ESUT to Establish Desk Office to Facilitate Student’s Visa Applications within 48 Hours
By Amaechi Agbo
The Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) is planning to establish a desk office in the institution to help facilitate students visa application processes within 48 hours, particularly as it relate to US visa requirements
The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Aloysius-Michaels Okolie disclosed this to ESUT Monitor on Tuesday upon his return from a collaborative meeting between the US Embassy and 25 Vice-Chancellors from selected Nigerian universities held on May 12 2025.
The meeting which held at the US Embassy in Abuja, considered various channels through which students visa application to US would be made less cumbersome and friendlier in order to guarantee effective interface of educational and knowledge-based collaboration between the US and the 25 selected varsities.
The meeting which was interactive also had the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Abdullahi Yusuf Ribadu, in attendance.
Speaking with ESUT Monitor on the fallout of the meeting, Prof Okolie noted that the ESUT Management is keen to go into partnership with the US Embassy and any other government representatives within and outside the country in promoting academic excellence and interchange.
The VC who described the collaborative meeting as fruitful, said that under his watch, ESUT will continue to play crucial roles in advancing humanity
“The meeting was interactive. The position of ESUT was that we shall establish a desk office to handle all the enquiries and issues relating to visa processing for students and such issues will be handled within 48 hours.
“Of course the Executive Secretary of NUC shall coordinate the programme and ESUT will continue to play critical roles in advancing humanity even as we seek for more of such collaborations with other government representatives in the country.
“The meeting of the selected 25 Vice-Chancellors agreed on the procedures for facilitating visa processing for our students, validating both certificates and transcripts and partnering on fostering a job hunt in the US. The meeting was very productive,” he said.
