The House of the Representatives has asked President Muhammadu Buhari, to expedite necessary actions with a view to reversing the recent immigration restriction by the United States of America government.
The House in a resolution on Tuesday, also urged the leadership of the House to interface with every relevant government agencies and diplomatic missions towards resolving the issue and preventing a repeat.
This was sequel to a motion sponsored by Hon. Yusuf Tajudeen on the “need to unravel circumstances that led to immigration restriction by the United States of America, seek quick resolution and prevent future occurrences”.
Moving the motion, Yusuf recalled, “the United States of America on 31st January 2020, as a direct consequence of non-compliance with the established identity-management and information-sharing criteria assessed by performance metrics, placed immigration restriction on Nigeria and four other countries – Tanzania, Sudan, Eritrea, Myanmar and Kyrgyzstan.”
He said immigration restriction on Nigeria and these countries which is further fallout of alleged non-adequate data sharing on public safety and terrorism-related information necessary for protection is expected to take effect on 21st February, 2020, expressing concerns that due to the tardiness of some government agencies and officials, Nigeria was unable to meet the deadline for performance metrics, identify management and information sharing criteria, a develop net which led to the unfortunate restriction order.
According to him, the immigration restrictions would impact negatively and have grievous repercussions on well-meaning Nigerians who and have legitimate personal, vocational, career, business and academic transactions in the USA.
