When Ghana-born Ayeyi Asamoah-Manu tried to get a US student visa, he was told it would take two years to even get an interview with a consular official. With classes soon starting at the University of Michigan, he traveled to South Africa and then to Eswatini, formerly, Swaziland, finally securing an F-1 visa. Now nearing graduation, compared to those hurdles, Asamoah-Manu says, everything after that was easy.
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