Nigeria Immigration Service Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! == History == The '''Nigeria Immigration Service''' (NIS) was separated from the [[Nigeria Police Force|Nigeria Police]] (NP) in August 1958, known at that time as the Immigration Department, and headed by the Chief Federal Immigration Officer (CFIO). The Immigration Department was established by an Act of Parliament (Cap 171, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria) on August 1, 1963, when [[Alhaji Shehu Shagari]] was the [[Minister of Internal Affairs]] (a position now referred to as Minister of Interior). The initial Law regulating Immigration Duties was the Immigration Act of 1963 which was amended in 2014 and again in 2015 (Immigration Act, 2015). The Service has from 1963 been restructured to manage modern migration in line with global, regional, and sub-regional political alignments. The NIS has leveraged the use of Information and Communication Technologies in its operations including: * The introduction of the Machine Readable electronic [[passport]] (MRP) in 2007 * The creation of a Service website (www.immigration.gov.ng) and portal (portal.immigration.gov.ng) * Global Passport intervention in line with the Federal Government Policy on Citizenship Diplomacy * Forensic laboratory services for the examination of travel documents and monetary instruments * The introduction of the Combined Expatriate Residence Permit and Aliens Card (CERPAC) As empowered by Section 2 of the Immigration Act, 2015, the Service is responsible for: * The control of persons entering or leaving Nigeria * The issuance of travel documents, including Nigerian passports, to bonafide Nigerians within and outside Nigeria * The issuance of residence permits to foreigners in Nigeria * Border surveillance and patrol * Enforcement of laws and regulations with which they are directly charged; and * The performance of such para-military duties within or outside Nigeria as may be required of them under the authority of this Act or any other enactment<ref name=":0">About the Nigeria Immigration Service http://immigration.gov.ng/index.php?id=3</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page