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do you know if her sister previously mentioned the applicant as her sister and the same parents in her immigration applications? US is not Nigeria that has no track record. If she has been mentioned in her sisters immigration application before, it wouldn't take any effort to do a quick search and link the two. There's enough time from when you submit your ds160 till your appointment date for them to run background checks on you. The 2 mins interview you have is only like 20% of the decision. Decision is usually even made before your arrival. Again this my take and to counter that no take is 100% accurate. Everyone should be allowed to share their opinion respectfully.

Shueld06:


Which VO even have the time to be doing such tenuous research of linking whatever with whatever…. Thousands if not millions of people share the same surname.. how then is a VO going to know you have a sister 10 yrs ago who applied for a US Visa if you didn’t tell them 😂. I mean they’re human being not God! Even if they have such system algorithm to match it, why’d a VO decide to do that when there are other applicants on que who just want to know their fate real quick

Mobil567:
do you know if her sister previously mentioned the applicant as her sister and the same parents in her immigration applications? US is not Nigeria that has no track record. If she has been mentioned in her sisters immigration application before, it wouldn't take any effort to do a quick search and link the two. There's enough time from when you submit your ds160 till your appointment date for them to run background checks on you. The 2 mins interview you have is only like 20% of the decision. Decision is usually even made before your arrival. Again this my take and to counter that no take is 100% accurate. Everyone should be allowed to share their opinion respectfully.

Where did you ever see on the ds-160 asking applicants about their siblings in Nigeria Please let me know how it’s possible to declare/list your siblings that are in still in Nigeria. Ds-160 only ask of parents info (in Nigeria or not) and siblings that are in US.

Even green card application doesn’t ask your outside the country siblings.

hellopoza:
How was your interview? @Ayomide98

Yeah bro, Glory to God

I got approved 🙏🏾

Shueld06:


Yeah.. I was applying for my wife’s F-2. But she was denied. Last switched to Abuja that time and she had her interview on October 9

Ohh sorry to hear that, she should tryna reapply.

Ayomide98:


Yeah bro, Glory to God

I got approved 🙏🏾

Great! I'm so glad to know. Kindly share your transcript
Do you have funding?

ok immigration officer.

yinkhar:

Mobil567:
do you know if her sister previously mentioned the applicant as her sister and the same parents in her immigration applications? US is not Nigeria that has no track record. If she has been mentioned in her sisters immigration application before, it wouldn't take any effort to do a quick search and link the two. There's enough time from when you submit your ds160 till your appointment date for them to run background checks on you. The 2 mins interview you have is only like 20% of the decision. Decision is usually even made before your arrival. Again this my take and to counter that no take is 100% accurate. Everyone should be allowed to share their opinion respectfully.

Yeah. We just have to continue disabusing these misconceptions. Decisions are not made before you arrive. They don’t check your DS-160 until you hand in your port to the VO. The VO scan your port , and since u already enter your port number in your DS-160 application, relevant information about you pop up to the VO and it’s ready for check. If your visa is approved, that’s when they do background check in some cases. And what they do is basically send your record already captured in the CLASSIFY system and the transcript of your interview to USCIS, USCIS simply and they ask the embassy to add sticker to your port. In some cases, when you check your ceac, you’ll see issued after the 3rd day or 4th, and if they have doubt, the status change to istrative processing (AP)— probably the proof of fund you use has some issue or your i20 isn’t okay (maybe the school isn’t an approved institution), they’ll deny the visa even after the VO approve it during interview.

No! No one checks your DS-160 before you show up for interview! No one checks it. The embassy do not have such time. They only do some background verification if you’re approved..hope this is clear?

Lastly, it’s what you disclose that thw embassy work with. If you didn’t tell them you have a sister in the US, the VO won’t basically know this. The VO has no time to check whether your name look like someone that applied for visa 10yrs ago. Even green card application don’t require all these, not to talk of an F-1 visa

Mobil567:
you can disagree in a learned way. There's no correct response here as we are not professionals. If one gets advised, he or she can crosscheck and select which one to adhere to. Attacking everyone that shares their opinion will discourage others and after you people wanted why a thread becomes dormant. Even your opinion is not 100% correct because you are not a US visa officer. Just drop your take and rest.

Alright bro. When you get there for your interview, simply do you!

