$68M Lost By Africans To Schengen Visa Rejection; Nigeria Lost $4.9M In 2024

$68M Lost By Africans To Schengen Visa Rejection; Nigeria Lost $4.9M In 2024

Forty-five (45) African countries lost a total of 60 millionor $68 millionfor their rejected Schengen visas in 2024, a TRT Afrika analysis of the 2024 State of Schengen Report reveals.That amount accounted for 41% of all the funds that Europe raised from Schengen visa rejections that year.Algeria, which had 529,000 Schengen visa applications, had the highest number of rejections in Africa, at 185,000.

Africans are Paying Huge Costs for Rejected Visa Applications

Of the 13 countries that faced a 40 percent or higher rate of Schengen visa rejections in 2024, nine were African countries. That’s a slight increase from the previous year, when seven African countries hit or surpassed the 40 percent rejection rate mark.Omo Adu Danso, a systems engineer living in Accra, Ghana, was rejected for a Schengen visa last year, halting some ambiguously laid plans to travel through parts of Europe for a few weeks during…