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Please while filling the DS 160 form, is it advisable to declare having a brother In the US under relatives section or is this a red flag as some people claimed?

lexychuks:
Good day all. I'm currently in a dilemma on choosing a school in US for my MSC in Engineering. I'm currently stuck on three universities, New York institute of technology, University of Illinois Chicago and Northeastern University Boston.

Please I need advice on which is the best in of getting a job or getting funding

What branch of engineering? Have you been itted to all 3? Or are you yet to apply to any of the 3? If the latter, I'd suggest you apply to all 3that is if you have the wherewithal.

Northeastern is in a prime location and is the highest ranked offense the 3, I think. Also, this prime location means connection to industry which translates to multiple career fairs and numerous job opportunities. Don't think they fund MSc students. Even some PhD students are itted without funding, according to what I see on gradcafe.
University of Illinois on the other hand is also a great school. However, living in Chicago can be expensive and I can't speak to their funding policy for MS. I do know that PhD students are regularly funded.
Don't know about NYIT.

Consider other schools outside these 3 of you haven't already.

Good luck with your applications.

I need assistance on how to pay my sevis through western union....kindly assist....08037977846

Hi everyone,

I'm about booking an appointment with the embassy,not sure whether to pick Lagos or Abuja..I would appreciate if someone could share available dates for Lag and Abj.

Thanks.

Good day fam, my visa was delayed in lagos embassy yesterday 19th October, 2018 and below is my transcript.
Please advise and correct my flaws. I'm open to any form cos am already sick. Though, I intend to reapply soonest.

VO' Hi, me your i20 and port
Me- Good morning, here you go
VO- why are you going to the US
Me- In going for my master's degree in Sustainability management at Illinois institute of technology in Chicago
VO- How do you intend to pay for your tuition cos it's expensive
Me- I have been working for 3 years. so I have savings and my uncle who is a successful poultry farmer and also a major distributor of poultry farm products in Ibadan, Oyo State will cater for the rest
VO- even the average American citizen can't foot the bill
Me- told her well, with my uncles sponsorship and my savings, I can afford it. She didn't request for any bank statement or anything. She replied I'm ineligeable for visa.

LagosismyHome:


PR visa or student visa are allowed one way ticket. Someone close to me is travelling tommorrow to Canada with a one way ticket .

Ma, maybe not applicable to all banks but I'm 99% certain you need a return ticket to get PTA from zenith bank even with F1 visa.

uzzyj:

Good day fam, my visa was delayed in lagos embassy yesterday 19th October, 2018 and below is my transcript.
Please advise and correct my flaws. I'm open to any form cos am already sick. Though, I intend to reapply soonest.

VO' Hi, me your i20 and port
Me- Good morning, here you go
VO- why are you going to the US
Me- In going for my master's degree in Sustainability management at Illinois institute of technology in Chicago
VO- How do you intend to pay for your tuition cos it's expensive
Me- I have been working for 3 years. so I have savings and my uncle who is a successful poultry farmer and also a major distributor of poultry farm products in Ibadan, Oyo State will cater for the rest
VO- even the average American citizen can't foot the bill
Me- told her well, with my uncles sponsorship and my savings, I can afford it. She didn't request for any bank statement or anything. She replied I'm ineligeable for visa.

Sorry about that. But how much was the tuition fee on your I-20?

MasterforceII:


What branch of engineering? Have you been itted to all 3? Or are you yet to apply to any of the 3? If the latter, I'd suggest you apply to all 3that is if you have the wherewithal.

Northeastern is in a prime location and is the highest ranked offense the 3, I think. Also, this prime location means connection to industry which translates to multiple career fairs and numerous job opportunities. Don't think they fund MSc students. Even some PhD students are itted without funding, according to what I see on gradcafe.
University of Illinois on the other hand is also a great school. However, living in Chicago can be expensive and I can't speak to their funding policy for MS. I do know that PhD students are regularly funded.
Don't know about NYIT.

Consider other schools outside these 3 of you haven't already.

Good luck with your applications.

Thanks so much for your input. I picked these three schools because of the course I'm applying for (MSC Energy Engineering). I am yet to apply to any of them. Northeastern University seems to be the best in of how their representative spoke to me but it's tuition fee na die. NYIT seems to be the cheapest.

