badtlimo:
thanks for your reply ...but if she decide to come as a Canadian will she apply for the visit visa over there in Canada or will it be when she gets here in Nigeria (visa on arrival)

Yes she will apply for the visit visa from the embassy here. I was at the Ottawa embassy last week and i saw several people doinh this.I did gaurantor for a lady there.

Note she can also renew her passport and receive it same day if and only if she has her old passport with her.

Jasmine17:
Let's look for a way to be proactive here. If you are going to send scratch card to them, we should do it in groups of 5 or 10 people and share that courier cost.

1 volunteer can buy for 10pple, write the name and ref appropriately on each card, write up a manifest of the total cards containing the names of the owners, envelope it and send.

The total fee incurred will be shared equally and the tracking ID sent to those concerned.

i am interested @Jasmine in the above suggestion

[quote author=Youdee2016 post=72241374]Pls is there anyone on this thread that is FSW-Inland?[/quote


Yes]

My dear sister am speaking from experience.We have been lucky so far in my family.My younger sister who is 34 lives with d condition. She is married with a child.

We have lived the 34yrs in so much fear.Every hospital visit is a nightmare for US.She asks my mum now and again why did you have me after 4kids.You don't wish for a child to confront you with such!

Weda there is a procedure that checks for the genotype of a foetus exists or not...it's Not worth the gamble. Walk away from it now.EXCEPT you are willing to marry and not bear kids.

It's well with you.

I will suggest you visit the Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development in the State you reside. You will pick up an adoption form there.But what you are filling in will be PRIVATE Adoption as against the usual adoption process.
The requirements are behind the form.You will need serious follow.up to hasten the process. The court seats more often this days for such cases than we had time past.

All the best

OmoBendel24:


Yes, from NY or CA.... And ASCs abound in other states just in case you go for the online route. This topic has been dealt with on this thread before, would really do you loads of good and benefit if you did invest some time to dig it up. Regards

Thanks Omobendel24 for your response. Trust me before doing my application early last year, i did read every page and i must mention here that all what i did and know today that helped me secure my own visa was from reading up from page 1 on this topic and forum. I am sure i need to go back a few more pages to keep abreast of different scenarios!

Summer here we go!

God bless you all.

Jawa:


Dear beekie, i am sorry for the visa refusal. lets look at this objectively. you applied for a visa believing that leaving your child in Nigeria is a significant tie and the visa was approved. now you applied for the very significant tie you had at home to join you on your next trip?
the US and Canada might be closely related but are different. as you mentioned, if a US visa applicant qualifies for a visa, all minor dependents under him/her are qualified for the visa, you only need apply. if a single mother takes her only Child to Canada, she can easily choose not to come back. the onus is always on an applicant to convince a VO. canadian visa applicants need to understand that your letter of explanation is about the most important document to make available. it should be like an interview you never had. explaining to the VO what is what and where in your uploaded documents the evidence to support the fact can be found. it makes the job easy for the VO.
my take? apply for GCMS notes. this document will take about 4-6 weeks to process and it will explicitly tell you why the application was refused. it is only when you know what the issue was that you can address it. please forget whatever was ticked and dont rush to reapply when youre not even sure why it was refused in the first place.

Thanks Jawa for taking your time out to respond.I really appreciate.

You are quiet right I did not put so much into drafting the statement/purpose of trip.Infant when I referred back to it yesterday I could not believe what I submitted. I will just apply for the GCMS notes as advice.

Finally would you or anyone here know if one can apply while visiting the states on vacation? We called yesterday and they said yes frim NY which is closest to where I usually visit. But I am a bit skeptical one may get there now and they will say go and apply from your home country.....

Thanks once again.

Morning gurus in the house. Believe we all had a restful weekend.

I have a situation here and i would appreciate your candid advice from those who have some knowledge or those who has/had someone in the same situation;

I applied for a visitors visa early last year as a single mom of one but i did not apply for my 4year old at that point as i felt leaving him out of the application will show that i had a good reason to come back home (sort of like an home tie). I was granted a 2yr multiple entry and travelled for the period i stated i was going to be away for which was a month.

Fast forward to this year, i applied in march this year (paper route) for my son towards the summer break but got a refusal last week. I actually thought it will be like US where once a parent had their visa its almost 100% chance the children get theirs also. I know Canada can be tough! Reasons for refusal )travel history/purpose of visit and tie in Canada and Nigeria.

Would appreciate if someone advice what to do going forward.

