The federal government may reciprocate the visa restriction imposed on its citizens by the United States and other countries, the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has said.

This Comptroller-General of the NIS, Mohammed Babandede, said this while explaining the new visa policy that was launched by the President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019.

The US had in January 2020 said it would suspend the issuance of visas that can lead to permanent residency for nationals of Nigeria, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, and Myanmar. However, they could apply for other visa categories.

The US had also introduced reciprocity fees for Nigerians thereby nearly doubling the cost of obtaining a visa based on the premise that Americans seeking Nigerian visa were paying too much to secure it.

But speaking with Signature50 Magazine, the immigration boss said the new Nigerian visa policy is reciprocal in nature.

He argued that like the US, Nigeria has the right to dictate who it allows in or restricts from entering the country.

"I can tell you that US is a country - it is a nation like Nigeria. They have the right to restrict who will enter their territory or not just like we can restrict US citizen or whomsoever from entering Nigeria," Babandede said.

"So they have the right, but I want people to know that visa restriction is not a visa ban, it is a ban for people who want to take residency not people who want to go for short visits.

"You are aware that President Muhammadu Buhari just launched a new visa policy for Nigeria, the visa policy has 79 classes of visa. So, we will be in a position to say to countries, if you allow us for short visits we will allow you for short visits and if you stop us from other visits, we do the same, because the new visa policy is based on reciprocity.

"So, we will test this for a year and see those who reciprocate and we take actions for those who do otherwise."

you see,”the new visa policy is based on reciprocity.” If the United States allows us in, we will allow the United States in. However, with the severity of the COVID-19 epidemic in the United States, with 5.3 million people infected, the United States has a confused focus on COVID-19, a lack of capacity to deal with it, and a lack of responsibility as an advanced country to take COVID-19 seriously. Instead, it focuses more on visa issues, and I think even if the United States is willing to open visas, we will not go for safety.

https://allafrica.com/stories/202008120038.html

You adopt visa restrictions to developmentally oriented country like america,
Yet you open your boarders and grant visa free access to terrorists from north Africa and lake chad basin..
Useless government

Lol. Visa what. Very funny Country

Ok

Nigeria my kwantory

Lol jokes

nairalandankrah:

You adopt visa restrictions to developmentally oriented country like america,
Yet you open your boarders and grant visa free access to terrorists from north Africa and lake chad basin..
Useless government

you talking nonsense. You mean Nigeria should open its borders to the USA a country with the highest covid infection rate in the world?

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Anazp:
you talking nonsense. You mean Nigeria should open its borders to the USA a country with the highest covid infection rate in the world?

Sorry to say but You are stupid..so this is how much your brain can carry you..??
Nigeria has the highest covid infection rate in the world..#fact..
I guess you didn't read about the deaths in kano?.
And you also didnt get the news by NCDC that Nigerians below 45 are carriers and spreaders of the virus, while those above 50 are dying from it?? Did you even care to ask yourself why is that??did you care to reason along that line??

the fact that covid related deaths are not overly glaring like it is in the west boils down to the fact that covid has symptomatic resemblance to malaria..
And right from birth,our immune system has been subjected to all kinds of anti malaria drugs already.
This is why we don't die much from covid here..
Unlike our counterparts in the west, who hardly survive malaria cos their immune system isn't use to it..
So its possible YOU might have suffered COVID, which you ignorantly brushed off as malaria, because, there are no testing kits in your beautiful country so you will never know..

We don't keep hygiene, we don't practice social distance, we don't wash our hands, we don't wear masks, we are worse out there when it comes to preventing the spread of covid 19..
HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE EVEN BEEN TESTED OUT OF OVER 200MILLION NIGERIANS,,are you telling me, there's no covid in Nigeria??
Or we practice social distance and good hygiene more than the Americans??

Do you now see that there is something wrong with the way you reason?
#Onye isi oji

Fallacy of petitio principii., beating about the bush.
America is simply asking you to document a verifiable data base for your citizens.. That's not difficult in a sincere climate, but because that will expose the data of terrorist amongst them, together with the false aclaimed census population up north, they would rather argued in circles instead of doing the needful.
How I wish Buhari will make good this threat let's see how it plays out

nairalandankrah:

Sorry to say but You are stupid..so this is how much your brain can carry you..??
Nigeria has the highest covid infection rate in the world..#fact..
I guess you didn't read about the deaths in kano?.
And you also didnt get the news by NCDC that Nigerians below 45 are carriers and spreaders of the virus, while those above 50 are dying from it?? Did you even care to ask yourself why is that??did you care to reason along that line??

the fact that covid related deaths are not overly glaring like it is in the west boils down to the fact that covid has symptomatic resemblance to malaria..
And right from birth,our immune system has been subjected to all kinds of anti malaria drugs already.
This is why we don't die much from covid here..
Unlike our counterparts in the west, who hardly survive malaria cos their immune system isn't use to it..
So its possible YOU might have suffered COVID, which you ignorantly brushed off as malaria, because, there are no testing kits in your beautiful country so you will never know..

We don't keep hygiene, we don't practice social distance, we don't wash our hands, we don't wear masks, we are worse out there when it comes to preventing the spread of covid 19..
HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE EVEN BEEN TESTED OUT OF OVER 200MILLION NIGERIANS,,are you telling me, there's no covid in Nigeria??
Or we practice social distance and good hygiene more than the Americans??

Do you now see that there is something wrong with the way you reason?
#Onye isi oji

U have a problem brother.

benedima1990:


U have a problem brother.

Check well its actually you that has a problem.
Just,Keep reading my write up, read it over and over again, who knows it might reset your brain to factory mode..

Seconded... it wud b nice if we respond in kind.....

Shutting borders for USA, what other joke do you have. I doubt it would make any significant impact on them.

nairalandankrah:

Sorry to say but You are stupid..so this is how much your brain can carry you..??
Nigeria has the highest covid infection rate in the world..#fact..
I guess you didn't read about the deaths in kano?.
And you also didnt get the news by NCDC that Nigerians below 45 are carriers and spreaders of the virus, while those above 50 are dying from it?? Did you even care to ask yourself why is that??did you care to reason along that line??

the fact that covid related deaths are not overly glaring like it is in the west boils down to the fact that covid has symptomatic resemblance to malaria..
And right from birth,our immune system has been subjected to all kinds of anti malaria drugs already.
This is why we don't die much from covid here..
Unlike our counterparts in the west, who hardly survive malaria cos their immune system isn't use to it..
So its possible YOU might have suffered COVID, which you ignorantly brushed off as malaria, because, there are no testing kits in your beautiful country so you will never know..

We don't keep hygiene, we don't practice social distance, we don't wash our hands, we don't wear masks, we are worse out there when it comes to preventing the spread of covid 19..
HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE EVEN BEEN TESTED OUT OF OVER 200MILLION NIGERIANS,,are you telling me, there's no covid in Nigeria??
Or we practice social distance and good hygiene more than the Americans??

Do you now see that there is something wrong with the way you reason?
#Onye isi oji

idiiotic element. No evidence to back your points. How many people in your neighborhood has died from covid? However in the USA there's hardly any neighborhood without covid casualties. Get your facts right