{"id":1083914,"date":"2022-05-11T15:01:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T15:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/11\/australian-immigration-scrutinized-me-because-of-my-west-african-passport-australia-based-ghanaian\/"},"modified":"2022-05-11T15:01:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T15:01:45","slug":"australian-immigration-scrutinized-me-because-of-my-west-african-passport-australia-based-ghanaian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/11\/australian-immigration-scrutinized-me-because-of-my-west-african-passport-australia-based-ghanaian\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian immigration scrutinized me because of my West African passport &#8211; Australia based Ghanaian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/7d25f371caf54336a5a11ccb2aae9cac\"\/>Australia-based Ghanaian Ben Mensah has disclosed that West Africans, especially Nigerians have a bad reputation in Australia because many overstay their visa.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a chat on SVTV Africa with DJ Nyaami, Ben indicated that after the fake journalists&#8217; visa scandal in 2018, Australian immigration has tightened up the visa issuance for West Africans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Ben, even with his Australian residence permit, the immigration thoroughly checks his documents whenever he travels.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t come to Australia to work. They won\u2019t even give you a visa. They often issue work visas to the Europeans and Japanese, but when they see our West African passports, they deny them. Immigration issues the Americans year visa and extends them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Our people do not help the situation, especially after the 60 \u2018fake journalists&#8217; story. Even after I got my papers, they still scrutinized me before entering. Our Nigerian brothers do not help either,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on job availability and minimum wage in Australia, Ben disclosed that many are available for skilled and unskilled personnel. Moreover, \u201cyou can make good money even as a cleaner,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kindly watch the full interview On YouTube: SVTV Africa <\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: SVTV (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAustralia<br \/>\nAustralian<br \/>\nDJ Nyaami<br \/>\nGhanaian<br \/>\nWest African<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia-based Ghanaian Ben Mensah has disclosed that West Africans, especially Nigerians have a bad reputation in Australia because many overstay their visa.\u00a0 In a chat on SVTV Africa with DJ Nyaami, Ben indicated that after the fake journalists&#8217; visa scandal in 2018, Australian immigration has tightened up the visa issuance for West Africans.\u00a0 According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1083915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[461,315,785,964,1750,6438,5774,13029,916],"class_list":["post-1083914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-african","tag-australia","tag-australian","tag-based","tag-ghanaian","tag-immigration","tag-passport","tag-scrutinized","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}