Praise God!
December 21, 2006, God gave us a beautiful Xmas present! we got the pink form welcoming us to the United States of America!
We would like to thank everyone on this forum for their contributions. For those still expecting 2nd letter & interview, the same God who did ours will surely do yours in Jesus name. What He started, He alone is able to complete. It doesn't matter how high your DV number is, your own time will surely come.
None of the forms sent in the 2nd package was collected. Not even my husband's own (
WLD) who is the principal applicant. They used the forms we filled and sent from the first package but they collected new passport pictures and returned the old ones.
Also, only my National Population letter stating birth date etc. (I didn't have a birth certificate) and the children's birth certificates were collected. All other documents I took along (certificates etc) were not collected. Was told it was only the principal applicant's documents they wanted.
At the cubicle, I the spouse was told to sign my signature. My daughter (5yrs) was asked her age, if she was in Pry One and if she could write her name and she said yes. So she was given the form to write her name. I had to lift her up to write and she did us so proud with her fantastic cursive writing which looked like an oyinbo's own. I was told to sign for my 3yr-old son. Then the officials told the children and I to go and sit down.
Please try to go through the information you sent to them on the first form so you can give answers consistent with what you sent. We made photocopies of the filled forms so we knew exactly what we sent earlier.
Questions asked my husband:
1. Where were you born?
2. What's your date of birth?
3. What school did you go to?
4. What yr did you finish?
5. Which university?
6. What course?
7. What do you do?
8. Where do you work?
9. What does your wife do?
10. What's her date of birth?
11. What was your matric no. in school?
12. Where did you meet your wife?
13. Can I see your pictures?
14. What's your relationship with your sponsor?
We had loads of pictures all arranged in different envelopes - sponsor, family, children, wedding & engagement to make it easy for us to locate anyone they wanted. My husband gave him the envelope containing about 20 family pictures which showed all of us at different places, time, etc. When my husband wanted to give him another envelope, the official declined
and said it was ok.
And that was it! We were told to come back to collect the visas in a month's time. We left at 10.30a.m and what a big relief it was. By the time we left the embassy, we were both physically & mentally drained. The long wait was finally over!
Note: There are cameras all over the place. You are watched so if you are going with your spouse and children, don't spank the children etc, play with them, talk with your spouse and generally show you are a family so they don't have any doubts about your relationship to one another.
Wish you all the best.
WLD & 2Tee