US moves to revoke visa of students who dodge classes

The US Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Richard Mills, says students who skip classes without informing the school authority will get his or her visa revoked.

Mills said this when he visited the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Alhaji Mohammed Idris, on Friday in Abuja.

According to him, the primary responsibility of obtaining a student visa is not to violate its terms.

“Don’t stay beyond the amount of time you were admitted when you arrived in the United States. If you overstayed, it could result in deportation and a lifetime ban on future travel to the US.

“It is also important to understand that when you come to the Visa Window to apply for a visa, you have to be as accurate as possible about the reason for your travel.

”How will you fund your travel in the US and what are the requirements in your life that will make you come back to Nigeria.

“Is not a piece of paper that guarantees your admittance into the US, it is your understanding of how to fund your travel and reason for you as a Nigerian Citizen to come back home,” he said.

Mills said the US wants to ensure sanity by ensuring that the few that break laws don’t do that in the future as visas can be revoked and the holder deported if they break our laws.

“Student Visa holders should know that they need to remain in the programme that underlines their visas; if you skip classes or leave your programme of study without informing the school, the student visa could be revoked,” Mills stressed.

He said that the goal is to ensure that travels into Nigeria and the US continue, and would be done in a safe and secure way for both countries to continue.

Speaking, Idris said the partnership between Nigeria and the US was boosting the renewed hope agenda of President Bola Tinubu in many ways.

He said Nigeria will continue to have close collaboration and engagement with the US for the benefit of the two nations.

”At the Ministry of Information and National Orientation, we will continue to engage with all our partners including the US to help foster better understanding, like the new visa laws.

“We will also continue to engage with our other international partners, so that they can understand what the Nigerian Government is doing to inform Nigerians for better understanding,” he said.