Why is the US embassy in Nigeria not issuing B1/B2 visa to Nigerians in recent times no matter how important or urgent their reasons for travel are? Are Nigerians currently blacklisted?
Sean Lana
I have visited more than 30 countries.
No Nigerians are not currently blacklisted.
I once answered this question before but I will summarize the answer again. The embassy is not relaxed due to demand in visas, Hence they receive so many applicants every day. US visa officers pay less attention to submitted documents, or they don’t even look at them. It is expensive and time demanding to verify documents. Therefore, they use your body language and circumstances to quickly take a decision and hand over the blue paper to you.
Western Europe foreign missions, most especially Germany always verify documents and based their denial on submitted documents. American Embassy is you and your confidence.
It is sad that wrong people get visa approval and people with good intentions get visa denial. That is one of the reasons why we pray to God for a favor . One thing again is your reason for the visit?
They also have statistics of those that were given visa in the past, if they returned and if they didn’t. On what purpose were they given visa? All these pieces of information could be used to be biased about future applicants.
In General, Visiting visa is the most difficult visa to get because you need to demonstrate to the VO that you gonna return home. This is a difficult task and Nigerian government ain’t helping because all foreign mission thinks all Nigerians wanna run away. That’s the struggle of living in a third world country Bro, Sad.
Edit: I just cannot believe that this answer went so viral, Thank you all for reading and for this reason, I have decided to upload the blue paper that is usually given by the VO once your Visa is denied.
If you check that law paragraph ( 214(b)) according to the US immigration law, It implies that the denied applicant is a potential immigrant. That means you need to really prove to them that you have strong ties to your country.
What are considered strong ties to my home country?
Ties are the various aspects of your life that bind you to your home country. Strong ties vary from country to country, city to city, and person to person, but examples include:
Your job;
Your home; and/or
Your relationships with family and friends.
While conducting visa interviews, consular officers look at each application individually and consider the applicant’s circumstances, travel plans, financial resources, and ties outside of the United States that will ensure the applicant’s departure after a temporary visit.
Because of bad governance in third world countries, It is not that always easy for the citizens to even prove strong ties to your own country. This is absolutely sad because freedom is something that everyone should enjoy. Many of these countries are also trying to discourage economic immigrants. If you put all these factors together, getting a visa for some nationalities is just tough, but they did not blacklist Nigerians. I know that Indians, Bangladesh, and many other nationalities are also facing the same issue.
Table 3 and 2
Update: If you compare these two available data published by the US Department of homeland security, You will notice that the percentage of overstayed visas increased in 2017 with 4,26%. The data for this year is not available. For those that can analyze further, I hope you know that this data gives a lot of deep information.
I hope that I have now perfectly answered your question.
Venkat Pokkunuri
Nigerians abused and continue to abuse B1/B2 visa; they simply disppear and will not return after their I-94 expiry; simple
Chinedu Chigbu
Visa over stay is committed by almost all third world countries,and not only by Nigerians.
Ohis Steve
Sean Lana you have no idea the depth of that question. The US embassy and consulate have always had a lot of applications. Before the newly elected president of Nigeria came into power, appointment waiting time was 3 months. Circumstances all made it look like the US government was trying to make the administration of the previous Nigerian president (Goodluck Jonathan) look bad and thus make Nigerians put the blame on him. It worked. Now, I can book an appointment today and get a date less than 10 days away! How’s that for ‘too many applicants’?
However, with Trump coming into the scene, all went down again. Currently, even if you have a scholarship, you are most likely to be denied.
Andrufilms Deji
I will try to make this very simple and straightforward, I saw this madness coming.
In my own opinion, I think the lots of Nigerians seeking asylum in Canada messed it up for everyone else. Few months back, their was a report that Canadian government were seeking for US government’s help in making visa issuance to Nigerians tougher because they found out that almost all Nigerias seeking asylum via Canadian land borders were nonimmigrant that freshly arrived USA. (Some, less than a week in US) it only goes to show that they never intended going to US in the first place.
When I saw that report, I knew visa issuance will become nightmares for Nigerians for the following reasons:
Trump never actually liked Nigerians/Africans in the first place.
US government will see this request from the Canadian government as a big slap on their (USA) face.
Cheers.
Prince Olubajo Sogo Olakunle
Adding to your notes so far, I was there to the USA embassy this year February luckily for me I came in on appropriated time, I got interviewed by VO without saying one word twice that’s everything went well. but the final things the VO said ,was “am SORRY you can not be given the visa”
The next thing I was given a blue paper, but I saw that there’s only blues papers on the table beside the VO, there’s no other papers like green or black or red papers. So, on my way back home , I got to some place to check on the blue paper handed over to me, there’s I saw the major reasons while many people that day had been given a blue papers,; all of us has been denied an entry to United States.
And more over, all the interviews questions VO asked went well without any major mistakes. There’s a woman in front of me interviewed, she was there last year and came back this year , I asked her the major reasons her visa has been denied this year again, she said the VO asked her to bring some documents last year, this year she was there with the requested documents and she said, she has even paid for the documents online to their university in USA.
There’s something attaching to their blue papers , which is not glaring and clear to us yet! Because everyone one of us on that day were presented a blue papers , it was like they are wanting for us under their blue papers laws. Thank you!!
Sean Lana
You guys need to stop putting blame on Trump. As long as a country is having Embassy and consulars in a foreign country eg Nigeria. They have the right to receive visa applications and screen applicants for visa approval or denial. They cannot deliberately deny applicants visas. Deliberately would mean that they deny your visa application intentionally for no reason which doesn’t make any sense.
Ohis Steve
You miss my point…a bit. Check my answer to the original question. Part of making it difficult to get a visa for economic reasons is by also denying legitimate applications for no reason! If there was a reason, those that met all the stated criteria and standards would be granted. Maybe it’s how I phrased it.
Consider H & E visas. There’re limits on how many people can be granted visas every year. It doesn’t matter how interesting or legitimate your application is, once that number is reached, there will be no further visa grants.
Suppose there was no official notice about the number cap (as may be the case here), people would wonder why their applications weren’t processed and the answer would be “for no damn reason!”
And talking about making sense, why does the US government make students to pay sevis fees (apart from visa fees) before they can be interviewed when that could be done only when a student is successfully granted a visa (as was the case before)?
If you think rational thinking is what influences all political decisions, you probably need to open your eyes.
And by the way, Trump isn’t to blame. I infact, commend his unflinching stance. America needs it. Like you said, it’s the government heads in these broken nations that need flogging. Like I said in my answer, Nigeria is blessed with some of the most clueless and unbelievable leaders in the universe!
Victor Essang
The place is a casino. Throw a dice, win or lose…no logic, but house makes money. End of.
There are so much better countries to visit, no point annoying yourself.
Jorge Gonzalez
A fine casino indeed with free drinks and pretty servers.
Mihir Dalal
This is also the story in India. B1/B2 are the most difficult visas to get. Struggles of living in the third world. Visa office receives too many applications, but because they charge a hefty visa fee, there is no excuse for them to not do due diligence with your documents.
Seun
Sean, you are right. I always wonder why people do these dastard act of staying illegally in another country.
-Adapted from Quora
