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Thanks Omoba and Haole, I'm sure this will help her.

Have a Happy New Year!!!!

Hello,

My mom has a friend who has filed for her husband to come to the US. She is asking me to find out some questions her husband might be asked. I had a very long list of questions for when I filed the K1 and I must have got rid of it after my husband had his interview. I know they can ask just about anything. It would be great to hear from others who went through Nigeria.

Have a good evening

congrats

have a happy reunion

Hurricane season will end November 30, but we usually don't see any hurricanes in November, well I'm speaking for Florida. I think she/he is in the clear if they go in December. Hope you have lots of fun

Something else that is concerning that has not been mentioned is the time you spent talking online. It is extremely expensive to get online in Nigeria. Only people with money have it at home that have to contend with the power outages to boot.

If he was trying to scam you, he is online trying to scam others while he maintains this relationship with you.

So even if your relationship has turned legit there is a good chance he is scamming other people. Scammers do not fall in love and just stop scamming. This is his way of life and if he found his way to it he will continue until another form of money is available. Would you want to be with someone who scams for a living? Even if it is there only way of making a means?

If someone is sick in the hospital in Nigeria you are not chatting online at all unless you are rich. Internet cafe's are expensive and per minute use. Some are owned by scammer so that is when a scammer is set up for free, because they are bringing in an income. Mutual people will pretend to be one person so that if one is in the cafe they can correspond for the person who might not be able to make it in.

I only wish you the best. No one doubt you or your capabliities or mean to insult you. These scammers are educated people with degrees and no place to use them.

You will get support with your journey no matter what you chose so keep comming back. It works if you work it! *wink

this is all true

Thanks for sharing this great info.

I've been living in Florida for 7 years. 4 years of which have been in Tampa. I don't know what it's like to live in Orlando, but I can say a few things about Tampa and Florida in general. I like it here, but there are definately down falls.

The schools suck and I feel like that is all over Florida. My kids school is terrible and every year there is problems. I feel like I have to do the teachers job when the kids come home, because they are not being taught the work in class. The school system/teachers really make me angry!! Not to mention the young women teachers that keep having relations or whatever, with the young boys and girls. It makes me sick to hear about it and it scares me because I have young kids.

If you want to own a home, good luck finding homeowners insurance or one that you can afford. Last year my homeowners insurance wrote me to say they are no longer insuring homes in Florida. So it left me scrammbling around looking. I was lucky to find a company that I could afford, but it was only because I own a townhouse. Most the companies I called said no, we don't insure in Florida. The houses are expensive here also.

I don't see snakes and I've probably only saw 2 since I've lived here.

There are pedifiles/sicko's, but I am sure you'll find them in any major city and lots of them.

My opinion the jobs don't pay well here. Not sure if that is just Tampa, but I think it is.

Florida's rainy season is in the summer. Usually it rains every day in the summer, though it does not generally last all day, but it becomes very annoying.

The reason why I don't leave FL is probably the warm or should I say hot weather. It does get cold here in the winter, but not as cold as other places.

I hope someone will write about Houston, I'd like to hear what it is like there. My mom lives in Texas, but not near Houston.

I recorded this and finally had time to watch it this evening. It was very good and I thank you for sharing it with us Omoba!

The reason I asked is because my fiance has an immunization book but not the supplement. Can this not be transcribed by the civil surgeon?

My husband has the vaccination card as well from the Akai house. You can use that to be transcribed, I don't remember that civil surgeon's name in Texas who does it for a cheap price, but you send the card or fax it and they transcribe for you. The local civil surgeon here in Tampa we used, he looked at my husbands vaccination card and wrote every vaccination down on the sheet. But he did have to get the chicken pox titer or vaccination, he chose the titer because he had chicken pox before. There was one other he was not finished with MMR or something and had to get the second one vaccination. The civil surgeon will let you know if you are missing anything. Ok I believe I answered more then what you were looking for, sorry for rambling

Changing my name is HARD WORK!!!

There are a million forms and I haven't even started with the bank stuff yet. Sheesh!!

I thought changing my name was pretty easy. I happened to be off one day during the week and I made a list of all the places to change my name with. I also made about 20 copies of the marriage license, thinking every place would want it. The bank was the easiest, all they wanted was a copy of my marriage license, no forms to fill.

I hope all the people you need to change it with, don't give you a hard time.

Now that almost a year has passed, I find a few places I forgot to change my name with, it seems like a never ending process.

did u change your ssn? someone told me that I should once I get married. I was just planning on keeping my original number and just change my name.

anyone else has thoughts on this?

I didn't know I could change the number, so I just had the name changed. Except for having to wait for 1 or 2 hours to be called on at the ss office, it was real easy and I had the new card in the mail quickly.

Changing my name is HARD WORK!!!

There are a million forms and I haven't even started with the bank stuff yet. Sheesh!!

I thought changing my name was pretty easy. I happened to be off one day during the week and I made a list of all the places to change my name with. I also made about 20 copies of the marriage license, thinking every place would want it. The bank was the easiest, all they wanted was a copy of my marriage license, no forms to fill.

I hope all the people you need to change it with, don't give you a hard time.

Now that almost a year has passed, I find a few places I forgot to change my name with, it seems like a never ending process.

Great news! Thanks for the update! Now, he can roam around the subways. Best way to learn your way is to get lost, they say. Bassi is nervous about getting lost. He's convinced that it's so much bigger than Accra here. I live in a pretty small city. So, I'm surprised. But I think everything is so new and so different, that it probably does look that way to him for now.

