OyoTunjiUSA:



Hey 🤠

* @lantrezo, and @Kavanaexchange.

1. You guys should be clapping for the IT staffs @AVITS b/cos they are attending to millions of VISA applicants daily , with possible under staff.

2. The best things to do in all of your situations are to raise a ticket, call the helpline , restart your browser, login and log out , change your browser etc, and go home ,and be watching television instead of developing hypertension, while checking once in a day for positive outcome.

3. AVITS staffs are treating your tickets randomly, so it's a kind of game of luck. Their system is also undergoing trial and error era, which is expected to continue all through 2024.

PS: Patient is all you need.


Best Wishes 🙏

dexydidi:
This is the same issue I am experiencing. This is my second MRV , I have asked them for a refund if they will not allow me to book an appointment. You cant hold my money to ransom on the bases they wont refund.

heartlove:
Oga Oga
Oga Oga OyoTunjiUSA


Pls help me oo. Today make it One week i made payment for B1/b2 visa fees at First bank in which I generate the bank slip from Avits. Now I cannot book appointments have call the customer service they said I should create ticket and send my payment confirmation and bank slip to dem . Nothing is done ooo. Still now I cannot book appointments. If I click on pending appointment request it shows bank slip generate.
Please what can I do to schedule my appointment. Thanks my Ago

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OyoTunjiUSA:



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* F2 is created for F1-VISA holders , ie wife, children , house help etc, but the only student category who have being more favourable with F2 VISA applications is PhD, followed scantily by Msc.

1. If you are on PhD (especially) or Msc with full fundings , yes F2 will be favourable in this scenario. But if you have less than 100% of funds, your F2 VISA application will be based on your family ability to proof availability of funds for the F1 dependent (s) (F2).

2. Presently, B1/B2 is more favourable, and easier to secure than F2 VISA,
except if, the F2 VISA applicant is a minor, or teenager under adulthood age.

3. F2 visa holder in America is absolutely dependent on F1 visa holder, b/cos f2 visa holder (adult) is not permitted to work, and attend degree or credit award institutions, and 75% of the time, only the change of status of F1 VISA holders in the USA can also change the status of F2 visa holders.

4. B1/B2 VISA holder , who is visiting his or her F1 partner in the USA may decide to change VISA status outside the control of F1 VISA holder, he or she can look for work, process school admission etc, and process the necessary CHANGE OF VISA status request.

PS : B1/B2 wins. But it depends on your present situation.

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dasayo:


Hello Adenike,

Your dom card for which bank please? I have tried 2 foreign and 2 local USD cards and it keeps failing.

It's so sad because I may have to forfeit the money paid to First Bank since i am not able to proceed beyond verifying the payment.

OyoTunjiUSA:


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1. Reschedule and print out the new VISA appointment letter , one for each person. They should also take their previous VISA appointment letters on old website along. They will attend to them based on their previous appointment standings b/cos USA embassy still recognises pre-update appointments.

PS: This opinion is just my reasoning. Don't rely on it.

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OyoTunjiUSA:


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1. Fill another DS-160 for Mama and she should attend her interview with both old and the new DS-160s.

2. She is your mother, therefore, you have the right to stand as her funder of the trip but , provided that you can prove the financial capability. Yes, staying with you is normal since you are single and not married with kids?

3. Mama does not have a choice than to now start following the DOB on her travel passport , and write same date inside her DS-160. Always follow her travel passport information when writing her bio-data. Affidavit is irrelevant.
It is understandable that few senior citizens does not or cannot really give the accuracy of their DOB.

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dexydidi:
This kind of patient is very exhasting. I am due to travel for an event for October, it was for this sole reason I made another MRV, imagine paying over 600K in one year and I really need this money. TBF I am upset. The event is for 1st week of October 2024. I don't even know what to do. I have called the help desk several times complaining bitterly, from thier end they can see my payment has been updated, meanwhile from myn end I cant see anything. I am just livid and disappointed.

Thank you sir for your response. In my case, my DS-160 will expire on the 30th of September. I don't know what to do because the Visa payment was made with the details of the DS-160.

Adewaale:



Hi yoyome, I’m a B1/B2 applicant also and I will deeply appreciate it if you don’t mind dropping an update when you find out closer dates are open. Thank you!

Olawales93:
Hello,

Can anyone please assist in providing response to the enquiry below?

I had paid and booked group appointment for my wife and 3 kids on the old portal for Oct. 2025. However, after the migration to the new portal, I could no longer do group appointment for them and had to resort to individual appointments.

Despite this constraint, I was fortunate to book for my first child (<3 year old) and one of my twin (<1 year) for Nov. 08, while my wife and the other twin booked for a week later - Nov. 15.

Are they expected to attend the interviews differently considering the twins are below a year or we can all attend on the first date and see if the 4 of them will be attended to? The challenge is we reside in a city far from Lagos and would require flight bookings and accommodation for each trip. Attempt to get the contact center was not unsuccessful.

yoyome20:


Hello, so I just got Dec 2024 from May 2025, when you see this please go check seems like some dates are dropping now. I am no longer able to see the calendar as I used my last slot to secure this December date.

cretin:
anybody has experience on how the usa views someone, whose spouse is an asylum seeker in the usa based on the kids who are citizens.
would they just summarily reject the visa application cos of the spouse asylum without looking at the merits of the case and the persons clean sheet of visiting the usa and returning without overstaying?

