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@ ovicity. Thanks my broda. It is God who deserve all the glory. Congratulations on ur new baby. We also thank God for ur fada's recovery. Wish u the best in the upcoming 2012 dv results. Gudluck and God bless!
 
@heavenborn, heaven has really smiled on you. Congratulations.

Hello house, just a little question. I got my first notification letter by february this year. I am currently single and I applied as a single and I am retaining it until I get my visa. But I have plans already rolling to get married by October this year to my lady. From what I have gathered so far, one can only sponsor family members after 5 years when one becomes a US citizen. For me 5 years is too long and discouraging. I want to know if there is anyway out to bring my wife 6months to 1year after I entered the US.
 
@ kennyeast. Ken u 2 much! Thanks for helping guyz out with informations. Pls also update us on ur air fare and other options. Thanks and God bless!
 
@ bobbito. My broda i think u should take one step at a time. Ur nl came/sent back very late. I think what u should be praying and thinking about is that kcc should accept ur forms and process it. Cos that takes upto 3 months if not more, they will schedule u when visa is available for u and all that might take 4/5 months. This is based on my own experience with kcc. Am not saying urs will be like that, but i just think that's the procedure. But i know 2 people on this forum who had their marriage/wedding 2weeks to their interview and stil got visa for both of them. One of them is less or btw 1month now. His 'deepope'. So i will advice that if u have faith and can take risk then u can go ahead and get married and get all documents/album both now and b4 of u 2, to back ur claim b4 ur interview. With God nothing is impossible and to them that believe all things are possible! Gudluck and God bless!
 
@ Lanreb. Thanks my broda. This forum is very helpful, information is powerful! @ ndu. We give God all the glory! Gudluck guyz ur case shall not go below success. IJN!
 
Congratulations

Heavenborn said:
Our Interview Experience!!! Sorry guyz that am doing this a little late cos my mobile internet was misbehaving.. We got to the embassy around 6:30 am, joinned the line. Was the third inside, went thru the normal security cheaks as other winners has observed. Went to the cashier to pay for the 3 of us, after which we went in to the main interview hall around 7:30 or so. We were third on the dv selectees, we were call on twindow 12 to submit our documents around some munites to 8 am. I submitted our documents to a young nigerian guy, he asked me my highest qualification and i told him that am an undergraduate and he asked my which sch. And i told him he demand to know where the sch. is located and their phone number, told me is like the guy have been looking for the number for long. The phone number was behind my sch. Id card, so i gave him and he wrote the number down. The document he collected was, 1. My weac certificate original and photocopy (O&P) 2. My marriage certificate O&P. 3. Birth certificate O&P. 4. Police report original only. For my wife i was asked to submit her 1. Birth certificate O&P. 2. Police report. For myy daughter i submitted, 1. Her birth certificate original only and her passport photo. I asked the guy if i can submit my school admision letter and he said no, he asked me if i had any letter from my work place and i said no. He asked me to go have my sit cos i was having all documents with me, while my wife was carrying our daughter and sat all this time. When i got back to my sit after a while i looked at my wife's wrist watch and it was around 8:20am and based on the info on this forum i was looking at 8:45am to face the co. The dv 1 was called to win.10 at about 8:30 am. We were called to win.10 where you have this young friendlywhite guy, should be in late 20's or early 30's. Co: gud morning sir how are u 2day? Me&wife: very well sir thank u. Co: u are here bcos u were selected for further processing, me&wife: yes. Co: raise ur right hands up, and swear to tell the truth. me&wife: we do. Co: please take ur finger prints, me&wife: we did. Co: please sign ur documents, me&wife: we signed. Co: madam please go have ur sit while am with the principal applicant. My wife went and sat down with our daughter. Co: what is ur highest qualification? Me: an undergraduate. Co: what are u studying? Me: ans. Co: why did u chose this discipline? Me: ans. Co: when did u finished ur sec. School? Me: ans. Co: why did it took this long to go to uni? Me: ans. Co: when did u got admission? Me: ans. Co: your weac is incomplet? Me: i told him that am making use of 2 results and the second one is 2008 and has no certificate yet! Already i had given scratch card to the guy who collect our document and when the co took it up the weac statement of result, i saw the scratch card stappled on it. Co: why are u with two weac? Me: our uni needs 5 credit and i dont have at a sitting. Co: what are the courses u did in the uni? Me: gave some. Co: tell me about those scholars u read about? Me: gave some. Co: tell me about comparative federalism? Me: gave some ans. Co: what are the country u compared? Me: usa, nigeria and talked brifely. Co: what other country did u compare? Me: canada and some other countries but can not remember them now. Co: ok. Co: how old were u when u got ur admission? Me: that was about 4 years ago, and i should be 28 or 27. Co: when and where did u met ur spouse? Me: ans. Co: do u have any pictures? Me: yes and handed over some the pictures, and he began to flip thru. Co: asked about some people? Me: gave ans. Co: when was ur traditional as he was watching our traditional pictures. Me: gave ans. Co: where is this and when was that? Me: at the beach with my wife during dating. Jan 1st 2009. Co: returning the pictures with him. Me: i was ready to bring the main album which is our wedding pictures. Co: don't, it's ok and he began to type on his system. Co: took my documents up again and asked me if i have any address in the US? Me: yes, but i want to change the address i wrote on the ds 230. Co: ok, to which one? Me: i began to search for the address, mean while the co was watching me do all that. I gave him the affidavit of support cause that's where the new address is and he cancel the first and wrote the new address. Co: began to type again and told me to hold on a whlle and went and pic the print out and gave to go pick our visa there in a week time, and said congratulation again and don't make any arrangment until u get ur visa. Me: thank u very much sir. Went to where my wife is sitting and took her hand and she stood up and i kissed and my daughter. Other dv guyz there began to shake my hand. That was it my good people! But i must confess that it is God that did it for us, cos i was at a time going off track but was saying somethings i don't understand myself. It is just God who did it. Help me in thanking and praising God, even our God who has been doing it in this great forum. Am also greatful to everyone who have contributed to the successes on this forum. God bless u all. I will post my observations later cos my battery is very low. Gudluck to those remaining and God bless!
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Congratulations Man, thank God for your successful interview. Glory be to God, once again congrat to you and your family. and remember the rest of us going for interview in the month of MAY. One love!
 
