The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has announced that 112,351 passport booklets are yet to be collected by applicants as of 5th October 2023.
The Acting Comptroller General (CG) of the NIS, Adepoju Carol Wura-Ola, made the announcement at a press conference at the Service headquarters in Abuja on Thursday, October 5.
She said the NIS has cleared all the 204,332 passport application backlogs after Minister of Interior Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo’s two-week deadline to the Service.
Reports say the officers worked long hours and at weekends to process all outstanding applications and produce booklets
Speaking further, Ola said that while 91,981 passport booklets have been collected so far, 112,351 booklets are yet to be collected. She said;
“I invite applicants who have applied for passports to come and pick them up without paying anything extra.”
The NIS Acting CG who further revealed that the Service and its partners have upgraded their facilities to meet the demand for the document by Nigerians, added that they are now working towards automating the passport application process which is expected to kickoff by December.