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The United States has placed a temporary halt on Green Card and citizenship applications linked to Nigerians.

This action follows a new expansion of Washington’s immigration restrictions and affects several other countries recently added to a broader travel control policy.

The suspension targets legal immigration filings, including applications for permanent residency and naturalisation.

Many of those affected are Nigerians already living in the United States who were in the process of adjusting their status or applying to become citizens.

Under the new directive, immigration authorities have stopped processing petitions from nationals of countries covered by the latest travel restrictions.

This includes both full bans and partial entry limits, depending on the country involved.

Nigeria is among the countries facing partial restrictions. As a result, immigration-related requests tied to Nigerian nationals are now subject to the pause, creating uncertainty for families, workers, and students awaiting decisions on their applications.

Other African countries impacted by the policy include Benin, Senegal, Ghana, Gambia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Côte d’Ivoire, among others.

Some nations face complete entry bans, while others, like Nigeria, are under limited restrictions that still affect immigration processing.

The move is part of a wider immigration clampdown introduced in recent weeks. Authorities have also frozen asylum decisions and halted the processing of certain visa and immigration requests from specific nationalities.

US officials say the decision is linked to a security review of immigration systems.

According to the immigration agency, “USCIS is conducting a comprehensive review of anyone from anywhere who poses a threat to the US, including those identified in the President’s latest proclamation to restore law and order in our nation’s immigration system.”

Taken together, the latest policy changes affect a large portion of African countries and several nations in Asia and other regions. Analysts estimate that more than half of Africa is now impacted in one form or another.

The development has sparked strong reactions among Nigerians at home and abroad. Many have criticised the decision, describing it as unfair and damaging to long-standing diplomatic and people-to-people ties between Nigeria and the United States.

Concerns have also been raised about the economic and social impact of the suspension, especially for families separated by immigration delays and professionals whose careers depend on legal residency status.

Former senator, Shehu Sani, reacted to the development, describing it as “a clear signal that migrants from developing countries are no longer welcome.”

Source: https://politicsnigeria.com/breaking-us-stops-green-card-citizenship-applications-for-nigerians/

Good

Let everybody remain in Nigeria and let develop our country .

Infact, the United states should impose a total ban on Nigerians so that those tinubu supporters that supported him blindly with hope of traveling to the United States for greener pasture remain here and have a taste of his bad leadership.

A whole giant of Africa. Trump don see us finish. No atom of respect anymore

Don't lose hope Nigerians. We will get our respect back when Another government takes over the leadership of Nigeria in 2027

LagosOrigin:
Good

Let everybody remain in Nigeria and let develop our country .

Seconded. Let everyone remain and develop this country. The insult is too much

miracle002:
A whole giant of Africa. Trump don see us finish. No atom of respect anymore

Don't lose hope Nigerians. We will get our respect back when Another government takes over the leadership of Nigeria in 2027

You made a drug baron your president and expect trump to take you serious ?

Trump didn't only tagged Nigeria "A disgraced country" because of terrorism alone, it's also because among all the millions of people in this country, some people choosed a drug baron to lead them.

Congratulations Tinubu




A Disgraced CORNtree 🌽 that has finally become a pariah state which no one wants to associate with.

This is a very good development. Among others things, wrong mentality is one of our biggest problem. God created you as Nigerian, your mindset should be how to make Nigeria great not how to become US citizen.

LagosOrigin:
You made a drug baron your president and expect trump to take you serious ?

I no follow vote for him oo. Yarimo, Helinues, LegendHero are the one that voted him

miracle002:
I no follow vote for him oo. Yarimo, Helinues, LegendHero are the one that voted him

N30,000 naira people

LagosOrigin:
N30,000 naira people

Imagine selling your soul conscience and future just for 30k per month. Chai!!

Most of these policies targeted at ordinary Nigerians are born out of pure racism by Trump.
Nigerians in the US are most probably the most educated. Very resilient, very professionally purposeful. Many Nigerians are contributing massively to the US economy and tech advancements. Most are into high tech, academics and research.
To clamp down on all of us just because you prefer migrants from "Sweden and Norway" simply shows how crudely racist Trump and his gang are..

LagosOrigin:
Good

Let everybody remain in Nigeria and let develop our country .

Infact, the United states should impose a total ban on Nigerians so that those tinubu supporters that supported him blindly with hope of traveling to the United States for greener pasture remain here and have a taste of his bad leadership.

Exhibiting ignorance emended with a poor state of mind with such pride.

It is a known fact, that a Failure will always look 👀 for someone else, or something to blame for being a Failure, so we don’t blame u too much for blaming the president for thy unfortunate situation.

Trump is so sympathetic towards the plight of Nigerian Christians that he's doing everything he can to shut them out of his country. What a weird way of showing concern

dominique:
Trump is so sympathetic towards the plight of Nigerian Christians that he's doing everything he can to shut them out of his country. What a weird way of showing concern

Don’t mind those hypocrite Christian purported genocide promoters, promoting false hood on themselves because of politics.

Trump is coming to help them, na visa ban e put on them.

They don cast finally

They go change mind shaa

No thanks to the Jeehadist, they made America classify us as country of particular concern

that US think its heaven.

This will only affect Yorubas and Northerners. Nothing concern we Obidients. Donald Trump is on our side.

That is why we renamed him Donatus Trumpuchukwu

It's okay like that.
Best news today

osuofia2:
No thanks to the Jeehadist, they made America classify us as country of particular concern

Good excuse to ban u from coming to his country abi?

Shameless lot of ignorant things.

Fix your country, stop running up and down like lazy heads.

dominique:
Trump is so sympathetic towards the plight of Nigerian Christians that he's doing everything he can to shut them out of his country. What a weird way of showing concern

K
Kudos to the Jeehadist who made America classify Nigeria as country of particular concern, tell your people to respect everyone religion. Stop kpaing people for god

Instead of you to tackle bandits and terrorists you just sit down for office like mumu dey wait for 2027 now see what you have caused innocent people. Election has consequences

Let them send all the politicians children already there back to Nigeria.

Leave the regular citizens, but every politician's child there should be sent back to Nigeria.

If other countries follow suit like this, they'll be forced to fixed this country.

Should be good news to our government and a wake up call.

Wicked people in Nigeria will celebrate this news

Na you shout Christians genocide, na all of us dem banned 😂.

Northern Muslims no too gbadun Japa go usa sef 😂

christejames:
Congratulations Tinubu




A Disgraced CORNtree 🌽 that has finally become a pariah state which no one wants to associate with.

A Failure always look 👀 for someone else to blame for been a Failure, we should blame the President for thee being a Failure abi?

Nigeria Don suffer.
APC have not been Fair to Nigerians
We are being battered left right and center .

It's now that am about to summit My own application that it's been banned.

It's very frustrating

Trump wont be there forever.

owobokiri:
Most of these policies targeted at ordinary Nigerians are born out pure racism by Trump.
Nigerians in the US are most probably the most educated. Very resilient, very professionally purposeful. Many Nigerians are contributing massively to the us economy and tech advancements. Most are into high tech, academics and research.
To clamp down on all of us just because you prefer migrants from "Sweden and Norway" imply shows how crudely racist Trump and his gang are..

No be una shout Christians genocide?