While it's difficult to get a US visa if you're from an African country, Rwanda was nominated as the country that will be the hardest to move to the US from 2025, the Irish star reported that he cited a recent study by Brooks Law Firm, which analyzed immigration scenarios after Donald Trump became president. The Trump administration has launched a major crackdown on immigrants, arresting and ousting them. It argues that US visas are privileges, not qualifications, and must be protected like privileges.
The study focused on four key indicators: visa refusal rate, passport power, green cards issued for each 100,000 citizens, and online immigration-related searches per 10,000 people. “The data was collected from official US government sources, passport indexes and search analyses between January and March 2025,” the report states.
A list of top 10 countries where it is almost impossible to obtain a visa
Rwanda
Algeria
Guinea
Burundi
Senegal
Uzbekistan
Gambia
Benin
Uganda
Kenya
Uzbekistan is a non-African country on the list. Uzbekistani citizens face a 64.41% B visa refusal rate.
The survey shows that Kenyan citizens have overwhelming interest in US immigration, with 2,610 searches, a much higher figure among all countries surveyed. However, they face a high visa refusal rate of 63.32%.
The US government recently revoked existing visas issued to all South Sudan passport holders and banned further entry of nationals after a failed deportation case. The US accused Sudan of using Washington and announced its first such blanket sanctions in Trump's second term.
African countries are not also included in the 2025 visa waiver program. It was not a new decision, but there was no change in terms of African countries.
The Trump administration has revoked the wartime alien law to remove members of Venezuelan gang Tren de Lagua from the US soil, despite several legal hurdles getting in the way.
