Happiness67:
Please, I urgently want to ask,I have two questions, I have asked before but no response, I have a foreign sponsor for my F1 studentship , he lives in a carribean country, guyana...does the VO's accept this kind of sponsorship? Do they look favorably into applications with a foreign bank account? Hope they will be able to verify the account easily?
The second question,pls what does 40% tuition scholarship for 'fall 2019 semester' entails? Does it cover just one semester or for the academic year? Any replies will be appreciated

Go ahead. As long as you able to justify why the person will be sponsoring you..40% of the semester just like it's written. Note that the 40% might not necessarily make the tuition affordable. Be sure to calculate what's left and be sure you can afford it.

Greetings to the house. I appreciate the great job you guys are doing. May God continue to support your own work too.
Please, I have 2 PhD admissions to start summer 2019-NMSU and LSU. However, I've not been able to secure funding for both. LSU says I can only get funding for my kind of program after enrollment/registration. NMSU says they're still looking for funding for me since most fundings are available in fall semester.
My questions/enquiries are:
1. Which of the schools is better, not in term of ranking but such factors like ease of securing assistantship, friendliness, cost of living and such like
2. Does choosing abuja embassy for interview despite residing in Lagos has any negative implication?
3.Does going to embassy without Phd funding has any serious consequence?
4.I will appreciate further assistance/information from a current student/alumnus of either school.
Thank you

Thanks bro...

Ola9292:

hello bro, i will suggest you write gre and pick a better school, this time last year, i was in the same shoes as you, same school. you stand a better chance of getting your visa that way but you can still go ahead and try your luck.

Jerrypics:
See details below.

Who is this one?

Where are February interviewees? For those of you this month that have visa interview. God will grant you all favor. Go grab that visa!

gbeje:
Greetings to the house. I appreciate the great job you guys are doing. May God continue to support your own work too.
Please, I have 2 PhD admissions to start summer 2019-NMSU and LSU. However, I've not been able to secure funding for both. LSU says I can only get funding for my kind of program after enrollment/registration. NMSU says they're still looking for funding for me since most fundings are available in fall semester.
My questions/enquiries are:
1. Which of the schools is better, not in term of ranking but such factors like ease of securing assistantship, friendliness, cost of living and such like
2. Does choosing abuja embassy for interview despite residing in Lagos has any negative implication?
3.Does going to embassy without Phd funding has any serious consequence?
4.I will appreciate further assistance/information from a current student/alumnus of either school.
Thank you

How do you plan to finance your PhD without funding? It might be better for you to wait till Fall to secure full funding

Don't go for the Phd Interview without having funding, most of the Phd programs gives full funding because its very expensive and the VO really sure you won't afford it by yourself.. Wait for the school to give you funding and if not,look for another schools

Any beautiful lady coming to New Jersey, new York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and already has a visa without emotional attachments back home like me? I need a girlfriend o. I'm traveling next week.

The school and or dept should have a code. It should be on the admission page of your school's website. Use the code to request your score to be sent.

dipomania070:
Hi everyone,

Please how do i go about TOEFL giving my school access to my result for confirmation. See the picture below please

dipomania070:


Bro what is the matter. You can only suceed when you keep trying. You might be facing one challenge or the other but know thats not the end of the world.

PM me lets discuss and know if i can be of help

thank you very much ..i have sent you a pm

Good day house, kudos to those keeping this thread running.

I have an admit for Masters for fall 2019 and I plan to go with my children and my domestic help. Applying for F2 is for spouse and children, i tried to goggle for Visa for domestic help and B1 looks like my option. Please who has been in my shoes before or know anyone who has travelled with domestic help while on F1, any documents or relevant info I should be privy to, please help out if you can.

Thank you.

Goodevening everyone..I really commend this informative thread,u have been wonderful..I have applied for Masters in School counselling in Us but my first degree was Sociology.My application has regerds the school documents have been completed but from what i read here,i discovered that i have to applied to four different universities to bright my chances,and again i was given a waiver for toefl..My question is;
1-Must i write a standardize test to brighten my chances of d visa
2-Which other 3 universities can i applied to that i can meet up d fall 2019 and with scholarship?
Pls advice me on the right steps to take to put me on d path to success.

Pls i need your candid advice

chqakinns:
Goodevening everyone..I really commend this informative thread,u have been wonderful..I have applied for Masters in School counselling in Us but my first degree was Sociology.My application has regerds the school documents have been completed but from what i read here,i discovered that i have to applied to four different universities to bright my chances,and again i was given a waiver for toefl..My question is;
1-Must i write a standardize test to brighten my chances of d visa
2-Which other 3 universities can i applied to that i can meet up d fall 2019 and with scholarship?
Pls advice me on the right steps to take to put me on d path to success.

