Foreigners without COVID-19 certificate will lose visas – Nigeria Immigration Service
The Nigeria Immigration Service has warned that foreigners who fail to present their COVID-19 test certificates on arrival in the country will lose their visas.
This was according to the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Muhammed Babandede at the weekly briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja on Tuesday January 5.
He assured Nigerians that the 100 travellers under a travel ban for flouting the mandatory seven-day post-arrival COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction test cannot obtain fresh passports.
“The public health is a big issue in the country and so based on that directives, we have complied by blocking 100 passports from travelling, which means, even if they go to the police and declare those passports missing, they cannot be reissued anywhere in the world and they cannot cross our national borders until the period of six months or communication received from the right authorities stating that they have complied, he said
“This will also include non-Nigerians; we have the powers to revoke visas, even the comptroller-general has the power to revoke visas, he added
He also revealed that he has been receiving calls to help those under travel restriction as he noted that every visitor must have the COVID-19 test result.
If the government can mandate it for the travellers to provide their COVID-19 certificate it would have been better in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19 pandemic.
There’s need for everyone coming in into the country to have their test before entering our country, it’s good Sha.
It’s good to have the before getting into the country and I hope the vaccine will get to us before next month.
I hope our government will leave up to their expectations and maintain the global standard of operating things in the nation.
That is good new make them no come used there own ailments to kill the citizens of this country….