Hurry!! Nigerian Government To Extend International Passport Validity To 10 Years

The Buhari administration is considering extending
validity period for international passports from its
current five to 10 years, the Comptroller-General of
Nigeria Immigration Service has said.
Muhammad Babandede told reporters in his office
on Saturday that Nigerians should expect an
announcement on the policy changes in the coming
months.
“We have submitted a memo to the president and
we believe we’ll get a positive response to that
soon,” Mr. Babandede said.
The immigration chief said the review was the
government’s response to several months of
complaints from Nigerians and other foreign
elements who said the five-year validity period is too
short.
Citizens demanded that the NIS should reverse to
the old policy that Nigeria had in place before 2007.
Back then, the Nigerian passport was valid for 10
years with additional five years validity for renewal.
“We have received complaints that passports only
take five years,” Mr. Babandede said. “The
international community is not happy, wondering why
passports will only be five years.”
“They’re saying it should be 10 years and we’re
already considering that. We need to make sure that
we have age validity expansion.”
He said the current validity period was unnecessary
for people above 18 years because they’re already
fully grown and rarely wear a totally different look.
“For example, in some places in the world, they say
if you’re below the age of 18, you can have five-year
validity passport. But if you’re above the age of 18,
you can have 10-year validity because your physical
features may not change again within 10 years,” Mr.
Babandede said.
The Nigerian government implemented a downward
review of international passports from 10 to five
years when the country adopted the e-passport with
multi-level security model on July 27, 2007.

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