US Gives Priority To Nigerian Student Visa Applicants
The United States Mission On Friday said it will focus on understudy visa candidates and guarantee Nigerian understudies continuing this Fall get visa talk with arrangements before the beginning of their program start date. 
The US Mission Country Consular Coordinator, Susan Tuller, said the Embassy in Abuja and Consulate General in Lagos would really bend over backward to help understudy visa candidates in an ideal manner while protecting faculty and clients.
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“As we keep on focusing on the wellbeing and security of our staff and clients, handling understudy visas stays a high need for the U.S. Mission in Nigeria,” Country Consular Coordinator Tuller said.
“We will build the quantity of understudy visa arrangements in May and June to guarantee that we can offer arrangements to whatever number understudies as could reasonably be expected. If your U.S. studies are planned to start this Fall, we urge you to plan your arrangement as fast as could be expected.”
Tuller clarified that all understudy visa arrangements should be reserved through the US Travel Docs site at www.ustraveldocs.com/ng/.
She, notwithstanding, cautioned candidates against the utilization of outsider administrations, including promotes, and fixers who intermediary visa arrangements.
As per her, specialists or outsiders regularly look to benefit by charging an expense for their administrations and they may not generally give the right data, which can hurt a candidate’s odds of fitting the bill for the visa.
“Both Nigeria and the United States benefit when Nigerian understudies learn at one of our a-list instructive organizations. To plan for your U.S. instructive open door, we urge you to look at EducationUSA Advising Centers at our American Spaces in Abuja, Lagos, Ibadan, and Calabar, or at educationUSA.state.gov,” she added.
Nigeria sends a greater number of understudies to American schools and colleges than some other country in Africa and is the 11th biggest source worldwide of global understudies to the United States.
The consulate said in the scholarly year 2019 to 2020, a record-breaking number of almost 14,000 Nigerians sought after graduate and college degrees in the United States.
As indicated by the US mission, in the course of the most recent 21 years, the Education USA Advising Centers in Nigeria have straightforwardly added to an increment in the quantity of exceptionally qualified Nigerian candidates to US establishments.
In 2020, It said advisees of Education USA administrations got grants worth $28million.
