The Embassy of the United States of America accredited to Liberia has finally responded to media inquiries regarding the issuing of a Visa issue to Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor. privacy laws prohibit us from discussing any person’s visa application status, immigration status, or citizenship status with anyone other than the person in question.”Recently, the Hot Pepper reported that Liberia’s Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor was denied American visa, but her office has reacted sharply to the report. The office of the VP Howard-Taylor, who is former wife of jailed former Liberian President Charles Taylor, rejected the Hot Pepper Newspaper’s publication “insinuating that the Honorable Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor was denied US visa.”The paper in its banner headline, captioned, ‘Jewel off to the US; Visa issues, War and Economic Crimes persist’, claimed that the Vice President was allegedly denied US visa on one hand and on the other hand issued Visa. The Office of the Vice president revealed that the Vice President who is currently visiting Neighboring Ghana, is still awaiting response from the embassy on her request to travel to the USA to attend the sixty-second session of the Commission on the Status of Women. The event will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 12 to 23 March 2018.

Source: GNN Liberia March 09, 2018 13:18 UTC