In just a few weeks, Washington will cutdown the number of it’s visa processing embassies in Africa from 50 to 20,U.S State Department said.
American diplomats and consular chiefs were on Friday issued with the communication during a conference call.
With these changes issued by Washington, Rwanda s expected to become one of the key centres handling visa applications from neighbouring countries once the changes take effect.
What does this adjustment mean?
When some embassies are shutdown it means applicants in countries whose embassies lose visa-processing functions may be required to travel to one of the designated hubs to submit applications, attend interviews, or complete other immigration procedures.
The selected centres include Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Accra (Ghana), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Cape Town and Johannesburg (South Africa), Dakar (Senegal), Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania), Djibouti City (Djibouti), Kampala (Uganda), Nairobi (Kenya), Kinshasa (DR Congo), Lagos (Nigeria), Lome (Togo), Luanda (Angola), Malabo (Equatorial Guinea), Monrovia (Liberia), Port Louis (Mauritius), Praia (Cape Verde), and Yaounde (Cameroon).