US embassy says Nigerians should apply for VISA 1 year before traveling
Mr Stephen Frahm, Consular Chief of the U.S Embassy, Wednesday, in Abuja advised Nigerians wishing to travel to that country to apply for visas at least a year ahead of time. He said this at the embassy’s monthly briefing which had consular operations as the focus. Frahm said the number of applicants outnumber those that can be accommodated daily, noting that this contributes to delays. “ In Nigeria, there are a greater number of applicants than we have the ability to process. The number of people that can be processed in a given day is finite and that’s why it takes a long time in many instances to get an appointment. “ Here in Abuja, we are able to schedule about 200; in Lagos they do about 350 to 400, so that’s about 600 a day. “ We know that the demand is higher than that but we just don’t have the logistics to do more than that right now, so that’s why the de...