Ghanaian actress and media persona, Nana Ama McBrown, has made a heartfelt enchantment to the US Embassy in Accra to elevate the visa ban imposed on her greater than twenty years in the past.
The ban stems from an incident within the early 2000s when she was deported from the US after making an attempt to enter the nation utilizing a faux passport.
In a current interview on Starr FM, McBrown opened up in regards to the incident, revealing that her uncle, Papa Kofi McBrown, had orchestrated the journey in an effort to assist her pursue alternatives in the US because of her skills.
Nonetheless, she admitted that she didn’t attend a visa interview on the US Embassy and solely realized the severity of the scenario after she was arrested upon arrival within the US.
“He introduced no matter paperwork with me to journey,” McBrown confessed, explaining that the passport bore a putting resemblance to her. “I used to be 22 or 23 years outdated… This was across the yr 1999 or 2000,” she recounted. “I obtained there and obtained arrested on the airport and was deported… After they introduced me again I used to be so unhappy, and I didn’t know that they’d finished that (used a faux passport). I went alone, and my uncle is now useless, that’s the reason I’m talking on this.”
Now, years later, the celebrated actress is looking for to appropriate the errors of her previous and is urging the US Embassy to rethink her scenario in mild of her present standing and real intentions.
“I’ll beg them to please rethink me, take a look at my information, I’m not a nasty particular person. I’ve by no means been a nasty particular person as a result of I actually know what I’ve finished and I need to appropriate it,” McBrown pleaded.
In the course of the interview, McBrown additionally addressed the anxiousness many Ghanaians expertise when making use of for visas, noting that this typically results in dishonesty of their functions. She inspired her fellow residents to method the visa course of with honesty, stressing that fashionable programs now hold everlasting information of all particulars, together with fingerprints.
“Now, for those who’re going to the embassy, issues have modified. Our particulars, fingerprints, all the things is there. So we should always do issues proper. I’ll say to all people: go genuinely. As a result of the information can be there perpetually. And for those who hold mendacity, it should go in opposition to you,” she suggested.