olokings:


6 UPSIDE DOWN 9.... you are very much on your own in that one... you no hear say I dey in sabbatical?!...
No 4 gboza in today's economy?.
Abeg dollar wee come down to N168 again by the time I'm crossing the seas again.
Shay u know ppl travelled in 510#-1$.

Don't worry I'm sending u ahead to find one sweet deal there dem I wee come.

PS: check out Baylor & Scott Carrollton. I think there's also one "medical kini-kon-kini" like dt in Carrollton. They got great deals..like way less than doctors' yo know.

Hehe

favoredgal:


Don't know about other cities but Houston yes

Pick up your birth certificate on your way home upon discharge from the hospital. Schedule your passport visit downtown too for the next day or the day after if you are exhausted from pushing

Go to downtown pick up same day or next

Everything ready by day 3 of discharge aka day 5 of the baby's life.

That's how iv done it for my two babies

Bisoye82:

Flew Qatar recently, nothing like that
Poe was Philly,our flight was the only flight that landed at the time,so no crowd as such and the CBP picked us from the queue because of the babies,the only question was how long are you staying? Chikena
Note of warning though for preggy mamas,Chicago is still a notorious entry/exit.our return leg is via Chicago though and before leaving the US i was gisting with hubby that I read here about someone who was interrogated about receipts/proof of payment for delivery before boarding her flight out of Chicago and hubby was like for what na,that na oversabinus but I was not worried because I carried mine along,
Lo and behold,after check in and Qatar don tear the longer part of the boarding pass and we are half way to the plane geh geh see men in blue asking passports please ,without pre-meditation I gave them Nigerian passports only for all us,they went through and identify each person and say you can go on.In all my trips have never passed through Chicago anyway but just to keep all informed sha.
On a lighter note,am happy to see all the shareholders of this thread commenting again eg Olokings,nefertitiram,modath,firstymum,Shawbabe,Feddy27etc
Waiting for Nogen,sayoberry to wave too.
Justwise baba ibeji I hail o.
Cheers everyone

Bisoye82:

Flew Qatar recently, nothing like that
Poe was Philly,our flight was the only flight that landed at the time,so no crowd as such and the CBP picked us from the queue because of the babies,the only question was how long are you staying? Chikena
Note of warning though for preggy mamas,Chicago is still a notorious entry/exit.our return leg is via Chicago though and before leaving the US i was gisting with hubby that I read here about someone who was interrogated about receipts/proof of payment for delivery before boarding her flight out of Chicago and hubby was like for what na,that na oversabinus but I was not worried because I carried mine along,
Lo and behold,after check in and Qatar don tear the longer part of the boarding pass and we are half way to the plane geh geh see men in blue asking passports please ,without pre-meditation I gave them Nigerian passports only for all us,they went through and identify each person and say you can go on.In all my trips have never passed through Chicago anyway but just to keep all informed sha.
On a lighter note,am happy to see all the shareholders of this thread commenting again eg Olokings,nefertitiram,modath,firstymum,Shawbabe,Feddy27etc
Waiting for Nogen,sayoberry to wave too.
Justwise baba ibeji I hail o.
Cheers everyone

Babatwi:


I would advice you reapply and say you are going for a meeting and go with evidence to support this eg invitation letter for the meeting etc. The important thing here is that you use the visa for that meeting,any other purpose you decide to use it for after that is left to you.
For your own peace of mind you can try lagos

temmyo:
Hello @Terese69 please which of the Baylors are you using? And how much is your bill?

freshdad:
with my little knowledge, it is none of the VO's concern if you later travel after using the visa for the purpose of the application(the official meeting) so i believe you do not need to worry yourself over that- Question 1
the OGAs in the house can help on Q2

isysleek:
Hi. Sorry I'm just responding. I see NL gurus have answered your questions.

Yes and I got my visa but the drilling(questions) was gangsta! Story for another day.

Have you gone for another interview?

sexymj:
It was the turkish ppl dt referred me to port health because they were confused abt the number of weeks on my fit to fly.
There was another pregnant lady and she wsnt sent to port health.

Oh great thanks for the response

mimimum:
Right about the GC thingy. Still holding off putting in my application, can't be travelling every 6 months to mark register. When person dey make better money for here. It's not like some of us don't have the opportunity to live in the abroad, but no be everybody the thing dey shak like that. Nigeria is no better, but we like am like that. For now at least. Maybe later in the future, something will change.
We are not happy that Nigeria is the way it is. But what can we do? We can only try to keep making it better and discourage dishonest behavior. For now, it is our country. Every country has got its own issues. The US with guns and senseless killings and others like that.
When I hear people throwing the "I live and work here" in people's faces, I laugh. Me sef dey UK for 3 years after school, na Nigeria i still end up. All my DH immediate family live in the US except him, I know how they all complain about life over there. I will now be wondering, what am I now running to do there permanently?

