TenaciousOrphan:

Your probability of getting a visa since you are going with your family is 3/10. But with a phd is 8/10. Moreover, it's not easy to work and pay school fees here in the usa. But many people think you are discouraging them. Getting a scholarship with funding is the best.
But try it first, you may be fortunate.

Please I will like to be added to an Abuja f1 visa group

Can any Good Samaritan out here please add me to F2 Abuja date search group or share link please.

Also has anyone for any reason at all gotten approved for F2 expedited appointments? How did you approach it please help

Its because of the course he chose that made you say this,he said hes a licensed auto dealer ,if its a course that align with his line of business,he will stand a better chance,My own opinion though..

OyoTunjiUSA:



Hey 🤠

1. Yes, generally it does not sound well for a student to sponsor him/herself. The notion is that a student is not working and must collect school fees and feedings from someone...* But that notion is from creche to Secondary school levels. However, the beliefs still follows all levels of studentship.

2. If you are from age 35 and above, you can actually sponsor yourself as a CEO of a running and reputable Building Construction / Civil Engineering company in Nigeria . You are married with kids and your company is expanding beyond your expectations and you needed modern /advanced technology skills to keep up with the pace.

3. Don't tell the story of that car dealership to the USA consular .


Best Wishes 🙏

For someone who chose the premium DHL delivery service. At what point is the 20,000 naira listed on the appointment confirmation document paid after visa issuance. Is it inside the embassy or at DHL pick up point?

highchiefpee:
Its because of the course he chose that made you say this,he said hes a licensed auto dealer ,if its a course that align with his line of business,he will stand a better chance,My own opinion though..

Hey 🤠

1. Yes you got it. If he had applied for Mechanical Engineering, MBA, Marketing & Supply Chain etc, then his present occupation / career would have tallied .

2..The OP has the final decision anyways . Thanks for your observation.


Best Wishes 🙏

It is okay and normal to say "I don't know the answer to your question." No one expects you to always have answers to their questions.

This is way, I mean, way way out of point.

OyoTunjiUSA:



Hey 🤠

1. You are not the real person in this situation , and if you are the person, then you don't understand the kind of visa you got .

2. USA J2 visa is a dependent of J1 visa holder and J1/J2 visa holders must return to their country of origin after the J1 (main applicant) program. Not only that, you must stay in your country of origin for straight 2 years without traveling abroad ( J1 visa holder and USA govt agreement) or applying for USA visa that can springboard you for PR.

3. Although, you can apply for the waiver of the compulsory 2 years - stay at home policy but you can only do that while in the USA or apply for extension of J2 visa if you can prove awaiting danger at home etc .

4. You are already illegal in the USA and i doubt if the USA embassy will take you serious again because you have only 30 days to stay behind after your J2 visa expiration.

5. Your question here is like trying to renew J2 visa in Nigeria via drop box while you are still in the USA . Pick your Nigerian P and come home , you don't need any visa for that. The main J1 visa holder can't even renew the J1 visa from Nigeria not to talk of J2. You are late my friend .


Best Wishes 🙏

oluezekiel:
It is okay and normal to say "I don't know the answer to your question." No one expects you to always have answers to their questions.

This is way, I mean, way way out of point.

Hey 🤠


@oluezekiel


1. Why don you guys leave me alone ? Where were you when the OP asked the question and have you given your own correct version of the answer ?

2. The clause that says a J1 visa holder should go and use 2 years straight In his or her country of origin after the program is way way out of point ?

3. You are actually a retrogresive adviser who does not follow the rules of anything as it shows in your comment below . In terms of USA visas , from F1 to other types , I will lecture most of you like a primary school pupils .

4. Are you guys not ashame? Upon your seniority and superman and super woman claims on Nairaland , you guys keep failing every year.

5. I asked one of your gangs to come and say yes or no to my question but he disappeared, I did not see him again. Focus on how we are going to achieve at least 60% visa success transcripts on Nairaland . Stop focusing on me . If i write 1+1 equals 10. Leave me alone , write your own 1+1 equals 2. The general public are not fools. They will follow the right answer .


