How Ikoyi Office produces 38,280 Nigerian passports in 4 months: Official

*The Nigeria Immigration Service discloses certain factors hindering the timely release of international passports to prospective applicants in the country

Emmanuel Akosile | ConsumerConnect

In its commitment to ensuring that the applicants’ demands for the transnational travel document are met, the Ikoyi Passport Office of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), in Lagos State, has disclosed it produced 38,280 international passports from June to October 2021.

Mr. Ibrahim Liman, Passport Control Officer (PCO) and Deputy Controller of Immigration, stated this development in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Monday, October 18, 2021, in Lagos.

Liman said that the PCO, 29,984 of 32-page passports and 8,246 of 64-page passports were produced in the period under review within the four-month period.

Appreciating the officers who sacrificed for the extra time to enable the passport office in Ikoyi to meet the demands, he assured that such commitment would not go unnoticed.

The officers worked 24 hours, all the days of the week in order to ensure the demand of the applicants were met, the PCO said.

He further stated: “This passport office in its efforts to meet applicants demand, extended working days to include Saturdays and Sundays.”

Liman urged passport applicants to be patient anytime they applied for passports because NIS needed to do security check on individual applications before passports were released to them.

According to him, some challenges might hinder the timely release of some international passports to prospective applicants.

“This included disrupted National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) portal, inconsistent details submitted by some applicants.

“The NIS must send the details filed by applicant to NIMC to ensure they match the details on applicants’ National Identity Numbers (NINs),” he noted.

The PCO also said: “Many applicants submit Date of Birth that does not match the DOB of NIN.

“All the factors, among others causes, delay in passport production.”

Liman said the NIS would not relent in its efforts at ensuring that insufficient electricity supply does disrupt the operations of the office.

He stated that the Ikoyi Passport Office has got an inverter to enable the office to operate efficiently and effectively, adding, “This office has also transferred the good gesture to NIMC within the premises.”

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