Shueld06:


Yeah. We just have to continue disabusing these misconceptions. Decisions are not made before you arrive. They don’t check your DS-160 until you hand in your port to the VO. The VO scan your port , and since u already enter your port number in your DS-160 application, relevant information about you pop up to the VO and it’s ready for check. If your visa is approved, that’s when they do background check in some cases. And what they do is basically send your record already captured in the CLASSIFY system and the transcript of your interview to USCIS, USCIS simply and they ask the embassy to add sticker to your port. In some cases, when you check your ceac, you’ll see issued after the 3rd day or 4th, and if they have doubt, the status change to istrative processing (AP)— probably the proof of fund you use has some issue or your i20 isn’t okay (maybe the school isn’t an approved institution), they’ll deny the visa even after the VO approve it during interview.

No! No one checks your DS-160 before you show up for interview! No one checks it. The embassy do not have such time. They only do some background verification if you’re approved..hope this is clear?

Lastly, it’s what you disclose that thw embassy work with. If you didn’t tell them you have a sister in the US, the VO won’t basically know this. The VO has no time to check whether your name look like someone that applied for visa 10yrs ago. Even green card application don’t require all these, not to talk of an F-1 visa

You've summed it up perfectly. During my interview, the visa officer didn't bring up the fact that I gave birth in the U.S. until I mentioned it, which caught her by surprise. It's worth noting that I initially applied for a medical visa and fully disclosed this information at the port of entry. While I don't recommend hiding any details, it's clear they don't always have the time to scrutinize everything unless you're flagged as a criminal or terrorist. Some of you over analyse this visa process too much, most times the decision to refuse is more subjective.

Blackfinegirl:


You've summed it up perfectly. During my interview, the visa officer didn't bring up the fact that I gave birth in the U.S. until I mentioned it, which caught her by surprise. It's worth noting that I initially applied for a medical visa and fully disclosed this information at the port of entry. While I don't recommend hiding any details, it's clear they don't always have the time to scrutinize everything unless you're flagged as a criminal or terrorist. Some of you over analyse this visa process too much, most times the decision to refuse is more subjective.

That’s because they won’t know until u tell them. The moment you tell them you had a baby in the US (a US traveling history), they will check their computer and they can see the last time you came to the embassy (last time you were given visa). Except you didn’t pay your medical bills in full, or you overstayed your B1/B2, or you gave birth in a cheap hospital (they know it’s cheap when they ask u and u tell them), there’s nothing wrong giving birth on a B1/B2 visa as long as u disclose this during interview and at the POE.

Believing the embassy check your DS-160 or they check anything about you before interview is a ridiculous belief. It’s not true. Only God can know what you didn’t disclose, humans can only try.

In fact it’s easy to tell the information the VO have access to from ur DS-160 when they have access to ur port during interview, but it’s not information like “this applicant uncle applied for F-1 visa in 2010 and didn’t came back pls reject him” 😂 you need to tell them this yourself.

Shueld06:


Yall should stop being this way for once!

Mobil567, this is also for you

How will a VO be so sure someone who got a visa 10yrs ago is your family member when the said individual didn’t mention ur full name nor your picture? Even if they mention ur full name, the CLASS system the embassy uses isn’t able to match these things and the embassy do not even care. How can the VO match these things? Just how? Just like someone said everyone in the US is being monitored in their room and the government is watching what everyone is doing in their room and that’s why he can’t offer immigration advice on call or chat cuz the government in the US see all things.. you see how that sounds ridiculous? Yeah the same way your assertion sounds

(2) mentioning you have a family member: here’s what’s going to happen.. the VO will want to know more and ask you how they got to the US and when,, they’ll know it they’ve overstayed or not or they can simply search their name in the CLASS system.. if they overstay their visa or they now get green card in some ways, the VO can judge you using that or they might not., it’s a two way thing.. that’s why some people just advise not to

This individual was denied for other reasons. Sometimes you even get denied for no reason at all!

What makes it difficult to find if you have an immediate family member in the US? You supply your parent's name, date of birth, and mother's maiden name. It is unique to a large extent to tag applications.

Shueld06:


The VO’s question about the father travelling history was just random. That’s not the reason he was denied. Ahaha that sound so ridiculous. How does my father’s travelling history has anything to do with mine? Must my parent travel? My father probably never even know nor see what a visa look like before in his life neither did he even have interest in one, and he lived his life satisfactorily!

The OP could be denied for so many reasons— the VO could have doubt about being able to pay like they doubt just about everyone else without funding. If you’ve visited a US embassy before, you’ll understand. They can even randomly deny a PhD student with full funding and who sounds very convincing of his purpose

Let me help you a bit, mind you this is my perspective.
A potential student says the father can afford $36k USD per year for 2 years ($72k in total). At $1/N1600, this is about N115million. In the past, a small business owner could afford to pay the equivalent of $72k as it wasn't much however, in recent times, whoever can afford to pay such has to be a business owner that is doing well, considering the state of the economy.
Asking if the father has ever traveled out is a way of measuring the kind of business the father owns to fund the program. Think through this from the position of a VO and tell me what you would do if you were a VO. The current situation of the country has put us at a disadvantage whether we like it or not. Now, there's more of luck/grace in getting a visa than your intention particularly if you are not funded or on a scholarship.