@Mummyf
Yes I do have travel history to US which I honestly thinks helped me a lot as I bombarded them with so many pages of boarding passes in d application.


But from my experience and read up.of over the years it's not still a Gauranty.

Best of Luck

For the record again, i am really skeptical about this online application. I have colleagues here at the office whom we all submitted at the same period and 2 are yet to receive any response till date. The individual who heard from them just recently was refused and they marked Travel History Alone as reason for for the denial. Which gave everyone so much concern as he scanned 20 pages of all sort of Visas and stamps of Europe and US trips and courses(am talking of the double pages which meant 2 pages was counted as 1 page). This was so worrisome and made one wonder if the documents where ever downloaded and viewed at all! The mail said it was processed in ghana. It seems online apps are now being sent anywhere for processing now. Cant recall where i read that. I have read and over read stuffs in my quest. Thank God it inally paid off.

Just my thought!

Hello All
Just to share the good news of my visa approval with the house. I have been reading several forums on the Canadian application for ages and was glad when the '' canada visit/touurist thread started not too long ago.

I submitted my application paper route on the 3rd of March and received the mail for pick up on the 22nd of April here in Abuja. To God be the glory i was given a 2yr multiple entry. This was my 2nd attempt and the 1st was sometime in 2012. Thank you to those that made contributions and responded to my questions in the past.

Thanks so much VO for your speedy response to all of my questions.

This is a case of a mother filling for a daughter. The case was filed in 2008 and we recently heard from the NVC asking for submission of some documents. I am supporting my mum in putting the said documents/requirement together for my younger sister. I would like if you could take time out to respond to the following questions to allow me know the next steps to take;

This is going to be kind of interesting, because it emerges below that your mother cannot file a petition for your sister at this time. Let's go through your questions....

Mum’s due for her naturalization interview any moment from now, I want to know if that has any effect on my sister’s case?

Yes. You state below that your sister is married. That means that your mother cannot file for your sister until AFTER your mother has become a U.S. citizen. There is no visa category for the married children of Legal Permanent Residents.

Is it advisable at this point to add my sister’s husband in the form we are filling as she got married 2years ago? I ask this as we wouldn’t want any delay whatsoever in her case.

If she is married, she must say so on her forms. Otherwise, when we find out she is married, we will conclude that she was lying in order to obtain an immigration benefit, and she will become ineligible to enter the United States under INA 212(a)(6)(C)(i), material misrepresentation. Further, she will have difficulties bringing her husband over later if she somehow gets a visa and it turns out she lied to us at the time of her interview; additionally, she risks deportation or, at the very least, denial of U.S. citizenship.

Given that she is married, there's no delay involved in including her husband in the petition; there are major delays involved in failing to disclose an existing marriage.

In light of the highlighted response above, please be informed that the petition for my sister above was put in when she was young and now she is married,the reason why i asked if we could now include the husband in the forms we are requested to submit. BUT do we envisiage a problem with the petition now that she is married or what, as am not so clear why you mentioned that Mum cannot file for her until she becomes a citizen.

But if this is the case,do we put a halt to submitting the required documents as requested by NVC even though mum is still a PR and yet to naturalize or we just go ahead and see where this takes us. OR is there an adjustment that can be made?

Finally, if mum cant file for her now till she becomes a citizen, will a new petition have to be made entirely?

Thanks much for your time.

Happy new year good people. My 6 weeks daughter is always staring at the ceiling. Should i be bothered or ignore it. She even smiles while staring atimes, it is kinda scary.

Please for now i feel this is very normal. But there is no harm in mentioning your concern in your next hospial visit which i believe you are due for.

Dear VO, compliments of the season and i hope you had a good break.

This is a case of a mother filling for a daughter. The case was filed in 2008 and we recently heard from the NVC asking for submission of some documents. I am supporting my mum in putting the said documents/requirement together for my younger sister. I would like if you could take time out to respond to the following questions to allow me know the next steps to take;
1. Who fills the DS 260 form? The Petitioner or the Beneficiary
2. Since my mum has not engaged in payed employment for sometime now, can my elder brother who mum lives with and a US Citizen be the sponsor or Co sponsor despite the fact he recently submitted his petition for a fiancée visa this same December without causing any delay whatsoever in the entire process?
3. Mum’s due for her naturalization interview any moment from now, I want to know if that has any effect on my sister’s case?
4. Can mum submit property and other proof of income outside USA as part of ‘’Proof of Assets’’ which comes under the checklist of documents to be submitted? Can her Pension and income from us the other kids count as proof and evidence of income?
5. Is it advisable at this point to add my sister’s husband in the form we are filling as she got married 2years ago? I ask this as we wouldn’t want any delay whatsoever in her case.
6. Finally in filling the DS 260 form, the requirements are having a NVC case number, an invoice ID and a Beneficiary ID number
? the first 2 i have and know, please how do i know what the beneficiary ID id cos am thinking we may have that already. If not, when or how do i go about securing one?

