NewStats: 3,264,768 , 8,184,656 topics. Date: Thursday, 12 June 2025 at 10:40 AM 2n462g

Anybody that wants to help should do it openly on this platform by responding to people's concerns.

You should be careful with anyone asking you to them privately. If you get scammed, please do not come here to complain.

Thank you and best wishes.

RAdeola:
Good day, people

Please I’m in a fix. I made the worst mistake of my life. In my DS-160, I filled that my brother is a US citizen and I got rejected on Friday. How do I wash myself clean going forward knowing this is a big issue.

Please I need help!

That information is most likely in their data base already (I may be wrong)

What I can say in case of your next application is that you should work on convincing the VO that you're only going to focus on your studies and you can probably add the lines of no cordial relationship between you and your brother.

I saw a video on Tuan's YouTube page. The girl said her aunt in the US didn't grow with them, that the family grew up in Spain. Just trying to convince the VO that she's not going there because of the aunt.

You might be lucky that your next VO would not even bring up a discussion around it. But prepare. Nothing is impossible.

All the best.

Ezepikin:
My brother, apart from the $350 SEVIS fee, how much did you pay as charges on the Western Union payment platform. Secondly,how quickly did the payment reflect.
Thank you

They charged my guy 359.9 USD. That's additional $10.

An email was sent instantly and I immediately checked my fmjfee page to my payment confirmation page.

As earlier stated by other people here, if one store doesn't understand the payment, the person paying for you should try another store until they get where the WU agent understands the payment and is truly ready to help

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OyoTunjiUSA:



Hey 🤠

1. Western Union is not down.
Your people in the USA have gone to few places and perhaps those locations does not understand SEVIS fee payment thereby prompting your people to come up with an excuse in order to push you elsewhere.


2. Plead with your people to go to a Western Union outlet with Quickpay. Only WU outlet with Quickpay facility understands how to remit SEVIS fee and accept the payment.

3. Prior to number 2 above, go to sevis website and print out " Payment Coupon" which you must fill out with your sevis number and your school sevis code (according to your Form-120) .

4. You will have to email or scan the payment coupon to the payer in the USA which he (the payer) or she must tender to the Western Union outlet on your behalf.


Best Wishes 🙏

Thank you, God bless you

endlessjoyy:


There are other ways you can pay your Sevis fee.
I use Pay4Me App for my cross border transactions, Sevis included. Their processing speed is top notch.

Thank you. The payment was later done the same day I did the post.

studyless123:


I hope this is sorted out. There are other ways to pay apart from WU.

Yeah, sorted. Thank you

Please who paid SEVIS fee recently?

My people in the US are saying western Union is down and I'm wondering if that could happen for days...

Could it be that there is something they are not doing right?

OyoTunjiUSA:



🤠

I worked as a travel agent for more than 10 years with offices in Lagos Island before the birth of Internet or Web.

I graduated into becoming International visa counselor (USA/CANADA/Australia) since the year 2015.

In the year 2020, i enrolled under a reputable USA visa attorney as an apprentice (because i will eventually base in the United States or Canada) in order to have best knowledge of visa rules and laws.

Presently i have many Chinese and Indian students and visa applicants as my clients (which is more than okay for me) . I have facebook, twitter and other ed international platforms where i do my businesses.

I don't need nairaland for any business purposes but I am open to connection and personal consulting because if i dont do that then my purpose is defeated.

Your clicks ie @fearlessfang, @Zihno, @Danburuwa, @Excellent100 and the rest of fake monikers should stop deceiving nairalanders because you derives your sources of income here. Submit yourself fearlessfang. I will teach you the work of a visa counselor which is the highest position of a travel agent.

Drop your social media handles if you don't have anything to hide. Show your real identity if you no be scammer

OyoTunjiUSA:



@ Excellent100 , @fearlessfang[ stop deceiving Nairalanders with your groups and whatsapp forums with fundings./b]

You guys are the real thieves. I am a conspiracy breaker , i study it. You have more than 20 monikers In almost all threads on nairaland and your style is to use those monikers in driving away your competitors .

[b]God will judge all of you for misleading Nigerians. You will then come to Nairaland with fake visa transcripts.

Educational consultancy and traveling agency na legit business. No be crime.

But red flag is when you hide under different names on nairaland and try to psychologically hoodwink people to patronize you.

Sharpen your skills and get more serious with your business. Give your business a brand name and it. Go legit publicly and let people recognize you. Put out your real names and business identity on social media platforms. In short, go legit

It's up to you if being shady on nairaland is what you want to build your future upon, but just note say no be everybody go be thief like you

OyoTunjiUSA:


🤠


@Excellence100.

