seyewest:

When do you plan to return to Nigeria if granted the visa?

3weeks so I could have enough time to do some shopping,hang out with some old friends before heading to back to land of my hustle.

Niv25:
ello gurus in the house pls I really need you guys help...actually am a fresh graduate, my elder brother and sister are ready to sponsor me to Canada on any type of visa...my brother is self employed he owns a tele communication company with about three branches...and he is financially balanced on my sisters side she is also a self employed who own a landed property...Now on my own am just a fresh a graduate been working in my brothers company like two years now but no much in my account...and I don't have any travel experience...I intend travelling to Canada, US or Australia...pls guys I need your help on
1. which country will be better with the details I have provided.
2. what type of visa should I apply for
3.how do I go about processing my visa(and what kind of documents requeated)
4. will the vo need my bank statement?
5.what's my chance of getting the visa with the available details...
note; my sponsors are ready to provide anything(money &documents) needed for my application...
pls guys I need your reply and candid advice God bless y'all

1. Matter of choice. Read about all 3 countries vis a vis migration pathways, employment, benefits. It's your research. It's a huge one
2.Again . The internet plus your plans plus the embassy website of each country has the details
3. See number 2
4. See number 2
5. Only God knows. But you can self evaluate by checking the threads of each country for how many people with your profile that were issued visas.
Happy researching

Hello friends,

I found this site from Google and I have been reading these posts from the very beginning of part 1. Thank you for all your efforts!

I am a Nigerian student on a valid F1 visa in the US (I'm doing a 5 year PhD). A couple of years ago, I met a wonderful lady in my school, a U.S. citizen, and we eventually entered a relationship. We got engaged early this year, and we wanted to marry but because my family couldn't make it down to the US at the time, so we just had a court wedding - all her extended family was there. We want to do the traditional wedding and church wedding in December. It is particularly important for them to meet more of my family members because they are white (Caucasian) and want to learn more about Nigerian people. This summer, I applied for UK visa, then I and my fiancee (at the time) traveled to the UK just so as to meet my brothers. She wanted to travel to visit Nigeria also but getting a visa to Nigeria for her seemed like a very long thing.

For the wedding in December, my brothers are coming from the U.K, but I also want my little sister in Nigeria to come on a 10 day visiting visa to the U.S. (the traditional wedding and the church wedding are within those 10 days). She is a person of integrity and will definitely return to Lagos after the wedding. Please I need advice for her, as she prepares for her interview.

- She finished school three years ago with a first class, did NYSC for a year and has worked for almost 2 years at a good job. She is single.
- She applied for UK visa to visit our brothers immediately after she graduated 3 years ago. She was denied because they said she just finished school and had no job.
- She applied to visit in the US to last year and she got rejected. I think it was because of the UK visa denial they saw there. Also she didn't have her own money at the time. But she has been saving a lot since then, so this has changed.
- My wife and her have become friends over the past two years, and now she has written a letter of introduction for her, explaining that she needs my sister - being her sister-in-law by law - to be on her bridal train for our church wedding in December.
- Her work place has also written a letter of introduction for her, she has good funds in her account, and I sent her the wedding invitation to bring with her.
- She has never left Nigeria before now. I know that people say it is hard to get a visa if you haven't left before, but coming to the US was also my first time out of Nigeria, and I got the student visa back then. I wish there was enough time for her to travel to somewhere else first, but we have no time for that now.
- Our Mother died almost 20 years ago and our Father is in Nigeria but he is very ill and can't come for the wedding. My brothers are in the UK, and I am here in the U.S. alone. I really need my sister to also be here when my brothers come.

Please advice me on how to approach this? I really don't want her to be denied again.

