Passport: No Shortage of Passport Booklets, Apply Months Ahead Of Time - Aregbesola

The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola has said Nigerians in need of passport should apply months ahead of time.

 This is as he confirmed that full digitisation of Nigerian passport processes would be completed by December. 

 Mr Aregbesola disclosed this when he was featured on the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum in Abuja. 

 He said that full digitisation would completely eliminate any form of contact between passport applicants and immigration officers. According to him, this will eliminate the inherent corruption in the system. 

 The minister said that the project was one of the priorities of President Muhammadu Buhari's administration. 

 "We are on it, and by December we will remove any manual processing of passports. "Now, we still have some manual parts, because files are still manually opened. 

 "By December, particularly in the busiest passport processing centres, there will be no manual segment of the passport processing, every part of it will be digitised," he added. 

 According to him, there is no shortage of passport booklets in the country and advised applicants to begin the processing of their passports at least six months before the scheduled time of travel.

 "If you need a passport now, start the process very early, do not begin the processing efforts two weeks to your travelling.