Dollarh:


Thanks bro . I would be open to suggestions of good universities maybe around California? That offer computer science and it? I want to get this thing perfectly this time o☺

Compliments bro. I will sincerely advice you calm down, take your time and apply for FALL 2018. It's just around the corner. By then, you will have better schools to apply to and must have gained admission from them. Meanwhile free free to PM me. Cheers.

AfonjaBoston:



. . . Coming from an unfortunate, rejected and frustrated perennial US visa applicant.

I totally understand what you must be going through

Not fair bro. You choice of words are hurting. Yes we were denied visas while you got approved isn't enough reason to laugh and make mockery of anyone. He stated he was married and had a family with kids. I expected you should at least respect that fact and ignore completely.

You've got your mouth though bro, but put yourself in his shoes since you claim to understand how he feels exactly. Best is to even ignore completely and not opening up fresh wounds over and over again with your harsh words. I have been denied even after the gurus here didn't see any issues with my transcript. I felt bad as I had a scholarship too I wished to grab. But it's not the end of the world most certainly. Your choice of words hurt so so bad. Not fair at all in my own opinion. I meant no harm or attack on you. But it won't cost you much to be encouraging either... Cheers bro and compliments of the season.

jerrypeacelinks:


Not fair bro. You choice of words are hurting. Yes we were denied visas while you got approved isn't enough reason to laugh and make mockery of anyone. He stated he was married and had a family with kids. I expected you should at least respect that fact and ignore completely.

You've got your mouth though bro, but put yourself in his shoes since you claim to understand how he feels exactly. Best is to even ignore completely and not opening up fresh wounds over and over again with your harsh words. I have been denied even after the gurus here didn't see any issues with my transcript. I felt bad as I had a scholarship too I wished to grab. But it's not the end of the world most certainly. Your choice of words hurt so so bad. Not fair at all in my own opinion. I meant no harm or attack on you. But it won't cost you much to be encouraging either... Cheers bro and compliments of the season.

hey bro I sent you a pm..... Kindly response

Hello all, Please would a fully funded graduate student (tuition+living expenses) all stated in the i 20 and award letter from the institution still require to take along or show any other financial evidence/personal funds/bank statements at the visa interview.
Thanks

Please gurus will I be needing to show a certain amount of BTA or PTA before boarding or POE please if I will, how much exactly do I require to hold. Urgent please flying next day!!!

buddwizer:
Hello all, Please would a fully funded graduate student (tuition+living expenses) all stated in the i 20 and award letter from the institution still require to take along or show any other financial evidence/personal funds/bank statements at the visa interview.
Thanks

Yes.

buddwizer:
Hello all, Please would a fully funded graduate student (tuition+living expenses) all stated in the i 20 and award letter from the institution still require to take along or show any other financial evidence/personal funds/bank statements at the visa interview.
Thanks

Yes. You might be asked.

enuelsmith:
If you can demonstrate that your request is genuine and that you have real intentions to write the exams has stated, i would personally help you with 50 percent of the total exams fees, payable in cash to your bank account.

How do one demonstrate this? By solving questions Expecting reply.

Oga Folmus, Walspring. Please any TOEFL discount?

Ladson:
abeg is there not help this time around,concerning GRE and TOEFl registrations ?
Nigeria economy is good and some of us have to safe five months straight to get the money for the two exams.
abeg make una help ooo
Lagosismyhome
egbon afonjaboston
lagosniv
twoods
oga walspring I still dey wait oooo

The problem is not me paying for the exam but that for this whole student visa fees , the exams are one of the cheapest expenses

So if paying 50k is difficult then how will other fees be paid? ...

folmus:



How do one demonstrate this? By solving questions Expecting reply.

I should be able to confirm if you are real or not, show my the exam profile showings your full name, and accompany this with your name on Facebook for verification.. Many fake individuals here.

Morning fams, as a student, what's the minimum and maximum amount of money I can travel with?

Aunty Lagosismyhome

godschoice1050:
Please gurus will I be needing to show a certain amount of BTA or PTA before boarding or POE please if I will, how much exactly do I require to hold. Urgent please flying next day!!!

You are not required to carry cash with you for POE sakes; just your passport and I-20 which should be in your carry-on. I would just take some dollars, maybe $100 for miscellaneous expenses in the airport and for transportation to your destination. The max you can carry to avoid declaration is $10k.

Ijebuboy525:
Morning fams, as a student, what's the minimum and maximum amount of money I can travel with?

Aunty Lagosismyhome

Minimum = zero .... the responsibility is on you to ensure you have adequate amount on you to cover any expenses

Maximum = zero .... there no maximum however anything over 10,000 usd You need to declare it on the landing card / custom or if asked

biikeys:


You are not required to carry cash with you for POE sakes; just your passport and I-20 which should be in your carry-on. I would just take some dollars, maybe $100 for miscellaneous expenses in the airport and for transportation to your destination. The max you can carry to avoid declaration is $10k.

