Deportation ‘specter’ Threaten Nigerians In Kuwait

Two Nigerian immigration officers arrived in Kuwait in July and collected data for those wishing to renew their passports as

Hundreds of Nigerian expatriates residing in Kuwait have complained that they are at a risk of being deported from Kuwait, due to their inability to renew their passports as a result if which they cannot renew their residence permits.

Many of them say the validity of their passports have expired or the validity is less than a year, and as per the Kuwaiti law the residence permit cannot be renewed if the validity of the passport is less than a year.

The Nigerian newspaper “Daily Post” say the Nigerians living in Kuwait have filed a collective complaint with the authorities in Nigeria and they are believed to be least 600 and the number is increasing with every passing day.

Sources told Al-Rai the Nigerian embassy in Kuwait stopped renewing passports since the start of the “Corona” pandemic

The complainants said that this problem is threatening their sources of livelihood, as well as affecting the conditions of Nigerian students on scholarships studying in Kuwait.

A spokesman for the complainants said: “In early July, two Nigerian immigration officers arrived in Kuwait and collected data for those wishing to renew their passports, which were about to expire, and promised to issue new passports within two months. However, 4 months on, nothing has happened.

The Daily Post quoted the consular official at the Nigerian embassy in Kuwait, Muhammad Abdullah, as saying, commenting on these complaints, that the “Corona” pandemic affected all diplomatic missions operating in Kuwait, including the Nigerian mission, and that his country’s embassy was making its best efforts in order to assist the complainants, noting that some of them were given temporary documents until their new passports were processed based on data collected by the two high-ranking immigration officers who visited Kuwait last July.

 

 

 

SOURCE  TIMESKUWAIT

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