LadyGuinivere:

1. Matter of choice. Read about all 3 countries vis a vis migration pathways, employment, benefits. It's your research. It's a huge one
2.Again . The internet plus your plans plus the embassy website of each country has the details
3. See number 2
4. See number 2

5. Only God knows. But you can self evaluate by checking the threads of each country for how many people with your profile that were issued visas.
Happy researching

I have already my researches on this countries and am intending travelling to Canada..all I just need is you guts advice on how to apply with the abovev details...I intend working in Canada

beezyblaze:

Where's she located.... Abuja or lagos

Hahahahaha. Why did you ask?

What's your purpose of traveling? What's your intention? To migrate? Applying for visa is not about chances but about what you really want to achieve with the visa. You will get answer to your questions when you give reason why you want to travel out.

Niv25:
ello gurus in the house pls I really need you guys help...actually am a fresh graduate, my elder brother and sister are ready to sponsor me to Canada on any type of visa...my brother is self employed he owns a tele communication company with about three branches...and he is financially balanced on my sisters side she is also a self employed who own a landed property...Now on my own am just a fresh a graduate been working in my brothers company like two years now but no much in my account...and I don't have any travel experience...I intend travelling to Canada, US or Australia...pls guys I need your help on
1. which country will be better with the details I have provided.
2. what type of visa should I apply for
3.how do I go about processing my visa(and what kind of documents requeated)
4. will the vo need my bank statement?
5.what's my chance of getting the visa with the available details...
note; my sponsors are ready to provide anything(money &documents) needed for my application...
pls guys I need your reply and candid advice God bless y'all

Hello, to be honest with you. I think you are pushing the cart before the horse. Get a stable good job, earn a monthly income that can be considered as a tie for you. Money from deals don't come monthly and your deal may stop returning you money for years and no more sustainable income to cover for you as tie. The VO point of view will be that you are potential migrant. My friend you are just 23, get yourself good education, invest in education and you will not regret it. You are already dreaming high of US, Canada and Mexico without establishing any main purpose of going to this countries. Vacations are best enjoyed with families, that is the reason VO don't usually give visa to single man or woman who want to go for vacation unless the person have a good earning job and have travel out to some countries and return. Your chance of getting visa with your present status is invisible as a tourist but may be visible as a student, apply for student visa and secure your future. God bless you.

YungJo207:
Pls guys I just need your insight, let say I manage to do some business and got like 5million in 3-4 months which I don't make before I just got engaged in some intermedairy deals falicilated some deals and got that huge cash rolled in within that period,I don't work for any company but myself no house no car not married, and I decided to take a little trip to America and then connect to Canada and see Mexico..what are my chances of getting am America visa mind you am just 23..what will you advise or suggest??

Hello, I enjoy reading your post. Best of luck in your PhD and my regards to your oyinbo wife. To set the ball rolling, point of correction. It's wrong that if you have never travel to any country before and you applied for US visa, you get denied. It's also wrong if you say your sister was denied US visa because she was previously refused UK visa. VO consider all applicants based on their merit. Your sister have a better chance to get the visa but she have to convince the visa officer that she have a good earning job that will let her return back to Nigeria after the wedding. But if the wedding is in December, don't you think it's too late for her to start visa application now, it's barely two months to December and hope she will get appointment date before the wedding. I don't like impromptu preparation, it's better you prepare early for your visa application because you can immediately follow up with another application if denied and explain to VO how important you have to travel for the event that is why you quickly reapply so as not to miss the event. Finally, it would have been very good if your oyinbo wife have come to Nigeria earlier to meet the family and take pictures together with your sister, she can apply if she will get appointment before the wedding, the only tie is her job and she should be ready to defend it very well. I pray she get the visa.

1x24:
Hello friends,

I found this site from Google and I have been reading these posts from the very beginning of part 1. Thank you for all your efforts!

I am a Nigerian student on a valid F1 visa in the US (I'm doing a 5 year PhD). A couple of years ago, I met a wonderful lady in my school, a U.S. citizen, and we eventually entered a relationship. We got engaged early this year, and we wanted to marry but because my family couldn't make it down to the US at the time, so we just had a court wedding - all her extended family was there. We want to do the traditional wedding and church wedding in December. It is particularly important for them to meet more of my family members because they are white (Caucasian) and want to learn more about Nigerian people. This summer, I applied for UK visa, then I and my fiancee (at the time) traveled to the UK just so as to meet my brothers. She wanted to travel to visit Nigeria also but getting a visa to Nigeria for her seemed like a very long thing.