@heavenborn thank you very much for your info. i am very much convinced that i will be in US this year. the delay so far is for my favour. i will keep the house updated with the good news on the way. I deside not to get married yet since i received my 1st notification letter late, the short time remaining from now to the end of the fiscal year (sept. 30) and submission of my forms to KCC as single, for i feel that it will be too risky to get married now before i am scheduled for an interview. The Good Lord that directed my notification letter to me will also give me my visa before the end of the fiscal year.
 
My Observations! Observations!! (1) Me and my family came with a cab. And so as we alighted 4rm the cab around 6:20 am. Those photographer rushed to us and told us that if any woman is puting on ear rings on their passport photos they are submitting that it will be rejected. So they convinced us to take 4 my wife and daughter 4 1k each person. Which was not even used at the end. (2) A lady was called b4 us, she was to have been behind us cos she's dv5. She's the main person and her unseen husband was surposed to be the benfactor, but was not at the interview as she said 'that his medical exams was not ready that's why he did'nt turn up. She was called to window 12. The black american guy asked her whats her highest edu? She said sec sch, the guy asked which year? She:'93. Co:what question were u asked in economics? She could'nt answer. Co:what about english? She said essay. Co: ok, what did u write about? She could not still ans. Co: what were u doing after sch? She said she makes beads or so. Co: stood up went across and went back. Me i was already at this time answering question at window 10. Cos i saw the black walk to and fro pass window 10. Co: asked about maths and as she could'nt ans, the guy refused her visa and told her to go to the cashier to get a refund, since the husband was not at the embassy and she was the only one interviewed. Let the husband's visa fee be refunded.(3) dv 1 was approved b4 me at window 10. Cos i was called at window 10, b4 dv2 was called at window 11 by that black american and was approved.(4) Window 12 & 13 was still occupied by 2 nigerian ladies b4 we left the embassy around 9:20am. (5) A family of 5 came 4rm the east without one of their child, maybe he/she was not included in the appointment letter. But my wife was told me that the child was writing exams. (6) The security guy at the entrance door told me to find them some. But i was carrying somany things and could not put my hand into my pocket, to my suprise the guy told me to sit down and bring the something. So i sat and brought out my wallet wanted to give the guy 5h, but my wife was quick to see 2h inside my wallet and demanded that i should give that. (7) The dv persons were about 30 in all. Married ones should be 8 or 10, while the rest should be single. Family with kid(s) is like 3 or 4. Thats all i can remember! Gudluck guyz!
 
