Congratulations bro. Thanks for the encouragement and comic relief.

Trey195:
Visa Approved 1st of November
Lagos
Masters in IT
COA: 31,120 (No funding)
Undergraduate degree: Environmental Sciences
Current job role: E-commerce/Operations Analyst
First attempt
VO was a white male in his late 50s
Here's how it went:

VO: Hi! How are you?
Me: Good afternoon sir. I'm fine thank you.
VO: Pass me your passport and i-20 please
Me: Here they are.
VO: Why are you here?
Me: (I come count beans ni )
I'm here for my F1 student visa interview.
VO: Yes for what purpose
Me: To travel to the US and pursue my masters degree in information technology with a concentration in management and analytics at Valparaiso University, Indiana.
VO: Keeps typing for about 30 seconds.
At this point I felt I needed to prove my case more as the silence wan begin dey too long and no further questions were forthcoming.
Me: I currently work as an e-commerce/operations analyst with the foremost fintech company in Nigeria and the whole of Africa (oshe!). My duties include managing the online sales process to achieve company sales objectives; developing sales strategies and determining sales forecast and projections; and organizing data and generating deep customer insights in order to enhance sales force productivity and profitability.
VO: (nods his head like agama )
So what will you do with this degree
Me: (wa sherey omo iya mi)
Upon completion of my program, I will return to my current place of work to take up a senior managerial role. That's in the short term. In the long run, I plan on setting up my own IT consulting firm where I will partner with the Lagos State government (correct ) to organise empowerment programs targeted at the most vulnerable of our society - young children and women.
VO: (keeps nodding head)
So you will be coming back to your current work place?
Me: Yes sir!
VO: So you have been working in IT for some time?
Me: Yes sir. About 5 years.
VO: Have you travelled out before?
Me: Yes sir. I went to Ghana in 2018 for a vacation.
VO: Who's your sponsor?
Me: My father is sponsoring me.
VO: What does he do?
Me: He's a general manager with a top insurance brokerage company here in Nigeria, and he's also a real estate developer who develops, sells and rents out landed properties.
VO: Wait let me get your story straight. You said he's an insurance general manager and now he's a real estate developer?
Me: He's does both sir. He's main occupation is the general manager at an insurance brokerage company, while he does real estate development on the side.
VO: You have any siblings?
Me: Yes, two. One is a medical doctor and the other is a recent graduate of mechanical engineering.
VO: Alright! Everything looks good here. I will be granting your visa. You can pick up your passport...blah blah (Omo I legit went deaf here)
Me: Thank you sir and have a great day!

I give baba God all the glory. What he cannot do doesn't exist o! My people pray, pray, pray!!!
Nairaland has really been a blessing and instrumental in this success story as well, so it was only right I come and give account.
Quick tip: Endeavour to fill your DS160 yourself and you must be able to correlate & defend what you filled on it.
God bless everyone and I wish all visa hopefuls success.

Does 72hrs include weekends?

Ymuna:

You can refill the ds160 form, anything 72hrs to your interview don't touch the form.

What if I have already filled 'Self'

Femotech123:


Yes you will put the address of the school

You will put your sponsor name there the person you wonna use his/her SOA

How & Why pls? Will appreciate the insight.

Pamelayoung:


Personal fund is a red flag .

I'm interested in this pls.

Esekells:
We can open our own group for appointment dates in Abuja. Interested?

Congratulations. This is like a ray of hope.

kennethjunior:
Visa Approved
2nd November 2021
No funding
$31k
Lagos second attempt

First attempt
Abuja Nigeria
August 2021
VO: Have you traveled out before
Me: No I haven’t
VO: Your first time right yeah?
Me: Sure
VO: Who’s going to sponsor you?
Me: My uncle
VO: So what does your uncle do
Me: he’s a real estate developer and a car dealer
Vo: A car dealer. That’s nice
vo: where do you work?
Me: Told Him
VO: what’s your job role
Me: Quality assurance engineer
Vo: whats your highest degree qualification
Me: I have B.eng in Mechanical engineering
Vo: types for a very long time sorry at this time you don’t qualify try again
Me: ok thank you very much.

Second attempt
Vo: Please pass me your passport and I-20
Me: ok. Good morning. He didn’t respond
Vo: where are you going to?
Me: I’m going to the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Northwest Arkansas
Vo: what are you going to do there?
Me. I’m going there to attain a masters degree in the university. Then he said why? I was confused then I just said. Well the program is going to give me an advancement in my career. I will have the opportunity to specialize in industrial engineering in fact this course will equip me with practical skills needed in engineering management.
Vo: who is going to sponsor you?
Me: My uncle will be funding it. He also sponsored my undergraduate program.
Vo: what does he do?
Me. He’s a real estate developer and a property developer here in Lagos Abuja and Benin
Vo: what do you do?
Me: I’m a quality assurance engineer. I execute manual and automated quality checks on solar systems, I also carry out routine operational checks on solar system after installation.
Vo: ok. Take your I-20 put it where you can have access to it when traveling. Have a nice time in America.

Never give up keep trying. Practice very well and don’t cram. Above all pray very hard. God will come through.

Sorry for that. Some of us will improve.

NigPatriot:
Some people come here just to seek information, as soon as they get their visa. They disappear into thin air. For Some, even the least thing you can do which is to post your transcript, you still don't.

Thats why I've even stopped replying DMs on here.

Lets all be doing the "me, myself and I" lifestyle and see how far it leads us then.

It doesn't, go ahead and apply.

Shanid:
Hello EVERYONE, PLEASE I DONT UNDERSTAND SOMETHING, DOES THE 60 DAYS RULE TO APPLY FOR AN EMERGENCY APPOINTMENT START FROM THE EARLY DATE OR CLASSES START DATE??

Hello Samuel, do you mind if I have a one on one with you. I'm preparing for my interview and would be grateful to have your input.

samuel321:


Fall 2022 resumes around August, 2022 and I doubt you’ll even be attended to at the embassy because the 120days rules will only begin to count starting from April.

You could have just deferred you admission to spring 2022 which resumes on January 2022 and will request for an EA 60days to your school start date. Even without requesting for the EA, dates will come up for you to reschedule, dates in Nov/Dec has been popping up once in a while since last month.

So even if your school sends you the fall 2022 I-20 today, you still won’t meet the 120days rule since fall semester resumes on August. It means you will have to reschedule to April upwards

Can you explain why pls?

walepepe21:


No mentioning the name of your sponsor on your i-20 is what many even prayed for, so you are SAFE as it doesn’t portend any danger at all.