For the wedding in December, my brothers are coming from the U.K, but I also want my little sister in Nigeria to come on a 10 day visiting visa to the U.S. (the traditional wedding and the church wedding are within those 10 days). She is a person of integrity and will definitely return to Lagos after the wedding. Please I need advice for her, as she prepares for her interview.

- She finished school three years ago with a first class, did NYSC for a year and has worked for almost 2 years at a good job. She is single.
- She applied for UK visa to visit our brothers immediately after she graduated 3 years ago. She was denied because they said she just finished school and had no job.
- She applied to visit in the US to last year and she got rejected. I think it was because of the UK visa denial they saw there. Also she didn't have her own money at the time. But she has been saving a lot since then, so this has changed.
- My wife and her have become friends over the past two years, and now she has written a letter of introduction for her, explaining that she needs my sister - being her sister-in-law by law - to be on her bridal train for our church wedding in December.
- Her work place has also written a letter of introduction for her, she has good funds in her account, and I sent her the wedding invitation to bring with her.
- She has never left Nigeria before now. I know that people say it is hard to get a visa if you haven't left before, but coming to the US was also my first time out of Nigeria, and I got the student visa back then. I wish there was enough time for her to travel to somewhere else first, but we have no time for that now.
- Our Mother died almost 20 years ago and our Father is in Nigeria but he is very ill and can't come for the wedding. My brothers are in the UK, and I am here in the U.S. alone. I really need my sister to also be here when my brothers come.

Please advice me on how to approach this? I really don't want her to be denied again.

This is USA visiting visa thread. Go to Canada thread if you intend working in Canada. Best of luck.

Niv25:


I have already my researches on this countries and am intending travelling to Canada..all I just need is you guts advice on how to apply with the abovev details...I intend working in Canada

Hello, i think i have to say this out. i have already paid an agent before seeing this thread. I intend visiting the USA on a tourist visa and my agent keeps telling me i don't need to take bank statement to the embassy. She claims they only ask bank statement for conference.

I own a large farm but this agent told she fixed a company for me and my ID is ready. Please is there a way i can correct all this information because i have learnt from here that whatever information one uses now will always be with the embassy. My interview is 28th of November and my plan trip is 20th December to 27th. Hotel and flight reservation have been made.

I'm single and i have some little properties as my farm, house, car. could this be enough tie? no travel history except the three easiest West African countries... Any chance?? please advice!

Please my people I'm so super nervous and need urgent reply. I have an appointment at the embassy with my two kids (3&1 years old) for a b1/b2 visa for a two weeks holiday inflorida. I have only travelled to turkey last year. And my husband is the one sponsoring our travel, he's a merchant navy. What are my chances of getting the visa and what documents is expected of me? Please help!

Hello, sorry for your ignorant victim of an agent. I can see a crocodile smile approach by your agent. Your agent want to get you invisible job, invisible job duties that you may find difficult to defend during your interview, invisible years of working, invisible ID card, invisible income and at the end get you invisible visa to America. Lol!!! Bank statement, payslip or any other documents that can show you are earning and have good income or savings is needed as supporting document for visa applications but these documents are rarely examine by VO because they can easily be perfectly doctored and forged. That is why the the VO asked questions about your work, how long you have been working, how much is your monthly income. This is to really know if you are truly working in your specified field of profession or not. If your answers don't justified your profession, the VO will know that you lie and end of interview. You can fill a new DS 160 form with your profile as farmer and make sure you give as much as possible details on your type of farming systems, your duties must be well explained and interesting to read by the VO in the section asked what are your duties. After you fill the new form, submit it and use the new DS 160 confirmation on your appointment profile, notify the embassy of the changes and print out the new appointment confirmation page showing your new DS 160 confirmation number. You will be interview based on the new DS 160 confirmation number. You are successful farmer, you own a big farm, you are single and have travelled to west African countries, you make a good monthly income from your farm and want to visit family or go for vacation or conference relating to farming in US. You must have genuine reason why you want to go to US and your profile will be 100% okay. Isn't this a good profile? Your farm is your tie but depends on how you can defend it and convince the VO that you will return back. Defend it with all your heart and the VO will put a smile in your face. Best of luck.

