{"id":132993,"date":"2022-01-11T16:16:55","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T15:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=132993"},"modified":"2022-01-11T16:16:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T15:16:55","slug":"nigerians-abandon-2560-passports-at-calabar-immigration-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/01\/11\/nigerians-abandon-2560-passports-at-calabar-immigration-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerians abandon 2,560 passports at Calabar Immigration office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No fewer than 2,560 Nigerian International passports have been abandoned at the Nigeria Immigration Service Calabar,NCIS office.<\/p>\n<p>The Comptroller Immigration Service (CIS), Christopher Baikie made this known while speaking with some journalists in his office on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the situation, the passport control officer, Mrs Clementina Ogbundu said the heap of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/10\/nigerian-traders-trying-to-renew-passports-arrested-by-cambodian-soldiers-for-border-crossing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passports<\/a> date back to 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have 2560 international passports uncollected in our Calabar office. Applicants will pay for it, go through all the processes but when the passports are ready for collection, they will not come back again for collection\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n<p>According to her , new applicants were still coming to book for new passports and they cannot be denied.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking earlier, the 24th CIS disclosed that the command repatriated a Cameroonian illegal immigrant last year.<\/p>\n<p>He elaborated that they are not being very tough on immigrants going by the rules guiding their operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are embarking on visitations to immigrants and have encouraged their leaderships in parts of the state to sensitise those without proper documentation to update themselves, so that they do not resort to using force.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, though we are allowed to bear arm yet enforcement with arms is really not a priority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Baikie said he has hosted hoteliers,corporate establishment and such groups to buttress the need for their immigrant clients to regularise their stay in the country stressing that they synergise with sister security agencies also to make the drive more effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No fewer than 2,560 Nigerian International passports have been abandoned at the Nigeria Immigration Service Calabar,NCIS office. The Comptroller Immigration Service (CIS), Christopher Baikie made this known while speaking with some journalists in his office on Tuesday. Confirming the situation, the passport control officer, Mrs Clementina Ogbundu said the heap of passports date back to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":59741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27261,7700,303,6984],"class_list":["post-132993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-calabar-immigration-office","tag-immigration","tag-nigeria","tag-passports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.8 (Yoast SEO v27.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigerians abandon 2,560 passports at Calabar Immigration office<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"No fewer than 2,560 Nigerian International passports have been abandoned at the Nigeria Immigration Service Calabar,NCIS office\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/01\/11\/nigerians-abandon-2560-passports-at-calabar-immigration-office\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigerians abandon 2,560 passports at Calabar Immigration office\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"No fewer than 2,560 Nigerian International passports have been abandoned at the Nigeria Immigration Service Calabar,NCIS office. 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