Remember Osofia in London? This is Safiya’s own version!
Safiya works with an international
organisation and has done a fair bit of travelling around the world for business and pleasure. However, you
know how the experience of travelling to visit a place and travelling to live in
a new place vary completely right?
Safiya had been to many destinations in
Europe but had avoided London
for the fact that she had heard of her 'fellow country people' being scattered
all over the place. “When I am leaving home, I prefer to be on holiday from
everything familiar” she would always say so she deliberately shunned the U.K.
Safiya finally decided to choose the United States
as her destination for further education. On the day of her interview, she
walked in confidently, all her documents were intact. She watched as some were
denied visas and others told to pick up their passports a few days later. The
annoying part with this particular setting is that the hall is in such a way that
all the interview cubicles are all the way to the far end of the hall while the
seats for applicants are directly facing the cubicles. Everyone can see and hear
everything being said.
