Jamezy4u:
Hello House and experience people

Please, as a Graduate student on F1 Visa, what type of business petty things can your wife do in the US legally to keep busy as well as support financially while with you in US on F2 dependent Visa?

Is there any hand work/skills she can learn in Nigeria before coming that she can use legally? Am aware dependent are not allowed to take up employment while on F2 Visa.
She can well rely on hairdressing job, she should learn and perfect d art of making all kinds of hair do, she doesn't need permit to make hair, she can use word of mouth to advertise, or go to salons that specializes in African braids and cornrows, usually if d salon takes her, they call her when their is a need, and they pay her 60% of whatever is charged , if she's fast enough she can make as many heads as possible, for single braids, they charge between $100 or more, so she gets $60 while d shop takes $40 ,and if she's nice, she can attract her own customers from there for home service and subsequently become self employed, she is not legal and do cannot be employed for most jobs as all jobs require work permit, unless by what they call under the table which is not too available.
Using another person's social security number is highly illegal if caught, but it is possible, nowadays it's always on d news, educating citizens in identity theft and how to catch offenders, she can do nanny or babysitting too if she can be referred by someone, but I must warn u, even a restaurant plate washing job will be given to her without papers..., she can try and go to a nursing school and take a CNA class for a few months, it cost around $1200 ,u can pay by instalments, but still can't work with her certificate without papers
If she wants to do legal bizness she must have her tax � , it is good to have d number but not a replacement for the social security number, although I here in states like Maryland and new York, a few employer might accept it o, but am yet to see any,
So my brother ,hairdressing lo sure ju ,in my opinion and experience in my own state sha


Thanks in anticipation.

Sinclair55:
I got a visa 10months ago for a uncle son's wedding in Houston. I couldn't attend the wedding due to work pressure. Now am ready to go on vacation. Please What are the likely questions I will be asked at point of entry. Thanks

oketg:


Thanks for clearity but staying beyound 2weeks if stamped 6 months is not really a crime.

uniquema:


Just make sure your maggi is not chicken flavour, My bag was searched because when the CPB officer (Agric) asked me the flavour of the maggi cubes I had, I told him I don't know cos it was packed by my wife and he requested to see it. After confirming it was beef flavour, he asked me to repack my bag and go.

leboss6:
for wetin now , see as u just call 3k dollars as if it's 300$ , especially in this days of cashless policy , with 800$ u are good to go ,PTA sef is 500$....$800 dollars is very very ok

tatalotambolo:
Hi people, just want to share my Poe experience with you all at last
My 3 kids, husband and finally made it to the USA on the 18th of September by royal air Maroc via' New York
Landed about 1.30 am and proceeded to the Poe, que was a long one and my family was last to do the fingerprints and all
Proceeded to the counter and after about two hours it was finally our turn
The office to my husband : hello how are you
Husband : good but very tired
Officer: where are you going?
Husband : Massachusetts
Officer : I see you are a.....
Husband :correct
Officer do you have any food?
Husband : yes
Officer :What type of food ?
Husband :Gari, Bla ,bla and bla
Officer : what's Gari?
Husband :laughing and Gari is bla bla bla
Officer : do you have the form filled out about the food?
Husband :sure
Officer : ok Pls follow me
We proceeded to a room where something was checked on d system and we were led to the cbp to identify our luggages
We had 7 luggages, 3 contained food, all bags were loaded on d scanner and all passed without any itch including my Palm oil, four kegs of agbo, one bag of iru, 24 Small bottles of origin bitters, four polybags of dry Uziza, bitter leave, saint leaves, and utazi leaves, Poundo yam, elubo, Fufu, Gari, crayfish, Cameroon pepper and atagungun, not forgetting my egusi too�all landed safely as we tiredly drag along into JFK arrival lounge