NIS

The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has blamed the actions and inactions of applicants for the delays experienced in the processing of passport ...

We want Nigerians to know that they can go online and make their applications and show up in the passport office of their choice and they will be attended to. “The e-passport is one of the most respected integrity-wise across the world. I sent a family to Awka in Anambra State, and in three days, they got their passports. I have sent people to Umuahia and in seven days, they get their passports. It is in the process of producing these passports that we find out that the Automated Fingerprint Integrated System has rejected them. This is because the owners have had passports before and they did not disclose it and they come to get another one, possibly with another name or information, and it is only when they have finished the front office process and gone away that we go to the back end and we find out that the system says the applicant is fake.”