Nigeria to complete digitisation of passport processing by December – Official

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He said that full digitisation would completely eliminate any form of contact between passport applicants and immigration officers.

The minister said that the project was one of the priorities of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.“Now, we still have some manual parts, because files are still manually opened.

“If you need a passport now, start the process very early, do not begin the processing efforts two weeks to your travelling. “Every identity document must be the same to ease capturing,” he said, adding that even wrong arrangements of names could create delays in the processing of passports. “When you come to us to register, after filling your form online, you come for data capturing, and what you do there is to harmonise what you have filed in your form and your bio-data as we advance.

According to him, those who patronise touts and unscrupulous passport officials are the ones mostly facing challenges with the process. “If I want to recommend, I will say begin, unless there is an emergency, begin the processing six months to either the expiration or renewal or getting a new one.

 

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