I your moniker. Why are you replying at the same time with @fearlessfang ? History is following you . I accusing you of posting fake VISA transcripts.
What are you still doing here ? You have not traveled with your fake visa 🤠

1. I work with Indians and Chinese applicants majorly . @fearlessfang stop wasting your lifetime. You cannot succeed from anything that has to do with Nigeria again until you apologise to Nigerians in public.

2.. Your fake fully funded PhD visa that was approved within 1 munites from South Korea. So have you rounded off your Phd degree ?

First point out my name from your screenshot, arindin. I used someone's post to counter your lie, but you must pin the post on me in order to convince your potential victims

Sometimes I try to doubt it, but e be like say you be thief true true. Corporate thief. Normal normal, thief go see every other person as thief and that's why you keep up with accusing anybody that is not clapping for you

My latest post was not even directed in favour of or against anybody. It's about sanity on this forum, but because you be real thief, you feel say I dy attack you. Na your past and future victims I pity

Maybe nairaland needs to step up to ID verification level. Would not be compulsory, but at least one person would be able to have only one verified

Maybe it would reduce these claims and counter claims

Please is there anyone here that has already secured MSc or PhD ission with NCAT?

I would like to know if such persons have had their funding status decided yet, as I am yet to get an update till this moment.

Thank you.

"He stated that applicants must demonstrate strong connections to their homeland, compelling them to return once their visit's purpose concludes."

Hello guys, you can try to check this link and read up for better understanding concerning visa interview. Everyone is responsible for what they understand from the report.

https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/education/us-hits-record-high-in-student-visa-denials-4728736.html

You think too high of yourself and you deserve no iota of respect. The post I quoted can be found on page 162 of this thread and the screenshot is attached.

Hustle no be crime, but always that not you, not I or anyone here is an authority when it comes to the US visa issuance, unless you prove to us that you're a staff at any of their embassies.

You and every other person here are only trying to help from information they have from personal experiences, experiences of others and internet information. None of us here is in their system and the whole ego massage is useless.

Anyone that takes whatever anybody says here hook, line and sinker, without fact checking deserves whatever names they're eventually called.

But you think because you number your responses and end with "best wishes", they're sacrosanct.

God help you and the people that would enter your trap.

OyoTunjiUSA:



Hey 🤠

@Excellence100.

1. Why are you just posting your visa transcript today ? So you have quickly process phd ission, got your visa and post it in order to lies .

2. Bsc , Msc & PhD in visa juxtaposing , Phd will definitely take the lion share. A Nigerian with a visiting visa to Australia may have his PhD F1 granted based on the fact that PhD applicants are naturally academic resources to any countries and especially if the applicant is a genius.

3. Generally , A Nigerian who went to Australia for conference and who does not know any one and doesn't have a house or family in Australia except his hotel room , tell me if he goes for F1 or B1/B2 at the USA embassy in Australia from his hotel room that his visa will be granted ?

4. If a Nigerian got a USA visa from any country other than Nigeria his or her country of birth , then he or she has a tie to that country. OR his or her previous visa , perhaps his or her DS 160 information makes him or her a genuine visa candidate .

5. I don't believe in visa transcripts because i can form different visa success transcripts myself and post it on Nairaland . I only believe the scanned copy of the visa i see .


Best Wishes 🙏

Agent or not, welldone to everyone responding here. But we must also accept the fact that no one knows it all, else, our education is useless.

Mr OyoTunjiUSA, if people have to prove ties to the respective countries they're present in, rate of US visa issuance for Nigerians in foreign countries would be very low, but that's not the case.

While it may not compulsorily be your home country (depending on your visa status or engagement in the country you are at that moment), you must tie your visa interview response to going back somewhere after your studies.

It might be your home country as it is in the post I'm quoting or the country you're seeking visa from, if you're established and have ties there

To me, it doesn't look like these things have rigid restrictions as they're being painted here. And the whole back and forth is not necessary

My visa interview transcript

Visa: Approved
Location: Seoul, South Korea
Name of School: Missouri University of Science and Technology
Funding: Fully funded
Interview date: December 12, 2022

Visa appointment was by 8:15 am. I arrived at 7:50.
After the biometrics, I was directed to the queue for interview by a male VO.

VO: When did you finish your masters?
Me: February 2021

VO: What major will you study for your PhD?
Me: (I told him)

VO: Your PhD program is funded , right?
Me: Yes, I got a fully-funded PhD offer

VO: What will you do after your PhD?
Me: In the short term, I'd like to apply for post-doctoral position to reinforce my research experience. In the long term, I will return to my home country to work as.... (VO cuts in).

VO: That's okay, I will be approving your visa sir.  You will receive your port in few days.

Interview finished in approximately 1 minute. I picked up my visa after 2 business days.

Glory be to God!

itoski:


And he was fully funded right?
I have friends in Purdue, Texas A and M, North Carolina and they all had GRE and TOEFL which they submitted to get full funding into their respective PhD programs.
Better be prepared than sorry!

