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A United States citizen married to a Nigerian woman has taken to social media to express deep frustration over the challenges he’s facing in trying to acquire Nigerian citizenship and a passport, despite being legally married and having Nigerian children.

In a video making rounds online, the man, who is currently in the U.S., questioned what he described as a “double standard” in Nigeria’s immigration and citizenship process. According to him, his research online shows that when a Nigerian man marries a foreign woman, she becomes eligible to apply for a Nigerian passport almost immediately. However, the reverse doesn’t apply when a Nigerian woman marries a foreign man.

"Why is it that if a Nigerian man marries a foreigner, the wife gets her passport, but if a Nigerian woman marries a foreigner, he has to live in Nigeria for 15 years before even being considered eligible?" he asked.

The footage also shows him holding up the Nigerian passports of his wife and their children, further emphasizing his point that he is already family and committed to Nigeria by blood and marriage.

He lamented that the process appears discriminatory and questioned whether the information he found online is truly accurate or if there are exceptions. “Why me?” he repeatedly asked, hoping that what he read isn't entirely true and that there could still be a path forward for him.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaHLcJtHaVc

So you think the frustration people get in just entering US is child's play? You never see something

Nigeria is a misogynistic entity. The discrimination between man and woman is terrible 🧐

SA should apply this rule as well...😏😏😏... So that any man who marries an SA lady would have to live in SA for 20 years before being eligible for an SA passport.

elantraceey:
Nigeria is a misogynistic entity. The discrimination between man and woman is terrible

Dem self dey show us shege. Let him feel the heat too.

Yes make Una dey feel am too. It's supposed to be 25 years sef

Yes nau before nko, it's a tit- 4-tat

Is that the Nigerian you are married to? I hope her father thanked you with a live lion because you really did him and all of us a favour.

This one na small.
To even apply 4 Nigerian Visa from United States be like Presidential appointment.
That's the reason many foreigners dey enter Kenya, South Africa and Tanzania not just insecurity alone.

Its not about getting citizenship in Nigeria coz of marriage

He should be checked and rechecked to see if he is worth been in Nigeria. If he has good intentions for coming to the country. If he isn't a terrorist to the country.

All countries do this check b4 granting access despite been tied by marriage. Its normal. HE should chill

If this is true, it definitely looks misogynic to me. Absolute double standards.

The funny thing is that trying to follow legal routes to get this document is cumbersome for most foreigners, but if they follow other routes, they can even enter Nigeria and live permanently for long with no documents or even get this passport if they sort the higher powers in immigration office Abuja.

APOPTOSIS:
This one na small.
To even apply 4 Nigerian Visa from United States be like Presidential appointment.
That's the reason many foreigners dey enter Kenya, South Africa and Tanzania not just insecurity alone.

I have always heard this.

And it is even said that Nigeria has one of the most expensive visas fee for tourism among most African countries (with no absolute guarantee of getting it)

This is the DUMBEST man that ever dumbed!

He's a US Citizen with a US Passport and he's BITCHING about NOT getting a Nigerian Passport.

Absolute MADNESS!

For context, the US Passport can travel to 186 countries in the world WITHOUT Visa. The Nigerian Passport can only travel to 44, mostly African, countries WITHOUT Visa.

Owning a US Passport and still bitching about not getting a Nigerian passport is like standing in a SPRING of sparkling water and still begging for PUREWATER.

It's MADNESS!

We want to know you aren't just marrying her for her papers.

Abi, what am I even saying?

🤭

He is quite right. It's sexist.
Being married to a female citizen should also confer citizenship as soon as all the other conditions are met.

We are just so stupid in this country

Thunder fire your white blockos

elantraceey:
Nigeria is a misogynistic entity. The discrimination between man and woman is terrible 🧐

This your statement shows how mayopic you are. Why should it be easy for an American to get Nigerian citizenship when it is extremely difficult just getting their visa.

And that he won't come to naija and not return to usa

Saga16:
We want to know you aren't just marrying her for her papers.

Abi, what am I even saying?

Namaster:
This is the DUMBEST man that ever dumbed!

He's a US Citizen with a US Passport and he's BITCHING about NOT getting a Nigerian Passport.

Absolute MADNESS!

For context, the US Passport can travel to 186 countries in the world WITHOUT Visa. The Nigerian Passport can only travel to 44, mostly African, countries WITHOUT Visa.

Owning a US Passport and still bitching about not getting a Nigerian passport is like standing in a SPRING of sparkling water and still begging for PUREWATER.

It's MADNESS!

That's for you. The man has his reasons.

DAramis:
I have always heard this.

And it is even said that Nigeria has one of the most expensive visas fee for tourism among most African countries (with no absolute guarantee of getting it)

Yeahhhhh.
I spent $600 to procure Nigerian Visa for my daughter to visit Nigeria 2 years ago.
It's herculean. No mercy even for toddlers.

Nearly everyone is missing the point.
The issue is that A non Nigerian woman can become a Nigerian citizen by naturalisation via marriage.

A Non Nigerian man CANNOT become a Nigerian citizen by naturalisation through marriage.

There is absolutely no reason why this should be so and it's just another disgusting example of misogyny in Nigeria.

It has to change

APOPTOSIS:
Yeahhhhh.
I spent $600 to procure Nigerian Visa for my daughter to visit Nigeria 2 years ago.
It's herculean. No mercy even for toddlers.

Damn...
Please get her the Nigerian passport. That way, she would not be subjected to this unnecessary stress when she will grow up.

DAramis:
Damn...
Please get her the Nigerian passport. That way, she would not be subjected to this unnecessary stress when she will grow up.

Exactly
Traveling to Nigeria as a foreigner is almost always frustrating including the trip itself.
People wanna visit Nigeria especially when they get to see how blacks relocate and do so well they wonder the place these brilliance would have migrated from.
Insecurity, warnings from the U.S. Embassies and Visa frustrations remain a fishbone in the throat

APOPTOSIS:
Exactly
Traveling to Nigeria as a foreigner is almost always frustrating including the trip itself.
People wanna visit Nigeria especially when they get to see how blacks relocate and do so well they wonder the place these brilliance would have migrated from.
Insecurity, warnings from the U.S. Embassies and Visa frustrations remain a fishbone in the throat

Yeah.

We will get there definitely...we may not get there 100 percent but I am certain there will be progress towards a better Nigeria.

Natbrowny:
Its not about getting citizenship in Nigeria coz of marriage

He should be checked and rechecked to see if he is worth been in Nigeria. If he has good intentions for coming to the country. If he isn't a terrorist to the country.

All countries do this check b4 granting access despite been tied by marriage. Its normal. HE should chill

Won't you be grateful a white dude is about to enter your diseased country....

What has your country got to offer, there are a lot of terrorists in it, so it has no pre-installed benefit....

No you can't!!!

Namaster:
This is the DUMBEST man that ever dumbed!

He's a US Citizen with a US Passport and he's BITCHING about NOT getting a Nigerian Passport.

Absolute MADNESS!

For context, the US Passport can travel to 186 countries in the world WITHOUT Visa. The Nigerian Passport can only travel to 44, mostly African, countries WITHOUT Visa.

Owning a US Passport and still bitching about not getting a Nigerian passport is like standing in a SPRING of sparkling water and still begging for PUREWATER.

It's MADNESS!

May inferiority complex NOT kill you