Essential Ndubuisi
By Princess-Ekwi Ajide
The U.S. Mission says it will be expanding its operations to better serve the student population of Nigeria.
According to a release by US embassy, the approach will be two-fold including a special procedure for students who need to renew student visas to continue their course of study, and a series of dedicated interview days for prospective new students.
In what it called student surge days, the statement said those applying for new student visa or eligible for a priority student visa interview slot include prospective student seeking an F1 visa appointment and have not been refused an F1 visa in the past six months.
It encouraged all students to submit the documents such as a completed DS-160, an approved I-20, a receipt for their I-901 SEVIS fee, a GTBank (MRV) receipt for visa fee, a scan of the biopage of their current valid passport and a scan of passport photograph
as soon as possible to take advantage of the limited opportunity.
The statement noted that in order to schedule as many qualified and interested students as possible, they will be unable to accommodate any requests to reschedule appointments.
The Abuja student surge days is scheduled for December 8, December 15, and January 12 while Lagos student surge days will take place on November 24, December 8, and December 15 and will all be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
