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Passenger
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Nigeria is advising its
citizens against all but essential travel to the United States because of the
lack of clarity on new immigration rules, the government said on Monday.
AFP
report continues:
A
special adviser to the president on foreign affairs, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, said
in a statement that Nigerians "without any compelling or essential
reasons" should consider delaying.
"In
the last few weeks, the office has received a few cases of Nigerians with valid
multiple-entry US visas being denied entry and sent back to Nigeria," she
said.
"In
such cases reported to the office, such affected persons were sent back immediately
on the next available flight and their visas were cancelled."
Dabiri-Erewa
said "no reasons were given for the decision by the US immigration
authorities".
The
recommendation to postpone trips was given "until there is clarity on the
new immigration policy" from Washington, she added.
Of
the 2.1 million African immigrants living in the United States in 2015, 327,000
were born in Nigeria, according to data from the Pew Research Centre, published
in February.
US
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on January 27 to bar people
from seven, Muslim-majority countries from travelling to the United States for
90 days.
It
also stopped all refugees for 120 days and Syrian refugees permanently. The ban
caused global outrage, as well as chaos across the United States, before it was
frozen by a legal ruling.
Trump is expected to sign a
revised travel ban on Monday.
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