Best Wishes 🙏

DO NOT EVER QUOTE ME IN YOUR LIFE AGAIN with your ignorant advice. It seems like you sleep on this thread because it's super late for a busy person in Nigeria to be replying thread on Nairaland. Get busy with your life!

I completed my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering without a prior Master's degree as other thousands of students have done before me and many other thousands are presently doing the same.

@justwise, it is high time you took a step to address this person's situation.

OyoTunjiUSA:



Hey 🤠


@oluezekiel


1. Why don you guys leave me alone ? Where were you when the OP asked the question and have you given your own correct version of the answer ?

2. The clause that says a J1 visa holder should go and use 2 years straight In his or her country of origin after the program is way way out of point ?

3. You are actually a retrogresive adviser who does not follow the rules of anything as it shows in your comment below . In terms of USA visas , from F1 to other types , I will lecture most of you like a primary school pupils .

4. Are you guys not ashame? Upon your seniority and superman and super woman claims on Nairaland , you guys keep failing every year.

5. I asked one of your gangs to come and say yes or no to my question but he disappeared, I did not see him again. Focus on how we are going to achieve at least 60% visa success transcripts on Nairaland . Stop focusing on me . If i write 1+1 equals 10. Leave me alone , write your own 1+1 equals 2. The general public are not fools. They will follow the right answer .


Best Wishes 🙏

oluezekiel:
DO NOT EVER QUOTE ME IN YOUR LIFE AGAIN with your ignorant advice. It seems like you sleep on this thread because it's super late for a busy person in Nigeria to be replying thread on Nairaland. Get busy with your life!

I completed my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering without a prior Master's degree as other thousands of students have done before me and many other thousands are presently doing the same.

@justwise, it is high time you took a step to address this person's situation.

Hey 🤠


@oluezekiel


1. Who the hell are you ? If you see me physically you dare not even say hi to me . Its not superlate for you to comb out old story that does not even concern you ?

2. You are not a PhD holder and if you are you are just keeping a ceremonial certificate because the omission of the Msc has actually cut out the maturity or adulthood part out of your educational life .

3. All my businesses life is online 24/7. I am replying more than 20 email correspondence as i am typing both home and abroad likewise skyping and online studies . I don't juggle browsing or Internet data's like most of you kids.

4. Your bigmanism and fake profiles should be kept in your room and Nairaland is mare 5% of my online activities out of 100.

5. If you jumped the fence by missing Msc out of your educational life as a result of lack of financial ability that is your life. Don't teach younger generation how to jump fence or cut corners.



Best Wishes 🙏

mcvities:
For someone who chose the premium DHL delivery service. At what point is the 20,000 naira listed on the appointment confirmation document paid after visa issuance. Is it inside the embassy or at DHL pick up point?

Please, can I get an answer and proper guidance to this question.

What a pity man... lol. You need help, seriously.
Now I understand why some called you a madman earlier.


Potential and current applicants should please read this thread and old threads to learn the process. It's very simple and straightforward. You'd have yourself to blame if you let ignorant, dubious and dumb fellows lead you astray. Everything you need to succeed in your application and interview has already been answered in the past.
READ, DON'T BE LAZY!

OyoTunjiUSA:



Hey 🤠


@oluezekiel


1. Who the hell are you ? If you see me physically you dare not even say hi to me . Its not superlate for you to comb out old story that does not even concern you ?

2. You are not a PhD holder and if you are you are just keeping a ceremonial certificate because the omission of the Msc has actually cut out the maturity or adulthood part out of your educational life .

3. All my businesses life is online 24/7. I am replying more than 20 email correspondence as i am typing both home and abroad likewise skyping and online studies . I don't juggle browsing or Internet data's like most of you kids.

4. Your bigmanism and fake profiles should be kept in your room and Nairaland is mare 5% of my online activities out of 100.

5. If you jumped the fence by missing Msc out of your educational life as a result of lack of financial ability that is your life. Don't teach younger generation how to jump fence or cut corners.



