Nigerian businesswoman with valid US visa denied entry after her social media page was checked (video)

A Lagos-based hair entrepreneur has been denied entry at the United States port despite having a valid B1/B2 visa.

The young woman behind Onyx_Hair_by-Nelly said she was pulled aside upon arrival in the US.

Nelly said she was attending a beauty trade fair in Texas and had a visa category that permits her to do this.

According to her, the B1-B2 visa she held allows holders to explore tourism and business opportunities.

However, US officials went to her Instagram page and checked her conversations with her customers asking if she would bring some products for them.

This apparently made the officials to conclude that she was in the US to trade, which is not covered by the type of visa she holds.

She was detained for 24 hours and put on another flight back to Nigeria.

Sobbing on the return flight, Nelly gave an account of what transpired in a video she posted on social media.

She said: “I was denied entrance into the US and that is because my visa a B1–B2 visa which is a tourism/business meetings. When I landed, I was detained for 24 hours and I was questioned, I told them I was going to exhibit but I did not know any better because the US has your data and your instagram page.

Apparently,  my Instagram says different. They even checked all my messages with my customers. The customers I have been telling that we are coming, they can pick up and all of that”.

Hear her here.