But people will not understand that some of us no really send. Born the pikin here, born am for there o, last last e go get blue kpali one day. Na time be the thing.

akinlekans:


I agree with you..we need to understand telling the truth can and will get you a visa..I applied for B1/B2 Visa with my wife in 2015 but i did the right thing by applying for medical visa for her for child birth...
Many people discouraged us that they will most likely deny us ...In fact in her application her duration of stay was 5 months ..Consular asked us the usual questions.....and we said the truth..to have our baby...we showed him email conversation we had with the hospital and we were granted the visa...i stayed for two weeks and she stayed for 5 months as planned.

She even went again last year 2016 with our baby and POE asked how long she will stay and she told him 4 months and she had no issue..of course expect to show them Zero balance of medical bills...

We renewed our visa last month via dropbox and we were not called for interview...

Guys, we need to change our orientation..Its not a crime to give birth in the US ...Consulars are well trained and they know all this things...

Shawbabe:


Ah thanks!

I changed my mind sha and booked another airline coz Qatar says that you're on your own for that 9hr layover in Doha. I can't oh.

nefertitiram:


If you ask me, that zero balance statement does more harm than good, especially if you got a discount. So just take your rexiept, agreement and itemized bill and make sure they all tally.

Terese69:
Hi Temmyo,

I had my daughter at Baylor Scott & White, White Rock in September 2015 (formerly Doctor's Hospital at White Rock Lake) and I'm planning to use them again come October.

My total medical bill was $7,031.08 inclusive of doctor's fee, hospital fee, epidural, hospital paediatrician, two visits to the external paediatrician, lab tests etc etc. You can check my previous posts for the breakdown.

How's your son by the way? Kisses to him. He's my birthday mate

Bisoye82:

Ha Justwise honestly am embarrassed,mortified and horrified at the level of begging at the airport,Got back on Monday,from the way they are looking at you and form of greetings you will know that the next thing that you will hear is Oga/madam/Bros anything for us .I was pissed when one woman says ehm madam follow me after have finished with customs,yes which office/designation be una o,she said Quarantine ,my face/phonetics changed immediately,yes wetin happun I carry seed,live animals,plants? madam abeg free me,oya come Quarantine pampers and Similac na.
Geez.

nneka3000:
Good day all,please can someone that applied for baby's Nigerian visa by self put me through which type of visa to choose. I have seen tourist,visitor,transit,business etc. Thank you for your quick response

zmoney:
Please Houston mamas especially those around Houston NorthWest, what mode of transport did you use to the passport office downtown,and vital records office as well? Since its quite a distance from that area?
Also what mobile network is affordable for calls and data?
Thanks a lot!

Dwebb55:


My understanding is that Qatar will book hotel for you if your layover is over 8 hours, unless you bought their promo tickets. If the layover is over 10 hours, they will even throw in meal vouchers.

That's what my family got on our trip. We got hotel to and fro and had meal tickets on the return leg

FADEO:
03.03.2017 8:32pm..... The little prince arrived. DW and LO are very fine. Dr E and the oakbend team did a wonderful Job. And God was all over the place in control and in charge..... Thanks to this wonderful community for the insight....

Update on bills and other details coming soon.....

Let's I forget, father is doing fine too as fathers hand hurts from excessive massage.a

Abeg women, una dey try and some go still born like 6....

Love you all.

MamaP003:
Hello Nefertitiram, my itemised bill shows there was a discount which I paid. So the VO will see i got a discount so Del Sol wrote a letter of non-indebtedness for me stating the discounted bill was what the hospital offered to self pay patients paying cash and that medic aid was not used to pay any of my bills.

Will this be a problem?

Onegai:
twoods, can a U.S. expat self-pay? my cousin is due and she has been making calls. We tried to get Marketplace Insurance for her but once they hear she is a USC with no income in the U.S., she is turned down and told she is eligible for low income Medicaid (she's a housewife/small scale business owner in Nigeria due to a few conditions). She would rather stay in Nigeria and file after birth but checked quite a lot of laws and it seems sensible to go abroad.

she's paid taxes in the past as a low income earner.

Shawbabe:


Yes na. Na the promo tickets wey u dey on your own. Hotels start from the class next to business class. And that one na 800k per person now. Promo is 466k. Na almost double because of hotel. Nahhh