Immigration department step up boarder patrol during festival time

In an effort to enhance the integrity of the country’s borders and to safeguard jobs of the natives as festive season draws closer, Department of Immigration and Citizenship Services have stepped up border patrol, permit inspection and compliance countrywide.

The move also meant to curtail criminal activities, among them border jumping, use of fake immigration stamps, fake travel documents that are synonymous with surge in human trafficking.

Being an era rife with international uncertainty and national or regional conflicts, the department face continuous challenges from constantly evolving threat and volatile situations which if not handled properly may compromise the national security and social economic development of the country.

As such, during these exercises Immigration department are adopting a holistic approach, advance surveillance and intelligent technology and methodologies to monitor the country borderlines, compliance enforcement and inspection, apprehending, prosecution, deportation or repatriation of those who have entered or stayed illegally.

According to the press release that the department writes it say:

“In this regard, the department advising the general public more especially those willing to embark cross-border travel to always use formal crossing points and to be in possession of the requisite documents, further to that we are appealing to the general public not to make any travel arrangements until thier travel documents are ready”.

“All foreign nationals residing in Malawi are also being advised to carry certified copies of thier passports data page and endorsement stamp page, not to engage themselves in any employment or business activity before permit approval, if they have questions, clarification in relation to Immigration matters, they should not hesitate to visit any nearest Immigration offices countrywide, failure to comply risks deportation”.

Since January to date, the Department of Immigration and Citizenship Services has deported a total of 1,904 foreign nationals who violated various Immigration laws and also managed to repatriate 514 Ethiopian nationals.