The Minister of Inside, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has directed the Nigerian Immigration Service to deploy new printers to the Atlanta and New York Consulates in the USA of America.
This directive follows a petition from Nigerians in these cities over their lack of ability to acquire passports.
In response to the petition on Thursday, the minister, based on a press release by his media aide, Babatunde Alao, introduced that the brand new printers ordered for deployment are prepared for set up.
The assertion partly learn, “The Minister of Inside has acknowledged the receipt of a petition relating to the enchantment for passport printers within the Atlanta and New York Consulates in the USA of America.
“To deal with this challenge, the minister has since authorised and directed the Nigeria Immigration Service to right away deploy new printers to the passport workplaces in each cities. These printers are prepared for set up. This short-term resolution goals to resolve the present problem promptly.”
Alao famous that whereas the deployed printers are a short-term measure, a long-term resolution to the issue is in progress.
*”The minister hinted {that a} new resolution is being applied as a long-term plan to introduce a streamlined passport regime, enabling Nigerians to use for his or her passports with higher ease.
“A part of this plan consists of the activation of the Passport Personalisation Centre in Abuja, which is scheduled to begin within the coming weeks, alongside increasing the already-deployed contactless resolution to extra nations.
“The Ministry of Inside, beneath the minister’s management, is working tirelessly, leaving no company behind. On the Nigeria Immigration Service, for example, there was an end-to-end automation of the passport software course of, together with the introduction of a contactless software system, which has already been launched in Canada.”
