The Minister of State for Interior, Mr. Humphrey Abba, sopke during a courtesy visit by the Nigerian Ambassador to the United States, Professor Ade Adefuye and said, “We are going to deploy enough mobile machines to the United Kingdom and Washington to fast track the issuance of the e-passport to Nigerians living abroad.
“There is an enlightenment programme going on in the United States, so that all Nigerians living there will be aware and have no excuses. December 31, 2010 is the dead line for those who already have the machine readable passport to go and register on line through the Immigration Service for the issuance of the e-passport. If by 31 December you do not have the passport, you will have yourself to blame and that is why we are doing the best we can do through the Nigeria Immigration Service”.
“The old passport will terminate by December 31. The implication is that if you have residential status, you need a vaying passport to put it inside, your green card automatically becomes invalid if it is not embedded in a varying passport. The population of Nigerian-born America are about one million while those living in America are about four to five million, that is without a proper census and we have to issue them the e-passport."
The minister also reitereated that more machines and issuing centres will be deployed in the USA to complement the existing resources in New York and Atlanta.
The Nigeria Immigration Service launched the e-passport on July 27, 2007, with the first e-passport issued to the President of Nigeria, Alhaji Umaru Yar'Adua. The e-passport captures biometric data which is stored in a centrally-coordinated passport data bank, managed by the Nigerian Immigrations Service, and can be accessed instantly by security agencies globally.
- Get instructions on applying for an e-passport here
- Get a list of Nigerian embassies here
- Contact the Nigeria Immigration Service
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Quelle/Source: NgEX, 23.08.2010
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