{"id":159,"date":"2012-10-18T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T19:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/?p=159"},"modified":"2012-10-18T20:48:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T19:48:00","slug":"nigerians-can-now-secure-american-visa-within-20-days-us-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"Nigerians Can Now Secure American Visa Within 20 Days \u2013 US Ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-I68kM3Pk5aA\/UIBq6e4XjoI\/AAAAAAAAAMM\/lY1C9vEkHYU\/s1600\/usa.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"187\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-I68kM3Pk5aA\/UIBq6e4XjoI\/AAAAAAAAAMM\/lY1C9vEkHYU\/s320\/usa.png\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It is good news for Nigerians wishing to travel to the United States \u2013  and you can bet there are a whole lot of them \u2013 as it has been revealed  that they can now secure the Americanvisawithin 20 days, and not 150  days anymore. <br \/>This was made known by the United Statesambassadorto Nigeria, His  Excellency TerenceMcCulley, during an exclusive interview with  LEADERSHIP. According to him, \u201cWe recognise that thevisais an  important part of our relationship and we have every interest in  facilitating legitimate travel visas of students, people and tourists  who want to travel to theUSas part of dynamic series of exchanges  between both countries.\u201d<br \/> Theambassadorattributed this to the hard work of the consular  offices in both Abuja and Lagos. Both offices have been able to manage  what is a very significant increase in work load without a concomitant  increase in human or physical resources to manage the interviews that  are being undertaken, he added.<br \/> Over the past years there had been a huge increase in demand for  theUSvisaby Nigerians which led to a significant wait time to secure  avisainterview. This, unfortunately, had permitted middle men and  touts to grab appointments and then resell them, he said: \u201cBy reducing  the time Nigerians have to wait to secure a visa, we hope to eliminate  these people who are profiting on the gullibility ofvisaapplicants and  we hope to be able to offer better services,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>It is good news for Nigerians wishing to travel to the United States \u2013 and you can bet there are a whole lot of them \u2013 as it has been revealed that they can now <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/?p=159\" title=\"Nigerians Can Now Secure American Visa Within 20 Days \u2013 US Ambassador\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}