The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama has disclosed that the federal government is working to meet United States requirements to get off the list of countries affected by the travel ban.
The Minister stated this on Tuesday at a joint news conference in Washington with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
“We’ve identified all those requirements and we had actually started working on all of them,” Reuters quoted him as saying.
“It was very gratifying to come here, speaking to U.S. officials and to understand more clearly the reasoning behind this.
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“With regards to lost and stolen passports, we’re putting in place the architecture that will now make the information immediately available to the U.S. and all the member states, the member countries of Interpol.”
Recall that on Friday, The U.S President Donald Trump issued an expanded version of his travel ban policy that would suspend the issuance of visas that can lead to permanent residency for nationals of Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar and Nigeria.
The Minister expressed his hope that the travel would be lifted once all the US requirements are met but did not state the ban would be lifted.
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