Advise about interview, In lagos.

[Nne/Obi 1]

I'm new to visa journey and can't even find some of the times when important moments occurred, so my timeline might be a bit wrong. But I'm preparing for my interview on the 8 th of November, in Lagos and I need help. My husbands uncle who is a lawyer is filing for us. I have a couple of questions which I need help with. For instance, Been trying to print out our emails, and they don't show the date when I print from the yahoo back ground. Then when I use the other print button, it shows nothing about yahoo. Just date, sender and receiver and message. how do I overcome this. This also happens when I try to print our messenger chat logs.

Also, we had a traditional wedding,, court wedding, then a church wedding in that order and the certificate I submitted was that of the court wedding. Do I still need to take the wedding programs, wedding invitation cards etc. because they are bearing the date of the church wedding and not the date that we submitted. Also we had only witnesses present at the court wedding, while for the church wedding, we had almost 700 guests. The lawyer said there's no need for all those but I was wondering.

And I also wish to know if i can take the church wedding album or just print some pictures from it. It's more of a photo book, very bulky. Will it be admitted into the embassy and returned to me when the interview is over.

And for our call logs, it's a bit poor since we both rely on yahoo messenger, and send emails only when the Internet connection is poor. And only call when the Internet connection is terrible. And then there's Skype, but I was looking through the logs and it only goes back about 6 months. And in the past 6 months, I started work and he started evening classes so we barely get time. So most of our calls consists of call attempts and when they do go through are about 4-8 minutes long, just to see each others faces. In the whole 6 months only found a few calls which were about 30 minuites long and mostly on a sunday. Hope that won't count against us.

I think I posted in the wrong section previously. So I'm reposting.

Thanks. Will appreciate your advice.

[ndu26 114]

we also had a court and church wedding and i front loaded with pictures from both. though for us we arranged it to have both ceremonies same day. still regardless of church wedding date, the phtotos, guests, IV etc could help establish the authenticity of your union so do not leave those proofs out. you need as many as you can.....better too much than not enough. all the best.

[Penguin_ie 5,996]

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Can you take screenshots of your yahoo inbox, that should show the dates?

It is a good idea to bring the paperwork/ photos of the other two weddings; while they are not legal, having three weddings shows you are serious about eachother, likely spend some money on those ceremonies and did things the "correct way" according to local customs and culture. You can bring the wedding album, but may want to print a few of the most important pics for them to keep too. Many embassies are set up with a glass screen between interviewer and interviewee, and only a small slo to pass documents back and forth- like in some banks- so the album may not fit through.l

[missin miss d 1]

I'm new to visa journey and can't even find some of the times when important moments occurred, so my timeline might be a bit wrong. But I'm preparing for my interview on the 8 th of November, in Lagos and I need help. My husbands uncle who is a lawyer is filing for us. I have a couple of questions which I need help with. For instance, Been trying to print out our emails, and they don't show the date when I print from the yahoo back ground. Then when I use the other print button, it shows nothing about yahoo. Just date, sender and receiver and message. how do I overcome this. This also happens when I try to print our messenger chat logs.

Also, we had a traditional wedding,, court wedding, then a church wedding in that order and the certificate I submitted was that of the court wedding. Do I still need to take the wedding programs, wedding invitation cards etc. because they are bearing the date of the church wedding and not the date that we submitted. Also we had only witnesses present at the court wedding, while for the church wedding, we had almost 700 guests. The lawyer said there's no need for all those but I was wondering.

And I also wish to know if i can take the church wedding album or just print some pictures from it. It's more of a photo book, very bulky. Will it be admitted into the embassy and returned to me when the interview is over.

And for our call logs, it's a bit poor since we both rely on yahoo messenger, and send emails only when the Internet connection is poor. And only call when the Internet connection is terrible. And then there's Skype, but I was looking through the logs and it only goes back about 6 months. And in the past 6 months, I started work and he started evening classes so we barely get time. So most of our calls consists of call attempts and when they do go through are about 4-8 minutes long, just to see each others faces. In the whole 6 months only found a few calls which were about 30 minuites long and mostly on a sunday. Hope that won't count against us.

I think I posted in the wrong section previously. So I'm reposting.

Thanks. Will appreciate your advice.

If you can go through my timeline and see my review on when I attended my interview at Lagos in Dec 2010. It might be helpful . No evidence is too small however bulky....but you might never know they might not even ask you for a single thing as long as you steer into their face and speak confidently. dem no carry fire for head mehn.(they are not kings and queens).

God bless you and all the best

All the best

[NigeriaorBust 4,087]

Any lawyer who says don't worry about evidence for Lagos should be fired even if he is related.

Are you both Nigerian born ? It makes a slight difference in the issues of the interview. I know NIgerian couples that have been tripped up assuming that there is a free pass for Nigerians at Lagos. When you submitted your petition what did you submit as proofs. Right now you are mostly interested in supporting that you are in continued contact and enough support that items sent with the initial petition. If your chat logs are huge , I would print out the pages of logfiles and then pick some number between 10 and 20 and print out every Nth chat in detail, highlighting the log to correspond to that. If you get a chance to photocopy the pages ( at least the best ones ) from the wedding album that works, you can show the album and pass the copy pages through the window with ease.

[onye uwaoma 131]

Are you both originally from nigerians? If so I believe you'll be viewed exactly based on your sole customs and traditions as against the otherwise, my own personal opinion... All the best dear

[Nne/Obi 1]

Are you both originally from nigerians? If so I believe you'll be viewed exactly based on your sole customs and traditions as against the otherwise, my own personal opinion... All the best dear

Yes we are both originally from Nigeria. From IMO state. He's the USC and he's older by 6 years. I'm grateful to everyone for the advice. Now I'm feeling much more confident about it all.

[Nne/Obi 1]

Any lawyer who says don't worry about evidence for Lagos should be fired even if he is related.

Are you both Nigerian born ? It makes a slight difference in the issues of the interview. I know NIgerian couples that have been tripped up assuming that there is a free pass for Nigerians at Lagos. When you submitted your petition what did you submit as proofs. Right now you are mostly interested in supporting that you are in continued contact and enough support that items sent with the initial petition. If your chat logs are huge , I would print out the pages of logfiles and then pick some number between 10 and 20 and print out every Nth chat in detail, highlighting the log to correspond to that. If you get a chance to photocopy the pages ( at least the best ones ) from the wedding album that works, you can show the album and pass the copy pages through the window with ease.

Thanks a lot for all the good advise. would print a few pictures from the photo book then. We are both Nigerian born, same tribe. Our lawyer filed for us and it's a very slim package based on what I've seen here so far. All that was included were some choice pictures of the church wedding, about 12 of them. so I've got my work cut out for me. My interview is fast approaching, and so far, there's been no advice. It was after I saw vj that I asked my husband for his phone bills with a logo. And it was also then that i asked for his boarding passes, but unfortunately he didn't keep those. I m a bit on the shy side, so apart from the wedding pictures, all other pictures are just my husband and I, and I always prompt them cause he's not really the picture taking type and we didn't realise how much evidence we'd need for lagos. We were basically just taking pictures for us, when we shoulda been taking for us and Lagos.