Immigration Blames Shortage of Passport on COVID-19

Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, has blamed the current shortage of International Passports on last year’s lockdown occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Public Relations Officer of NIS, Amos Okpu, stated that the 2020 lock down had compounded the challenge of renewal of International Passports for Nigerians living in different parts of the world because of the restrictions.

Okpu maintained that the service is making arrangements to visit such countries to take stock of the affected Nigerians so as to be able to renew their expired international passports.

Reports say Over 1,000 Nigerians are reported to be stranded in Atlanta, United States and other countries because of expired travel documents and their inability to renew them.