It is difficult to get a US visa if you are from any African country but Rwanda has been named the hardest country to immigrate to the US from in 2025, Irish Star reported citing a recent study by Brooks Law Firm that analyzed the immigration scenario after Donald Trump became the president. The Trump administration has started a major crackdown on immigrants, arresting and deporting migrants. It maintains that US visas are not an entitlement but a privilege and has to be protected like a privilege.
The study focused on four key metrics: visa refusal rates, passport power, green cards issued per 100K citizens and immigration-related online searches per 100k people. “The data was collected from official US government sources, passport indexes, and search analytics between January and March 2025,” the report said.
List of the top 10 countries where it’s almost impossible to get US visa
Rwanda
Algeria
Guinea
Burundi
Senegal
Uzbekistan
Gambia
Benin
Uganda
Kenya
Uzbekistan is a non-African country in the list. Uzbekistani citizens face a 64.41% B visa refusal rate.
According to the study, Kenyan citizens demonstrate an overwhelming interest in US immigration, with 2,610 searches – the highest number by far among all countries studied. But they face a high visa refusal rate of 63.32 per cent.
The US government has recently revoked existing visas issued to all South Sudanese passport holders and barred further entries of the country’s nationals due to a failed deportation case. US accused Sudan of taking advantage of Washington and announced the first such blanket sanction in Trump’s second term.
African countries were not included in the 2025 Visa waiver program either. It was not a new decision but no change was made regarding the African countries.
The Trump administration has revoked wartime law Alien Act to remove members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua from US soil though several legal hurdles have come in the way.
