United Arab Emirates (UAE) has directed Nigerians with expired visas to exit the country on or before August 17. This directive came weeks after Abass Ramon, also known as Hushpuppi was arrested by the Dubai Police for fraud.
In a statement released recently, the Nigerian Embassy in Abu Dhabi, UAE, announced that the government of UAE has approved waivers on fines and penalties to Nigerians whose visas expired before March 1 and expect these Nigerians to exit the UAE on or before August 17.
The embassy has pleaded with the affected Nigerians to join the evacuation flights arranged by the Federal Government before the expiration of the grace period.
Part of the statement reads: “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 in order to obtain the necessary clearance.”
Recently, the UAE authorities excluded Nigeria from a list of countries allowed to fly into the Emirates.
