
Frozen Doors: Understanding America’s New Visa Reality-Part 7
The era of lucky visas is over. Only strategy remains.
By Prof. MarkAnthony Nze
Visa policy didn’t slam the door; it changed the lock. Across the EU, UK, Canada, and the United States, migration is now managed like capital: screened for risk, priced for value, audited for compliance. Outrage doesn’t move those dials; evidence does. Smart Nigerians—and serious institutions—stop performing grievances and start engineering fit: clean identities, verifiable skills, disciplined compliance, and pipelines that speak the system’s language. This is a manual, not a sermon. It maps how individuals, diasporas, and the Nigerian state convert credibility into access, replacing luck …



