3. Speak For Yourself
Do not intend to bring your parents or family friends with you on your interview day; the consular officer would like to interview you, not your family. A negative impression is created if you’re not prepared to speak on your own. A high school minor applying for a high school program and need your families there, in case of any questions about funding, you need to wait in the waiting room.
4. Know why you are applying for the visa or the Program and how they fit your employment plans in your home country
As an applicant applying for U.S visa, if you’re not able to articulate the reasons why you would study in a particular program in the USA, you will probably will not able to convince the consular officer that you’re indeed planning to study, rather than to immigrate to America.
It’s also clever to be able to explain how studying in the USA relates to your future professional career in your home country: Nigeria.
5. Be Concise During Interview
Due to amount of applications that are received at American embassy in Nigeria, all consular officers are under a lot of time pressure to conduct a quick and efficient interview. They need to decide, for the most part, for the impressions they form in the first minute or two with the interview.
Consequently, what you say first along with the initial impression you create are important to your ability to succeed. Keep the answers to the officer’s questions short and straight to the question addressed to you. Do not try to be smarter than the consular officer because you would be wasting your time; because you will be dismissed immediately.
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