FG approves upward review passport fees, commences September 1st<\/p>\n
Zainab Tanimu<\/p>\n
Kaduna, Northwest<\/p>\n
Nigerians are to pay extra charges to obtain passport as federal government has approved an upward review of the Passport fees.<\/p>\n
This is contained in a statement by the Service Public Relations Officer, SPRO, Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, Kenneth Udo on Wednesday in Abuja<\/p>\n
According to the statement, the increase has become necessary in order to ensure “quality service delivery” to Nigerians.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Service regrets any inconvenience this increase might cause prospective applicants.<\/p>\n
\u201cBased on the review, 32-page passport booklet with five year validity previously charged at N35,000 would now be N50,000 only.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe 64-page Passport booklet with 10 year validity which was N70,000 would be N100,000 only.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe service assures Nigerians of unwavering commitment to transparency and quality service delivery at all times,\u201d<\/p>\n
The fees however remain unchanged in Diaspora. The statement added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
FG approves upward review passport fees, commences September 1st Zainab Tanimu Kaduna, Northwest Nigerians are to pay extra charges to obtain passport as federal government has approved an upward review of the Passport fees. This is contained in a statement by the Service Public Relations Officer, SPRO, Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, Kenneth Udo on Wednesday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"yoast_head":"\n