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United States of America has warned Nigerians about overstaying the authorised period granted in their visa, saying that such a violation will result in deportation and a probable permanent travel ban.

This followed a series of travel restrictions and visa curbs affecting Nigerians, announced by the US recently as part of its ongoing immigration crackdown under President Donald Trump’s administration.

The US Mission in Nigeria announced this yesterday in a post on its X handle.

“If you remain in the United States beyond your authorised period of stay, you could be deported and could face a permanent ban on travelling to the United States in the future,” the US said in the post.

Early last week, the US announced an update to its visa reciprocity policy for Nigerians, limiting the non-immigrant and non-diplomatic visa to three three-month single entry, citing reciprocity policy, visa overstay, national security and wrong documentations as part of the reasons.

It further announced a fresh $250 mandatory integrity fee for students, workers and tourists’ visas.

In addition to the Visa Integrity Fee, the bill introduces several non-waivable travel-related surcharges.

These include a $24 I-94 fee, a $13 Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) fee for Visa Waiver Program travelers, According to the rule, the surcharge would apply to visa categories, including B-1/B-2 (tourist/business), F and M (students), H-1B (workers), and J (exchange visitors).Under the new rule, only diplomatic applicants in categories A and G would be exempted. The law states unequivocally that in fourteen instances.

The two visa curbs were announced last week after the US mandated social media screening as part of the vetting process for applicants seeking to study in the States.

It had mandated applicants to list all their social media usernames and also remove the privacy settings to allow proper screening.

In the post announcing the measure, the US Embassy in Nigeria said: “Every visa adjudication is a national security decision. Effective immediately, all individuals applying for an F, M, or J non-immigrant visa are requested to adjust the privacy settings on all of their personal social media accounts to ‘public’ to facilitate vetting necessary to establish their identity and admissibility to the United States.

President Trump has been embarking on strict immigration policy since taking office, enforcing the removal of illegal immigrants from the US.

Trump signed a swathe of executive orders calling for an increased and very strict screening process during the visa-granting process to ensure that those given visas and allowed to enter the United States do not wish to harm citizens.

He further ordered continued screening of immigrants and ensuring that those already within the U.S. do not aid what he deemed as foreign terrorist groups and that they do not bear hostility towards the country.

justwise:
They can as well close their borders after deporting everyone is not white American.

Since this confused human being got into power it has been immigrants this immigrants that, ban , arrest , deport, cage , etc.. Enough!!

justwise:
They can as well close their borders after deporting everyone is not white American.

Since this confused human being got into power it has been immigrants this immigrants that, ban , arrest , deport, cage , etc.. Enough!!

justwise:
They can as well close their borders after deporting everyone is not white American.

Since this confused human being got into power it has been immigrants this immigrants that, ban , arrest , deport, cage , etc.. Enough!!

cyberbro:
The noise from the US government is just too much, it's sickening at this point! If you don't want anyone in your country, deport everyone, let's see what happens!

They keep mentioning visas and deportation as if USA is heaven! WTH! 😒

Ttipsy:
do you think USA have bounch of illiterates as leaders?? do you want them to have their borders open just like nigeria? look at what fulani herders r doing to indeginous pple here

NaijaGoBetter2:
America can just close their embassy in every Africa nation if they feel uncomfortable with black people. Trump hate black people.

NaijaGoBetter2:
America can just close their embassy in every Africa nation if they feel uncomfortable with black people. Trump hate black people.

chiagozien:
Do you Yorubas and hausafulanis blacks love your fellow Igbo blacks?

chiagozien:
Do you Yorubas and hausafulanis blacks love your fellow Igbo blacks?

Commentor:
I'm waiting for those that say "they just want what is best for their country" and "why not stay back to develop your country".

Same set of people that would leave their own community of origin.

justwise:
They can as well close their borders after deporting everyone is not white American.

Since this confused human being got into power it has been immigrants this immigrants that, ban , arrest , deport, cage , etc.. Enough!!

TouchNfollow:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/07/visa-overstay-us-threatens-nigerians-with-deportation-permanent-travel-ban-2/

cyberbro:
The noise from the US government is just too much, it's sickening at this point! If you don't want anyone in your country, deport everyone, let's see what happens!

They keep mentioning visas and deportation as if USA is heaven! WTH! 😒

jdrezp:
Couldn’t agree more! World over, and following Trump’s rhetoric, governments are beginning to witch-hunt immigrants — law-abiding ones, too!

RillJ:
Why should anyone overstay his legal limit and frown at the repercussion? The US Govt have not said or threatened to do anything new or illegal here.

nwirinedu:
For those of you attacking, put yourself in their shoes, people coming into your country to with no value, you re forced to subsidize their stay with your taxes. They given free accommodation and spending money and subsidizes while the locals are forced to pay more for utilities food and rent.

At some point this will trigger a crises and this is what we re seeing. It behoves migrants to hold their leaders accountable by voting and choosing their leaders, when you allow corruption to fester it breeds a cancer in a nations fabric.

I always knew that the japa trend is not sustainable in the long run, we getting to a point where it will be difficult to leave the country even for good reasons.

Just look at the crazy visa requirements from the US, Canada, UAE for a country once called the giant of Africa.

This is what happens when corruption and criminality is celebrated, it rubs off on decent people from the same country.