Best Wishes 🙏

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Bro, as per your 5th point here, I needed to let you know that you’re the one that disappeared not me and I’m not a gang member please 🙏

Please see my response posted again for your attention.

The point I was trying to make here is that “one should know when to pass because it’s okay not to know”




Bro, I’m not perfect and you know this, please don’t go that route. I was just making an harmless clarification and that’s why I didn’t go deeper into other issues raised. I’ve seen that similar point of “2years home stay straight” in your remarks and thought to clarify at the second prompt.

To your second question, the answer is NO, this is not manouvering or impatient, it’s just the standard and that’s why I pointed out the clause of filing for a PR.

As per the third question, it’s a NO again. There’re exceptions and you may not have to return home if you can prove that you don’t feel safe returning. Plus host institution can make a case for you if they really “need” you.

Fourth point? You’re right, securing waiver can be tedious especially from countries whose governments don’t contribute any financial support toward the program, naija sits on this table comfortably in most of the exchange programs.

Lastly to your 5th question. I’m the source, I’ve held both J &F in the past. Not only that, I belong to a network of the largest J visa sponsor in the US and have friends across borders with similar or different J visa hurdles, so experiences and precedence plenty to draw from.

Again, I appreciate your efforts toward attending to folks businesses here, but there’s wisdom in knowing when to “pass” when situations call for such.

Best wishes🙏

OyoTunjiUSA:



Hey 🤠


@oluezekiel


1. Why don you guys leave me alone ? Where were you when the OP asked the question and have you given your own correct version of the answer ?

2. The clause that says a J1 visa holder should go and use 2 years straight In his or her country of origin after the program is way way out of point ?

3. You are actually a retrogresive adviser who does not follow the rules of anything as it shows in your comment below . In terms of USA visas , from F1 to other types , I will lecture most of you like a primary school pupils .

4. Are you guys not ashame? Upon your seniority and superman and super woman claims on Nairaland , you guys keep failing every year.

5. I asked one of your gangs to come and say yes or no to my question but he disappeared, I did not see him again. Focus on how we are going to achieve at least 60% visa success transcripts on Nairaland . Stop focusing on me . If i write 1+1 equals 10. Leave me alone , write your own 1+1 equals 2. The general public are not fools. They will follow the right answer .


Best Wishes 🙏

EmmyPers:
Bro, as per your 5th point here, I needed to let you know that you’re the one that disappeared not me and I’m not a gang member please 🙏

Please see my response posted again for your attention.

The point I was trying to make here is that “one should know when to pass because it’s okay not to know”




Bro, I’m not perfect and you know this, please don’t go that route. I was just making an harmless clarification and that’s why I didn’t go deeper into other issues raised. I’ve seen that similar point of “2years home stay straight” in your remarks and thought to clarify at the second prompt.

To your second question, the answer is NO, this is not manouvering or impatient, it’s just the standard and that’s why I pointed out the clause of filing for a PR.

As per the third question, it’s a NO again. There’re exceptions and you may not have to return home if you can prove that you don’t feel safe returning. Plus host institution can make a case for you if they really “need” you.

Fourth point? You’re right, securing waiver can be tedious especially from countries whose governments don’t contribute any financial support toward the program, naija sits on this table comfortably in most of the exchange programs.

Lastly to your 5th question. I’m the source, I’ve held both J &F in the past. Not only that, I belong to a network of the largest J visa sponsor in the US and have friends across borders with similar or different J visa hurdles, so experiences and precedence plenty to draw from.

Again, I appreciate your efforts toward attending to folks businesses here, but there’s wisdom in knowing when to “pass” when situations call for such.

Best wishes🙏

Hey 🤠


@EmmyPers.

1. You are reasonable in your counter response and i accept some of your points . No one knows all. We are all will continue learning until death except if that individual is comparing him/herself with God (who knows all).

2. I am awfully sorry to have mixed you up with the cabals. Your points make senses.


Best Wishes 🙏

Hi All
Please I need your advice
I got Visa denied for a master's degree in Public administration at Albany State University in Georgia using my aunt as sole sponsor also in Georgia.

