Nigerians Abandon 400 Passports At US Consulate

Nigerians Abandon 400 Passports

Not less than 400 Nigerians have their passports uncollected at the Nigerian Consul-General office in New York, the United States of America.

Concerned about the development, the Consul-general office has taken some steps, including posting the names of the original owners of the documents on its website.

It has also intimated the community platform on WhatsApp group with a view to reaching the owners of the abandoned passports.

The passports had been produced in the last two years, the consul-general office has said.

Making these revelations at the virtual 8th Town Hall Meeting with the Nigerian Community in New York Jurisdiction,  the Consul General of Nigeria in New York, Amb. Lot Egopija, urges the concerned persons to do the needful.

“Right now, we have so many uncollected passports as at the last count, we have 400 uncollected passports that were produced within the last two years,” he said.

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“We have posted the names of the original owners of the documents on our website and also on our community platform, the WhatsApp group,” he added.

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“We have also asked Nigerians in the Diaspora Organisation (NIDO), New Jersey Chapter, and other relevant groups, to bring it to the notice of their members,” he said.

“Please, while you get this, circulate and bring to the notice of your members, let them send self-addressed envelopes to us and we would post these documents to them,’’ he said.

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The consul-general informed that his office had even taken the step of posting some of these vital documents to addresses provided by the owners only for them to be returned.

“We have been exploring a kind of model where we go to Washington DC once in a month to produce the  passports, pending the time when the machine will be installed in New York,’’ he said,  an attestation that the office was expending precious resources producing the documents..