Amidst the slow pace of the ongoing foreigner residents registration, Nimba County Detachment Commander of the Liberia Immigration Service (LIS), Col. Yea F. Dolopaye, is calling on aliens residing in the county to take advantage of the ongoing exercise to regularize their status. The exercise, according to Col. Dolopaye, is being carried out jointly by LIS personnel from Monrovia and Nimba and the Liberia National Police, kicked off in October in the county’s capital, Sanniquillie, and will affect all part s of the county. Nimba straddles neighbouring Guinea and La Cote d’Ivoire in the northeast of the country. Col. Dolopaye said, her office has observed that the registration is moving on “a very slow pace,” something she attributed to the refusal or reluctance of aliens to regularize their statues contrary to the laws of Liberia. Alien registration is a normal exercise conducted at anytime by LIS personnel to take record on foreigners entering, residing or leaving the territorial limits of Liberia, according to Col. Dolopaye.

Source: GNN Liberia December 03, 2019 13:38 UTC