Visa Overstay: FG launches Post-Amnesty Programme for foreign nationals

By Omeiza Ajayi

Abuja — The Federal Government has announced the commencement of a Post-Amnesty Voluntary Return and Documentation Programme (PAVRDP) for overseas nationals who failed to instrumentality vantage of the precocious concluded Expired Visa Initiative (Amnesty), which ended connected September 30, 2025.

According to a connection issued connected Friday nighttime successful Abuja by the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) and signed by its Public Relations Officer, ACI Akinsola Akinlabi, the caller programme volition statesman connected October 13, 2025.

Akinlabi explained that the inaugural targets foreigners who person overstayed their visas oregon breached migration regulations without regularizing their status.

The NIS directed each affected individuals to study to the nearest Immigration Command for registration and documentation, wherever their cases volition beryllium assessed individually successful enactment with the Immigration Act, 2015, and different applicable regulations.

The Service warned that overseas nationals who neglect to comply with the directive would look arrest, detention, deportation, and imaginable semipermanent introduction bans.

It besides cautioned individuals, companies, and organizations against aiding oregon harbouring amerciable immigrants, noting that specified actions stay punishable nether Nigerian law.

Reaffirming its committedness to orderly migration management, the NIS said the programme aims to heighten nationalist information portion promoting compliance with migration laws done effectual documentation and regularisation of overseas residents.

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