{"id":76459,"date":"2025-10-11T12:35:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T12:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76459"},"modified":"2025-10-11T12:35:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T12:35:46","slug":"nis-launches-post-amnesty-programme-for-undocumented-foreign-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/11\/nis-launches-post-amnesty-programme-for-undocumented-foreign-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"NIS Launches Post-Amnesty Programme for Undocumented Foreign Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), has introduced a Post-Amnesty Voluntary Return and Documentation Programme (PAVRDP), for foreign nationals who failed to regularise their stay or exit Nigeria during the Expired Visa Initiative, which ended on September 30.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Friday, the NIS said the programme, beginning October 13, will allow affected foreigners to voluntarily report and regularise their status by presenting themselves at the nearest Immigration Command.<\/p>\n<p>Each case will be assessed individually in line with the Immigration Act, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The Service warned that defaulters who fail to report will be arrested, detained, and deported, with long-term entry bans applied.<\/p>\n<p>It also cautioned individuals and organisations against aiding illegal immigrants, reiterating its commitment to humane and orderly migration management in line with national security goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David &nbsp; The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), has introduced a Post-Amnesty Voluntary Return and Documentation Programme (PAVRDP), for foreign nationals who failed to regularise their stay or exit Nigeria during the Expired Visa Initiative, which ended on September 30. In a statement on Friday, the NIS said the programme, beginning October 13, will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76461,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76459\/revisions\/76461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}