NIS Launches Post-Amnesty Programme For Undocumented Foreign Nationals

In a important argumentation displacement signalling the extremity of leniency for undocumented migrants, the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has unveiled a Post-Amnesty Voluntary Return and Documentation Programme (PAVRDP) targeted astatine overseas nationals who failed to regularise their enactment during the precocious concluded Amnesty period.

According to a connection from the Service nationalist relations officer, ACI AS Akinlabi, the caller initiative, which takes effect from October 13, 2025, follows the expiration of the Expired Visa Amnesty Initiative connected September 30, 2025, and is designed to connection a structured, humane pathway for undocumented migrants to travel guardant voluntarily earlier facing the afloat value of migration enforcement.

The connection issued connected Thursday nighttime stated that “All affected persons are directed to study themselves instantly astatine the nearest Immigration Command for registration and documentation.”

According to the NIS, each lawsuit volition beryllium assessed individually, with decisions based connected the Immigration Act, 2015, and related regulations. The aim, the connection emphasised, was to beforehand humane and orderly migration portion ensuring nationalist information done effectual migration management.

While emphasising zero tolerance going forward, the NIS which said it kept the doorway unfastened for voluntary compliance done PAVRDP, drew a wide reddish enactment saying those who failed to instrumentality vantage of this last accidental volition look arrest, detention, and deportation on with semipermanent bans from re-entering Nigeria.

“Any foreigner who has breached the conditions of his oregon her visa and fails to study volition beryllium arrested, detained, and removed from Nigeria,” Akinlabi warned, citing the provisions of Nigeria’s migration laws.

The Service besides issued a beardown informing to individuals, companies, and organisations that assistance oregon harbour amerciable immigrants, describing specified acts arsenic transgression and punishable under Nigerian law.