The Federal Government recently said about 45,000 passport booklets produced by the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) are yet to be collected.

The owners were advised to visit respective enrolment centres nationwide and abroad.

Text messages have already been sent to applicants whose passports are ready and are  yet to pick them up.

Also, for easy confirmation,  you can look for your name as the names have been published on the service website: https://immigration.gov.ng/uncollected-passports/

At a review meeting of the NIS management, it was revealed that 230,000 passports have been rolled out.

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Interior Minister, Rauf Aregbesola who presided, assured that the problem of booklet shortage is being tackled.

“We extended the deadline for clearing of backlogs by one week because we found out many were yet to collect their passports which had already been produced”, he said.