The Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Muhammad Babandede has called on the general public particularly migrant community in Nigeria that the ongoing migrant e-registration exercise embarked upon by the Service will be a continuous process.
This he said was part of the Service’s statutory responsibilities prescribed by the Immigration Regulation 2017.
In a statement issued by the Service Public Relations Officer, DCI Sunday James said the Service embarked on the exercise as part of its day to day scheduled duties in line with Section 22 (1&2) of the Immigration Regulation 2017.
The Act according to the statement empowered the Comptroller General to keep in the registry, information and particulars of an immigrant as he may time to time direct.
This clarification, it said, became necessary against the misconception between the amnesty period declared by the President and the duration of the exercise.
The statement added that the exercise was yielding results as over 2,100 migrants had been registered at the Nigeria Immigration Service Headquarters alone, while registration centres at Lagos, Rivers, Delta, Ogun, Ekiti, Kwara, Cross River and others were steadily following in a bid to achieve a nation-wide registration exercise.
The Comptroller General called on all migrants staying beyond 90 days in Nigeria, whether regular or otherwise including those without proper documents to take advantage of the 6 months amnesty period given by the President which lasts between 12th July, 2019 to 11th January, 2020 and register at the nearest Migrant e-Registration centres in their places of residence.
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