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Passport Only Takes 2 Weeks & Automated Renewal Coming In March 2024 (2 Months Time)

Immigration Gives Two Weeks For Passport Production After Online Application
The Immigration boss said Nigerians would be able to renew their travel passports without human contact effective March 8, 2024

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Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Caroline Adepoju, on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme

…Says Contactless Passport Renewal To Begin March 8

The Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Wura-Ola Adepoju, says it will take two weeks between the point of application for green passports to be produced.

Adepoju was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Wednesday, alongside the NIS Deputy Comptroller General, Kemi Nandap.

“Because of the screening that we need to do, we are looking at two weeks as timeframe from the point of application to the point of production,” she said while lamenting that there were so many uncollected passports at Ikoyi office of the Service, amongst others.


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Adepoju also said Nigerians would be able to renew their travel passports without human contact effective March 8, 2024.

The Immigration boss said, “From March 8, everyone applying for renewal will be doing contactless application because for people who have the Nigerian passports, we have their data, we have their biometrics.

“So, from the comfort of their homes, they can apply for renewal or re-issue of their passports and they would be able to deploy their biometrics like their fingerprints which we will now compare with what we have in our database. If everything goes, then we will be able to issue them the passports they applied for.”

On her part, Nandap said over 46,000 applications have been received since January 8, 2024 when the Service began automation of the passport application process.

“We are making it as seamless as possible. From inception, that’s January 8 which was when we went live, we’ve received over 46,000 applications (both fresh and renewal),” she said while appealing to Nigerians to input the right information on the Service’s website.

Also, Adepoju said there is provision for change of data on the portal for passport application. On whether immigration officials would lose their jobs, she said, “No, the objective of the automation is to make things seamless, the comfort of our application and national security.”

“From March 8, all the people applying for renewal will be able to do contactless biometric capturing.”

On efforts put in place to ensure non-Nigerians do not get the green passport, Nandap said, “We are meeting with critical stakeholders such NPC and ALGON because an average Nigerian will have to go to their local government to get their certificate of indigeneship.

“We are working tirelessly with these stakeholders to make sure that they also have a proper way of documenting these certificates because they give us these certificates that we use.

“Even if we say it’s seamless and contactless, we still have officers on ground to do secondary checks to ensure that the person sitting in front of you to be captured for biometrics is actually a Nigerian. we have different levels of checks and ways to making sure that nobody who is a non-Nigerian gets our passport.”

SOURCE: Channels

Hope no abuse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL0PaP8DmXM
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Nice 👍

sketching:
Hope no abuse

Be positive for once

sleek214:
Be positive for once

Please am not being negative, just stating the inevitable.
Anywhere their is money and desperation is probably going to be abused in Nigeria (like our NIN and whatever that is ONLINE).

Proactive steps needs to be taken (not sitting in delusion say; 'be positive, hustlers/agents would be law abiding').

Anyway, the passport system upgrade is a welcome development.

Thanks for the update.

Pls how long does it take to renew ?
Can I get it same day ?

As usual say one thing,do another thing

peleson1:
Pls how long does it take to renew ?
Can I get it same day ?

Same day is not realistic for a regular citizen.

They claim the new system takes 2 to 3 weeks after online summition/application (in other words after visiting their office to capture your BioData).

From the past system, the waiting time could be 3 to 5 months.

No such things as shortage of passport booklets (The Comptroller General calmed). Despit this being the major news since December 2022 till December 2023 (blaming CBN Forex Policy).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POaHuVh2R8E

Na lie

Did capturing since January 2nd, up till now, my passport never ready

Have you received it now?

Dre183:
Na lie

Did capturing since January 2nd, up till now, my passport never ready

CeeCyrils:
Have you received it now?

Yes

Dre183:
Yes

How long did it take for you to receive it?

oluwacharisme:
How long did it take for you to receive it?

6 weeks

So it was ready exactly 6 weeks, mine just turned 4 weeks today' I captured in sagamu

Dre183:
6 weeks