In your experience, do you know of any other universities that would be better than either of these three? Thanks so much.

Nutshell44:


Sorry about that. But how much was the tuition fee on your I-20?

Its $31947 and I was awarded $4000 tuition scholarship

npmi:

Students pay to get their I-20 shipped? I'm just reading this for the first time, I didn't pay for mine.

Maybe he did not pay application fee...

uzzyj:
Its $31947 and I was awarded $4000 tuition scholarship

This is a lot of money. But the VO might see other things in your response we don't know for her submission. Because the financial angle seems the focus of your interview and denial.

Hello house, please can gurus in the house give insights on STEM and OPT options. Contributions will be appreciated from people who are already active in this area. Thanks

slamcole:
Hello house, please can gurus in the house give insights on STEM and OPT options. Contributions will be appreciated from people who are already active in this area. Thanks

From the little i have researched on, if your program is a STEM program you have 2 years in addition to your 1 year OPT (i.e. 3 years in total) to work in the US thereby increasing your chances to file/a company filling for you to get a H1-B Visa(which is a work visa). For Non- STEM programs you just have 1 year OPT to work in the US and try to get a company to file/you filing for a H1-B Visa.

Thanks for your response

CuteRedd:
From the little i have researched on, if your program is a STEM program you have 2 years in addition to your 1 year OPT (i.e. 3 years in total) to work in the US thereby increasing your chances to file/a company filling for you to get a H1-B Visa(which is a work visa). For Non- STEM programs you just have 1 year OPT to work in the US and try to get a company to file/you filing for a H1-B Visa.

Good evening here. Please what's the implication of not filling the education background of one's DS-160. This was due to the application not loading this section. Thanks

slamcole:
Good evening here. Please what's the implication of not filling the education background of one's DS-160. This was due to the application not loading this section. Thanks

The implication is you have to answer the question about it why it's not there when ask about it.

I just started reading this thread page by page and the early impression is the GRE is a must to be successful at the embassy. I don't understand.
I got itted into University of North Texas, Denton health informatics program without the GRE and I am preparing for my interview.
Does this mean it is not a good school?
Most schools don't require GRE for their health informatics program.
University of North Carolina, Charlotte said i don't need to submit a GRE score since I am a doctor and hold a terminal degree.
Indiana University Purdue Indianapolis doesn't need the GRE.
University of Michigan doesn't need it.
Nova Southeastern university doesn't need it either.
Marshall university West Virginia used to ask for GRE but recently scrapped it
Although some schools like University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee makes the GRE compulsory for their health informatics program compulsory. Does it make it better than the other schools that don't need the GRE?
Or does applying to any of the school i earlier mentioned makes me a lazy student?

uzzyj:

Good day fam, my visa was delayed in lagos embassy yesterday 19th October, 2018 and below is my transcript.
Please advise and correct my flaws. I'm open to any form cos am already sick. Though, I intend to reapply soonest.

VO' Hi, me your i20 and port
Me- Good morning, here you go
VO- why are you going to the US
Me- In going for my master's degree in Sustainability management at Illinois institute of technology in Chica
go
VO- How do you intend to pay for your tuition cos it's expensive
Me- I have been working for 3 years. so I have savings and my uncle who is a successful poultry farmer and also a major distributor of poultry farm products in Ibadan, Oyo State will cater for the rest
VO- even the average American citizen can't foo
t the bill
Me- told her well, with my uncles sponsorship and my savings, I can afford it. She didn't request for any bank statement or anything. She replied I'm ineligeable for visa.

You simply denied urself by being unnecesarily persistent on being able to yourself on a school that pays $63,417 even though u mentioned ur uncles help too. You shouldnt have even mentioned yourself in d first place. Come on bro,u are talking about paying about 26million per year,who would wanna sacrifice such money for his nephew,not even child? And I bet you had no form of assistanship...that is to say,scholarship. Your reason for denial is as clear as a mirror.