Now I got a partial funding scholarship for a master's degree in Economics with a13k out of 58k total cost ( Tuition 30k, Cost of living and expenses 28k) at University of South Carolina.

I am planning to use m power loan of 45k to cover the deficit.

What do you guys advise?

Hello guys
I was supposed to resume my Graduate teaching assistant position in August 2023, in the US but due to visa delays, I deferred my admission to Fall, 2024.
Now my visa is approved and my program coordinator says the GTA position is no longer available.
Can anyone please advise me on how to get grants to my PhD study.

Please add me on 07032682838 [quote author=olumidebanjo post=129489409][/quote]

1stepatatime:
Can any Good Samaritan out here please add me to F2 Abuja date search group or share link please.

Also has anyone for any reason at all gotten approved for F2 expedited appointments? How did you approach it please help

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Everbest30:
Hi All
Please I need your advice
I got Visa denied for a master's degree in Public administration at Albany State University in Georgia using my aunt as sole sponsor also in Georgia.

Now I got a partial funding scholarship for a master's degree in Economics with a13k out of 58k total cost ( Tuition 30k, Cost of living and expenses 28k) at University of South Carolina.

I am planning to use m power loan of 45k to cover the deficit.

What do you guys advise?

Hey 🤠

1. USA visa Denial under section 214b will not tell you the specific reasons for denial because the embassy does not want to put herself into legal tussle , hence they leave you to reasonings.

2. Therefore , your next plans above is just a psychological reasonings . If you tell the general public your last interview transcripts then you can receive the best opinions from the experienced Nairalanders .

3. Dont use the EMPOWER loan. Student loans in the USA for international students are the worst for student visa issuance because you have to pay back that loan in a timeframe of about triple the years of your education.

4. Therefore , the USA consular will assume that you will stay behind to work after your study in order to offset your debt or abscond the USA leaving debts behind.


Best Wishes 🙏

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rsogbuyi:
I’ve created the group.
You can quote this message with your number or send it as a mail. I’ll add you ASAP. I don’t want to drop the link here cos of possible spammers

Please add me 08066907910. Thanks

Sorry for interrupting your exchange, but it's not wrong to tell someone they do not need a Master's degree to get into a PhD, if the person was referring to the USA. For folks familiar with the American graduate education that's quite common. It's one of the signatures of the American graduate school. It's the reason PhDs in the US take much longer on average. Students take graduate-level courses in the first two years, take a qualifying exam, and ramp up the intensity of their research afterward. Many, if not all graduate schools award students a Master's certificate along the way too. Does having a Master's degree give students from outside the USA an advantage? In general, it does. On average students with a Master's degree already have some research experience, and some may already have at least one peer-reviewed paper(important contribution). So if a professor needs a student with some graduate-level research, and wants them to get on a project very early on, a student with a master's would be a better bet. This is not to say some BSc students cannot demonstrate a high research capacity. Some of them get exposed to high-level research early on.

Again it's quite correct to tell someone they do not need a Master's to get into an American PhD program. Where it's very likely necessary is for a European PhD program. That's the standard there.

OyoTunjiUSA:



Hey 🤠


@oluezekiel


1. Who the hell are you ? If you see me physically you dare not even say hi to me . Its not superlate for you to comb out old story that does not even concern you ?

2. You are not a PhD holder and if you are you are just keeping a ceremonial certificate because the omission of the Msc has actually cut out the maturity or adulthood part out of your educational life .

3. All my businesses life is online 24/7. I am replying more than 20 email correspondence as i am typing both home and abroad likewise skyping and online studies . I don't juggle browsing or Internet data's like most of you kids.

4. Your bigmanism and fake profiles should be kept in your room and Nairaland is mare 5% of my online activities out of 100.

5. If you jumped the fence by missing Msc out of your educational life as a result of lack of financial ability that is your life. Don't teach younger generation how to jump fence or cut corners.



