Visa: NDLEA Scraps Husband’s Approval Rule for Married Women After Public Backlash

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has announced that married women are no longer required to submit an approval letter from their husbands for the visa application process.

It will be recalled that the NDLEA had earlier mandated women seeking visa clearance to meet this requirement before they were cleared. However, after facing public backlash, the Agency has removed the provision.

In a public notice issued on Thursday, Femi Babafemi, the Director of Media and Advocacy, explained that the change is part of a broader review of the entire visa clearance procedure.

The notice read, “The entire procedure for visa clearance issued by the NDLEA, as required by some countries, is currently under review, and the requirement for a married woman to present a letter of approval from her husband to travel is one of the items the Agency has since discarded as a non-mandatory requirement. The inclusion of this item initially arose due to certain unfavourable developments in some source countries.

“Members of the public are assured that this item has been removed from the list of requirements in the ongoing review, which will be made public in the coming days.”

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