Hi Everyone,
I came across this forum the week before our interview (April 25th). I must confess I was glad I had 2 read through the threads from page 1 to the last. I even printed pages for my wife to read; actually my wife was the principal applicant. Though i do track when our case becomes current on the net, i never came accross this forum until that week. an am a 24/7 person on the net in the office.
Wonderful contributions or should I say lectures from, Jrcies, mamaj, pastor, wld, Modest and others.
Above all am glad to inform the house that our interview was successful, we were given the pick up slip to pick the visa(s) by end of May.
We will be relocating 2 Atlanta immediately we receive our visa(s) but not until I write my CISA exams in June.
Though as already said in the forum, the interview could be individual specific, but it generally flows in similar patterns. Here is our visa interview experience;
We got 2 the embassy as early as 6.00am; we were checked- in with the letter and a full face passport photo with 2 ears visible (never mind the right ear only as stated somewhere in the instructions and by the touts in front of the embassy)
We were given DV9 paper tag, paid the $375 for my wife, after sitting downstairs for a while we were called for oath and fingerprint, after fingerprint we were directed upstairs.
After sitting for about 3 hrs upstairs around past noon (12.00). We were called to window nine. Before we were called, in our presence 3 applicants were denied! For flimsy reasons the first was on disparity on dob, another was on academic grounds (he could not explain something asked in mathematics and he had A1 in that subject, the last person was an IV applicant not DV, he was refused due to disparity on his documents filed. I was terrified!!!.
So for our interview, the white lady asked our :
Names, dob, when we got married, and if we had kids; which I said not yet
She requested to see our wedding picture, we showed her the pictures, she asked where are my parents and my wife parents, she looked at the registry picture and said my wife parents were not there and she said yes and explained the reason and she saw the elaborated traditional wedding pictures (infact we went with the whole albums).
After that she asked me to go sit down that she need to speak to my wife alone,
I sat across looking at them, she then asked academic questions like;
- You didn’t do Account as a subject in waec and you did Accounting OND and HND why?
My wife explained that account subject is not really a perquisite for studying accounting as far has she had credit in Econs, commerce, govt and Eng & Maths
- You as an accountant, can you explain how you apply knowledge of mathematics, economics to your daily job as Accountant?
Men!!! At that point I was scared, but my wife delivered to my admiration, she said the mathematical knowledge is useful in daily duties of budgeting, payroll and administrative duties and she defined economic for her and also said, economic knowledge is use to overcome the challenges of the meeting unlimited wants of the organisation which has limited resources, she said she therefore has to prioritise needs in their level of priority and importance bla! bla!! bla!.
The Consular officer just laughed and issues her a pick up letter and said Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
See u all in America,
Regards to Modest, Mamaj, Pastor, Thonia, Temi, Wld, Trcies and Mauriceeeta.
You all are wonderful people!!!!!!!!!!.
Case no AF20070097XX
Second letter Received 13th March07
Interview date 25/04/07 (Successful)
Pick up letter collected: 25/04/07
Waiting to pick up the Visa(s)
