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Immigration suspends passport issuance till June 1

The Nigeria Immigration Service has suspended the issuance of passport booklets until June 1.
The NIS on Tuesday said requests for fresh booklets and renewal would not be entertained at the issuing centres except missions abroad from May 18 till May 31.
It said this in a statement, adding that applicants requesting passport booklets would be sent notifications when to come for the booklets.
It said via a Twitter post, “All passport issuing centres have been directed to clear existing backlog of applications on or before 31st May 2021.
“To this effect requests for Fresh and/or Reissue shall not be entertained with effect from 18th May 2021-31st May 2021 in all Centres except for locations in the missions abroad.
“Notifications for collection of produced Passports are already going out to applicants who indicated functional phone numbers in their applications.
“Meanwhile, a new passport application and processing regime shall commence by 1st June 2021.”

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