Thanks so much. I really appreciate.

enuelsmith:
I should be able to confirm if you are real or not, show my the exam profile showings your full name, and accompany this with your name on Facebook for verification.. Many fake individuals here.

That parameters ga o. Not everyone on Facebook.

buddwizer:
Hello all, Please would a fully funded graduate student (tuition+living expenses) all stated in the i 20 and award letter from the institution still require to take along or show any other financial evidence/personal funds/bank statements at the visa interview.
Thanks

Not necessarily. The Fund from the school carry more weight compared to any bank statement. If the funds in the i20 covers your tuition and living expenses, then are good and probably don't need any other statement.

Let me put it this way, if you have a valid statement, take it along, but if you don't have one, then don't worry yourself and spend your energy on other parts of your preparation.

Visa approved after being placed on AP for just 3 days ....transcript loading

Ladson:

Bros I have replied the mail you sent to me.
is it that you have not received it yet?

LagosismyHome:


Minimum = zero .... the responsibility is on you to ensure you have adequate amount on you to cover any expenses

Maximum = zero .... there no maximum however anything over 10,000 usd You need to declare it on the landing card / custom or if asked

Thanks ma'am

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The problem is not me paying for the exam but that for this whole student visa fees , the exams are one of the cheapest expenses

So if paying 50k is difficult then how will other fees be paid? ... [/quote
one step at a time na.....have been preparing since August ought to write this December,but circumstances beyond control didnot allow me. money will come for other stuffs...I have sent u a pm

buddwizer:
Hello all, Please would a fully funded graduate student (tuition+living expenses) all stated in the i 20 and award letter from the institution still require to take along or show any other financial evidence/personal funds/bank statements at the visa interview.
Thanks

Take them along, but don't fret if you can't get them. You will most likely be asked to show award letter from the institution (that was my case). Also go with your academic transcript and standardized test scores. All the best.

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i need help HERE
i want travel out of the countrey to US, hw will i go about it, including my visa, money and other necessary things?

Adeish:
Drop the details of state you're going, Course of study, degree u want to acquire,when to start clarify all this and It's sure to get a proper clarification here

You should actually read between his lines

ismailadebola:
i need help HERE
i want travel out of the countrey to US, hw will i go about it, including my visa, money and other necessary things?

For the money, you can get loan from micro finance bank. For the visa, take your international passport to seme boarder, then thank me latter bros na joke I dey

My people, my visa came through this morning. I follow for those silent readers. I'm yet to recover from the ecstatic feeling.
I owe everything to this thread. I read every darn thing on this thread. I'm specially grateful to lamexx for reviewing my prepared responses and for the mock interview. This guy even called me with his airtime. So much love on Nairaland. Thanks to walspring for paying my sevis fee and to everyone that has contributed to this thread, you guys are awesome.

Abeg you guys should allow me to rant small. The idea for masters came to me immediately I passed out from service. This is the time I stumbled on this thread from a Google search, it brought a huge relieve knowing that most of the questions I have must have been answered here. I made it a duty to read at least 20pages of this thread everyday. It paid off !!

The stressed I went through for my transcript was just crazy. Shuttling almost every month from Lagos to Owerri to follow up on the transcript, even after paying one guy to help me expedite the process(Dude chop my money). The height of it all was when two of the transcript I requested was erroneously sent to one school. It took me almost 3 weeks to realize this error then I had to pay another 20k for another transcript which took one month again to process. Futo una well done!


To the transcript

The VO approved the three people in my front. One of them was an old woman going to visit her daughter, the other person was a lady on F2 going to visit her husband that's in school. She asked her how she met how husband and who will take care of her business when she is away. These people's approval bolstered my confidence.

I was very vocal as none of the questions were unexpected. I already have an answer for almost all the possible questions. Some people say you shouldn't rehearsed your responses but you should know what works best for you. I'm very good at memorizing things so I leveraged on that to practice most of my responses, this in turn strengthened my confidence. I practiced the questions every morning and every night even in my dreams . I just can't stand the thought of starting this process again. Some time ago I read on this thread about maintaining eye contact during the interview. It usually feels weird to me looking people in the eye for more than 3 seconds, so I knew I had to work on that and I did so by maintaining eye contact in all of my conversations with people for the past 2 months. It worked because I was able to maintain eye contact all through the interview. The VO was very conversational, her smile alone will mellow down your tension.

