BI collars overstaying Nigerian
BUREAU of Immigration (BI) agents have arrested an overstaying Nigerian national who has been on the bureau’s wanted list for more than a year.
BI Commissioner Norman Tansingco said the alien, a 32-year-old Nigerian, was arrested last March 13 inside a condominium in Pasig City by agents from the BI’s Intelligence Division.
Tansingco said the suspect was arrested 15 months after he was ordered deported by the BI Board of Commissioners for “overstaying.”
“We call on other foreigners who are wanted for deportation by our bureau. Stop hiding because the long arm of the law will catch you sooner or later,” the BI chief said in a statement.
It was learned that the arresting agents were armed with a warrant of deportation that Tansingco issued pursuant to a summary deportation order the BI issued against the foreigner on Dec. 21, 2021.
The deportation order also directed that the suspect be included in the bureau’s blacklist of aliens, effectively banning him from re-entering the country.
He will be deported as soon as the BI secures his travel document and the required clearances for his deportation from the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI).
