{"id":4250,"date":"2017-03-02T09:36:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T08:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4250"},"modified":"2017-03-02T09:36:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T08:36:42","slug":"root-cause-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/4250\/","title":{"rendered":"Root Cause Missed"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a reason for this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A software engineer from Lagos, Nigeria, is claiming that he was made to sit a written test by US airport immigration officers because they weren’t convinced he was telling the truth about his skills.<\/p>\n

According to social networking site LinkedIn, Celestine Omin, 28, landed in New York’s JFK airport last Sunday after a 24-hour flight from Nigeria.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

After being asked a series of questions by a US Customs and Border Protection\u00a0officer, he was taken into a room for further checks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The practice of forging credentials and passing yourself as something you are not is rife among Nigerians, more so than among anyone\u00a0else. Mr Omin might well have been the real deal but far too many of his countrymen are not, hence he’s been hauled aside for extra questioning.<\/p>\n

He says he was then given a piece of paper and a pen and told to answer these two questions to prove he is actually a software engineer:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve done exactly that with a Nigerian claiming to be a piping engineer with 15 years’ experience. The results were laughable.\u00a0I can well believe the Border Protection people didn’t cover themselves in glory in Mr Omin’s case, but the root cause of the problem does not lie in the USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a reason for this: A software engineer from Lagos, Nigeria, is claiming that he was made to sit a written test by US airport immigration officers because they weren’t convinced he was telling the truth about his skills. According … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[64,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4251,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions\/4251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}