Tradatonal wedding.....versus civil wedding(interview documents dillema)
Traditional wedding
I FOUND THE FOLLOWING LINK ON THE MARRIED WINNERS FORUM AND THOUGHT THAT I SHOULD SHARE IT WITH FELLOW MEMBERS,READ AND SEE MY QUESTION BELOW
Quote Originally Posted by tonnyblue View Post
Please forgive me for sharing my experience a bit late.
My wife, my daughter and I got to embassy earlier than 7 am, the appointment time. We were called in and we made the payment of two hundred and seventeen thousand eight hundred naira ($440 x 3 x 165 naira) only.
The below documents were collected:
Medical document;
Police certificate;
Marriage certificate;
Degree Certificate and WAEC;
And Birth certificate.
NOTE: All these documents were carefully arranged and separated into different envelope by me before getting to the embassy such that when the guy requesting for each one, I called the envelope out and give him the requested one. This made the guy astonished and impressed.
The above stated documents were collected from me and my wife excluding the degree certificate from my wife because she has some month to finish her MBBS. While DS – 230 form for my child was also submitted.
I went with different back-up documents such as Traditional and White (Church) wedding album, wedding invitation, church wedding program’s booklet, my daughter’s naming ceremony album, pictures of my wife when she was pregnant, My wife’s affidavit of change of names, Copy of my wife’s publication of change of names in two newspaper, Affidavit of marriage, My Bachelor of Engineering graduation’s pictures and my NYSC certificate with the picture album.
We sat down and later, we were called to one of the window.
The Interview:
CO : Good morning
I : Good morning
CO : You are “ my full name”
I : Yes
CO : Passed all our original document to us except the international passports and asked us to keep it.
I : Thanks!
CO : Do u know what to do for me?
I : No!
CO : Shown me and my wife, the part to sign on our DS-230
My wife & I : We signed
CO : Asked who is to sign for my daughter on her DS-230
I : Signed
CO : Instructed me and my wife to do fingerprint.
My wife and I : We did fingerprint.
CO : Asked my wife to go and sit down
My wife : Sat very close to the window where I was interviewed.
CO : What is your highest qualification?
I : I have BEng. In ……………. Engineering and I graduated in year …………..
CO : Your document read that you have experience in your field of study, What do u do now?
I : I stated where ‘am working, the job title, mentioned my job responsibilities and inputted all my past job experience.
NOTE : I was first frightened because I prepared to answer question on education. Later I remembered that I filled the experience part of my DSP-122 and DS-230. Meanwhile, I did not give him chance to scrutinize me while I was saying everything about my work experience.
CO : OK ! ! ! That’s all right
I : Thanks!
CO : You registered for the lottery as married while your marriage certificate read a date after the registration. What transpired?
I : It is well understood in my culture that traditional marriage precede the court or the church marriage. In the light of this, our traditional marriage had taken place before the registration of marriage in the registry as law requested and also before church marriage as our doctrine preaches. Therefore, my wife and I have been blessed as couple traditionally before the lottery registration. I have evidence to buttress my points, Sir.
CO : What is it?
I : Our traditional marriage album and our white wedding album.
CO : Let me see it.
I : I brought out a big picture album that has our traditional wedding pictures shows my wife and I in native attire and in the presence of both parents. I started flipping the album to show different pictures and telling the CO about the people in the album. I opened about five pages of interesting traditional pictures in front and I skipped into white wedding’s pictures at the middle of the album. I continued telling him about the people in the picture.
NOTE: I was in a lighter mood, very audible and I made sure that I commanded the audience around me. Suddenly I noticed that the CO was typing something on his computer.
CO : OK! Who is to pick the visa?
I : Answered
CO : Showed me the address on the white sheet
I : A white sheet collected.
I am using this opportunity to thanks all the concerned forumites.
ADVICE : My gentle words goes to the forumites who are preparing for visa interview, please be courageous and be firm in your speeches during the interview.
Ensure your documents are intact and probe yourself before the main interview.
For married applicants, relate to each other as couple at the interview venue not as distant relatives. Who knows the official watching?
I noticed that some applicants in this forum that failed the visa interview are derivatives. They are not the principal applicant. Please permit me if I made wrong justification on this perception. However, it is highly advisable for the beneficiary of this forum to invite his or her primary applicant to be active in the forum. I read a lot of forum’s trends and I posted my concerns for forumites to help.
Thanks and best regards,
AFTER READING ABOVE....
after reading your interview as a married man and your experience im very worried because i wrote that i was married on 18th dec 2010 as a husband and wife with my wife and that's the date we married but unfortunately it was a very small time ceremony and we never even bothered to take the photos,but later after i won the lottery i i had a civil wedding in the state law office and even have the photos and marriage certificate,i was wondering how will i do to prove our traditional wedding yet we never had any photos??advise please...
yours thirsty for America young Kenyan!!!
BY THE WAY THOSE THAT ARE MARRIED YOU CHECK THIS OUT
http://forums.immigration.com/showt...eet-here/page5&p=2581445&posted=1#post2581445
