Successful Interview
Dear fellow forum members, pls. join me in giving thanks to Lord Almighty for a successful interview last wednesday and below is the full story of how it went:
we got to the embassy around 6.30am and the roundabout was full of people. my husband joined them 5mins to 7.00 in order to be infront of the queue. the security guards called them to form the queue around 7.00 and i joined them with our son who was asleep and were asked to enter 5mins later. we got to the interview hall and were asked to have a seat. the principal applicants were called to be briefed and given forms to fill, make payments, submit documents and then finally we were called to do the finger prints. we were asked to wait and we waited till 11.20am before we heared our name to come to window 6. all dv applicants interviewed before us were given admin processing. this scared me eventhough i did not show it and told my husband that admin processing and refusal are not our portion. our portion is a pick-up ticket so he should not worry.
our interview was more of a conversation. our 10month old son who was with my husband did so well in distracting the co's attention and it went like this:
co: goodmorning
us: goodmorning
co: are u two married?
us: yes
co: could you pls place you right index finger on the machine
me: did
co: pls sign your documents and one of you shd sign for your son
us: did
co: do u promise to tell the truth and that all your documents are geniun?
us: yes
co: how long have you been married:
us: married since...................
co: is this your son?
us: yes
co: and is he your first and only son?
us: yes
all this while our son was trying to pick up the finger print machine infront of us and the co was smiling and looking at him whilst typing
co: do you have any pictures you've taken together with your son?
us: brought out our wedding album but he was not interested in that one so we gave him a small album which contained all pics with our son which he went through. upon seeing our graduation picture my husband and i took together on our graduation day, he asked:
co: did you two attend the same university?
us: yes we did
co: when did you graduate?
us: .....................
co: sir, u stated u qualify through education?
hus: yes
co: you have waec and degree
hus: yes i do
co: what do you do?
hus: ........................
co: what investment do u sell?
hus.....................
co: where do you work? here he mentioned it himself because he saw a small company tag on my hasband.
hus: .................
here our son's shoe came of which i took and gave it to him to play with and leave the man's machine alone. he threw it towards the glass and i picked it up. the co said to him that u have a lot of energy and i said u can say that again. we all laughed over it.
co: give me a minute to print a slip for you.
here, my husband didn't hear him well and asked him what he said and he explained that he was going to give us admin processing but there is nothing for him to require further to give us that so he is giving us the pick up ticket for us to come on 14th May, 2010 to pick up our visas. we thanked him and said good bye.
House, the good Lord has done it for us and he shall surely do it for everyone. Just keep praying and he will make a way where there seem to be no way.
all thanks to everyone on this forum who made our interview a success especially alexee who always answered my questions.
House, in the haste of things, we forgot to request for the originals of our certificates. are they going to give them to us on the day we will be picking up our visas or what?
CN: 2010AF00031***
NL dated : 21st of March 2009
NL received:16th May 2009
Returned forms: 30th July 2009
2nd NL received: 3rd March 2010
Started medicals: 10th March 2010
Medicals completed: 31st March 2010
Interview: 14th April 2010
Visa pick-up: 14th May 2010