The United
Arab Emirates (UAE) has ordered Nigerians with expired visas to leave the
country on or before August 17, 2020.
This
development comes weeks after Dubai police cracked down on some Nigerians
including Abass Ramon, popularly known as Hushpuppi, for fraud.
In a
statement released on Wednesday, the Nigerian Embassy in Abu Dhabi, UAE,
announced that the UAE government has given waivers on fines and penalties to
Nigerian nationalities whose visas expired before March 1 and expect the
affected Nigerians to leave the UAE on or before August 17.
The embassy
enjoined the affected Nigerians to join the evacuation flights arranged from
the country before the expiration of the grace period.
The statement
reads in part;
“The Embassy
wishes to inform that the government of the United Arab Emirates has granted
waivers on fines/penalties on visas that expired before 1st March 2020 to leave
the country on or before 17th of August, 2020.
”Consequently,
the Embassy is urging fellow Nigerians living in the UAE to avail themselves of
this opportunity to return home with the impending Air Peace evacuation flight
scheduled for 1st August 2020, and or subsequent Emirates evacuation flights
before the expiration of the grace period.
”Accordingly,
affected Nigerian nationals who are willing to return home are kindly requested
to submit their names and passport numbers to the Embassy and or the Consulate
for onward transmission to the UAE authorities to obtain the necessary clearance.”
Also, UAE
recently excluded Nigeria from a list of countries permitted to fly into the
Emirates.
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