FG slashes visa fees for U.S citizens

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FG slashes visa fees for U.S citizens

A review of the U.S.’ visa reciprocity policy for Nigeria has led to a
slash of visa application charges for citizens of the North American
country by the Nigerian government.

Confirming the development, the Comptroller-General of Nigeria
Immigration Service (NIS), Mr Muhammad Babandede said the visa
application charges for American citizens was slashed from $180 to
$160.

The information was conveyed in a memo marked NIS/HQ/CGI/806/7 and
addressed to the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

All Nigerian missions were asked to immediately implement the new
visa charges and discontinue the old fee broken down as “$160 as visa
fee and $20 as “processing and expedient fees”.

The new directive is however coming months after the US government
imposed additional visa fees on Nigerian citizens in retaliation of an
increased visa fee for US citizens by the Nigerian government.

1 COMMENT

  1. Even though Nigeria reduce the visa fee for the US citizens in return the US will not do the same. The US have been increasing the visa fees for Nigerian applicants which is one of the reason why there have been a decrease on Nigerians flying to the US.

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