The Chargé d’Affaires of the United States Embassy in Nigeria, David Greene, revealed that over 150,000 Nigerians applied for US visas and 30,000 students applied.
According to him, issues related to visas would fully become a thing of the past, saying the mission is doing everything within its power to tackle such challenges
He stated that it was impossible to approve all visa requests as demand would always be more than supply. However, he reassured Nigerians that the embassy was doing its best to clear its backlog since the COVID incident.
“We are doing the best we can to get proper ways for all the categories and after having an enormous backlog as a result of COVID-19 and all that. We have made great progress though. In March, we instituted a five-year term for visas to the US,” he added.
He urged persons desiring to travel to the US to apply early and ensure that the visa requests are tied to events.
“Folks that are seeking visas should apply early; make sure that the plan is for an event as they can,”
“This is because we acknowledge that there is a backlog, and we will do what we can to make sure people who need a warrant visa to the U.S. can get them,” he said.