Guysy quick question: please help.
Can someone get DV visa as a spouse--if they overstayed on a visitor visa by a week and if they have been denied F1 study visa?
The person who overstayed is not the main applicant--just accompanying spouse. The principal applicant is the woman and they got married after receiving NL....they have been dating for 8 years prior to getting married. Could that be seen as a redflag? Also, all his family lives in the US--mom and dad and siblings so would the visa officer think he only got married to enter the US and deny him the visa, in addition to him overstaying in the US for a week?

I know im throwing alot of information at you, but my relatives really like to know if they should pursue this because it iwll make no sense to go through with it if they r gnna be denied because he overstayed his B2 visa.
 
Heavenborn said:
Our Interview Experience!!! Sorry guyz that am doing this a little late cos my mobile internet was misbehaving.. We got to the embassy around 6:30 am, joinned the line. Was the third inside, went thru the normal security cheaks as other winners has observed. Went to the cashier to pay for the 3 of us, after which we went in to the main interview hall around 7:30 or so. We were third on the dv selectees, we were call on twindow 12 to submit our documents around some munites to 8 am. I submitted our documents to a young nigerian guy, he asked me my highest qualification and i told him that am an undergraduate and he asked my which sch. And i told him he demand to know where the sch. is located and their phone number, told me is like the guy have been looking for the number for long. The phone number was behind my sch. Id card, so i gave him and he wrote the number down. The document he collected was, 1. My weac certificate original and photocopy (O&P) 2. My marriage certificate O&P. 3. Birth certificate O&P. 4. Police report original only. For my wife i was asked to submit her 1. Birth certificate O&P. 2. Police report. For myy daughter i submitted, 1. Her birth certificate original only and her passport photo. I asked the guy if i can submit my school admision letter and he said no, he asked me if i had any letter from my work place and i said no. He asked me to go have my sit cos i was having all documents with me, while my wife was carrying our daughter and sat all this time. When i got back to my sit after a while i looked at my wife's wrist watch and it was around 8:20am and based on the info on this forum i was looking at 8:45am to face the co. The dv 1 was called to win.10 at about 8:30 am. We were called to win.10 where you have this young friendlywhite guy, should be in late 20's or early 30's. Co: gud morning sir how are u 2day? Me&wife: very well sir thank u. Co: u are here bcos u were selected for further processing, me&wife: yes. Co: raise ur right hands up, and swear to tell the truth. me&wife: we do. Co: please take ur finger prints, me&wife: we did. Co: please sign ur documents, me&wife: we signed. Co: madam please go have ur sit while am with the principal applicant. My wife went and sat down with our daughter. Co: what is ur highest qualification? Me: an undergraduate. Co: what are u studying? Me: ans. Co: why did u chose this discipline? Me: ans. Co: when did u finished ur sec. School? Me: ans. Co: why did it took this long to go to uni? Me: ans. Co: when did u got admission? Me: ans. Co: your weac is incomplet? Me: i told him that am making use of 2 results and the second one is 2008 and has no certificate yet! Already i had given scratch card to the guy who collect our document and when the co took it up the weac statement of result, i saw the scratch card stappled on it. Co: why are u with two weac? Me: our uni needs 5 credit and i dont have at a sitting. Co: what are the courses u did in the uni? Me: gave some. Co: tell me about those scholars u read about? Me: gave some. Co: tell me about comparative federalism? Me: gave some ans. Co: what are the country u compared? Me: usa, nigeria and talked brifely. Co: what other country did u compare? Me: canada and some other countries but can not remember them now. Co: ok. Co: how old were u when u got ur admission? Me: that was about 4 years ago, and i should be 28 or 27. Co: when and where did u met ur spouse? Me: ans. Co: do u have any pictures? Me: yes and handed over some the pictures, and he began to flip thru. Co: asked about some people? Me: gave ans. Co: when was ur traditional as he was watching our traditional pictures. Me: gave ans. Co: where is this and when was that? Me: at the beach with my wife during dating. Jan 1st 2009. Co: returning the pictures with him. Me: i was ready to bring the main album which is our wedding pictures. Co: don't, it's ok and he began to type on his system. Co: took my documents up again and asked me if i have any address in the US? Me: yes, but i want to