Nigerians expressed disbelief and anger after the Trump administration announced the new policy.
Nigeria’s government pledged on Saturday to try to address security issues the Trump administration cited in its decision to stop granting immigration visas to people from the Africa’s most populous nation.
Immigrants from Nigeria and three other countries will no longer be eligible for visas allowing them to live in the United States permanently, the White House announced on Friday.
Nigerians, who have long decried the visa application processes in both the United States and Europe as racist, expressed disbelief and anger after the Trump administration announced the new policy, which takes effect Feb. 21.
The U.S. government said it decided to impose new visa restrictions on a total of six more countries that failed to meet minimum security requirements for verifying travelers’ identities and whether individuals posed a national security threat.
Immigrant visas were targeted because people with those visas are the most difficult to remove after they arrive in the United States, U.S. officials
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has established a committee “to study and address the updated U.S. requirements,” presidential spokesman Femi Adesina said Saturday.
People’s Democratic Party candidate Atiku Abubakar said the United States instead should “consider adopting measures that individually target those in government who have failed in their duties, rather than target the entire Nigerian population.”
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