{"id":214025,"date":"2022-09-01T22:03:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T21:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=214025"},"modified":"2022-09-01T22:03:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T21:03:47","slug":"we-dont-have-discriminatory-passport-charges-nis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/09\/01\/we-dont-have-discriminatory-passport-charges-nis\/","title":{"rendered":"We don\u2019t have discriminatory passport charges \u2014 NIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has dismissed as fake, reports of alleged discriminatory charges for Passport, saying charges for the document are the same across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The reaction is contained in the Service verified Twitter handle, on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Some online media reports had claimed that there was huge disparity in the cost of passport between states, citing examples of Ekiti and Kaduna, where the charge was N25,000 and N10,750, respectively, for the 32-page 5-year Standard Passport.<\/p>\n<p>The Service, however, clarified that Kaduna was still on electronic mode and yet to be linked to the enhanced ePassport Centre, hence the disparity in the charges.<\/p>\n<p>It therefore dismissed the report as not only laughable but also very pedestrian.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe attention of the Comptroller General, NIS, Mr Isah Jere has been drawn to some stories about discriminatory passport charges for passport applicants in the North and South of the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/08\/09\/indian-police-arrest-suspected-nigerian-drug-kingpin-seize-fake-and-original-passports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Passports<\/a> we issue are for Nigerians irrespective of where they live including those in the diaspora.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we do have are two Passport regimes that are running concurrently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are the electronic passport and enhanced electronic passport. 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