Nigeria Immigration Service Media Center

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  • PRESS RELEASE BY THE SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER, AT THE NIS HEADQUARTERS IN ABUJA, ON 13th NOVEMBER, 2023

    1. Yesterday, a group of eleven of our personnel were returning to Abuja from an official assignment in Kano, in an eighteen-seater official bus. Tragically, they were involved in a ghastly accident a few kilometers from Kano. As a result, four of our personnel lost their lives. This has been a deeply distressing and sorrowful…

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  • Passport backlog is now a thing of the past – NIS.

    The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has urged Nigerians who applied for International Passport and are yet to collect to visit the passports offices for collection as backlog has been cleared. Immigration spokesman, Dotun Aridegbe a Deputy Comptroller of Immigration who disclosed this in an exclusive chat with The Guardian noted that: “The days of passports…

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  • Notice For Uncollected Passports

    This is a notice for produced passports yet to be collected. Below is a list of centers with uncollected passport. Click on the respective center to view of uncollected passport list. List of Centers with Uncollected Passports

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  • Passport Production Timelines

    Passport applications can take up to 6 weeks to be processed for new applications and up to 3 weeks for renewals. Expect to receive your passport not more than 6 weeks after your biometric enrollment for new passports and not more than 3 weeks after biometric enrollment for renewals.

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