Kakajewel:

Please was this for Lagos or Abuja?

yoyome20:


Lagos , i was so shocked

Belizean:
Sorry I'm not sure if this is the right place for this but what is the likelihood of getting a tourist Visa after a 10 year ban has elapsed?

Context: Overstayed at the age of 15 and left after graduating from secondary school at the age of 18. Tried applying for a visa at the age of 23 and was denied and given a 10 year ban. Ban expired many years ago and I've tried applying twice since then and both times was denied.

I've now been married to a Nigerian American citizen for 6 years and have a 6 year old son who is also a a Nigerian American national.
Does this put me in a better position for a tourist visa? What can I do to increase my chances?
Husband plans on filing for me next year but he will be travelling to the US for his sisters wedding soon and I would like to join him

Kakajewel:

Wow. Was this December 5 or 23, because it still shows but appears as “slot used”?

Dollypiizu:
Does the consulate interview people on Saturday? My grandma was initially scheduled to interview back in May 2024. But the consulate rescheduled the interview to November and it falls on a Saturday. I’m not sure if i should call them to ask if it was a mistake. Any one with such experience should kindly share. Thank you!

OyoTunjiUSA:


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@yoyome20 is correct.

1. Once booked , you cannot change location on the new website (AVITS).

2. Lets assume that you were able to change OR you want to buy another MRV to rebook your appointment, it is still highly advisable that, your DS-160 location pick correspond with your desire USA embassy location. In summary. Do not take Lagos oriented DS-160 to Abuja embassy.

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Belizean:
Sorry I'm not sure if this is the right place for this but what is the likelihood of getting a tourist Visa after a 10 year ban has elapsed?

Context: Overstayed at the age of 15 and left after graduating from secondary school at the age of 18. Tried applying for a visa at the age of 23 and was denied and given a 10 year ban. Ban expired many years ago and I've tried applying twice since then and both times was denied.

I've now been married to a Nigerian American citizen for 6 years and have a 6 year old son who is also a a Nigerian American national.
Does this put me in a better position for a tourist visa? What can I do to increase my chances?
Husband plans on filing for me next year but he will be travelling to the US for his sisters wedding soon and I would like to join him

OtunOba15:
Visa granted this Morning in Abuja

7:45am appointment

I must a big thank you to
Annabee for always answering my questions during the waiting time for payments confirmation which took more than a week and the new updated DS160 form I filled after I have submitted the initial one.

My mum went with two DS160 forms. Why?

I filled the 1st DS160 for Lagos and from the information I got on this platform concerning no interview dates in Lagos till mid next year that made we switch to Abuja.

So when making payment I picked Abuja for interview.

All I needed to do was to fill another form for Abuja. And she went with it.

Looking forward to my own interview in London come January 2025.

Cheers 🙏

OtunOba15:
Visa granted this Morning in Abuja

7:45am appointment

I must a big thank you to
Annabee for always answering my questions during the waiting time for payments confirmation which took more than a week and the new updated DS160 form I filled after I have submitted the initial one.

My mum went with two DS160 forms. Why?

I filled the 1st DS160 for Lagos and from the information I got on this platform concerning no interview dates in Lagos till mid next year that made we switch to Abuja.

So when making payment I picked Abuja for interview.

All I needed to do was to fill another form for Abuja. And she went with it.

Looking forward to my own interview in London come January 2025.

Cheers 🙏

Nitta08:



Oh wow I did not know this. Can you please help me out here? I submitted my parents DS160 using Lagos as their location but booked their visa appointments on the new site in Abuja. Is this going to be a problem?
I went back and forth between Abuja and Lagos a month ago because I could not get a convenient date on the old platform before the migration. I had to pay new visa fees on this new platform and was able to get separate dates.
Is this going to be a problem for them? Or should I fill out a new Ds160 for Abuja and have them take both DS160 to their interview?

OyoTunjiUSA:



Hey 🤠

1. Fill another Abuja-oriented DS-160 for each of them , be certain that their photo is shown, print copy for each of them and they should attend their interview with " 1 copy of old DS-160 and 1 copy of new DS-160 each.

PS: @Nitta08 VISA situation is different to yours, therefore, you cannot totally align your parents VISA application towards hers.

PS: Also be careful, do not jump into every VISA success story. Click on people 's profile to see their previous activities on NL.

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annabee:
I will advise you apply for an immigrant visa if your spouse lives in the US.

OyoTunjiUSA:



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1. If the USA immigration/government sees you as a threat to their society they could have banned you for life. Mind you, the sin you committed was in your teenage years, and perhaps facilitated by your parents or guardian, so that era is gone. You now have a clean record like before, it is only the injury scare that is hunting your mind and the mind of all consulars you will be meeting 😃

2. Break your mind off the negatives. Stop acting in the presence of the consular like a suspect, you are free but consular is studying your body languages. The point is , you were not qualified for both VISAS you had applied for , and you were denied just like others.

3. Go ahead and apply for your B2 VISA, and indicate in the necessary space your VISA ban , do not lie in any of your VISA application (DS-160) because they have the record but not because for the embassy to use it against you, except, if you commit another crime.

PS: If you qualified for the B2 VISA they will definitely grant you. Just go straight and don't lie.

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yoyome20:


Hello, so I just got Dec 2024 from May 2025, when you see this please go check seems like some dates are dropping now. I am no longer able to see the calendar as I used my last slot to secure this December date.