Bro, please I sent you a PM

Sisib15:
Good evening great people,

Please I need your kind input in this issue as the matter is more than me.

Someone called me and needed my advise and I do not have an idea on how to start advising the person.

So she said that her school emailed her about a meeting earlier today . I think the email came last week or so.

So when she ed the meeting today, she said they told her that GRE wrote to them(the school) and stated that they are declining the GRE result given to her, reason being that her image Abi her picture is not consistent.

So at this point , I became confused , I asked if she has any issue with GRE prior to now but she opened up and told me that she paid one agent in Nigeria to assist her write the GRE and her score was so high . The GRE result is authentic but was not written by her.

Also this GRE was done to see if she can get scholarship but she didn’t get the scholarship from the school as at the time she enrolled , probably because the fund has finished or something. This GRE was written for her in 2021 and she entered America last year fall. This spring is still her 2nd semester.

While she was still explaining this to me, a mail notification came to her phone and she checked the mail. The mail stated that the school has told her that she is no longer needed in program.

Please any advise for her. She acknowledged that she didn’t do well and has requested I give her my sincere advise . Should she start looking for another school ? Will she affect her record/sevis? Does anyone know anyone that had encountered similar issue in the past ?

Saw an update about a UK man that reported her wife's fake IELTS because the wife reported him for physical abuse, both now sent out of the UK and back to Nigeria.

I was doubting the story because from my own experience "is it even possible to run IELTS?"

Now from this story and the responses that have followed so far, I understand that many things are going on, even if someone like me do not know how they are being done.

I fear we Nigerians.

daram007:
Please who applied for PhD at Dartmouth college?

After the response I got from UVA, I've also sent an email to my intended department in Dartmouth.

I've submitted PhD application since November 22, 2023 and no response till now.

I once emailed the graduate school and they said "In most cases, the issions Committee will render decisions by April 30."

Hi everyone, been following the thread.

For some of us waiting endlessly for ission decision, I'd advise you ask about your application status from your intended department's graduate coordinator.

For example, I emailed UVA Materials Science and Engineering and they responded that they had already ed selected people, that I am not among.

PS: different schools and programs with different methods. Best wishes.

Corona virus, 5G. Lol

Good afternoon everyone.

Please can I still complete my DS-160 form even after 30 days of opening it?

Or will my visa application fee go to waste if I fail to finish up my DS-160 form after 30 days?

tonexman18:
Is this your first time applying and is it b1/b2??

Yes. My very first time.

Excellence100:
After rescheduling 5 times, I've gotten August 15, 2023, Abuja. I still hope to reschedule to like March sha or January.

But my major concern is, would the number of times I reschedule not affect my visa interview success in any way?

Thank you.

Truly, I can see that there's no reschedule option any longer. I'd just prepare towards my August 15. Not bad a date actually. Bless up, Sir.

After rescheduling 5 times, I've gotten August 15, 2023, Abuja. I still hope to reschedule to like March sha or January.

But my major concern is, would the number of times I reschedule not affect my visa interview success in any way?

Hello, everyone.

My aunt in the US has asked me to take steps and get an interview date for visiting visa, as she wants to invite me over.

I am not sure if https://ceac.state.gov/ceac/ is the right website to go to.

I'm also not sure of the visa type I should apply for.

Kindly advise on these my concerns. Thank you

ladykilllar:
If you have broken or misplaced your Edifier tws nb2 charging case I have spare ones for sale.

The earbuds not really working well so i can just sell the case off.

This is what brought me back to this thread.

How much are you willing to sell the case?
And hope your case still has that small bag?

Thank you for this important thread, Madam Tracy.

Just as we clearly have 3 materials for C,

Kindly share the respective materials for

Emacs

Shell navigation

Vi editor

Git and GitHub

Thank you once again

@Ebube043

Kindly add me to the WhatsApp group for August cohort. Already mailed you. [email protected].

Thank you.

popolanpoowusu:
Guys please I need help..I need sample of affidavit proving my relationship with my uncle

Well, I'm not sure of the purpose, but ordinarily, I think you don't need a sample.

He'd go with you to a high court, you explain to the person in charge and they come up with the affidavit.

Something like: 'Affidavit for proof of relationship as an uncle' for the topic. Then the body details when you were born, how being an uncle came up; brother to mum or dad, together with the rest of the words on a regular affidavit.

Your uncle signs as the deponent and that's all.

Onyelex:



Haven't heard or seen anyone yet

Boss, please I got South Korean PhD scholarship and I need to link up with you for some questions.

But to start with, I'm done with authentication at MOE AND MOFA, next is notarization. My question is about the embassy. Is it only the Abuja embassy that I can go for the notarization?

I'm closer to Lagos, but I'm not sure if they do notarization and visa application at their Lagos office