Good evening house.pls I am a silent reader.
I would like to know if lincon/lincom or walspring .I hope my spellings are correct, can me for a toelf exam

lexychuks:


Thanks so much for your input. I picked these three schools because of the course I'm applying for (MSC Energy Engineering). I am yet to apply to any of them. Northeastern University seems to be the best in of how their representative spoke to me but it's tuition fee na die. NYIT seems to be the cheapest.

In your experience, do you know of any other universities that would be better than either of these three? Thanks so much.

Not my field but you can take a look at these schools to see if they have your course:
University of Louisiana,
Tufts University
University of Oklahoma
Washington University St. Louis,
University of New Haven,
Texas Tech.

Know a couple of people both personally and non-personally that have been itted with funding.

You should also consider applying for PhD programs. It's been proven that chances of funding are greater for PhD applicants.

Goodluck with your applications. #Fall2019

bujebudanu1:
Good evening house.pls I am a silent reader.
I would like to know if lincon/lincom or walspring .I hope my spellings are correct, can me for a toelf exam

I will advice you don't get to linconf or whatever to anything for you he supposedly scammed some people on the thread ... But you can get to Walspring

nelronaldo:
I just started reading this thread page by page and the early impression is the GRE is a must to be successful at the embassy. I don't understand.
I got itted into University of North Texas, Denton health informatics program without the GRE and I am preparing for my interview.
Does this mean it is not a good school?
Most schools don't require GRE for their health informatics program.
University of North Carolina, Charlotte said i don't need to submit a GRE score since I am doctor and hold a terminal degree.
Indiana University Purdue Indianapolis doesn't need the GRE.
University of Michigan doesn't need it.
Nova Southeastern university doesn't need it either.
Marshall university West Virginia used to ask for GRE but recently scrapped it
Although some schools like University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee makes the GRE compulsory for their health informatics program compulsory. Does it make it better than the other schools that don't need the GRE?
Or does applying to any of the school i earlier mentioned makes me a lazy student?

Hi. It doesn't make you a lazy student. Infact, most schools are scrapping the GRE as a requirement for graduate issions as they feel it is not truly measure the suitability of an applicant. If the VO asks for your scores, you should state emphatically that your program did not require the exam. I don't think this should be a problem.

Goodluck.

Godchangemylife:
I will advice you don't get to linconf or whatever to anything for you he supposedly scammed some people on the thread ... But you can get to Walspring

Thank you very much.i will create a thread about my experience.cos I paid someone on nairaland since September to me

uzzyj:
Its $31947 and I was awarded $4000 tuition scholarship

I just checked their fees. It’s about $61k. Almost 22 million naira yearly minus feeding and medical insurance. I think that’s why u were denied. Even average Americans can’t afford this truly.

wasiudvd:

I dunno what to say, if Lagos ain't available, book Abuja. As at Saturday morning 28th of November was available in Abuja.

Thanks for the response sir.
I mean I can't even to book an appointment
Or can someone help with the site to
Cos this is what I am getting

Hello Wonderful people,

Please, I actually want to ask:
Is it okay to present bank statement showing transaction made for a period of just one month to the VO?

I actually have one month bank statement of my sponsor which is for the month of October only and it was what i used to process my I-20. Is it okay? or i have to present more than a month bank statement to the VO?

Please, help me out with clarification.

Spring2019:
Good morning everyone. I just got a mail from my school that the shipping of the I-20 through USPS express which I will get in three days is 150 dollars. I thought some people ship theirs with 65 dollars.

How did they get theirs that cheap. Also can the school send it to a US address and then the person will then send it to me in Nigeria for less. Please I need responses from people who have gone through this

It can be sent to someone in the US for free
Then the person will send to Nigeria
FedEx is $110 for 7days
$150 for 3days

Steveremmy:


Thanks for the response sir.
I mean I can't even to book an appointment
Or can someone help with the site to
Cos this is what I am getting

Have you ed?

deedorte:


Maybe he did not pay application fee...

It has nothing to do with application fees. Some schools foot the bill for mailing the form I-20 while some don't.

folmus:



This is a lot of money. But the VO might see other things in your response we don't know for her submission. Because the financial angle seems the focus of your interview and denial.

whats the name of the school so that we Know bro...

deedorte:


Have you ed?

No sir have not . I cannot thru the site. That is the problem I am having