GboyegaD:


What makes it difficult to find if you have an immediate family member in the US? You supply your parent's name, date of birth, and mother's maiden name. It is unique to a large extent to tag applications.

You know what’s funny? The VO won’t do this. And if they do, you’re telling me it’s easy to link me with Ajanlekoko Tade who applied for a visa 3yrs ago and didn’t come back just cuz my surname is Ajanlekoko, and we seem to enter the same maiden name and parent date of birth in the DS-160?

If the VO do that, he/she is simply discarding the million of different permutations of names that’s possible for each applicant that’s ever applied for a US visa in the world —not just Nigeria. I’ve seen at least 5 people on Facebook that has the same name as me. And it’s easy to google search and find a name just like anyone else here and that name is linked with a crime, and it’s not just you.

The case here is that we overestimated and overemphasised these things

GboyegaD:


Let me help you a bit, mind you this is my perspective.
A potential student says the father can afford $36k USD per year for 2 years ($72k in total). At $1/N1600, this is about N115million. In the past, a small business owner could afford to pay the equivalent of $72k as it wasn't much however, in recent times, whoever can afford to pay such has to be a business owner that is doing well, considering the state of the economy.
Asking if the father has ever traveled out is a way of measuring the kind of business the father owns to fund the program. Think through this from the position of a VO and tell me what you would do if you were a VO. The current situation of the country has put us at a disadvantage whether we like it or not. Now, there's more of luck/grace in getting a visa than your intention particularly if you are not funded or on a scholarship.

So if he say the father has travelled to the US twice and the UK 3 times, that tells the VO the father is capable of paying the fee? Ahaha, these are just cases where I say “Lol” VO deny visa for anything..but this reason is so extraneous to discard its possibility.

The truth is if you don’t have funding, they don’t trust your word but they approve some people even at that and they deny some people. They know 80% of the time, your parent don’t have the money u claim they have store somewhere..but they approve and they deny..it’s all just hinged on the VO’s disposition.

This guy can go to the embassy tomorrow and say the same thing and get approved. He can say the same thing and still get denied. The best he can do is to review his case himself, try and get funding if possible, and if you can’t get funding, let your case be convincing especially when it concerns who’s paying ur fee and how they’re going to pay that

yinkhar:


Please leave them! I await their arrival from the interview. The ones claiming they know better by ditching useless advice won’t provide help when the time comes.
The main reason I see in that denial was funding but since they are all claiming he should go fill another interview without addressing that instead he should go claim his sister that stayed behind in US. Goodluck to them!!!

If you all take time to read past years on this thread, you will learn your lesson on why you should focus on funding as your number one priority and know that no VO has ridiculous information of linking your siblings with you unless you want to put yourself in that difficult situation.

Ire o

I am sure no one has claimed to be the plethora of knowledge/advice however, I find it funny when you try discount the opinion of others. It is a platform, share your opinion and leave others to share theirs. It is left for each reader to pick what they think work best for them.

GboyegaD:


I am sure no one has claimed to be the plethora of knowledge/advice however, I find it funny when you try discount the opinion of others. It is a platform, share your opinion and leave others to share theirs. It is left for each reader to pick what they think work best for them.

Did I force my opinion on others? Leave it or take it no be by force

Shueld06:


You know what’s funny? The VO won’t do this. And if they do, you’re telling me it’s easy to link me with Ajanlekoko Tade who applied for a visa 3yrs ago and didn’t come back just cuz my surname is Ajanlekoko, and we seem to enter the same maiden name and parent date of birth in the DS-160?

If the VO do that, he/she is simply discarding the million of different permutations of names that’s possible for each applicant that’s ever applied for a US visa in the world —not just Nigeria. I’ve seen at least 5 people on Facebook that has the same name as me. And it’s easy to google search and find a name just like anyone else here and that name is linked with a crime, and it’s not just you.

The case here is that we overestimated and overemphasised these things

In this age and time, it is the easiest thing to do. A fuzzy match coupled with a logistic regression would generate plausible relationships. If such is done, it will be at no effort. Besides, why do you think it takes some time to print out visas for some and others very quick? It might not be everyone that is investigated but I am sure, there are some investigations that go on.

