President Biden lifts immigrant visa ban on Nigerians
United States president, Joe Biden, has signed some executive orders lifting the immigrant visa ban placed on Nigerians by his predecessor, Donald Trump.
Biden also reversed the systemic ban placed on citizens from Muslim dominated countries like Yemen.
Former President Trump had last February placed an immigrant visa ban on Nigeria, citing Nigeria’s lack of a robust database.
The American ambassador to Nigeria, Mary-Beth Leonard, stated at the time that Nigeria must improve on its data intelligence to ease the investigation of its citizens wishing to migrate to the US, if it wants the ban lifted.
On Wednesday Biden began reversing Trump’s immigration policies as part of an aggressive push to roll back some of the most controversial actions of his predecessor and charts a new course for the nation.