johnkent:

You'll probably never get a visa at any US embassy. You and your husband have screwed yourselves for the rest of ya lives. Nigerians always seem to make this same mistake thinking they can get away with it but it always catches up with them.

bandiejay:

so confusing May God Almighty Help u if you think you can't make it up again with U.S keep your mind away from it Try canada or tell God to Bless you beyond your imagination if you have 5million USD in your account  buy  properties  in California or Chicago  i am sure Embassy will 4get about  the past That i know for sure God help you

chicagoboy:

The answer is yes and no,how many years agodid the embassy did finger print for you?if u applied b4 finger print era, 100% certain you can re-apply,without trace,it has happened to my cousin and we are both in yankee now.


BUT IF THEY TOOK YOUR FINGER PRINT,KINDLY FORGET US FOR LIFE.

TheCongo:

@OP, in my book there is still hope for you and your husband. Don't despair. I will post my own story here on Nairaland another time to prove my point. You should go with your gut feeling.
TheCongo,

TheCongo:

I will have to disagree with the bolded part. Immigration issues are never that cut and dry. The answer is neither YES nor NO.
Her case can always fall into a crack of a loophole.
Other factors can also come to her rescue such as human error, act of compassion, luck … I am a living witness and will post my story on here..

TheCongo:

OP, you are talking about God’s grace in one of your posts. I assume you are born again. Then, believe BIG, THINK BIG and you will be amazed of what may transpire out of your case.

Vicjustice:

   Enough of the promises, just save it and make the post or quit

Vicjustice:

      I still don't see how this matter is connected with religion

Happylife:

Thanks dear all for your inputs.

@Thecongo, kindly post your story, i hope i will learn one or two things from your experience. Believe me, we are not scared of being denied visa if we attempt it again but being handed over to the police for document forgery is our major concern. Our biometric details were taken.

TheCongo:

I am making this post in response to a different post where OP had previously submitted a United States visa application with wrong vital information along with her fingerprints. Her application was declined accordingly. Now, she is wondering how to come clean for her mistake with the Americans. https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-759710.0.html

Something similar had happened to me in the United States. I submitted a bogus refugee claim along with my fingerprints. This bogus refugee claim was still pending when I decided to move to Canada. (I had my permanent residence status in Canada through my family).

However, I didn’t want to leave the United States with the full knowledge that the US immigration had my fingerprints on a bogus refugee claim. I knew full well this would definitely come back to bite me at a most unexpected moment.  Therefore, I wanted to correct my wrongdoing with the Americans before moving to Canada.

The only way to withdraw my bogus refugee claim was to tell the truth to a United States immigration judge. However, all the lawyers I met strongly discouraged me from doing that and advised me to leave the matter as it was. Because, by law, making false refugee claim in the United States is a criminal offense that would result in fine, prison and permanent bar from receiving any future immigration benefit. I was in deep water.

Nevertheless, I had this strange feeling that I had to come clean regardless of the outcome. I couldn’t be at peace with myself if this matter wasn’t resolved after leaving for Canada. Against all odds and hope, I follow my gut feeling. I went on and told the truth to the United States immigration judge who was assigned my case. To my surprise, after confessing the truth to the judge, the entire episode took a very strange path.
(See details in my next post)

My conclusion for this matter is that a forum like Nairaland is a great place to gather useful information in regard to immigration and Visa issues. But, above all, people should not underestimate their gut feeling. Each one of us is a unique individual on the planet, with a very unique destiny, a unique story, a unique chance … what may work out for everyone may never work out for you. Conversely, what may work out for you, may never work out for anyone else. There is only one “you” on the planet.

Just as the say goes, he who follows the crowd will never go further than the crowd. But, he who walks alone may probably end up in a place where no man had ever been before.

To be continued

Vicjustice:

   Honestly, i don't see how this case that you explained can be compared to the one (of the OP) of this thread. First of all, you should realise that you were already in the United States and therefore, entitled to their legal system or Justice-Tempering there. Also, know that you are not the only one to have passed through such situation, there are lots and lots of people who sought asylum in Europe with false nationalities, and yet, got their documents converted to Nigerian citizenship: Trust me, more asylum seekers from Nigeria can testify of more extreme cases than the one you narrated.
   Now, it is very important to know that in many cases, countries like the USA or EU states find complications in getting rid of asylum seekers especially when deportation seems to be a hard task, in such cases, they would rather overlook or pardon all negative odds and grant them the Leave to Remain or Residence Permit; and even if they know that the asylum seekers do not merit the benefit, they can even grant them the Leave to Remain on humanitarian grounds.
   So, my friend, you case is totally different from the case of a visa applicant who is still in Nigeria, you can't use a solicitor to challenge a visa refusal decision, you just have no ground.

TheCongo:

You have already started to criticize me and I haven’t even finished with my thread. 

If you have red carefully what I wrote you should have realized that I was talking about the importance of “gut feeling” when people have to make major decision in life including immigration and visa issues. It is not always about what the experts think or say. A person can try something unheard of, based on their gut feeling, to achieve his/her goal and it works.  And this is irrespective of the person location; Be it Nigeria or abroad.