Below is my transcript

VO: Good morning (she is always the first to greet)
Me: Good morning
VO: please pass your passport and your other documents
Me: Gave her my passport, the i20 and sevis receipt. She returned the sevis receipt
VO: Looking at my I20, why are you applying to software engineering degree (with sharp eye contact)
Me: I've always been a tech savvy person. I discovered during my undergraduate studies that my strength and motivation lies in the field of computing. I developed a penchant for programming during this time.It has become something I'm very passionate about. This program will help me solidify my knowledge and give me the ability to design, implement and improve software solutions across multiple domains. It will afford me the qualifications to take up a job as a senior software engineer in a Nigerian tech firm when I am back. I will be able to apply machine learning algorithms efficiently
VO: typing...
VO: how many schools did you apply to?
Me: 3 schools
VO: why did you choose this school
Me: Aside from being one of the schools that pioneered the masters of software engineering program in us. I chose Monmouth university because their software engineering curriculum matches my research interest and offers the best fit for my career growth. My research interest aligns with that of professor wizzy* which is on the application of machine learning in personalized marketing. I am keen on being part of her research group to enable me gain practical knowledge of machine learning concepts. I also like the fact that their program integrates applied computer science, mathematics and management science in the course modules which will give me a well rounded experience in creating software solutions. I was also offered $4000 scholarship
VO: what's your highest qualification
Me: Bsc Statistics
VO: why the change of program
Me: well this is not a change for me though. Studying this degree will equip me with the technical knowledge and expertise to be able to implement machine learning algorithms efficiently considering my background in statistics. It will afford me the qualifications to take up a job as a senior software engineer in a Nigerian tech firm specializing in machine learning solutions. This degree will make me very desirable when I return back to Nigeria because there is a high demand for software engineers in Nigeria.
VO: When did you finish school?
ME: I finished 2015, after which I went for my compulsory youth service and that lasted till April this year. I was retained at the eCommerce firm were I was working a software developer. My primary duties entails extending the website functionality by developing and implementing ad-on magento plugins. I also perform routine maintenance which involves security patch installations, module updates and reconfiguration, search engine optimization...
VO: what are the courses you will be doing and how will they be beneficial to you?
Me: I listed about 7 courses and I repeated some lines from "why software engineering question":
This will help me solidify my knowledge and give me the ability to design, implement and improve software solutions across multiple domains. It will afford me the qualifications to take up a job as a senior software engineer in a Nigerian tech firm when I am back. I will be able to apply machine learning algorithms efficiently (Though I said it in a different way, so won't start sounding like a robot)
VO: I can see that your brother is your sponsor, what does he do?
Me: He is major distributor for so and so
VO: Has he traveled out of Africa before?
Me: Yes he's being to Dubai, Us
VO: Then she started typing for about 20secs and then asked: did you write any standardized test
Me: yes, I wrote GRE (I got 292)
VO: Let me see your score card.
Me: I reached out to my envelop, at this point I can see her dropping my passport in the tray. Then I passed the GRE result
She now said the sweet words.

My people my ear was still wide open I didn't go deaf oo. She now started rapping the usual " your i20 is as important as your passport always keep it on you, you'll need it at the POE and be ready to ...*I helped her to complete it* explain myself. Then she said I'll get a message in 7days to come pick up the passport.

Some people were denied but I didn't see any blue paper flying around. Abi na the 214g be the blue paper?

This has been a huge relieve. I can now close all the endless tabs that has been open on my system the past 2months

My advice to folks just starting the process: This has been repeated here countless times, please note that GRE is a vital component of your application whether you are seeking for funding or not. If you have enough time, abeg prepare for GRE and smash it.

All glory to God

subset:
My people, my visa came through this morning. I follow for those silent readers. I'm yet to recover from the ecstatic feeling.
I owe everything to this thread. I read every darn thing on this thread. I'm specially grateful to lamexx for reviewing my prepared responses and for the mock interview. This guy even called me with his airtime. So much love on Nairaland. Thanks to walspring for paying my sevis fee and to everyone that has contributed to this thread, you guys are awesome.

Abeg you guys should allow me to rant small. The idea for masters came to me immediately I passed out from service. This is the time I stumbled on this thread from a Google search, it brought a huge relieve knowing that most of the questions I have must have been answered here. I made it a duty to read at least 20pages of this thread everyday. It paid off !!

The stressed I went through for my transcript was just crazy. Shuttling almost every month from Lagos to Owerri to follow up on the transcript, even after paying one guy to help me expedite the process(Dude chop my money). The height of it all was when two of the transcript I requested was erroneously sent to one school. It took me almost 3 weeks to realize this error then I had to pay another 20k for another transcript which took one month again to process. Futo una well done!



My advice to folks just starting the process: This has been repeated here countless times, please note that GRE is a vital component of your application whether you are seeking for funding or not. If you have enough time, abeg prepare for GRE and smash it.

Congratulations man. This calls for celebration. Start preparing for school and try and arrive early so you can settle on time. All the best in your studies.