The United States Embassy in Nigeria has said it is expanding its services to assist qualified non-immigrant visa applicants.

It stated that it had restarted an interview waiver visa programme with a pilot project at the US Consulate in Lagos for applicants.

Speaking during a press conference on Tuesday at the US Consulate in Lagos, the US Mission Country Consular Coordinator, Susan Tuller, noted that the project was ‘no-interview’ visa renewals for eligible applicants.

Tuller stated that it would be limited initially and apply only to applicants seeking renewals for academic exchange, work, study and tourist visas.

According to her, every eligible applicant must have a previous visa, which expired within the last 24 months or will expire in the next three months from the date of application.

She stated, “This is not a non-immigrant visa interview waiver process known as the drop box. The new application procedure will begin in February at the US Consulate in Lagos and will be extended shortly thereafter to the US Embassy in Abuja. The number of qualified applicants, who can apply using the new procedures, will be limited initially. Applicants, who meet the criteria, may apply in Lagos until the service is extended to Abuja.”

She said that the drop box system suspended in 2019 did not achieve its intended goals, because “there were a lot of fraud in the applications, in the interview waiver process and high overstay rates by people who through the programme were issued visas to the US even though they had been issued visas in the past.”
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B1B2 interview waiver.
Hello house, please can someone who was issued USA visa in the Abuja office in the past and the person is qualified for an interview waiver move to Lagos office since the Abuja office hasn’t commenced B1B2 visa waiver yet. If yes, did you go to the Lagos office to submit your documents or you did drop box. if possible how did you do it. Please urgent reply