By Desire Emmanuel
Nobel laureate , Professor Wole Soyinka, said on Tuesday that the United States had revoked his non-immigrant visa issued last year and he was told to re-apply if he wished to try again to visit the country.
Soyinka had said in 2016 that he had torn up his US green card and renounced his American residency in protest at the first election of President Donald Trump.
Following that act, he resorted to travelling to the United States with a B1/B2 visa.
According to him, the consulate later invited him for a visa revalidation interview, which he ignored.
Then, on October 23, 2025, he received another letter asking him to visit the consulate so that his visa could be officially stamped as “cancelled permanently.”
The professor, however, said he would not honour the invitation, insisting that such a visit was unnecessary.
“If they wish to cancel it, that is their business,” Soyinka said. “I will not go there to help them do it.”
“I will continue to welcome any American to my home if they have anything legitimate to do with me,” he affirmed.
