Nellyjo:
To be honest, this might be tricky because it seems like they didn't have any record of it until I actually uploaded the appointment letter. However, i would still recommend trying. 1st create a ticket and secondly call customer service also and see if they can escalate it for you. Mine took about 24 hours to get changed back. Goodluck

chloride6:


Yup

emmaodet:


Hello bro.
Please I need your advice.
I have us visit visa and have applied for my wife and two kids also. They have the same date for interview by December.
Is it advisable for three of them to go for the interview same day? Or I should split it? Wife different day from kids. So that I will use the kids as home tie for my wife and the kids for her. Since the three going same day will look as if we may not want to come back

ibroh22:

Hi any headway?

Debbieeeeeee:
Hey there! Welcome to part 5 of this thread. It's time for new beginnings as old things pass away. Even though the information from Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4 is still invaluable and should be read by any serious applicant. Part 2 was especially amazing, with lots of wonderful people offering great advice in their unique styles. You guys rock!!! You know who you are.

For inquiries regarding potential interview questions and self-assessment, please review both parts 1 and 2 of this thread to gain a thorough understanding of suggested responses to such inquiries.

Kindly note that this is a do-it-yourself thread. Nobody here is an agent. Nobody is a VO, hence cannot authoritatively predict your. chances of visa success.

Happy reading and good luck to all the honest visa seekers!

Please see part 1 here for reference:
https://www.nairaland.com/608780/usa-visit-visa/322#38856287

See part 2 here for reference https://www.nairaland.com/2656320/usa-visit-visa-part-2

For part 3

https://www.nairaland.com/4116999/usa-visit-visa-part-3/507#77029195

For part 4

https://www.nairaland.com/5807124/usa-visit-visa-part-4#88683712


Because some questions are frequently asked, repeated and retreated, the links to the questions are contained herein for easy reference
For instructions and documents required for the application


To book an appointment and fill out DS 160

https://ceac.state.gov/ceac/

https://ceac.state.gov/genniv/

https://ceac.state.gov/CEACStatTracker/Status.aspx?App=NIV (Check visa status here)


https://www.usvisaappt.com/visaapplicantui/signup

Note: The steps for the whole process are set out step by step. For your good, adhere. If not, a possibility exists that the final DS 160 number will be different from the one used to book the appointment. Applicants in those situations will neither be allowed to enter the embassy nor will they be interviewed.
In the event of such an occurrence, kindly call/email the embassy to sort it out.

Peradventure, if you need to change any details in an already submitted DS-160 form, you should fill out a new one, submit it, and then contact the embassy by phone or email.

For US embassy contact details

Telephone: +234-0201-227-8955

https://ng.usembassy.gov/visas/important-visa-information/

https://ng.usembassy.gov/contact/

https://ng.usembassy.gov/

For video interviews with actual VOs on frequently asked Questions
https://www.nairaland.com/2656320/usa-visit-visa-part-2/180#47174473

https://plus.google.com/app/basic/s/%23AsktheVOs

For documents :

https://ng.usembassy.gov/visas/important-visa-information/


For sample transcripts of some interviews (as posted by the users of this thread) Please check this link https://www.nairaland.com/download/4692218


Finally, lying on your DS-160 or during the interview is a misrepresentation and a crime. This thread's aim is not to teach or coach applicants on how to do so. The truth is always the best course of action, no matter the situation. Please do not ask about how to misrepresent on this thread.

I am grateful to God for being alive to create this new part, and for the many friends I have made here.

Thank you.

Humbly,
Justwise & Debbieeeeeee

HealthCas:
@OyoTunjiUSA and every other active members, Thank you immensely for what you do.

Enquiries:

For application within the UK to visit USA on B1/B2 visa, is it advisable to have specific travel plans and must one have a contact person in the US. For an applicant that is ONLY interested in 1 week tourist visa.

Also whats the ideal average duration of stay?

