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Mar 2, 2017 | 5:12 am

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Originally Posted by jphripjah

In fairness to CBP here, there's an awful lot of visa fraud in Nigeria, including fraud specifically relating to people posing as professionals to get visas for short term work visits.

https://www.theatlantic.com/internat...-visas/280445/

Young Nigerian males who travel alone outside Nigeria are often involved in scamming, drug dealing and other criminal activity. Southeast Asia is full of them.

There's always an excuse to be presented when CBP gets it wrong again or prejudices otherwise hit.

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