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A lot of countries are advising their citizens against non-essential travels to Nigeria, with the exception of usually Lagos. But even for those travelling to Lagos, most countries are advising their citizens to be extremely vigilant and give a whole list of things to avoid and look out for.
There are many places in the world where it's not safe for people to travel. And as a woman, you have to be particularly vigilant and safety minded.
And yes OP, as others have already stated, one of the requirements for the K-1 visa is that you have met at least once in person. Perhaps you two can meet somewhere else? When I was living and working in London, several of my friends and colleagues where from Nigeria. Maybe look into the possibility of your fiance being able to travel to the UK for you two to meet?
Unfortunately getting a visa to the UK will be just as difficult as him getting one to the US. Its fairly easy for Nigerians to get a visa to go to South Africa, and you don't need a visa to go there. However, like other posters have pointed out, going to another country is going to make it hard for you to meet his friends and family. WHICH I HATE the thought of 'staging' photos for the sake of immigration...like you MUST take photos with friends and family whether you like it or not...but sadly that is the name of the game with immigration. I had mentioned in my earlier comment that I have now come to Ghana to stay with my husband rather than the two of us going to Nigeria since I had some bad experiences on my several stays in Nigeria. None of them had anything to do with being female or Christian. It had to do with me being easily recognized as a foreigner. Of course you can experience Nigeria without fear of 'disappearing' (especially in Lagos) but I can boldly say we have way more freedom to be out and about at all hours of the night in Ghana without being harassed by anyone. I've been in Ghana for 6 years and never had to pay a police bribe even when we pass through police checkpoints 3 times a night. But again, that's just ME. I have a friend back in the States who has traveled to Nigeria twice and both times never had any issues.
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HI, I've been reading all your posts. I know it sounds crappy whichever way you try to turn, but all the advice you've been given, is all accurate. This man, being jobless in Nigeria, is NEVER going to get a visitor visa. Please don't waste your time or resources waiting for that to happen. It is not fair, and it hurts to want to be with someone that you cant be with, but its reality. I'm even a little surprised that your fiancé is telling you that he can go to the US on a visitor visa because most young men in Nigeria already know how hard that is to do. IF by some miracle he is able to enter the US on a visitor visa, he is not eligible to work in the USA. If you really want to be with this man, you have no option but to go to visit him. I have been to Nigeria a few times and I had horrible experiences there...that's not to say everyone will. But because of my bad experiences, I now come to Ghana and stay with my husband. Ghana is really really cool, and much more stable and safe. (I know Nigerians don't like to hear that, but my husband can tell you, its true). It says you are in New York...there are straight flights from New York to Ghana for around 1200 dollars. Flights with stops are slightly less. Ask your fiancé if he knows anyone in Ghana. There are A LOT of Nigerians here and maybe he knows someone that could accommodate the two of you for a couple weeks so you wouldn't have to pay hotel bills. A bus ride from Nigeria to Ghana on ABC bus is around $100 so it wont cost him too much to get here. And going back is around half of that. Food is cheap here if you don't go to the hotel restaurants and transportation is dirt cheap. It really wont cost too much if you make an effort. I wish you all the best.
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Dumsor don spoil everything for Ghana!! lol...Im not making light of your long wait, but I'm about fed up with Ghana right now and this light situation. Just at times when I think its getting better, it gets worse again...and now Vodafone is so much affected by it, that we barely can browse at home because the internet goes out shortly after the light is taken! I wont doubt its somehow affecting the embassy.
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They received my package on the 4th of may too but am yet to pay my iv fee cos of the problems with their site. Goodluck tho
thanks. I actually tried calling them, and it keeps giving me a recorded message saying that they are so busy with other callers that they cant take my call at this time and I should try back later. ugh. lol
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Have u paid the iv fee?
yes, I have.
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Wayyyyyy to early, give them 50 days at least, they will send you either a checklist or approve letter in between 50-60 days but ofcourse thats only if you already pay all your fees and complete all the necessary and just playing the waiting game like the rest of us.
April 27th they had receive my package and i got the same letter they had send you.
I kind of figured. Thanks for the feedback!
You can call, but don't be surprised if they tell you it isn't complete yet and give you the standard answer to call back in 20 business days. Or, you could be pleasantly surprised. You won't irritate anyone. Good luck!
Thanks! I might give it a whirl...what's the worst that can happen? lol
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Hi VJ, so I had received notification from NVC that they received all my packets on May 4th (23 days ago), they stated in the letter that it could take 60 days or more to finish processing. Of course I am inpatient and was wondering if I should start calling them and asking if it is complete? Will this just irritate them? lol. I have called them before when I was waiting to get a case number assigned, and most agents were so rude!!!! Was just wondering if anyone else was able to call to find out if case was complete, or did you just have to wait for the letter/email to come?