CalmsoG:
Hello everyone, please what's the acceptable certificate of birth for US embassy. NPC seems to have several versions of this certificate.

Gretmang:


Big boy like you too wan japa?

CNNalhaji:


Hello. You cannot use physical ideas or application strategies to win or secure American visa. You can only use the strategies and ideas of following the rules and regulations of the visa.

Therefore, let your family apply for their visas in the same day. If they are qualify the visas shall be issued.

In the real sense of it, only children back home in Nigeria cannot satisfy the consular's ties 100% score mark because your family or relatives are there to take over their upkeeps even if you failed to return to Nigeria .

emmaodet:


Haaaaa!!!
Hmmmmmmm!!
Delay is dangerous.
I am relocating for now but just to improve my family traveling history.
Who knows? Maybe we may decide to stay tomorrow.

OyoTunjiUSA:


🤠

* You are focusing on OIS , what about AVITS ?

1. When your VISA processing is completed, you will receive the documents back with the delivery option chosen during your application process. You may however, change your preferred document delivery address online until 11:59pm a day prior to your interview or through the call center between 9am to 5pm a day prior to your interview.

2. You cannot change your VISA pick up location again, and if at all you want to, you must go and sign up and do that on AVITS, and also go and do same on OIS. Both AVITS pick up location and OIS location chosen by you must tally.

PS: Go and open a profile on AVITS and verify your VISA status first. That is your official and No-1 USA embassy electronic Résumé.

🙏

CNNalhaji:


Anyone the embassy can verify. The United States embassy have seen different versions. Genuine documents/credentials is what they are after .

nerdymufasa:
Please how did you resolve it?

CalmsoG:
We've had an attestation and certificate of birth issued by NPC being rejected by NVC as invalid document. So at this point it's confusing to know the version they are accepting.

Anyone used the below certificate of birth recently?

OyoTunjiUSA:


🤠

1. I did not state that you belong to any. It was a sample reference, indicating 221g scenarios. Well, you never can't tell because the USA embassy will not tell you if you happen to answer same name with a wanted criminal or terrorist. Nobody is clean, once put on 221g - administrative process , aka background checks.

🙏

ultraken:


So you were able to get back your more recent rescheduled interview date after they changed it?
My interview is in a week, so this gives me hope. I already raised a ticket, uploaded my interview confirmation and chatted with them and they said they will escalate it.
Since you got your newer date back, I hope they give me my date back too.
Did you have to do anything else?

Ajalalomo:


I chatted with their customer service to resolve the issue. They asked for my full name / date of birth / passport number / email address. I received an email few hours later to activate my AVIST account.

Ajalalomo:


Go to the local government to get the old version. Lagos state has the old version which you can get through the local government. My brother got one at Mushin Local Government

damkanlinsin:
For does having issue with the DS160 note they won’t update anything for you at the embassy ooo.

dasayo:


Good evening, Boss,

Please I have a follow up question. My passport has still not been sent back despite my request. Therefore, I will attend the interview as scheduled by the embassy. Have you heard of a scenario where a visa is approved, and I can tell the officer to give me my passport? i can submit it for the stamp later, not immediately? I don't trust that my polite request to the officer for an expedited return will be honoured. They should give me the passport 1st, then i can submit it later.

what do you think about this Sir?

nwajay:


Thanks for the update.

What type of update could one need. And how would one go about updating it.

My DS160 is over 1 years old

kaykad:
need help please who has seen this issue b4 =, who can help me with suggestions: I have signed up using this link https://www.usvisaappt.com/visaapplicantui/signup
ff the steps and i have also made payment but am stuck at picking a date for the appointment its saying no active receipt found for this application but i have made payment using say application. i have opened a support ticket and attached the error message but no one has attended to it yet. please what do i need to do? abi i don enter fake site?

nwajay:


Thanks for the update.

What type of update could one need. And how would one go about updating it.

My DS160 is over 1 years old