why is it so difficult to obtain visas when in Africa(ghana) and traveling to America?

because americans think you are gonna bomb their stupid president

because they discriminate against you because you are african, they think you'll stay there without returning. if you're from the UK you'll have no probs.

cpos if u go (if u r ghanian) u surely wont come back

cause americans are paranoid..come to england cause evry other bloody foreigner does

Do you see 5 million illegal immigrants? That's the reason

Because of the civil war happening over there in that area. My best friend's sister's boyfriend John Goanue got deported back to Ghana in 2001 and we've been trying to get him back ever since.

Just go to Canada and become a citizen there first. Then you can become a citizen of the US easier.

The Immigration and Naturalization Act of United States (INA) section 212(b) states that a visa applicant must prove that he/she does not intend to become a potential immigrant.

In other words the burden of proof lays on you, as opposed to criminal law where a defendant is assumed Innocent until proven guilty, in the case of peopele requesting non-immigrant visas, the applicant is assumed an immigrant until he/she prooves otherwise.

Normally, people proove this by showing that they have ties to their country that require them to come back (this constitutes in family, job, properties or business one may own). 90% of visas are rejected for this reason.

While not impossible, in the case of poorer countries such as Ghana, this can be quite difficult to proove.

This section ,however, only applies to people requesting non -immigrant visa (tourist, study etc...).

To make it possible to obtain a visa usually if you prove some of the following they might be more leniant:
1) you own land in Ghana, showing long lasting ties to the country of your origin and you're not likely to stay in the US as an immigrant in their view.
2) that you have travelled elsewhere in the world (e.g. South Africa, Europe, Asia) and come back to Ghana, meaning that you already are accustomed to travelling and more likely to take your trip to the USA as a tourist trip
3) that you have unfinished studies in Ghana, especially some critical last year diplomas to finish off, and again more likely to go back there.
4) that you show good reasons to go to the USA, and have a seemingly tourist purpose to your visit (or planning to study there which is welcomed)

I lived in Ghana last year and the number of people applying for visas (and the money lost in the applications therefore) is huge. People spend money also on various local priests, islamic malams and evangelegical preachers to help the visa process, trust me that doesn't work... the queues outside UK, USA, Dutch etc. embassies are very long and humiliating.

On the positive side, many Ghanaians are travelling and legally living more or less happily abroad, it's one of the countries in Africa with the highest immigration rate, and we in Europe, USA should give more chances for Ghanaians to travel and discover our lands, and also open up procedures for legal immigration as at least in Europe we have an againg population (and USA is still largely unpopulated by population densities known elsewhere in Asia and Europe), so lots of opportunities in both places to legally open up to.

The problem is our attitudes to Africans (not Ghanaians in particular), but it just happens that an average European/American boxes Africa into one single trouble box, where as Ghanaians are definitely more educated and well to do than most Africans.

I hope your all the best luck in your pursuit to travel abroad.