The United States says it has revoked more than 250,000 visas since President Donald Trump took office, with the State Department describing the cancellations as part of expanded checks on foreign nationals.
The announcement is relevant to Nigerians using US travel and immigration services, but gives no nationality breakdown or Nigerian count. It does not establish that Nigerian visa holders were among those affected, or announce a blanket cancellation of visas issued to Nigerians.
State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott gave the figure in an interview with Fox News Digital, which published his remarks on September 30. The department attributed the revocations to a range of reasons, including breaches of visa conditions, fraud, immigration-system abuse, criminal activity and national-security concerns.
“Every visa decision is a national security decision,” Pigott said. He said the department was using continuous vetting to identify people it considered to have violated visa conditions or posed a threat.
Fox also reported that 2,300 of the revoked visas were connected to birth tourism, citing the department. The term refers to travel undertaken specifically to give birth in the United States so that a child obtains citizenship. The figures are the department’s account of its enforcement activity; the report does not provide a country-by-country breakdown.
The administration had earlier been preparing to revoke business and tourist visas held by up to 200,000 foreigners who had sought asylum, a proposal NaijaTrend reported here. That proposal concerned B-1 and B-2 visas issued between 2016 and 2026. Fox discusses it as background to the latest announcement; the new cumulative total does not, by itself, establish that the earlier proposal has been carried out.
Pigott said a US visa was a privilege and that holders who violated its terms could lose it.
Watch: State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott speaks to Fox News Digital.
Video: Fox News Digital, September 30, 2026.
Sources: Fox News, Peoples Gazette
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