Do have a pleasant week ahead of you.

Dear Doctor,

This is wishing you and the rest of the family God's Solace during this period.i do actually share in this grief as i used to know Unkle K.We grew up on the same block in 1004 back in the days. It's so sad and i pray everyone of the family God's guidance and peace during this time.

Safe trip back.

@ant
She doesn't have to be on bed rest and she should get cervical length u/s every two weeks

Dear Dr Kathy,

Been reading past posts to see anything,i mean anything at all similar to what happened to my preg of 20wks.and i did find one which was 22wks with sudden burst of the membrane and all.above is a response u gave in one of your replies.Cervical lenght u/s?does that u/s mean ultra sound?

To be honest with you,i know i should dwelling more on the solution rather than the problem. But how do i know the solution when i dont seem to know the problem? I saw another Dr yesterday in another clinic and he said he would not conclude on saying i had a weakness of the Cervix because of how the miccarriage occured. He said a miscarriage would be more sudden with the condition rather than the process of going into labour that happened in my case.But that if i felt okay with the Cerclage all well and good which of course i will certainly go for to be on the safe side. And again he's running all sorts of tests to eliminate infections,High Bp and the rest.

My fear again is this issue of infections after the cerclage has been put into place.Is there anything that can be done or given to avoid such infections?it used to be fear of Labour,now have seen that.i think anyone can bear it if one looks at the outcome but now it's fear of getting preg and a reoccurence!

Thanks so much4 ur much anticipated response and time!

Thanks a lot for your response. i guess i will just have to get the idea of having a cerclage into my head!Remain blessed.

Hi Dr,

I would really love your opinion on this even though yours will be the 4th. I had a miscarriage on the 8th of this month and that same day was the day i was 20wks i.e 5mnths. The whole thing started first with severe pains in my lower abdomen and a sleepless night which when i went to the clinic, a scan was carried out and i was told baby was ok and all. Then another night of cramps and then i started spotting.By morning i was in labour and nothing could be done to stop the baby coming.

The Dr concluded it was a weak cervix, by the time i went to my own Dr some days later as i was not in town, he concluded on the same thing and that an earlier Dc i had was the cause of that, The 3rd Dr says that a weak cervix will not carry a preg up to 5mnths!

Well, to be honest, am so scraed of taking in again. Been told that a procedure called 'Cervical Cerclage' will be carried out next time once am 12wks-13wks. My worry and question now is that, what do u think might have been the cause? Could one DC have caused this and what are the chances of carrying a baby to full term with the procedure being recommended?

Thanks as i await your response,

Amala and vegetable soup.And we were only allowed to go out and play if you finish it.It felt like a punishment.i was eating it just becos i needed to go out and play.
i do eat it now BUT definitely NOT with vegetable soup!

abacha simply means African Salad.

Received a text message for the Aso interview which will hold at their head Qtrs here in Abuja on Saturday the 3rd.

very true, they called for medicals on the 7th of this month. i dont really understand what they are doing myself but i know some pple that were called wrote their test on the 8th of march in KAduna.So a mix of their corpers, The Oct pple and also the march pple were called for this medicals. so kip ur fingers crossed and kip praying.

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Please elaborate more on what you mean.Does it have anything to do with Web data entry?

i don't really have an answer to ur question but am aware a batch started training on Monday in Lagos.

Yes it's true, but am not sure if it's this Saturday as i heard 10th in Abuja.
Will update u once i get to know the date.just keep a look out for the day here on Nairaland,

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hiya,
i would really advise you to go for Starcomms.this is my second month with them as i just renewed my subscription here in Abuja yesterday.i tell u ,all thru the month i barely had any problem with the site.and we also had light 2/4/7 last month,so i know what am saying,my neighbour have the multi- links connection and it are'nt nothing to write home about.
Go for Starcomms!,

For you Giddy and others that have been waiting, Oceanic started sending mails on friday the 7th of this month to those that passed so kip your fingers crossed.