LOL...TELL HIM HE WILL FIND HIS WAY VERY EASILY IN YOUR PART OF THE CITY....

MY FIANCE HAS ROAMED NYC BY HIMSELF FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS TO HANDLE THINGS WHILE I AM AT WORK AND NOW HE THINKS HE IS A PRO... HE HATES WHEN I REPEAT SUBWAY DIRECTIONS TO HIM...HE SAYS "I'LL FIND IT MYSELF" HE THINKS HE HAS IT ALL MAPPED OUT. I AM JUST WAITING TILL HE GETS ON THE WRONG TRAIN, THEN HE WILL SEE LOL... HE DOESN'T WANT TO FEEL DEPENDED ON ME.

He will never tell u he got it wrong.... He will just come back hourrrrrs later and say he was just looking around.

:lol: That's right!

I definately agree Asante and LL. A man doesn't want to admit he got something wrong.

My vj name does not say anything, though KNL stands for my husbands and my name, Kwabena ~N~ Lisa. My husbands name is Solomon, but of course the family and friends always call him by his local name.

Since the other Ghanaian wives added their local names, I am Yaa. Only my husbands mom and sister call me that and on occasion my husband does.

Congratulations!!!!! I remember before you ever filed, time seems to fly. Well for me it did, not so sure you would say that Enjoy each other, I can't wait to hear the details of the interview.

Accra, Ghana

I don't remember the name of this beach in Accra, Ghana

Cape Coast

McCarty Hills, Accra, Ghana

I'll have to upload more of my pictures, I have a lot more. Hope you were able to view them, well thats if I did everything right, I don't do this often

I met my husband from his mother. She and I worked together, well almost 3 or 4 years ago. She kept saying she wanted to introduce me to her son. I kept avoiding the subject, because I thought he may be ugly or fat. I didn't want to just agree to meeting some man that I had no clue what he looked like. She asked me for my email address some time later, so her son could email me. She kept saying oh I'm going to give my son your email address, I think you two should meet, you are the same age.

One day I was at her house looking through a lot of old pictures and found a few of her son as a baby and up til about 4 or 5 yrs of age. I told her, your son is so cute, I have to meet him. Still she had never gave him my email address after she asked for it. Many months later, I brought my kids over to her house to so her daughter could watch them and she happened to be talking to him on the phone and she asked that I get on the phone and say hi to him. We exchanged email addresses and the rest is history! He told me that she asked for his email address to give to me and kept saying I have this real nice friend that I want you to meet, she is a nice person, yada, yada. But she never gave it to me, so he blew it off and thought she was full of it.

Anyway that is our story, I went to Ghana by myself, 9 months after we were introduced. His mom called often to make sure he was taking good care of me while I was there. What was she thinking of course he was

Sorry to hear this is happening to you and your husband. I like all the words of advice that has been given. Uno, I love what you said.

Though, I'm not sure if we have got bad looks given to us, because frankly I don't give a damn! LOL. If someone wants to be stupid, I let them be stupid on their own. I try not to let things like that bother me, because if the person knows it's bothering me, it'll continue. I am real good at ignoring others. I have ran accross very ignorant people in my life. Let them be foolish on their own. Smile and keep walking.

My husband got his GC without an interview and it was transfered to California. Anyone else that I know of that was transfered to California, were approved without interview.

My husband is not Nigerian, but our marriage is very happy!!! I love my husband

my husband and I both worked last year, we filed taxes together, but they did not send him a stimulus payment. When I call, I never get to talk to a human. It sucks!

When my husband went to the civil surgeon to get the vaccination worksheet complete, the Doctor would not do it without completing the whole medical again. We were pissed off!!!!, to put it nicely. Oh, yes we were pissed. This doctor would not listen to anything I had to say and we brought him proof that my husband did not have to complete the medical again. He said, are you trying to tell me I don't know what I am doing? My husband told him yes. The doctor was just a jerk, but I am glad we paid to do it again, so we didn't run into any problems. Now that this medical is almost a year old, my husband is starting school for LPN and was in need of a full physical. He showed them the copy from this civil surgeon and they accepted it. So it became useful after all. Best wishes Jenn, I don't know what to advise you to do. I know it cost us a lot, not to mention they had him get second vaccinations, and argued about the chicken pox vaccination. I told them he had chicken pox before, they said get the titer. I don't understand because chicken pox vaccination is optional to americans (well at the time my kids got it, it was). This whole process is frustrating. It will get better.

I can't believe this day has finally came, it seems like the other day when you were cheering me on, around our interview time. A big Congratulations to you two!!!!!!! I am extreemly happy for you.

My husband had the temp EAD, but I never thought you had to have that to get SSN number or DL. My husband did get a SSN card and DL right away after moving here, with absolutely no problems. I did not go with him when he applied for either of them, so I can not say if he got them so easily because of the temp EAD.

My husband never applied for a visa before we filed for the K1.

The AOS was 1010 for my husband. I thought the price went up when I read what you wrote, Omoba thanks for clearing that up. I had not heard it went up, so I was a bit shocked at first.

It's good to hear everything is going well. The wait for EAD and GC can be quite challenging, my husband had to stop working at that time because the temp EAD ran out and he was bored out of his mind. The sooner you apply for AOS the better. Best wishes.