disclosed on Tuesday that it has introduced Web based application for Visa on Arrival for investors, tourists and others seeking to come into the country to eliminate hitches associated with manual processes.
He said the new system is working swiftly as the MMIA alone in July 2019 recorded over 2,194 applicants. The immigration source said though Visa on Arrival was targeted at attracting business investors, some applicants either keyed in wrong email addresses, refused to upload all the four documents required or use the card number from the public cafes.Court orders Nigeria Immigration Service to pay ex-staff N9.7M in 60 days
“We have had a case where a gentleman came and reported to us that he applied and it had gone beyond 24 hours as he was complaining, our boss checked and saw that he has been approved and asked him what email he used and he started thinking and when he recalled, he called his brother who had it in his own e-mail. So you see the process has been fine-tuned, there were initial challenges but now there is someone always responding to VOA applicants 24/7.