The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, (NIS), Muhammed Babandede, yesterday said the turnaround time for issuance of passports is now six weeks.
The Service’s Public Relations Officer, Sunday James, disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen. The statement was titled: ‘NIS promotes senior officers’.
James quoted Babandede as saying this at the NIS headquarters in Abuja during a media chat on Innovations and Administration for Ease in Passport Issuance and Processing following the decoration of 87 newly-promoted Assistant Comptrollers-General and Comptrollers of Immigration Service.
Speaking on the recent halt in new applications for passports, the Comptroller-General said, “All passport applications all over the country are hereby closed between May 18 and May 31, 2021.”
This suspension of receiving and processing of fresh passport applications, he said, was to allow for clearance of all applications that were received before May 17, 2021, adding that a Task Force supervised by ACGs, will be sent to Passport offices to clear the backlog.
