The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) says it will deploy a dedicated Passport Intervention Team to the United Kingdom to facilitate the processing and issuance of passports to Nigerians in the country.
In a statement on Sunday, which was tweeted on the NIS’s official X page, the intervention was directed by the Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, and is scheduled to commence on 10 August 2026.
“As part of ongoing efforts to further ease and streamline passport applications for Nigerians in the diaspora, the Honourable Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has directed the Comptroller-General of Immigration, KN Nandap, to deploy a dedicated Passport Intervention Team from the Nigeria Immigration Service Headquarters to the United Kingdom,” the statement said.
The service said the team would work with the Nigerian High Commission in the UK to process pending, new, and renewal passport applications.
The NIS also said the team would visit designated cities across the UK to conduct passport enrolment and processing, enabling eligible applicants living in different parts of the country to access the exercise without necessarily travelling to a central location.
