e-Visa: Federal Gov’t Introduces Automated Touchdown, Exit Card For Overseas Passengers

The federal authorities has introduced the introduction of automated touchdown and exit playing cards aimed toward checkmating foreigners who travelled in and in a foreign country as a part of a broader e-Visa options.

The automated touchdown and exit card is designed to eradicate journey bottlenecks whereas making certain nationwide safety.

This was introduced throughout a joint briefing in Abuja by the minister of Aviation and Aerospace Growth, Festus Keyamo (SAN), and the minister of Inside, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, on Wednesday.

The ministers mentioned that the collaboration between their ministries and key companies, together with the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), and the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), will guarantee the graceful take-off of the e-visa options on Could 1, 2025.

Talking on the occasion, Keyamo mentioned: “What we’re doing right here right this moment is an extra testomony to the willpower of this authorities to foster cooperation between key ministries which have mandates that overlap.

“Immediately is one other instance of that type of cooperation and collaboration, and this has to do with the introduction of the e-visa.”

Additionally, talking on the occasion, Minister of Interior Tunji-Ojo mentioned: “This initiative has a really severe impact on our nationwide safety structure. Before now, now we have at all times had the exit and touchdown card in a guide means, travellers needed to fill a paper type. However now the narrative has modified with the introduction of e-visa and automatic exit and entry playing cards.

“Nigeria is a rustic of 230 million good individuals and now we have to guide when it comes to expertise and in view of that, we’re automating the visa course of and it takes impact from the first of Could, 2025. So, the touchdown and exit card will likely be crammed on-line earlier than you board and introduced to airways earlier than you will be boarded. So, that duty of coordinating and issuing regulation to the airline lies on the NCAA. This exhibits our dedication to the safety of our nation, to frame safety, and to make sure that our sovereignty as a nation is effectively revered.

“Outdoors that, we may even be introducing another measures to elucidate extra explicitly. The e-Visa will make it simpler for individuals to return into Nigeria whereas enhancing the safety of our nation.”