Pls i need your candid advice

1. If you have gotten admission already and the school you applied to is a credible one, you don't have need for standardized test. Taking Standardized test shows you are a serious student and it's always advisable for students to write it, though it's not a must.

2. You have to search for this yourself. Most scholarships are for STEM courses.

tmd:
Good day house, kudos to those keeping this thread running.

I have an admit for Masters for fall 2019 and I plan to go with my children and my domestic help. Applying for F2 is for spouse and children, i tried to goggle for Visa for domestic help and B1 looks like my option. Please who has been in my shoes before or know anyone who has travelled with domestic help while on F1, any documents or relevant info I should be privy to, please help out if you can.

Thank you.

There is no visa category for domestic help and the domestic help does not qualify for B1/B2. You will have to go without the domestic help and start learning to live without domestic help if you want to study in the US.

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1. If you have gotten admission already and the school you applied to is a credible one, you don't have need for standardized test. Taking Standardized test shows you are a serious student and it's always advisable for students to write it, though it's not a must.

2. You have to search for this yourself. Most scholarships are for STEM courses.



Thanks for the reply.I really appreciate your kind gesture..I applied to nca&t university but av not been admitted yet.

Time2Smile:

There is no visa category for domestic help and the domestic help does not qualify for B1/B2. You will have to go without the domestic help and start learning to live without domestic help if you want to study in the US.

Short and straightforward. To the best of my knowledge, you can't have anyone as a domestic help staying indoors full time in the US. You can have police report/ letter of adoption as a backup document Or have her international passport carry same surname as you if you must, which I don't think it's realistic for an F1 applicant.

The answer is YES.
You can apply for your domestic employee to accompany you to the US while you are on an F1 Visa. The visa that they will get if granted is a B-1.
It is very difficult to get though especially given the current mood (higher level of refusals for temporary visitors including students) at the US consulates in Nigeria.

You will need to have exceptionally high financial means and both you, your family and your domestic help will have to prove major ties to Nigeria. The staff member must have also worked for you for a specified period of time plus other pre-conditions.
In addition, previous travel history with your domestic staff will be helpful i.e if he or she has travelled with you to the UK or US in the past.

Finally, remember that your husband cannot work or enrol in school full-time while on an F2 so the expectation is that if he is accompanying you, he should be able to take care of the children considering he will not be able to do anything else there so you will have to prove your case.

In summary, very difficult but not impossible.
All the best!

See this link for details;
http://www.ustraveldocs.com/ng/ng-niv-typedomesticemployee.asp

tmd:
Good day house, kudos to those keeping this thread running.

I have an admit for Masters for fall 2019 and I plan to go with my children and my domestic help. Applying for F2 is for spouse and children, i tried to goggle for Visa for domestic help and B1 looks like my option. Please who has been in my shoes before or know anyone who has travelled with domestic help while on F1, any documents or relevant info I should be privy to, please help out if you can.

Thank you.

LagosismyHome:


Pharmacy is a tricky one in the USA. It one of those second degree courses such as Medicine , law etc. So for example a 4 years Bachelor's (B.Sc.) of pharmacy degree doesn't exist in the U.S. . You have to have for example a bsc in another course before going for pharmacy. The degree offered is Pharm.D which is pretty much a doctorate phd degree

So maybe what you need , is look at what first Bsc you can do that will eventually leads to pharmacy (pre- pharmacy or bsc biology, bsc chemistry etc ) and then focus on admission/ funding in that area

Read this link to have an overview of Pharmacy in the US:
https://www.aacp.org/resource/international-students-and-graduates
https://www.amideast.org/usstudy/fields-study/health-professions-and-medicine/us-pharmacy-study-preparation-and-admissions

Please I want to know if it is a bad thing to show up at US embassy for F1 visa without my NYSC discharge certificate. I am planning on skipping my youth service and I don't qualify for exemption letter, thanks.

Others can contribute too.

Funnyman:


Please I want to know if it is a bad thing to show up at US embassy for F1 visa without my NYSC discharge certificate. I am planning on skipping my youth service and I don't qualify for exemption letter, thanks.

Others can contribute too.

The embassy doesn't ask for discharge certificate. They can ask for your work history and when you finished but nysc is not a show stopper neither is NYSC a requirement for F1

Although with what the finance minister went through you never know the future so maybe it best to do it

[quote author=chqakinns post=75475101][/quote]which program did you apply for at Ncat ?

