/ STAFF WRITER
LOS ANGELES – White paper or blue? The course of Oluwole Betiku’s life rested on the answer.
Betiku arrived at the American embassy in his hometown of Lagos, Nigeria, at 5 a.m., two hours before it opened. He waited more than 10 hours on that fateful day in 2013, starting in a line that snaked outside the building before moving to one room, and then another. The anticipation was suffocating.
When his name was finally called, an American would look at him through a glass partition, listen to him through a speaker, and determine his fate.