The British government collected over $40 million from processing more than 225,000 UK visa applications from Nigerians between June 2023 and June 2024, according to official figures. Despite this significant revenue, rejection rates for Nigerian applications have surged, fuelling dissatisfaction and shifting interest towards alternatives like the United States, the Nigerian Sun newspaper reported. During the launch of Africa’s largest UK visa application centre in Lagos, Marc Owen, Director of Visa, Status, and Information Services at UK Visas and Immigration, revealed the figures. ‘In the year to June 2024, we…
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