Best Wishes 🙏

benji93:
Sorry for interrupting your exchange, but it's not wrong to tell someone they do not need a Master's degree to get into a PhD, if the person was referring to the USA. For folks familiar with the American graduate education that's quite common. It's one of the signatures of the American graduate school. It's the reason PhDs in the US take much longer on average. Students take graduate-level courses in the first two years, take a qualifying exam, and ramp up the intensity of their research afterward. Many, if not all graduate schools award students a Master's certificate along the way too. Does having a Master's degree give students from outside the USA an advantage? In general, it does. On average students with a Master's degree already have some research experience, and some may already have at least one peer-reviewed paper(important contribution). So if a professor needs a student with some graduate-level research, and wants them to get on a project very early on, a student with a master's would be a better bet. This is not to say some BSc students cannot demonstrate a high research capacity. Some of them get exposed to high-level research early on.

Again it's quite correct to tell someone they do not need a Master's to get into an American PhD program. Where it's very likely necessary is for a European PhD program. That's the standard there.

Hey 🤠

@benji93.

1. I know more than everything you have stated up there and personally i have processed more than 25 successful PhD admissions (USA and Canada) in the span of my career/ activities as an admission and visa counselor.

2. I read that lot of the year 2024 UTME candidates failed to meet up with the required 200 cut off points. Same goes to WAEC and NECO poor performances.

3. Although, there are many playful students and the emergence of social media's affected and still affecting the teenagers , but the background cause is the idea of some schools that usually waived the primary 5-6 classes for pupils (on the grounds that they are outstanding students) and make them write the Common Entrance examination straight into Junior Secondary Schools.

4. On getting to JSS classes, some parents and teachers would bring up the (Jumping fence / Fast-Tracking ) ideas again that , look this students are outstanding, let them write GCE from SSS1/2 and also write UTME straight away. Thereby, omitting SSS3 and straight to the Universities when their mates are still writing WAEC.

5. The above narrative is my personal experiences and observations. The idea to use an opportunity of waiver is good but few Nigerians usually will over use the opportunity to the state of counter-productives .

6. Waiving Msc to apply for direct PhD is good for matured applicants , waiving primary 5 and 6 classes is good for disabled kids who are outstanding, waiving sss2 and 3 applies to same set of outstanding, disabled and not-well- to do background students .

7. Supporting jumping or cutting corners has turned 55% of Nigerian youths into Fast-Paced Personalities. They want millions while still in Secondary Schools. They want to buy Bugatti Veyron (car) while still in the University . It gives the idea of Impatient Generation .

8. Thank you for your input. I knew what he wrote was true but i won't support the notion .


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Good morning
Please can I be added to Abuja F1 WhatsApp group for upcoming dates

Here’s my number

08117007686

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Hello guys, I am looking for a training cert school in the US, preferable in texas/Georgia , that I can study for 8MONTH-1yr course IT course in the USA.
I know visitors are not allowed to stay longer to take up a course. I decided to look for a school, if anyone got an idea.

And if getting a study visa would be easier lol, after visiting d usa few times already.

Thanks and God bless you all.

Hello guys... Please can one go with a dependent for masters or MBA program to the US?

Hello Everyone, please is there a specification to passport photo (i.e background color, size ) as required by the embassy?

Yes you can.... I think that is another visa category, but YES.

Imustreturn:
Hello guys... Please can one go with a dependent for masters or MBA program to the US?

Please clarify your questions please, are you currently in the United states?

chatmate:
Hello guys, I am looking for a training cert school in the US, preferable in texas/Georgia , that I can study for 8MONTH-1yr course IT course in the USA.
I know visitors are not allowed to stay longer to take up a course. I decided to look for a school, if anyone got an idea.

And if getting a study visa would be easier lol, after visiting d usa few times already.

Thanks and God bless you all.

Why so much hate,fights on this space,most times it's more of derogatary comments, back in the days people get more information which is what this space is supposed to be.

Please let's drop the attitude and move past all this,no one is bigger or better than each other,I believe many of us are here to learn please let's keep it at that.

Enough of the disrespect and let's focus on why we are here, all these rancour is not necessary I use God beg Una.