USA’s visa spat with Nigeria vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
LAST week, Nigerians woke up to the breaking news of a visa row with the United States. The Donald Trump administration announced that as from Thursday Nigerians whose visa applications were approved would pay extra visa fees ranging from $80 to $303 in addition to the non-refundable $160 to $260 application fees paid for non-immigrant visas, before they can travel to the US.
According to the Embassy: “The total cost for a US citizen to obtain a visa to Nigeria is currently higher than the total cost for a Nigerian to obtain a comparative visa to the United States”. And for that, the reciprocity fee “is meant to eliminate the cost difference”. This is in tune with US law.
First of all, let us commend Aregbesola for his quick and effective response to the American threat which would have impacted negatively on prospective Nigerian travellers to America had the Federal Government applied its usual slow response to issues that expose Nigerians to hardship. We must also learn from President Trump’s zero tolerance to issues that impact negatively or unfairly on the welfare of American citizens anywhere in the world. We want this attitude to be adopted by our leaders. It is largely because we almost never react appropriately in this manner when Nigerians are victimised by foreign countries that we are treated as slaves or beasts of no nation all over the world.
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