The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), announced yesterday that all Migrants whose permit or visitor’s pass expired before 23rd March 2020 would pay overstay penalty for the number of days stayed before the lock down on 23rd March 2020. With the following exemptions:
1- All Migrants in Nigeria whose permits expired from 23rd March to 5th September 2020 have extension.
2- All migrants with evidence of confirmed return tickets scheduled to travel out of the country were to be issued with free extensions to enable them to depart on or before 15th September 2020.
3- All Migrants whose permit or visitor’s pass expired before 23rd March 2020 would pay overstay penalty for the number of days stayed before the lock down on 23rd March 2020.
4- All resident Migrants, whose permits expired outside the country from 23rd March 2020 shall be allowed entry into Nigeria with the expired permits on or before 25th September 2020.
5- Such returning holders of expired permits and their dependents are to renew the permits within thirty days of arrival to Nigeria to avoid sanctions under relevant Immigration laws.
6- All migrants who processed payments for Visa on Arrival and other categories of visas from the Nigerian Missions before 23rd March 2020, are to apply for revalidation.
7- This should be done by uploading copy of the previous payments via cis-evisa@immigration.gov.ng not later than 15th September 2020. All migrants who obtained Visa on Arrival Pre-approval Letters and other categories of visas from the Nigerian Missions before 23rd March 2020, whose approvals/visas expired before 5th September 2020 are also to apply for revalidation.
For more information please click on the link below:
https://dailypost.ng/2020/09/03/migrants-with-expired-permit-visitors-pass-to-pay-penalty-nis/