'VERY DIFFICULT' embassy's decision

[ErinO 9]

Congratulations

[M & C 6]

Congratulations! I am so happy for you that your husband will get to be here soon and especially for the baby's birth.

[Boy&Bell 1]

Great news!! God is sooo good!!!

[Jawaree 717]

Congrats lady

[del-2-5-2014 1,339]

I know some people were waiting to hear a feedback from meabout my husband's interview in Nigeria yesterday.

Congrats.

Here are my current stress points.

I frontloaded to USC with the I-130. If you did similar, how confident are you that your stuff made it to Lagos?

Thanks.

[elicearea 22]

I know some people were waiting to hear a feedback from meabout my husband’s interview in Nigeria yesterday. I was having a bad pregnancyday with some shortness of breath so was not up to it yesterday. The baby chose that day to be a football (soccer) player or maybe gymnast inside my belly.Hubby thinks the little one had an inkling of what was about to happen and was doing precelebration.

YES we were APPROVED!!!!!!! :dance: by a very difficult embassy. To GOD be the glory because His mercies and favor towards us has been innumerable. Infact,this week has been full of good news for VJ Nigerians who had their interviews.

After hearing the details of my husband’s interview, Idecided to use this title to draw attention to the fact that some of theseembassies are labeled difficult only because some of us are not well preparedfor our interviews. Yes I agree, there is still that CO that will issue adecision we may not understand but let us first address our areas ofchallenges(red flags), if any and leave the rest.

People, if you will pass through such embassies/consulates, FRONTLOAD!!!!!I cannot say this enough.

VJ as community has been a blessing and I thank everyonethat has supported us with encouragement, prayers and good thoughts . I have been and will still be available to assist and share whatever i know as needed here.

My review has been put up at our embassy’s site for others’ benefitand below is the link:

http://www.visajourney.com/reviews/index.php?cnty=Nigeria&cty=&dfilter=5

he also shared shocking responses given by some applicants. One lady was asked about their Marriage certificate and she said they dnt have any, the Co then produced one from her file sent by her US based hubby and aksed how come that is there ? so how did you guys marry and she was like: "we had traditional wedding and that is considered marriage in our culture". hello?????

This same lady was asked "where did you meet your husband" and she replied " at the airport" . The CO then asked "so you go to the airport everyday to see if you will meet a man?" and she said "no my aunt introduced us and he came down to visit so i went to pick him at the airport".

Co: When did he propose to you?

lady: "two days later"?.

CO; you just met someone, he proposed to you two days laters and you said yes?

of course she was denied. So many other stories he shared on what he overheard there revealed how callous some people can be.

So my conclusion is that these VERY DIFFICULT embassies/consulates are the way we fear them to be because some people do not do their homework well.

Congrats!!

[glenmar 34]

Congrats!!! :thumbs:

[Faithful2012 34]

Congratulations and much blessings to you and hubby on your bundle of joy......wonderful review.....Happy new life and God bless :-)

[cazzers 83]

Congrats!!! :dance:

[we r one 5]

congrats to you and your hubby....

[ndu26 114]

Thanks everyone!!!!

we really do appreciate.

[ndu26 114]

Congratulations. It is amazing what people will say at interview. I remember being at Lagos embassy to renew my passport and listening to CO's trying to help people who were there with 221g and still didn't bring what was asked for.

A couple who on open mike were denied because "this mame is a sham marriage". She didn't know where he lived, his age or birthdate. And he was right there standing with her they had a baby.

He told them "you will never get a Visa". Yikes.

Anyway so happy for u. Now the fun of finding that plane ticket. Please keep us posted with baby news. Don't have that baby at the POE now. Hehe

Thanks Deb,

I was hurrying to leave for work yesterday and was too overwhelmed with stuff to say, that I had to STOP somewhere. I had also typed 'callous' instead of 'careless'.Another woman did not know her husband's church!!!!! when she was asked, hubby said she was just staring so the CO started naming denominations for her as in " is he catholic, pentecostal, baptist, what? and she still could not give an answer. I was shocked when I heard my husband was asked "when I became a citizen" and he answered to the exact date. That probably was the one question, I would not have faulted him, had he failed in answering it. The CO even repeated to him, "you are sure she is a citizen?"

More like the stress of finding a flight. LOL. You shall knw abt baby for sure.

Edited April 21, 2013 by ndu26

[Tosh Love 77]

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You made my day. I cannot stop laughing at this one.

CONGRATULATIONS by the way!

[ndu26 114]

Congrats.

Here are my current stress points.

I frontloaded to USC with the I-130. If you did similar, how confident are you that your stuff made it to Lagos?

Thanks.

Bro G, I dont knw if you read my embassy review via the link in first post but the answer is right there. I did only light frontloading to USCIS cos we did nt have joint account and all that stuff considering the length of the relationship and distance. I just added few pics then about 6(especially those that we took with people). At NVC is where i did my main frontloading, my abt 20pics or so, rebtel call records(each month I spent abt $125 on rebtel alone) cos email and FB/ skype chats was not hubby's strongest points so we settled for phone calls. We did not go overboard with the frontloading though at NVC, just enough to send a strong message instead of some daunting paperwork and pics to sort through. I hear people say USCIS sends down the entire package they receive from petitioner to NVC. Those pics and relevant documents were returned to hubby after interview,

During the interview he was not asked to show ANY supporting documents. The only one he showed the CO, my 2nd baby ultrasound pics, were done voluntarily when he mentioned I am pregnant and due to give birth in june. He said the CO kept looking at the pictures in the file forwarded by NVCas he was answering his questions. Even the woman who did his document intake at the first stage also admired and commented on one of the wedding pics in the file. I had also briefly mentioned in my cover letter to NVC that all supporting documents should be forwarded down to Lagos Nigeria with the rest of the file.

[ndu26 114]

You made my day. I cannot stop laughing at this one.

CONGRATULATIONS by the way!

I know right LOL. The feminist in me came out when hubby said it even though I was shocked within. I was defending her saying " maybe she thought he wanted to know where they met when he came", which her explanation showed later but that initial response probably already irritated the CO!!!!. When I thought about it later, I also started laughing.