EA approved today.
Location : Abuja
Date applied for EA : 17/12/21

ifedayosol:
EA approved today.
Location : Abuja
Date applied for EA : 17/12/21

Congrats. Please how did you apply for Emergency appointment in Abuja , is it through email or on the website?

[quote author=aburo7 post=108667802] For me, I applied for my EA through the website and it was approved. I uploaded my I-20 admission letter and international passport. There's a particular portion you'll be asked to fill. You can state reasons such as covid19 two weeks isolation, school registration and orientation program, and the need to make sufficient arrangements in your present organisation and the date of resumption(this is stated on your I20). If you have funding, you can also upload your funding letter and state in that comment section that you need to resume earlier based on the date on your funding letter

Gracias

When did you request emergency request from them and when did they respond?

Have you applied in Lagos before?

Trevon91:
Please who has successfully booked a visa date and has been denied before , school resumes Jan 7th... Please guys help me out, my emergency request got denied in Abuja

What reasons did you give for the emergency request? Have you applied in Lagos before then?

ifedayosol:
EA approved today.
Location : Abuja
Date applied for EA : 17/12/21

Please when did you apply for the interview? Was it emergency appointment?

KayKayShanana:
Attempt: first attempt
Interview date:20th Dec
Office: Lagos Visa Office
COA:30k USD
Funding:No funding
Time scheduled for interview: 7am
Time Visa was granted :8:35am
Status: Visa Approved

See transcript below:
VO: Why are you going to Austin Peay?
Me: I am going to Austin Peay for my masters in computer science and quantitative methods, i will be focusing on data mgt & data analysis.
VO: what did you study in your first degree?
Me: Geography Science
VO:What do you do right now
Me: I work with **** & i am TM & data analyst with the team.
VO: What are the schools you applied for?
Me: East Tennessee State Uni, University of Alabama & Austin Peay State University
How many of them offered you admission
Me: I got admission from all the 3 universities (na bobo, I applied for Austin Peay only, I did for Alabama passively and it is till fall next year)
VO: why Austin Peay?
Me: Austin Peay has a robust course plan for data mgt and analysis hence my interest in choosing the institution
VO: who is paying this huge fund?
Me: My Dad
VO: What does he do?
Me: he is into Logistics, he has 2 subsidiaries, an arm is into clearing and forwarding of containers from the Sea port at Apapa (then he cut me)
VO: how many staff does he have
Me: about 150
VO: Can you be more specific ?
Me: He has 148 staffs
VO: how much does he make per annum?
VO: How long has he been into the business
Me: up to 35 years
Me: As much as 70million
VO: and you expect him to spend over 30k dollars on you per annum?
VO: what about your other siblings
Me: I have 4 of them and they are all graduates
VO: has he spent on anyone to study abroad before
Me: No
VO: so why do you think he will do this for you
Me:because I am his only son and he will go the extra mile for academics
VO: not convinced yet
VO: have you travelled before?
Me: I have not had any reason to travel.
VO: so your dad has not sponsored you on any international trip before and you expect him to spend this huge funds on you for studies
Me: I have not requested him to do this for me but i am sure he will do it if i make a requests of such.
VO: what does your mom?
Me: she is into construction
VO: be more specific
Me: she is a civil engineer, she handles construction projects end to end.
What are post study plans: I intend to return to Nigeria to join ****company as a full time facilitator bla bla (VO cuts me short)
VO:How long have you been at your current company?
Me: i have been there for close to 3 years.
VO: When did you finish your first degree?
Me: 2014, and i started working in 2015.
VO: i will be approving your Visa, congratulations.

Thank you to everyone on this platform, i have read literally all the pages on this thread and i have learnt a great deal. I am a quite participant but then i follow up on the page daily till this moment.
I wish all applicants all the best in this journey, i can assure you all of something, once you are prayerful and confident you will get your visa approved. Either it is in Lagos or Abuja, you will surely get it approved.

OlawumiCecilia:


Yes pls if you may help

Kindly send a DM. Lemme see if I can help out.

On my CGIFEDERAL Portal

aburo7:


Congrats. Please how did you apply for Emergency appointment in Abuja , is it through email or on the website?

I applied in Lagos, it was denied. I changed to Abuja and was approved. I stated that I need to resume Bleep date and I need to be thr early so as not to loose my admission. I uploaded sevis fee receipt, MRV receipt, i-20, int'l passport and ds-160 barcode page.

