UK Visa System Discriminative against African Applicants, Study Says
Africans are more than twice as likely to be denied a UK visa as applicants from any other parts of the world, a new study indicates.
The study conducted by All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPG) for Africa found out that the current UK visa system is not fit for purpose, is inaccessible to many Africans, under-resourced, unaccountable and widely perceived as discriminating against Africans.
“The UK has good relations with most African countries, but it needs to be recognized that no single issue does more damage to the image or influence of the UK in Africa than this visa question,” noted the report.
The use of a centralized application system that requires many African applicants to travel hundreds, even thousands of miles simply to apply for a visa was identified as one of the main barriers to the UK visa issuance to Africans.
The research team under the leadership of Chinyelu Susan Onwurah, a member of the British Labor Party, further noted the presence of weak quality control and lack of oversight leading to erroneous, careless and sometimes offensive decisions. There was also a perceived lack of procedural fairness against Africans.
“In many cases, additional documentation and evidence is requested over and above that specified in the guidelines, but even then some decisions seem to be arbitrary and illogical,” the team noted.
The study also identified financial discrimination in decision-making as another barrier, with many applications being rejected because the applicant has no enough money, even when all costs have been guaranteed by a sponsoring third party.
Above all, the team established there was no right of appeal and a huge fee was required for re-application to correct a mistaken decision.
“At a time when the UK needs to be ‘open for business’, the broken visas system is doing severe damage to UK-Africa relations across a variety of sectors. As well as our relations, it damages our economy and society. It is embarrassing, patronizing and insulting to African applicants and leaves the slogan of “Global Britain” empty and meaningless,” noted Ms. Onwurah, who is the MP for Newcastle.
The team recommended for a review of UK visa issuance rules in a bid to ease access for African applicants to salvage British business, academia, arts and culture which are said to have been hard hit by the ‘bias’.
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hehehehe remember trump…
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hehehehe remember trump called our leaders shitholes??We the african don't believe in ourselves first,we continue to see anything white as the best,we worship white pope,white jesus christ n u think we will ever think on our own???We fly our kids outside the country juu we brainwashed that's where the best urniversity are???We leave our countries hata kama tuko na maisha poa to the western world n u think we will ever grow up in our thinking???How comes our leaders didn't stand n come out together n ask trump to apologise after calling them shitholes?????When gaddafi wanted africa to b one continent united state of Africa some of our black presidents refused to sign the memorandum juu they were bribed by the white western countries n u think we will ever come together to fight such uk/visa nonsense?????We will forever remain idiots:will b abused/will b discriminated until we the blacks comes out of brainwashed idiotic slumber.Bure kabisa.When our africans gets deported n abused in western world what do our leaders do hapa home??Nothing!When malema from south africa keep saying the whites need to go back where they came from!he is called names by the same blacks while our black pple keep deported daily by trump????Bure kabisa
Visa's to Europe?? Yes…
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Visa's to Europe?? Yes. Britain needs to keep and affirm those discriminatory practices. They should even close those doors completely and we close ours. This is a new world. They are busy making their countries white again; we should be busy making Africa black again. Their weather is deteriorating; too many weather upheavals in those countries.
Racism is at all times high. Our leaders need to wake up before they get overtaken by events. Our leaders who are still supporting colonial policies will soon be required to join their masters in Europe.
Africans need to wake up!! Those who are awake like our black brothers in the west are no longer worshipping the picture of Ceasar Borgio, the homosexual son of Alexander the great as White Jesus Christ. (Listen to Hebrew Israelites in the streets of America) on you tube.
The world is changing from the age of sword (gun)and fire to the age of spirituality and water. The water will put out the fire.
The lies of superiority are being exposed daily by the technology. It is a small world.
Britain, issue those Visas only to whites so our people can look for help within and not without. As Britain gets tired of helping Africans, Africans are also tired of being helped. The feeling is mutual. We really need to be discriminated against so we can stick to our own. Play to our God and grow our languages and culture.
May Europe stop those visas for at least 10 years. We also need to stop tourism and let our natural parks recover; slow down foreign investment and import only things that we can see and touch and that which we cannot produce locally.Our people will save alot of time and money and our countries will grow.
As they discriminate, we should love and embrace our own!!
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