The Federal Government recently said about 45,000 passport
booklets produced by the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) are yet to be
collected.
The owners were advised to visit respective enrolment
centres nationwide and abroad.
Text messages have already been sent to applicants who are
yet to pick up their passports.
Nigeria Immigration postpones application for new passports
again
Also, for easy confirmation, their names have been published
on the service website: https://immigration.gov.ng/uncollected-passports/
At a review meeting of the NIS management, it was revealed
that 230,000 passports have been rolled out.
Interior Minister, Rauf Aregbesola who presided, assured
that the problem of booklet shortage is being tackled.
“We extended the deadline for clearing of backlogs by one
week because we found out many were yet to collect their passports which had
already been produced”, he said.
Reps lambast Immigration over nepotism, production of
Nigerian passports abroad
The government has fixed the new date for the start of fresh
applications as June 8, 2021.
On April 22, Aregbesola met with Passport Control Officers
and Attaches across the world. The minister directed the reform of the Passport
Application Processing.
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