Shueld06:


So if he say the father has travelled to the US twice and the UK 3 times, that tells the VO the father is capable of paying the fee? Ahaha, these are just cases where I say “Lol” VO deny visa for anything..but this reason is so extraneous to discard its possibility.

The truth is if you don’t have funding, they don’t trust your word but they approve some people even at that and they deny some people. They know 80% of the time, your parent don’t have the money u claim they have store somewhere..but they approve and they deny..it’s all just hinged on the VO’s disposition.

This guy can go to the embassy tomorrow and say the same thing and get approved. He can say the same thing and still get denied. The best he can do is to review his case himself, try and get funding if possible, and if you can’t get funding, let your case be convincing especially when it concerns who’s paying ur fee and how they’re going to pay that

That the father has traveled has no bearing on the outcome however, it could help the VO drop his/her guard a bit as she still need tie everything the applicant say to reach a conclusion.

yinkhar:


Did I force my opinion on others? Leave it or take it no be by force

Then don't make derogatory remarks on other people's opinion.

GboyegaD:


Then don't make derogatory remarks on other people's opinion.

lol! Derogatory you mean? I laugh in Spanish 🤣🤣🤣 I quoted Shueld06, he didn’t have issue with it but you that I never directed my opinion to or attack, is pointing out derogatory remarks. Bravo!

And for the record, if you check the meaning of ditching, you would understand my statement. *ditching useless advice* that I said in that statement means leaving our own advice of not declaring your siblings in your application (our advice was the useless one I was referring to). So check dictionary and let me know who I made derogatory remarks to.

GboyegaD:


In this age and time, it is the easiest thing to do. A fuzzy match coupled with a logistic regression would generate plausible relationships. If such is done, it will be at no effort. Besides, why do you think it takes some time to print out visas for some and others very quick? It might not be everyone that is investigated but I am sure, there are some investigations that go on.

I already explained what it’s going on in my post earlier why and how they carry out investigation

Chemist4life:
Pls help me ooo,who have experience this before, invalid ds-160 confirmation number on AVITS portal

Hello, please have you been able to resolve this? judging from the response from the officers?

I have been experiencing the same issue since last week even with a filled ds 160.

Has it been resolved or what's the way forward, especially with the handicap of not even being able to book a date

Gretmang:


The last option is to create a new DS-160 application to get a new DS-160 confirmation number if you’ve reached out to AVITS without result.

I did this and still same error.

Good Evening all, my Avits Portal is not generating Visa payment details for bank transfer. What can be done. I created a new (could this be why?)

I have Swedish PR and an existing 5 years visit visa. I dont need no interview as I dont intend to migrate again. Only here because I enjoy reading travel threads from time to time. But thanks for the wish.

Shueld06:


Alright bro. When you get there for your interview, simply do you!

Shokes:
Good Evening all, my Avits Portal is not generating Visa payment details for bank transfer. What can be done. I created a new (could this be why?)

Honestly, I no understand this new platform. Bugs upon bugs everywhere!

Hello everyone, If a person’s interview is rescheduled on the night of her interview, yet the portal is still showing the original date, what do you advise her to do?
Secondly, she and the Child (3 years old) date were separated, with a day difference. What advice do you have for her? Can she be allowed to do the interview on the same day with the child? They both have the same date and time before before suddenly they got reschedule email on the night proceeding the date of the the initial interview. Any one has experienced this before?

Orpazpjr:


Hello, please have you been able to resolve this? judging from the response from the officers?

I have been experiencing the same issue since last week even with a filled ds 160.

Has it been resolved or what's the way forward, especially with the handicap of not even being able to book a date

Nope,

FVA89:
Hello everyone, If a person’s interview is rescheduled on the night of her interview, yet the portal is still showing the original date, what do you advise her to do?
Secondly, she and the Child (3 years old) date were separated, with a day difference. What advice do you have for her? Can she be allowed to do the interview on the same day with the child? They both have the same date and time before before suddenly they got reschedule email on the night proceeding the date of the the initial interview. Any one has experienced this before?

Not sure of my answer but if I were you, I’d go to the embassy the next day and see if I get attended to just to be safe.

Please someone should help me out. I have been stucked at pre approval after making my paying since last week.

Please, this Ds 160 invalid prompt is greatly affecting my ability to pick dates; worse, I cannot even create a ticket.


Is there one who has been able to resolve theirs successfully?

Thanks

Mobil567:
I have Swedish PR and an existing 5 years visit visa. I dont need no interview as I dont intend to migrate again. Only here because I enjoy reading travel threads from time to time. But thanks for the wish.

I wish you well brother. Wherever you are, life is what you make of it. Live, impact and spread peace because nothing is guaranteed. May all of us succeed and be truly free and happy.