{"id":161170,"date":"2025-05-02T20:36:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T19:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/fg-gives-foreigners-with-expired-visas-3-months-to-leave-nigeria"},"modified":"2025-05-02T20:36:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T19:36:52","slug":"fg-gives-foreigners-with-expired-visas-3-months-to-leave-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fg-gives-foreigners-with-expired-visas-3-months-to-leave-nigeria","title":{"rendered":"FG gives foreigners with expired visas 3 months to leave Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Nigerian government has given foreigners with expired visa three months to vacate the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, announced this in a statement released on Friday, May 2, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>In the statement signed by Akinsola Akinlabi, Public Relations Officer, the Nigeria Immigration Service warned that overstaying now attracts daily fines of \u201c$15, plus bans of up to five years or permanent blacklisting\u201d starting from September 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA 3-month grace period allows foreigners with expired visas to exit Nigeria without penalty, ending August 1st, 2025,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the statement announced the introduction of a mandatory online landing card for inbound foreigners and exit card for outbound travelers \u2014 both accessible at lecard.immigration.gov.ng.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Nigerian government has given foreigners with expired visa three months to vacate the country. The Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, announced this in a statement released on Friday, May 2, 2025. In the statement signed by Akinsola Akinlabi, Public Relations Officer, the Nigeria Immigration Service warned that overstaying now attracts daily fines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":161169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[17084,804,254,489],"class_list":["post-161170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-akinsola-akinlabi","tag-immigration","tag-nigeria","tag-visa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FG gives foreigners with expired visas 3 months to leave Nigeria - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/fg-gives-foreigners-with-expired-visas-3-months-to-leave-nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FG gives foreigners with expired visas 3 months to leave Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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