The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has deployed a dedicated Passport Intervention Team from the NIS Headquarters to the United Kingdom to resolve all passport challenges facing Nigerians living in the country. The spokesperson of the NIS, DCI Akinsola Akinlabi, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, said the deployment was part of ongoing efforts to further ease and streamline passport applications for Nigerians in the diaspora. While noting that the Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, directed the Comptroller-General of Immigration, KN Nandap, to effect the deployment, Akinlabi said the Intervention Team is scheduled to arrive in the United Kingdom today, 10th August 2026. He said the team will work in collaboration with the Nigerian High Commission to facilitate the processing and issuance of pending, new and renewal passport applications. “As part of the exercise, the intervention team will visit designated cities across the United Kingdom to conduct passport enrollment and processing, thereby enabling eligible applicants in different parts of the country to access the exercise. “This intervention is open to applicants with pending passport applications, new applicants, and holders of passports with less than one year remaining before expiry who wish to apply for renewal,” the NIS spokesperson said. He added that the detailed schedule for the intervention, including the designated cities, dates, venues, enrolment times and other arrangements, would be announced separately. “Applicants are, therefore, advised not to attend any location until the relevant schedule has been officially communicated and to monitor the official communication channels of the Nigerian High Commission in the United Kingdom for further details,” he said.
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