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<\/p>\nComptroller-General of the Service, Mr Muhammad Babandede, said this at the ceremony held at the NIS Headquarters, Abuja.<\/p>\n
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that President Muhammadu Buhari, had on Jan. 16, officially launched the new e-passport.<\/p>\n
The 64-page 10-year standard passport costs N70, 000, while the 32-page five-year standard passport costs N25, 000. The 64-page five-year standard passport goes for N 35,000, while the 32-page five-year official passport costs N15, 000.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe new passport has enormous advantages which include 10 year validity, self-tracking application and express centers, for urgent application.<\/p>\n
\u201cOther advantages include weather friendliness, compliance with latest International Civil Aviation Organization (CIAO) standard, poly-carbonate technology that reduces incidence of damage.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will also save Nigerians in Diaspora time, in hitherto frequent visits to Nigerian Embassies for the document,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Babandede who said that the passport was integrated with the National Identity Number (NIN), added that the headquarters would issue the new passport booklet for now.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile the service will continue to issue the old booklet in all passport offices at the state commands.<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, the Passport Office Gwagwalada continues to issue the old passport for now pending the roll out, at other centres including Ikoyi, Alausa, Kano and London,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He further advised Nigerians not to rush for the new booklet, as the new passport would run concurrently with the old one.<\/p>\n
\u201cApplicants holding a passport with more than six months validity are not eligible for the new booklet, except in the case of damage, change of data and those whose passport booklets are exhausted.<\/p>\n
\u201cApplicants are equally advised to pay online or directly to the banks situated within the passport offices,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Also, Comptroller Passport, Mrs Edith Onyemenam said that the passport office had worked tirelessly to ensure that the roll out was a huge success.<\/p>\n
She said that applicants are expected to go online and make payments before processing the application.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are not relenting over the policy of government which says \u2018No NIN No Passport\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are partnering with National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), to ensure applicants have their NIN before registration,\u201d She said.<\/p>\n
NIS Public Relations\u2019 Officer, Mr Sunday James, noted that there are 12 enrollment points for the new passport booklet.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt takes each applicant just 2 minutes to be captured. But firstly, we have to confirm tha information given by them are accurate.<\/p>\n
\u201cEach work station can capture 60 applicants. So in a day, a staff can capture 720 persons while in a week, over 4, 320 can be captured,\u201d James said.<\/p>\n
He further said that the 10-year validity passport, which is the mega passport is for only adults because children are likely to change in all features within 10 years.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) on Monday, commenced issuance of the new 10-year validity enhanced passport booklet, which is part of a comprehensive reform, approved by the Federal Government in January. Comptroller-General of the Service, Mr Muhammad Babandede, said this at the ceremony held at the NIS Headquarters, Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[7482],"class_list":["post-112097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-nis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/112098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}