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Definitely get police certificates from the country you are living in. Also, I believe if you are a permanent resident of the country that you are in, you could interview there and not in Nigeria.
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The saddest part of all this is that I noticed you are so close to your interview date and should be head over heels knowing he would be home with you soon. I have to tell you, my husband is Nigerian and we have been living together for almost 6 years here in Ghana together. I have SEEN and HEARD just about everything I ever wish to see or hear about what some people are capable of doing to another for money. Its a hard life here, just like in Nigeria (I've been there twice as well). A lot of men and women will do criminal things here to earn money to eat or provide for their families. I feel bad for them, but at the same time they are preying on my own country men and women when they do it. Before we had internet in our house, we used to go to an internet café a lot to talk to people back home. I saw the lengths to which a young man would go to, and they were so used to seeing me in there, that I guess it didn't phase them or make them want to hide the fact that they were pretending to be a female talking to an American man who was on their computer screen doing some "really gross things"....in front of this young man, and not the hot girl they thought they were talking to.
My point is, this request your husband is asking of you, is classic scam 101. Someone is stealing money from someone's account and wanting to send it to yours (a wire transfer)....OR someone is scamming someone out of their money and in order to make the scam look legit, they are asking the person to wire the money to an American bank account. Sending the money to Nigeria whether it is thru moneygram/ western union or to a Nigerian bank account would never fit into the "story". I'm not saying your husband is the ring leader, but perhaps someone has come to him and said "hey, we know you have a wife in America, if you do this...we will give you a percentage of it". People have pulled my husband to the side on numerous occasions and tried to ask the same thing. He just tells them "no no no". He would NEVER put me in that position not to talk of getting mad at me if I said no.
I understand your husbands frustration, there is money dangling over his head if he can just do this one thing....and that would mean he'd have the money to buy the ticket to come there. But if there is real love there for you, he would NEVER put you in that position. That is something that you really want to take into consideration before you proceed with anything else. At the VERY least, he shouldn't be concocting a story about people owing his sister money, yada yada yada. If he'd lie to you about that, form up a big story about it, risk putting you in jeopardy AND making you feel bad for not giving in, then is this the person you want to spend the rest of your life with?
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Has anyone experience this lately? I tried to check my status on the USCIS website and it says I should contact the NCSC on an 1 800 number. please if anyone had tried to check his/her status recently please let me know. Thanks.
Yes its not working.
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Writing through my wife's account again--- I also want to add, that Africa is 54 nations and thousands of tribes within those nations. And even within those thousands of tribes there are millions of individual characters and traits. To label ALL OF AFRICA to say that "AFRICANS need this, and do that" is so disrespectful. And I thank God my wife refers to me as "her husband" --- and not "her African." smh My blood is boiling reading one posters use of "they do this and they do that" . And ENGLISH IS ENGLISH. If it does not sound like English to you, then I don't know what to tell you.
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Writing through my wife's account..
We were just laying down when I saw this post she was reading. The part where you stated he finds all reasons to start a fight caught my attention. That is a classic sign of someone who is up to something and has an ulterior plan. I must say it's hard to understand what you're going through because only you know what you have invested till this very point but don't let that be a reason to hold on to heartbreak and continuous headache. First about the use of Pot, I would assume you were aware of this before now but still its a sign of irresponsibility on his end wanting to be a pot head. On the financial aspect of things, I must say there's a lot of RED flags, I wrote red in capital because in a normal African setting a man fights and strives to be the provider whichever way he can. If you have a man failing to do that its a sign he really doesn't care or see reason to work to support you. In a general view of things a man who looks for every reason to quit a job is giving you so much sign of how much you can't depend on him. Imagine within 10-15 years you're waiting for retirement you have to put your entire survival on him, you know the answer-- he wont stand up to the challenge. Also about him wanting to spend half the time in Senegal and Half back in the states with you, I would beg you not to buy into that because its a clear sign he definitely has a tie to something over there. An average African man has no ties apart from where his survival comes from, so if you're offering him an upgrade in life by him being in the states and he still wants to risk going back home (Which as a man his home should be where his wife @) he definitely has a tie back there you only don't know yet. Like I tell people always-- don't let the pain of losing something unreliable put you in a position where you have to regret an entire life. If I was to be a judge, which I don't think am fit to judge any human, he's a ticking time bomb which you have all the signs to avoid. Make a better decision. You may have to feel the loss for a few months but believe me after then you would appreciate all the sadness you would have put yourself in on the long run.
We all can advice you and give you more clarity but you have the decision to make, HE is using you.
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Thank you all for your responses! We appreciate the guidance.
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I believe she's actually a little higher up, and has even told people at times to print out the forum and bring it for proof that she gave that specific directive. I'm just saying that she said for their immigration purposes (since generic police report validity dates are given by the issuing party), police reports are valid for 6 months. If they were told to get updated ones, it probably had other circumstances surrounding it.
