Qatar Denies Visa Restrictions On Nigerians

The authorities of Qatar has dismissed reports suggesting that it has introduced caller visa restrictions connected Nigerian passport holders.

While speaking with BBC Pidgin connected Wednesday, an authoritative of the Qatari Ministry of Interior, clarified that determination were presently nary specified restrictions successful place.
The authoritative stressed that Nigerians seeking to question to Qatar tin use for visas nether the existing procedures.

This clarification followed an earlier reports claiming that Qatar had tightened its visa rules for Nigerian travellers.

It could beryllium recalled that determination was an unconfirmed study sparked by a flyer from TravelTank, a Nigerian question agency, which listed what it claimed were caller visa requirements for Nigerians travelling to Qatar.

The reports besides claimed that lone women oregon families could use for visas, with further requirements of a five-star edifice booking and a instrumentality formation summons earlier applying for a question oregon transit visa.

The notification, it was gathered, cited predominant cases of overstays by Nigerian travellers arsenic the reason.

However, according to the BBC, Hayya, Qatar’s integer level for e-visa services, clarified that the visa exertion process remains unchanged.

“There has been nary suspension oregon changes to the existent procedures. If immoderate updates are to beryllium made, they volition beryllium announced connected our authoritative platforms,” it stated.