richardsfoster09:
Hello, i think i have to say this out. i have already paid an agent before seeing this thread. I intend visiting the USA on a tourist visa and my agent keeps telling me i don't need to take bank statement to the embassy. She claims they only ask bank statement for conference.

I own a large farm but this agent told she fixed a company for me and my ID is ready. Please is there a way i can correct all this information because i have learnt from here that whatever information one uses now will always be with the embassy. My interview is 28th of November and my plan trip is 20th December to 27th. Hotel and flight reservation have been made.

I'm single and i have some little properties as my farm, house, car. could this be enough tie? no travel history except the three easiest West African countries... Any chance?? please advice!

Hello, your chances are very bright to get the visa. Be prepared to defend why your husband is not traveling with you. Did you travel to turkey alone? Prepare to defend questions on what you were doing in turkey. Hope these kids are not suppose to be in school when you intend to travel? Have a reasonable amount as budget to cover for 3 people for your traveling. Go with any documents to support your job, your husband approval to travel with the kids and your sponsor financial proof. All these documents are rarely checked. What you fill in your DS 160 form and your answers during the interview is what will determine if the VO will grant you the visa. Best of luck.

LovelyAustin:
Please my people I'm so super nervous and need urgent reply. I have an appointment at the embassy with my two kids (3&1 years old) for a b1/b2 visa for a two weeks holiday inflorida. I have only travelled to turkey last year. And my husband is the one sponsoring our travel, he's a merchant navy. What are my chances of getting the visa and what documents is expected of me? Please help!

This na Yawaa o

kristinbaby:
Hello, I enjoy reading your post. Best of luck in your PhD and my regards to your oyinbo wife. To set the ball rolling, point of correction. It's wrong that if you have never travel to any country before and you applied for US visa, you get denied. It's also wrong if you say your sister was denied US visa because she was previously refused UK visa. VO consider all applicants based on their merit. Your sister have a better chance to get the visa but she have to convince the visa officer that she have a good earning job that will let her return back to Nigeria after the wedding. But if the wedding is in December, don't you think it's too late for her to start visa application now, it's barely two months to December and hope she will get appointment date before the wedding. I don't like impromptu preparation, it's better you prepare early for your visa application because you can immediately follow up with another application if denied and explain to VO how important you have to travel for the event that is why you quickly reapply so as not to miss the event. Finally, it would have been very good if your oyinbo wife have come to Nigeria earlier to meet the family and take pictures together with your sister, she can apply if she will get appointment before the wedding, the only tie is her job and she should be ready to defend it very well. I pray she get the visa.

Thanks so much for your kind response. She already submitted her application, and she has an appointment. Her interview is this week. I am just trying to get some insight / hints so that she can be better prepared this time around. You said her only tie is her job. What about our father? Does that not usually count as a tie? God bless you.

Best of luck in her interview. Parents don't usually count as a tie in a situation when applicant is a working class. Parents become a tie when they stand as sponsor for their children either for student visa or any other purpose of traveling out of the country. Best of luck to your first class sister. She must be brilliant, I see her smiling out with a white paper!!!

1x24:

Thanks so much for your kind response. She already submitted her application, and she has an appointment. Her interview is this week. I am just trying to get some insight / hints so that she can be better prepared this time around. You said her only tie is her job. What about our father? Does that not usually count as a tie? God bless you.

1x24:
Hello friends,

I found this site from Google and I have been reading these posts from the very beginning of part 1. Thank you for all your efforts!

