BREAKING NEWS
Nigerian Immigration Service commences
issuance of new passport with 10-year validity
The Nigeria Immigration
Service has commenced the issuance of the new passport booklet with 10-year
validity at its headquarters, Abuja.
The new booklet will be
available in Ikoyi on June 3; Alausa, Lagos on July 8; and London on July 29,
2019. The enhanced polycarbonate booklet with 64 pages, which was launched by
President Muhammadu Buhari on January 15, 2019, was embedded with the National
Identity Number and costs N70,000.
Conducting journalists
round the passport office in Abuja on Monday, the NIS Public Relations Officer,
DCI Sunday James, said the new booklet was part of a comprehensive passport
reform approved by the Federal Government to improve the quality and security
of the travel document as well as to reduce incidence of damage, counterfeit,
and forgery.
He explained that it was
compulsory for passport applicants to have a NIN, adding that the NIS
management had set up a desk at the passport office where individuals can
register for the NIN. James stated, “the National Identity Number is
compulsory for all applicants to the new document. To make it easy for
applicants, the Nigeria Immigration Service has provided space for National
Identity Management Commission at the service headquarters, Abuja, to register
applicants and issue to them the NIN. The public are advised not to rush for
the new booklet, as the new enhanced passport will run concurrently with the
old one.”
The NIS spokesman
further said that applicants holding a passport with more than six months’
validity are not eligible for the new booklet, except in the case of damage,
change of data and those whose booklets have been exhausted. He advised
applicants to pay online or directly to the banks situated within the passport
offices.
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