{"id":98066,"date":"2021-10-26T06:57:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T05:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=98066"},"modified":"2021-10-26T06:57:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T05:57:00","slug":"more-than-13000-passports-awaiting-collection-at-lagos-offices-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/10\/26\/more-than-13000-passports-awaiting-collection-at-lagos-offices-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 13000 passports awaiting collection at Lagos offices &#8211; Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Controller of the Lagos passport command of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Milka Musa has disclosed that more than 13,800 passports are yet to be collected at the agency&#8217;s offices in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>This is coming days after the Ikoyi office of the NIS said it extended its workdays to include\u00a0Saturdays and Sundays \u2014 following a directive by Idris Jere, acting comptroller-general of the NIS, to clear the backlog of passport applications.<\/p>\n<p>According to NAN on Monday, Musa said 12,300 passports haven\u2019t been collected at the Ikoyi passport office, while 1,500 are at the Festac office.<\/p>\n<p>The controller also said there are uncollected passports at the Ikeja office of the NIS.<\/p>\n<p>Musa appealed to applicants who had applied before September 2021 to check their respective offices of application for collection, adding that text messages have been sent to the applicants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on the volume of the uncollected passports, I believe the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/07\/16\/6500-applicants-shortlisted-for-nscdc-job\/\">applicants<\/a> had forgotten they applied for a passport. This may be the category of applicants who were in a haste when they came to apply,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Nigeria Immigration Service ( NIS) is appealing to these applicants to come and collect their passports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are series of security checks that must be conducted on each applicant before the passport could be issued. Nigerians should stop being in a haste when they come to apply for passports, because the series of operations and security checks involved before issuance cannot be carried out in seconds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NIS, under the watch of the new acting comptroller-general of NIS, Mr Idris Jere, would not relent in its efforts at providing super services to Nigerians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also said the scarcity of passport booklets witnessed months ago was caused by the COVID pandemic, adding that \u201cwhen the lockdown was eased, what the NIS witnessed was a geometric growth in passport applications\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Controller of the Lagos passport command of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Milka Musa has disclosed that more than 13,800 passports are yet to be collected at the agency&#8217;s offices in Lagos. 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