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India-Pakistan
Pakistan’s Government Sets Deadline for Undocumented Afghan Refugees to Leave the Country
2022-12-16
[KhaamaPress] The Interior Ministry of Pakistain has set a deadline for Afghans without legal documentation to leave the country be the end of this year, otherwise, they will be fined or imprisoned.

Afghan refugees in Pakistain have received warnings from the government of Pakistain that if they stay in the country beyond the specified period with no legal residence permit either from the host country or the United Nations
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High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), they will face serious consequences.

Over the past months, this is the second time the government of Pakistain is warning foreign nationals, Afghan immigrants colonists, in particular, to extend their stay visas and other legal documents, or else they will have to pay fines to leave the country.

Meanwhile,
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extending a stay visa has become extremely difficult for Afghan nationals within Pakistain. The online processing time is overwhelmingly time-consuming with no transparency in the process. "It takes months to get a visa extended, and without paying commission, we never get our visa issued," an Afghan migrant in Islamabad said.

Furthermore, UNHCR Pakistain has stopped issuing ’Asylum Seeker Certificates’ and ’Refugee Cards’ to those Afghan refugees already registered with this organization since the Taliban
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’s return to power, and the refugee influx to Pakistain, due to some unknown reasons. This puts massive pressure on Afghan migrants colonists living in the country with no legal status.

Those Afghans with SIV, P1, P2, or other personal sponsorship cases, currently rising in Pakistain, are also faced with the same perplexity, not knowing how much longer the processing time of their cases would be, and what penalties they will have to pay to the government of Pakistain by the beginning of 2023.
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