TheZed:
which program did you apply for at Ncat ?

School counselling

chqakinns:


School counselling

okay

Hello everyone.

I am applying for Masters in Accounting in the US. I have some questions about applying to Texas A&M University-Commerce.

Is there anybody who has studied there before that can answer some questions please?

1. Do they require WES evaluation for the MSA? (the application requirement page and the applytexas portal says no, but the Graduate student services coordinator who I emailed said I need to send a WES evaluation)

2. How is funding over there? Is there a possibility of full tuition waiver?

3. Can anybody explain the assistanship policy? I read it and it left me more confused than before.

I have 3.03/5 GPA (Economics) , 311 GRE (161 V) and 107 TOEFL (all 28 except speaking 23).

Do you think my profile is competitive for the program?

Other schools I've applied to are:
1. UT Dallas
2. College of William and Mary
3. Wake forest University
4. Bentley University
5. UMD

LagosismyHome:


The embassy doesn't ask for discharge certificate. They can ask for your work history and when you finished but nysc is not a show stopper neither is NYSC a requirement for F1

Although with what the finance minister went through you never know the future so maybe it best to do it

Thanks for the prompt response.

Auditmonkey:
Hello everyone.

I am applying for Masters in Accounting in the US. I have some questions about applying to Texas A&M University-Commerce.

Is there anybody who has studied there before that can answer some questions please?

1. Do they require WES evaluation for the MSA? (the application requirement page and the applytexas portal says no, but the Graduate student services coordinator who I emailed said I need to send a WES evaluation)

2. How is funding over there? Is there a possibility of full tuition waiver?

3. Can anybody explain the assistanship policy? I read it and it left me more confused than before.

I have 3.03/5 GPA (Economics) , 311 GRE (161 V) and 107 TOEFL (all 28 except speaking 23).

Do you think my profile is competitive for the program?

Other schools I've applied to are:
1. UT Dallas
2. College of William and Mary
3. Wake forest University
4. Bentley University
5. UMD

1. Yes, Texas A&M University-Commerce now requires WES Evaluation.

2. If you get a Teaching assistantship/Research Assistantship position at Texas A&M University-Commerce, your tuition fee will be waived and some stipend paid to you. There are several type of funding in Texas A&M University-Commerce like the Julie Gouch scholarship, this scholarship if awarded qualifies you to pay fees as in-state student thereby reducing over 50% of the fees.

As for the schools you applied to, wake forest and Williams & Mary college are top ranked schools, your GPA is not competitive for such school. They require minimum GPA of 3.0/4.0

tmd:
Good day house, kudos to those keeping this thread running.

I have an admit for Masters for fall 2019 and I plan to go with my children and my domestic help. Applying for F2 is for spouse and children, i tried to goggle for Visa for domestic help and B1 looks like my option. Please who has been in my shoes before or know anyone who has travelled with domestic help while on F1, any documents or relevant info I should be privy to, please help out if you can.

Thank you.

Put yourself in the VOs shoes, why would you approve Visa for a domestic help? Doesn't that mean she is working on a non-working Visa?

Thank you. No Husband is not going, his work is here. He has a valid B1/B2 so he wont be applying for F2. Thanks.



The answer is YES.
You can apply for your domestic employee to accompany you to the US while you are on an F1 Visa. The visa that they will get if granted is a B-1.
It is very difficult to get though especially given the current mood (higher level of refusals for temporary visitors including students) at the US consulates in Nigeria.

You will need to have exceptionally high financial means and both you, your family and your domestic help will have to prove major ties to Nigeria. The staff member must have also worked for you for a specified period of time plus other pre-conditions.
In addition, previous travel history with your domestic staff will be helpful i.e if he or she has travelled with you to the UK or US in the past.

Finally, remember that your husband cannot work or complete any credit earning courses while on an F2 so the expectation is that if he is accompanying you, he should be able to take care of the children considering he will not be able to do anything else there so you will have to prove your case.

In summary, very difficult but not impossible.
All the best!

See this link for details;
http://www.ustraveldocs.com/ng/ng-niv-typedomesticemployee.asp



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My visa was delayed today...it's very painful

JoeBazz:
My visa was delayed today...it's very painful

sorry to hear this , but people warned you about california miramar University. Please if you want to go back , kindly change that school

others might say i know x and y in that school but when............ It is not easy to get a visa so choose your school and your package wisely