If OP would like to get updated ones as a "better safe than sorry", then by all means- go ahead
Of course dealing with Lagos, its always better safe than sorry!
He isn't wrong. The police certificate last a year.
This is so confusing! They don't make it easy do they? lol. I don't think the one from Ghana had a validity period, though I could be wrong. But I definitely recall seeing the "3 months" on the Nigeria one. I Hopefully he'll get scheduled for an interview BEFORE the 3 months is over, but I somehow doubt it.
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Police certificates expire 3 months from date issued, if you are cutting it close time wise you have two options : Obtain a more recent one or take a
chance on the CO letting him bring an updated one after the interview.
I think its better he just get a new one if the interview is not scheduled before it expires. Thanks!
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I've heard the police report is good for a year?
Really? Well that's good to know. Thanks
I gave my wife 50,000 just in case. Remember the Naira's value has decreased so there maybe an inflation.
Oh I know....here in Ghana too! When I first started coming here, $1 equaled 1.42 cedi. Now $1 equals 3.95 cedi. Its crazy!
http://www.visajourney.com/consulates/index.php?ctry=Nigeria&cty=Lagos
39600 according to this 2014 link, roughly $200.
Ok, thanks
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Hi, I've been trying to find current info on the cost of Medical fees in Lagos, I can only find info from 2011 which was 32,000 naira at the time. Is this still accurate? Also, My husband got his police cert in Nigeria and Ghana a month before they were received by NVC. From what I understand, they are only valid for 3 months....so what if its past the 3 month mark by time he is being interviewed? Should he plan on getting them again and bringing them to the interview?
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Thank you for your replies!
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Hi everyone. Ok, in a nutshell, I'm a USC, married to a Nigerian. We've been together for almost 6 years, married for almost 3. I've lived at least half of the 6 years with him in our home in Ghana. NVC received our package last year sometime, and then sent a letter requesting information that we hadn't submitted. They sent us a checklist of all the things they needed. I didn't front load too much stuff, I think our time together speaks for itself. But I did send all the docs they asked for. The reason it took so long for me to even send back what they needed was because I was abroad, had to go back to the states to get my info for him and he needed to go to Nigeria to get documents of his that he needed too. Plus the police reports from both Ghana and Nigeria. I sent them what they needed before I came back here to Ghana at the beginning of this month. I got an email from them saying that they received the documents on May 4th, but due to an increase of approved petitions that they have received, that their processing time is longer than usual and it could take AT LEAST 60 days to process. My question...do they ALWAYS say this? Or is this something new? For some reason I always believed it was around 30 days for them to process it and send it to the embassy. ALSO, if anyone could answer this...after they send it to Nigeria (yes he is interviewing in Nigeria, not Ghana because neither of us have resident permits here) approx. how long does it take from when they send the package off to the embassy until when you are sitting for an interview? Just trying to figure out how long I may be here this time. Hopefully the end is somewhat near. Thanks for any help you can give!!
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What documents does he use than when he travels? there must be something he shows.
For the police report ALL must be in your IV package nothing is taken to interview that has to go to NVC. They must have every single country original in their hands for you to get case complete.
Thanks for that clear cut answer on the Police cert. As for what he travels back and forth with..it's just his Nigerian DL and his non-citizen Ghana ID card. Everyone (including myself) has to have one of those if you are here for more than 60 days. He doesn't fly,..he always goes on ABC bus.
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My husband is filling out his DS-260 and he came to a field where he is to enter his passport number. However, he doesn't have that yet. He recently went back to Nigeria (from Ghana) to get his passport done, but it won't be ready for a couple weeks. There are two choices to select: 1 is passport, which would require a number he doesn't have yet. and the other choice is "other travel document" which doesn't require any additional information. Can he choose that for now and move on with the application or do we need to wait til he gets the passport info. ALSO: I'm trying to get clarification on this....there's too many mixed answers I've read.......Does he include the Nigeria and Ghana Police Certs with the IV package or does he just take them to the interview. Thanks for your help!!
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Ok, thanks every for your answers!! I'll let him know.
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My husband traveled to Nigeria (from Ghana) to get a few of the documents we'll need to submit to NVC. His mother gave him his birth certificate and he called to tell me that it's laminated. I know in the US, that invalidates the BC, but does anyone know if it is acceptable for him to submit that to NVC? If not, do they issue them quickly ...as in same day..in Nigeria. Someone told him yes, but he's yet to really confirm it. Thanks
K3 vs. K1
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In my opinion the fiancé visa seems a little quicker, but not by much and not always. However, in some of your previous posts you mentioned your fiancé wanting to start working when he gets to the States. If you marry him in Nigeria and go that route, he'll be able to work as soon as he gets to the States. If he comes on a fiancé visa, he will have to wait until after you marry and file more paperwork to adjust his status before he can begin working.