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SUCCESSFUL CP IN GHANA - DV 2005

I hope this helps all Ghanaians who are going through the dv process. I stressed here Ghanaians only because i think the consulate in Ghana does things a little different from all the other consulates.

May 10 2004- Received Notification letter

Nov 22 2004- filled forms and mailed back to kcc only because my case # was around 28000

April 27 2005- Received second packet containing appointment date of June 20th prior to that i had called kcc and was told i had been scheduled for April but for some reason i got rescheduled to June, i didn't have any medical forms in the packet so i called the consulate in Ghana only to be told that in Ghana you through the interview process before you are told to do your medicals.

June 20 2005- Appointment was at 7:30am woke up around 5 got there around 7:00am there was quite a long queue waited around till about 7:30am when we were allowed to enter the consulate, everyone with a cell phone was asked to turn it off and give it to security who in turn would give you a tag for collection after your appointment.

Were told to put all bags through the x-ray and then when you clear you are allowed to go and sit in a waiting area. And we definitely did a lot of sitting till about 10:30 when we were called to go inside, at this I was extremely nervous it got to the point where i though I was going to be sick, then at 12:30 a lady came to the dv window and called out my name , and told me to come back at 2:30 pissed or not i had no choice.
Came back at 2:30 was called around 3:30pm by the same lady she reviewed my documents which were:

BANK STATEMENTS SCHOOL CERTIFICATES LETTER FROM MY JOB LETTERS FROM MY CHILDREN'S SCHOOL BIRTH CERTIFICATE POLICE CERTIFICATE CAR DOCUMENTATION LETTER OF EMPLOYMENT SERVING AS MY AFFIDAVIT OF SUPPORT.

After reviewing my documents she gave me back my car title and told me she was going to allow me to pay for just my husband and I until we have been interviewed, that is until we are successful she won't let me pay for the kids, so she gave me pink sheet to go and pay to the cashier an amount of $1510 in Ghanain cedis @ 9500/per $ and after have a seat. After about an hour I was called to window 4 and in all honesty i was a nervous wreck, the consular was a very very nice lady, i greeted her, she told me to swear that everything i had written in the form was true to the best of my knowledge, i did and then the interview began, she asked me about my:

PROFESSION, MARRIAGE ,CHILDREN AND FINALLY WHETHER I HAD BEEN TO THE U.S BEFORE?

she asked my husband the same questions and asked me to come again the next day to pay for the kid's, i thanked her and left, at this point i wasn't sure if that was the interview or not so i thought i would be interviewed again.

June 21 2005- Returned to the embassy went through the whole security process, got called to the counter at about 12:30pm the consular had my daughter swear and we were given the medical forms and she told us to start our medicals immediately since it took quite a while for them to get the results. She rescheduled us to come back August 4th with my marriage certificate and my H.S Diploma( G.C.E O'LEVEL) certificate, i didn't know why because i had given them my college diploma.

June 23 2005- went to akai medicals which is quite close to the embassy, and after akai did theirs we were told to go to medlab which is at roman ridge close to the Indian high commission to take our x-rays and Aids test, test took us approximately 2 days.

Aug 4 2005- Went to the consulate was called to the window at about 2:30pm i presented my marriage certificate and my advanced level certificate i was told to have a seat at this point they were telling those who did not have their test at akai to come back at rescheduled date because they hadn't received their medical results.

Was called to the window after an hour, the lady told me the consular wanted my ordinary level results, at this point i was confused because i had no idea what was going on , because i had presented my college diploma, my advanced level cert, so what did they need my ordinary level cert for? and to make matters worse i didn't know where it was or better still it was missing, so the lady told me to go to WAEC and request that it will be sent electronically to them.

Aug 23 2005- Went to the consulate, lady said she had received every thing but consular was on vacation so i got rescheduled to sept 8.

Sept 8 2005- Went to the consulate, was told consular was still reviewing my documents rescheduled for the next day.

Sept 9 2005- My passport was collected and in turn they issued me with a pink slip to come collect my visa on the 16th, i was excited but wanted to see the actual visa in my passport to make it complete.

Sept 16 2005- very very happy

hope this helps ignore typographical errors