The Federal Government has resolved the passport production crisis in the United States of America as the three Missions have resumed passport services.
According to a public notice posted in the Embassy of Nigeria, Washington DC, all passport applicants scheduled earlier for biometrics are expected to come to the Mission on Monday.
The notice read, “This is to inform all passport applicants scheduled for biometric capture from Monday, November 13 to Thursday, November 16, have been rescheduled from Monday, November 20, to Wednesday, November 22, 2023. The affected applicants can come to the Embassy. the change of schedule is due to the internet outage experienced at the Embassy.
According to NAN, A source in the embassy said the problem was fixed on Saturday.
As affected applicants can come to the Embassy on any of the days. The schedule is due to internet outrage experienced at the embassy, The system is back over the weekend and the experts worked tirelessly to resolve it and we are back.
The server in DC is connected to Atalanta and New York so whatever happens to our server affects other missions.
NAN reports Nigeria has three Missions in the United States. They are the Consulates-General of Nigeria in New York and Atlanta, and the Embassy of Nigeria in Washington DC.
The embassy in Washington DC, Is the only passport production center in the U.S. While the consulates take biometrics from their Missions and take the same to Washington DC, for passport production.
The Organisation for the Advancement of Nigerians and its 20 partner organisations in New York have earlier appealed to the Federal Government to provide passport production machines for Missions in Atlanta and New York.
The New York consulate has jurisdiction over the highest number of states and accepts the largest number of applicants from across the United States. It boggles the mind to understand why two passport printing machines are located in Washington with none in New York or Atlanta, the association pondered in a statement.
The New York Jurisdiction comprises the 20 states of Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Nebraska,
Ohio, and North Dakota.
Others are South Dakota, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Vermont, and Pennsylvania.
(NAN)