Poster has an ordeal and came to this forum for help. We are all here to try to help and each person according to his little experience. At the end of the day, it is up to poster to pick what she thinks is best for her. So, am I not a member of the forum to write on this thread? Do I have to live in Nigeria or to be a Nigerian to contribute to this post? Why those constant and unnecessary critics on my posts?

Earlier on, you had slammed me with a critic; I quote what you wrote
“I still don't see how this matter is connected with religion”
Did you really have to criticize me for that? If you had red carefully the poster original message, you should have seen where the religious aspect came about. But, your urge to fish something negative in my post had made you overlooked what OP wrote.

If we were on the same workforce, I would have accused you of bullysm. But, thanks God that we aren’t. A work bully always sees himself as a take-charge guy and his need for control can make him incredibly overbearing.

I am on Nairaland because of the high regard I have for Nigerians. I can narrate on many pages about the positive experiences I had with Jamaicans and Nigerians in North America. From the time I was a new student in the US to the North American workforce. They are great people who would go out their way to help a fellow black man.

Just one of many examples: During a soccer game when I was a new student in the States, some players from the opposite team were trying to fight me. Out of nowhere this black guy, Nigerian, came to my rescue and started to threaten the people who were attacking me.  He was screaming at me “Don’t be afraid of them, they can’t do anything to you; I am an African just like you”.  What an experience I will never forget! I have had similar experience with Jamaicans. Adding to that, I have seen Nigerians hosting No-Nigerians strangers into their home and even providing them with pocket money.

You indicate that Nigerians can testify of more extreme cases than the one I narrated.
Again, I don’t see the point of this remark. Did I mention that my experience was the most extreme case to narrate? Are we into a contest to see which nationality can narrate the most extreme cases of immigration?

I was facing prison, fine and permanent bar from the United States. Is there anything more extreme than that in the West? Maybe this remark was another subtle way of telling me “We are Nigerians and we have seen it all.  You are not a Nigerian, so there is nothing you can tell us.”

Anyway, for the respect of all my Nigerians friends and acquaintances, for the respect of Nairaland, and for the sake of my own sanity, I won’t even attempt to engage into any further unnecessary debate with you.  I am here on Nairaland to laugh, relax and feel home.

Happylife:

Dear all, I quite appreciate all your suggestions and responses from the depth of my heart, I was thinking of something and thought that i should throw it open as usual. My husband and I want to apply for US visa say next year and see how it goes. If we are denied, we would apply for ''waiver of inadmissibility'' on the ground of on false/misrepresentation.
Please does this make any sense to you? I have done some findings on the topic as adviced by someone and i think it's something that is worth considering.
Kindly advice,

ola_boy:

I gbadun everyone that has commented here, life abroad na real jungle. I need to point something out though, Americans were the brain behind our national identity card scheme and not a nigerian project. A major chunk of the fund came from america and also the mobile electronic finger print machines. A the end of the exercise, America requested that Nigerian govt turned over the complete database to them just in solidarity of the fight against terrorism. If you have the Nigerian national ID, consider your details sitting in the machine of all US embassies. A lot of people were denied and served a letter of using deception, and guess what, nobody has been able to understand how the embassy derived this conclusion.
Simple advice, get all your document right, passport, birth cert, school diplomas and all sorts and next time explain to them you paid an agent to fill in your dv application and hence the error was made, but my worry is you have gone ahead to alter other docs (marriage cert and stuffs), it get even more complicated.
Go back to your original details and try other embassies, God's own country is not always america, believe me.

ola_boy:

I gbadun everyone that has commented here, life abroad na real jungle. I need to point something out though, Americans were the brain behind our national identity card scheme and not a nigerian project. A major chunk of the fund came from america and also the mobile electronic finger print machines. A the end of the exercise, America requested that Nigerian govt turned over the complete database to them just in solidarity of the fight against terrorism. If you have the Nigerian national ID, consider your details sitting in the machine of all US embassies. A lot of people were denied and served a letter of using deception, and guess what, nobody has been able to understand how the embassy derived this conclusion.
Simple advice, get all your document right, passport, birth cert, school diplomas and all sorts and next time explain to them you paid an agent to fill in your dv application and hence the error was made, but my worry is you have gone ahead to alter other docs (marriage cert and stuffs), it get even more complicated.
Go back to your original details and try other embassies, God's own country is not always america, believe me.

sensisosu:

@happylive

my sister, i also have the same problem right now and i am getting depressed about it,

i once applied for a tourist visa and was denied because i couldnt convince the consular and since then i have travelled to several countries in europe and i am about getting married to my fiance who is an american citizen, right now i dont know what to do with the discrepancies with the age and name on my new passport which is the correct information,

i am lost here and we have applied for a k1 fiance visa and the petition is in their system, i think i might just go in there and tell them the truth than lieing and if found, it might lead to more complications,