change the address i wrote on the ds 230. Co: ok, to which one? Me: i began to search for the address, mean while the co was watching me do all that. I gave him the affidavit of support cause that's where the new address is and he cancel the first and wrote the new address. Co: began to type again and told me to hold on a whlle and went and pic the print out and gave to go pick our visa there in a week time, and said congratulation again and don't make any arrangment until u get ur visa. Me: thank u very much sir. Went to where my wife is sitting and took her hand and she stood up and i kissed and my daughter. Other dv guyz there began to shake my hand. That was it my good people! But i must confess that it is God that did it for us, cos i was at a time going off track but was saying somethings i don't understand myself. It is just God who did it. Help me in thanking and praising God, even our God who has been doing it in this great forum. Am also greatful to everyone who have contributed to the successes on this forum. God bless u all. I will post my observations later cos my battery is very low. Gudluck to those remaining and God bless!
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Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Heavenborn said:
My Observations! Observations!! (1) Me and my family came with a cab. And so as we alighted 4rm the cab around 6:20 am. Those photographer rushed to us and told us that if any woman is puting on ear rings on their passport photos they are submitting that it will be rejected. So they convinced us to take 4 my wife and daughter 4 1k each person. Which was not even used at the end. (2) A lady was called b4 us, she was to have been behind us cos she's dv5. She's the main person and her unseen husband was surposed to be the benfactor, but was not at the interview as she said 'that his medical exams was not ready that's why he did'nt turn up. She was called to window 12. The black american guy asked her whats her highest edu? She said sec sch, the guy asked which year? She:'93. Co:what question were u asked in economics? She could'nt answer. Co:what about english? She said essay. Co: ok, what did u write about? She could not still ans. Co: what were u doing after sch? She said she makes beads or so. Co: stood up went across and went back. Me i was already at this time answering question at window 10. Cos i saw the black walk to and fro pass window 10. Co: asked about maths and as she could'nt ans, the guy refused her visa and told her to go to the cashier to get a refund, since the husband was not at the embassy and she was the only one interviewed. Let the husband's visa fee be refunded.(3) dv 1 was approved b4 me at window 10. Cos i was called at window 10, b4 dv2 was called at window 11 by that black american and was approved.(4) Window 12 & 13 was still occupied by 2 nigerian ladies b4 we left the embassy around 9:20am. (5) A family of 5 came 4rm the east without one of their child, maybe he/she was not included in the appointment letter. But my wife was told me that the child was writing exams. (6) The security guy at the entrance door told me to find them some. But i was carrying somany things and could not put my hand into my pocket, to my suprise the guy told me to sit down and bring the something. So i sat and brought out my wallet wanted to give the guy 5h, but my wife was quick to see 2h inside my wallet and demanded that i should give that. (7) The dv persons were about 30 in all. Married ones should be 8 or 10, while the rest should be single. Family with kid(s) is like 3 or 4. Thats all i can remember! Gudluck guyz!
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Nice obervations.Lol@ finding the security men 'something'.For that kind of Divine favour,5H would have been more appropriate ooooo.LOL.
 
bobbito said:
@heavenborn thank you very much for your info. i am very much convinced that i will be in US this year. the delay so far is for my favour. i will keep the house updated with the good news on the way. I deside not to get married yet since i received my 1st notification letter late, the short time remaining from now to the end of the fiscal year (sept. 30) and submission of my forms to KCC as single, for i feel that it will be too risky to get married now before i am scheduled for an interview. The Good Lord that directed my notification letter to me will also give me my visa before the end of the fiscal year.
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Hi Bobbito,
I think you should focus more on being scheduled for an interview and praying for success.All other things can follow thereafter.It is however,not true that you must become a citizen before you can apply for your wife.The link below explains it all.Goodluck man!!

http://www.uscis.gov/USCIS/Resources/B1en.pdf
 
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