona fide relationship with his current wife, then he should be all right... eventually. If he lied about a previous relationship or visa application, that would make us suspicious. But even if he incurred a 6C1 ineligibility for material misrepresentation, his wife in the U.S. can file a waiver of that through USCIS. In situations like this one, those waivers are generally approved (assuming nothing else is wrong).

This is exactly why it's always best just to tell the truth at the interview, no matter what.

bamideleniayo: Thanks so much VO for ur reply.. But my other question is that;is it better to fill in the highest academic qualification as SSCE and send to KCC for Processing leaving out the BSc since the results are not ready. And will the CO ask what he has been doing all this years because the gap between him getting his SSCE till date is quite much (8years); that's incase we leave out everything about the BSc..

And secondly, should in case by Gods favour he gets to the US and wants to further his education and request for a transcript from the said sch, would it be said to a concealment of a material fact that he has a Bsc which was never mentioned in the forms sent to KCC... Thank u so much.! VO

cutekingd1:



Thank you so much for the kind response, he said it was his cousin.yes they are married pls can u elaborate the bona fide relationship u mean he also need to know when his wife can fill in a wavier is it along side with the spouse visa petition?.

Deyou: @ Visa Officer Officer

My wife just visited the states and she is back in Nigeria however she did not return the white immigration (I-94) slip that was to be taken from her at the airport.

(Maybe its her fault or that of the immigration officer in the US..we dont know.) The slip has 13th Oct 2013 on it as the date she must not stay beyond in the US.

Can she bring the slip and return it at the US embassy here in Lagos? I hope this doesn't have any negative effect on her status.

Thanks for your prompt response.

atinaewa: @ VISA OFFICER & Every body in the house!!!

Pls. has anybody seen, heard or known any past dv lottery winner with the issue of not written his or her case number on all the forms given a 2NL or visa?

Pls. I need genuine response to this question.

Thanks.

VisaOfficer:

There is really very little that the petitioner or beneficiary can do to speed up the process. Administrative processing happens for a variety of reasons; I'm sure you can imagine why some of those reasons need to be investigated independently before we reach out to the petitioner and beneficiary for their input, and why we don't release additional information. To give a concrete example, some Nairaland members have mentioned that we sometimes do field investigations to see if a beneficiary is really married, or to see if a court actually issued a divorce decree. In those cases, you can understand why we don't say "Hey, we're going to drop by your house on Tuesday to see if you're really married." We say, "Your case is under administrative processing."

The supervisor actually reviews all the cases, with special attention to refusals.

We work as quickly as possible, but sometimes there are travel restrictions or other problems. When we get to a point where we need to talk to the beneficiary and/or the petitioner, we will contact them directly.

In a worst-case scenario, when we do not believe there are grounds for a visa to be issued, the petitioner always has the opportunity to rebut our findings. The petition goes back to USCIS with a memo outlining our findings, and USCIS asks the petitioner to respond before making a decision. So even in the worst-case scenario, the petition will not be revoked without the petitioner's involvement.

The overwhelming majority of cases that go through administrative processing are eventually issued.

I hope this helps!