Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, Minister of Interior, announced on Tuesday that the automation of Nigeria\u2019s passport application process is 99 percent complete.<\/p>\n
In an interview with Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today, Ojo stated that the automated application will be operational in a week, and that after that, Nigerians will only travel to immigration centers to conduct fingerprint biometrics for their passports.<\/p>\n
He went on to say that with the new method, Nigerians will be able to upload their passport photos and other supporting papers from the comfort of their own homes.<\/p>\n
The minister said, \u201cWe gave a date \u2014 December 2023. We are 99 per cent done. In fact, we have done the testing and we should be going live in the next week or thereabouts.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis will ensure that what Nigerians need to do at an immigration centre is just fingerprint biometrics.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything regarding pre-biometrics will be done in the comfort of your homes, including uploading passport photographs and supporting documents.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey will have gone live about two weeks ago but I saw some errors when they came to do the presentation and I said no. We were talking about balancing national security and convenience.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the interview, the minister also disclosed that e-gate systems would be installed at international airports in the country by February 2024.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy February, all our international airports will have e-gates<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce you are a Nigerian coming to Nigeria, you have no business seeing an immigration officer except if you are a person of interest,\u201d he disclosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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