UAE: some 40,00 illegal emigrants arrested

The United Arab Emirates Gulf News said that 40,000 of persons who illegally stay in the country while other 100,000 left the country under an Amnesty.

On January 1st, this year, the UAE authorities decided an amnesty period of 6 months which expired on June 30 with the aim to settle conditions of more than 400,000 who live in the country illegally.

The paper said that the ministry of the interior still invites those who live illegally in the country to head for the authorities, stressing that the "door is till open to them to leave the country." The paper also added that every persons who continues to stay in the UAE illegally will be punished in addition to the person hiding him.