SonugaMike:
What reasons did you give for the emergency request? Have you applied in Lagos before then?

ifedayosol:
I applied in Lagos, it was denied. I changed to Abuja and was approved. I stated that I need to resume Bleep date and I need to be thr early so as not to loose my admission. I uploaded sevis fee receipt, MRV receipt, i-20, int'l passport and ds-160 barcode page.

Please when did you apply to Lagos and when did they respond/deny?

Does it mean I can change my expedited appointment to Abuja?

I have applied to Lagos since 2 Sundays ago and I haven’t heard from them since then. I don’t know how possible it is to switch to Abuja and get approval?

Could you advise or send me a direct contact please?

Please can you respond to this ?

Did you pay for a new visa fee?

ifedayosol:
On my CGIFEDERAL Portal

Please how did you switch to Abuja ?

Did did you pay for a new MRV fee?

I am applied to Lagos two weeks ago and no response, how do I switch to Abuja ?

Did you pay another interview fee?

Hope they won’t refuse if they see I have already applied in Lagos?

ifedayosol:
On my CGIFEDERAL Portal

SonugaMike:
When did you request emergency request from them and when did they respond?

Have you applied in Lagos before?

I requested on Friday, I got denied today. My interview that was denied was a Lagos interview

Has anyone gotten an emergency date in Abuja recently?

ifedayosol:
I applied in Lagos, it was denied. I changed to Abuja and was approved. I stated that I need to resume Bleep date and I need to be thr early so as not to loose my admission. I uploaded sevis fee receipt, MRV receipt, i-20, int'l passport and ds-160 barcode page.

Congrats. Have you been denied visa before ?

Temidayodolapo:
Has anyone gotten an emergency date in Abuja recently?

My emergency request got denied today. Location is Abuja.

But someone above was approved today in same Abuja

I really don’t know why they are denying me

This is the second time now

Trevon91:
Please who has successfully booked a visa date and has been denied before , school resumes Jan 7th... Please guys help me out, my emergency request got denied in Abuja

I was also denied emergency appointment request at Abuja today

And I have a visa denial in Lagos on May 4th

It seems once you have been denied visa before, you can’t get emergency appointment date again

If I may ask, have you been denied visa before? If yes, which month ?

Trevon91:


I requested on Friday, I got denied today. My interview that was denied was a Lagos interview

You requested for Lagos emergency appointment on Friday and got denied today? So, Lagos is more or less responding now? A lot of peeps are still expecting feedbacks.

Temidayodolapo:
Has anyone gotten an emergency date in Abuja recently?

Check the first post on this page.

Trevon91:


I requested on Friday, I got denied today. My interview that was denied was a Lagos interview

You mean you applied for emergency interview in Lagos just last Friday and you got a response from them today!

A lot of us have applied since over 2 weeks ago and haven’t gotten any response from them

Badguy001:


You requested for Lagos emergency appointment on Friday and got denied today? So, Lagos is more or less responding now? A lot of peeps are still expecting feedbacks.

Hope our previous applications haven’t entered voicemail bayi

ifedayosol:
EA approved today.
Location : Abuja
Date applied for EA : 17/12/21

Have you been denied a visa before ?

Temidayodolapo:
Has anyone gotten an emergency date in Abuja recently?

Yes, some got approval today while some got denied today

MelaninGemstone:
I was also denied emergency appointment request at Abuja today

And I have a visa denial in Lagos on May 4th

It seems once you have been denied visa before, you can’t get emergency appointment date again

If I may ask, have you been denied visa before? If yes, which month ?

Yes I was denied Nov 30th

SonugaMike:
Please when did you apply for the interview? Was it emergency appointment?

Since November 2nd, it was emergency appointment.

Helkayklassic:
As he said earlier, it depends on what will be written on your I-20. Some schools will put the full government name of the bearer of the SOA you send to them on the I-20 while some will juts put the relationship between the sponsor and you.

Find out which of these the school you are planning to send the SOA to always do. If they do write the name on the SOA on I-20, then you have to send them the SOA you’ll be taking to the embassy.

Best wishes.

Thank you. I appreciate

KayKayShanana:

Since November 2nd, it was emergency appointment.

Congrats!

Is it normal Expedited Appointment (on the portal) or the Surge approach where you had to email documents to Lagos Consular?

SonugaMike:


Hope our previous applications haven’t entered voicemail bayi

Ah! Ah!! Ah!!! Lmao! I tire o!