Since travel ban by the United State Government, there are lot of panic regarding who should travel to America and who should not. A case of the Iranian baby girl who needed a serious heart surgery became one of the most recent cases which play down on the ban.
Due to her serious medical history attention was drawn from every nook and cranny and a waiver was given . A side this, there are numbers of information the flying the air. a government agency in Nigeria has warned Nigerian to have a rethink before traveling to the US. The punch news paper feature two Nigerians with a valid Visa handcuffed, locked in cell for four days at the US Airport. It reported that Olaniyi a businessman claims he obtained his Visa from US Consulate in Lagos on December 23, 2016, and had planned a holiday with his wife but his wife could not make it due to her tight work schedule.
He left Lagos on Turkish Airline on February 21,2017 and on getting to the Los Angeles Airport, an immigration officer demanded his reason for visiting America which he explained.
Olaniyi said his phone and his document were collected, he was locked up in a cool cell only to be released four days later which was February 25 and placed back in a plane to Nigeria
At all these the American Embassy in Nigeria has issued a statement which read thus
The U.S. Embassy in Abuja wishes to clarify that there is no reason for Nigerians with valid visas to postpone or cancel their travel to the United States. 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
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He said he left Lagos on a Turkish Airline on February 21, 2017 and on getting to the Los Angeles Airport, an immigration officer demanded his reason for visiting America which he explained.
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