Standup9ja - No reason to postpone your trip, US tells Nigerians
The United States Embassy in Abuja said Nigerians with valid
visa have no reason to postpone or cancel their trips to US.
This is coming after the Senior Special Assistant to the
President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, advised
Nigerians to postpone their US travel plans except for urgent reasons.
The presidential aide said the warning became imperative
because she had received cases of Nigerians with valid multiple-entry US visas
being denied entry and sent back to Nigeria.
The US Embassy, in a statement yesterday, said there is no
prohibition against Nigerians with valid visas or other U.S. government
authorisation from entering the United States.
The statement said, “Nigeria is not named in the Executive
Order on Immigration issued on March 6, and there is no prohibition against
Nigerian lawful permanent residents or persons with a valid visa or other U.S.
government authorization from entering the United States.”
US president Donald Trump had on Monday signed a new
executive order placing a 90-day ban on people from six mainly Muslim nations.
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