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DV 2015 Selectees from Ghana

aiguo said:
the entry level for university admission is high school certificate or its equivalence so you have to prove to the CO your current document is equivalent to high school or higher
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what of in the high school and not completed yet
 
aiguo said:
cool. i am asking all things questions because i am also going with my family.
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Great, just get all those things handy. Plus any other official document that has your name on it. You will never know what will come up. My brother I even took along receipts of rings we bought back then. I had my national health insurance card and even some copies of university course registration slips.
 
guykofi said:
The rule says you MUST have it at the time of the interview. Incomplete high school will definitely be bounced. @Britsimon, @Sm1smom or @SussieQQQ can you please breakdown how to go about using an occupation to apply?
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completed high school but perform badly. 2 years working as a credit officer in a financial institution
 
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rga3872 said:
completed high school but perform badly. 2 years working as a credit officer in a financial institution
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rga3872 said:
completed high school but perform badly. 2 years working as a credit officer in a financial institution
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It is good you have completed high school. But how badly was it completed @rga3872? Friends from Ghana may help you if you can tell them here your scores. You know qualification through education is much easier than through work experience.
 
guykofi said:
My experience;
We arrived at the embassy at 6:26am and we waited outside till we were called to queue at 7am. It was the usual IV and NIV queue. There were lots of NIV applicants by the way and they were bounced in the same manner. Well, so those of us with kids were asked to jump the queue. Our 2nls were inspected and we were asked to enter the first security post where our phones and electrical gadgets were taken from us. Carry on bags were scanned separately; no liquids are allowed too. We did body scan and the frisking too. From this point we went to the main hall and we were shown where to sit.

So the main procedures began shortly after entry when we were called and given sheets of paper with payment information. The rate as at yesterday was 1usd=3.3gh. We paid when the window was opened after 8:45am even though a notice said that window would open at 8:00. It's a Ghanaian at that window.

Next was the finger printing for adults only ant then the collection of documents. These processes were all carried out by Ghanaians. Our documents were taken; principal first, spouse and then child. The woman who took the documents asked for photographs to prove the relationship between the three of us; me, wife and daughter. I had with me tons of family pictures, I even took with me scans of our daughter before she was born, it's crazy right? Well determine not to leave any stone unturned I added also my daughters weighing card and my wife's ante-natal book. That book contains my name as the spouse and other info that gives strength to stuff found on other civil documents.

After what appeared to be the longest wait we were called for our interview. Before then, wifee was sighing on per second basis and I could really feel the tension build up in her. Another DV couple was called and got approved. One family was tossed out before it got to our turn. We were called to window 5 where the famous bearded fella was, cool guy though. He asked as to raise our hands and swear on the usual bla bla bla and asked us to finger print again and that would be a signature to the info we filled into the DS-260 and also to confirm the fingerprints that were taken earlier. So I that point I stopped him and said there were a couple of mistakes that we wanted to correct before adding our signature but he said those things are not a big deal. They are the date I entered the university, where I wrote 1997 instead of 1998 and my wife answering yes to the CGFNS certification when she should have written no.

So the interview proper went as such;
CO: The only problem I have with your case is your name but don't worry we would get through that.
Me: Sure
CO: when did you finish secondary school
Me: 1996
CO: how many times did you sit
Me: once
CO: do you have any other children
Me: no
CO: I have realized how your name has changed on your documents
Me: jokingly, has it
CO: yes it has
CO: there is a U in your name on ur high school cert but in your subsequent docs it was replaced with double O
Me: it's a spelling mistake
CO: there is also English name used as first name and then your local name used as first name at different times
Me: it's because of a general assumptions that English names are first names and local ones as middle names and that was not done by me
CO: also there is Kofi in ur passport and birth cert but not on any other document, do you have any other documents that have Kofi?
Me: yes. Pulls out an envelope containing old passport, national ID registration print out, some international conference IDs, some old boarding passes and hands them over. Was about to add more and he said it's enough. Laughs in my head.
CO: calm down. Pls call your family over. (He asked them to sit down while we faced off).
CO: are you ready for the news?
We: yes
CO: I have approved your ... (My mind goes blank I did not hear the rest). Don't make any travel arrangements bla bla bla and hands over the blue slip.


We went to KFC for lunch after leaving the embassy.

Pls ignore all typos and omissions.
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congratulations
 
ok After my G.C.E 'O Level , l continue to write the R.S.A stage 111. Accounting, Business Law, Finance. but truthfully l failed the three papers, and did not resist. but continue to do my national services. again l will finish my university diploma course in June, in case l get my interview date before the completion of my course, can l re-schedule my interview to another date which by then i would have completed the course. advised need seriously
Thanks
 
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rga3872 said:
ok After my G.C.E 'O Level , l continue to write the R.S.A stage 111. Accounting, Business Law, Finance. but truthfully l failed the three papers, and did not resist. but continue to do my national services. again l will finish my university diploma course in June, in case l get my interview date before the completion of my course, can l re-schedule my interview to another date which by then i would have completed the course. advised need seriously
Thanks
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please do not reschedule your interview because it is not advisable. you can try writing to KCC if you have not been scheduled and ask them if they can schedule you in June. you can also go with your transcript along with your o- level if your are scheduled earlier than June.
 
rga3872 said:
ok After my G.C.E 'O Level , l continue to write the R.S.A stage 111. Accounting, Business Law, Finance. but truthfully l failed the three papers, and did not resist. but continue to do my national services. again l will finish my university diploma course in June, in case l get my interview date before the completion of my course, can l re-schedule my interview to another date which by then i would have completed the course. advised need seriously
Thanks
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So, make a decision about whether you are already qualified or not. If not, and you think you will be in June, then you would be right to delay your interview. I'm not sure if that is the case or not, I'm saying you must decide.


Rescheduling is a bad idea. However, you might be able to delay your interview by unlocking your form and leaving it unlocked, ideally immediately after they complete processing the form, but before the scheduling period each month. So, check each month if your forms are completed about the 1 st of each month. Once they are complete, ask them to unlock the form (tell them that you want to delay your interview if you like)
 
how would l know they have completed processing my phone, l submitted my form last November
case no 2015AF0022**
 
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rga3872 said:
how would l know they have completed processing my phone, l submitted my form last November
case no 2015AF0022**
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Like I said, you would have to call each month until it is completed. It is obviously too soon for this month, but if you want to take that option you could start calling around the beginning of next month.
 
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