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Foreign embassies must review their visa policies now

A hand holds passports on a travel map. [Getty Images]

As a teenager, my dream to study abroad was shattered when I was denied a visa to a North American country after landing a scholarship.

Nelson Mandela once said: "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." My only undoing then, was that I came from a poor family and they felt I would go to the country and not come back.

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