My brothers are in the UK, and I am here in the U.S. alone. I really need my sister to also be here when my brothers come.

Please advice me on how to approach this? I really don't want her to be denied again.

You guys seem to have a liking for staying in "the abroad" in your family oh, not a plus! However, seems somebody despite all the progresses being made in her personal life is also saddled with the responsibility of catering for Papa, just decipher anything from that sha....

kristinbaby:
Best of luck in her interview. Parents don't usually count as a tie in a situation when applicant is a working class. Parents become a tie when they stand as sponsor for their children either for student visa or any other purpose of traveling out of the country. Best of luck to your first class sister. She must be brilliant, I see her smiling out with a white paper!!!

Thank you so much.

OmoBendel24:

You guys seem to have a liking for staying in "the abroad" in your family oh, not a plus! However, seems somebody despite all the progresses being made in her personal life is also saddled with the responsibility of catering for Papa, just decipher anything from that sha....

I understand how it sounds, but we all got scholarships to study in the US and the UK (and my other brother got a work/study opportunity in the UK). Shouldn't we have taken the opportunity? We are only trying to advance our careers.

Nigeria is our home, and even my wife is coming with me when we finish - that's why we have been trying to get her a visit visa to Nigeria first. I have been so surprised to find out how hard it is for an American to get a visa to visit Nigeria. I also hear there is some Naija wives kind of permanent document that will allow her to stay and work in Nigeria. We are looking into that too.

As for our Father, no you have assumed wrong oh. We take turns and travel back and forth a lot, also send money for his treatment and upkeep, like good kids should, as well as support our sister too. She really isn't "saddled" with taking care of him alone. Besides, he also remarried after our mum died - she died almost 20 years ago.

Reading between the lines, when you say "despite the progresses in her personal life" - I think I should also say that she personally would like to visit and meet my wife (her sister-in-law, and her friend). We are not the ones pushing her to come and visit, but we would really like her for her to do that, too! None of us believe in breaking any sort of laws whatsoever, so her returning to Lagos after the visit is not even a question at all.

Thanks a lot for your input sir/madam!

@ladyG @seyewest and great people ....Great job being done here !!! Please I have a quick one. I'm a medical officer(recently passed primaries) and I am single. No travel history and I work in the family hospital of which I mostly run . I would love to go for a conference for glaucoma but due to my single life and lack of wakka history I'm not sure if I take this route or ask my sister who's a nurse has a very clean record (all previous invitees have come back) to send an invite then go for the conference still . I'll love to see my sis n fam and attend the conference
. Please which stone is best to hit these two birds? Truth is I'm still preparing for step1 but I'll take it probably when I very prepared. Do please in a bid to visit my sis and attend this conference Which is better please? E ma binu ! Please make Una help ...

Gurus in the house i salute you all and happy day to you all

I am more worried about the question am about to ask, in 2014 i used an agent to get SHENGEN visiting visa and the whole document used by him are all FAKE from A-Z but now i have US immigrant pending application, Pls i hope it none of this will link together in anyway?

Niv25:


I have already my researches on this countries and am intending travelling to Canada..all I just need is you guts advice on how to apply with the abovev details...I intend working in Canada

This thread is strictly for US Non-Immigrant visa applicant and intending applicant.

1x24:

Thanks so much for your kind response. She already submitted her application, and she has an appointment. Her interview is this week. I am just trying to get some insight / hints so that she can be better prepared this time around. You said her only tie is her job. What about our father? Does that not usually count as a tie? God bless you.

One of the most important thing you can do for your sister is send her a copy of your passport and visa so she can take it to the embassy also am kind of not feeling good about you getting married on a student visa unless it's accepted even if it's accepted what is the probability that she won't do it when she's in U.S?

