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Amnesty for ‘overstaying foreigners’ in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: The Amnesty scheme for foreigners staying over an extended period in Pakistan will be expired on 31st of December, 2022.

According to the notification, issued by the Ministry of Interior on Thursday, it had directed the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) to stop extending the amnesty scheme to the said individuals residing in Pakistan after the expiry of the due date, said a press release.

The ministry of interior had given a general amnesty scheme for overstaying foreigners to exit Pakistan without paying charges with a cutoff date of December 31, 2022.

After the expiry of the amnesty scheme’s period, foreigners who have overstayed for more than one year may be put into the blacklist category, barring their entry to Pakistan in the future, the release added.

The NADRA received online applications till December 29, 2022. The penalty charges would be imposed on those overstaying in the country after the date of 1st January, 2023.

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.