Les États-Unis vont interrompre leurs services de visa dans 25 villes africaines
The United States will discontinue routine visa services at its embassy in Abuja starting August 1, 2026, as part of a broader restructuring affecting 25 diplomatic missions across Africa.
The U.S. State Department said the measure aims to strengthen national security, reduce government spending, and ensure more uniform standards for visa selection, verification, and processing through regional visa processing centers.
According to the department, this reorganization is part of the Trump administration's efforts to prioritize U.S. national interests while maintaining rigorous security checks for visa applicants.
"The State Department constantly evaluates its operations abroad to advance U.S. priorities in the most efficient and effective manner possible. This includes a visa process that maintains rigorous standards for security screening and verification and aligns operational resources and capabilities with U.S. national interests."
"The Trump administration's top priority is the safety of Americans, and the State Department will continue to provide Americans with appropriate consular services and necessary assistance at diplomatic posts around the world."
The diplomatic posts concerned include Abuja, as well as the embassies in Asmara, Bamako, Banjul, Brazzaville, Bujumbura, Conakry, Cotonou, Durban, Freetown, Gaborone, Harare, Juba, Libreville, Lilongwe, Lusaka, Maputo, Maseru, Mbabane, N'Djamena, Niamey, Nouakchott, Ouagadougou and Windhoek.
The State Department clarified that the affected embassies and consulates will remain operational and continue to carry out their usual diplomatic and consular missions. It also emphasized that these changes will not affect visas already valid.
The restructuring covers immigrant visa categories, including immediate parent (IR) visas, family preference (FP) visas, employment-based (EB) visas, fiancé(e) visas (K), adoption visas, diversity visas and cases of asylum seekers and refugees joining another asylum seeker (V92/V93).
Routine visa services will continue at designated centers, including Lagos, Abidjan, Accra, Addis Ababa, Cape Town, Dakar, Dar es Salaam, Djibouti, Johannesburg, Kampala, Kigali, Kinshasa, Lomé, Luanda, Malabo, Monrovia, Nairobi, Port Louis, Praia and Yaoundé.
These centers will process routine nonimmigrant visa applications, such as tourist, business, and immigration application visas, as well as immigrant visas. The ministry also clarified that visa suspensions in effect under Presidential Proclamation 10998, bond requirements, and immigrant visa suspensions for certain nationalities remain unchanged.
Nationals of countries affected by the new policy who wish to obtain a U.S. visa on or after August 1, 2026, are advised to schedule an appointment and pay the required fees at designated regional visa processing centers. For Nigerians, this change means that applicants who previously applied at the U.S. Embassy in Abuja for their routine visa procedures will now need to submit their applications at the U.S. Consulate in Lagos or another designated regional center.
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