Doctorcue:
@ladyG @seyewest and great people ....Great job being done here !!! Please I have a quick one. I'm a medical officer(recently passed primaries) and I am single. No travel history and I work in the family hospital of which I mostly run . I would love to go for a conference for glaucoma but due to my single life and lack of wakka history I'm not sure if I take this route or ask my sister who's a nurse has a very clean record (all previous invitees have come back) to send an invite then go for the conference still . I'll love to see my sis n fam and attend the conference
. Please which stone is best to hit these two birds? Truth is I'm still preparing for step1 but I'll take it probably when I very prepared. Do please in a bid to visit my sis and attend this conference Which is better please? E ma binu ! Please make Una help ...

Are you still studying or not?
Apply and let them know your status if you're still studying also if your plan is to go for conference I will advise you to stay in hotel not your sister's place although that does not stop you from visiting her if eventually you get the visa.

Rol3nd:
Gurus in the house i salute you all and happy day to you all

I am more worried about the question am about to ask, in 2014 i used an agent to get SHENGEN visiting visa and the whole document used by him are all FAKE from A-Z but now i have US immigrant pending application, Pls i hope it none of this will link together in anyway?

Well you're on your own oooo...Accept any outcome.

Good morning Lagos NIV & Abuja NIV

Yes, I have a question to ask... I'm confused. I have once applied for a NIV 2years ago. During my application, I was married to my ex, but we never had any legal documents joining us. (No Court wedding). We started dating from the University series. Right now, we are not in good terms and we have gone our separate ways for good. No kids involved too. I will like to apply for a NIV this year as I'm filling my DS-160.

I'm stuck with this question... Are you married? I'm very much single right now.

What's the best option for me to select? Because, if I choose divorced, I don't have any paperwork to defend this.

Kindly shed more light please. I don't want to misinterpret.

Thank you.

seyewest:

Well you're on your own oooo...Accept any outcome.

Yeee!!! Mogbe....Uncle @seyewest egba mi oooo

Rol3nd:
Gurus in the house i salute you all and happy day to you all

I am more worried about the question am about to ask, in 2014 i used an agent to get SHENGEN visiting visa and the whole document used by him are all FAKE from A-Z but now i have US immigrant pending application, Pls i hope it none of this will link together in anyway?

.

The VO is reading your post and taken notes.
Whatever the outcome accept it in good faith. You have misrepresented already.

Case closed

Rol3nd:
Gurus in the house i salute you all and happy day to you all

I am more worried about the question am about to ask, in 2014 i used an agent to get SHENGEN visiting visa and the whole document used by him are all FAKE from A-Z but now i have US immigrant pending application, Pls i hope it none of this will link together in anyway?

OtunOba15:

The VO is reading your post and taken notes.
Whatever the outcome accept it in good faith. You have misrepresented already.

Case closed

Thanks...Noted.

Lee310:
Good morning Lagos NIV & Abuja NIV

Yes, I have a question to ask... I'm confused. I have once applied for a NIV 2years ago. During my application, I was married to my ex, but we never had any legal documents joining us. (No Court wedding). We started dating from the University series. Right now, we are not in good terms and we have gone our separate ways for good. No kids involved too. I will like to apply for a NIV this year as I'm filling my DS-160.

I'm stuck with this question... Are you married? I'm very much single right now.

What's the best option for me to select? Because, if I choose divorced, I don't have any paperwork to defend this.

Kindly shed more light please. I don't want to misinterpret.

Thank you.

Let me tell you what I read from in between the the lines. When you applied the first time, u claimed to be married. Now it's coming back to haunt u. If I'm wrong, apologies.
Well the answer to your question lies with u sir.
U said you were married. Only u know the form of marriage so only you can say the form of said marriage 's dissolution. You can check what qualifies as a marriage in Nigeria, the different forms.
So when you answer that, you can now know know your legal status now. Any marriage your contracted can be proved, even the traditional form.
So if you are not being honest, rethink your story. It won't wash

Thank you LadyG. I really do appreciate your effort and response. Since checking in between the lines as you said, I can call our relationship "domestic partnership" in line with the DS-160 form.

Please what's the best solution to my problem because I don't want to complicate matter.