Immigration Service introduces Visa-on-Arrival package

In a bid to attract For­eign Direct Investors and skilled professionals into the country to ease the strain of doing business, the Nigeria Immigration Service, (NIS) has intro­duced a relaxed online Visa on Arrival (VOA) package to the public.

Speaking Thursday in Abuja, the Comptroller-General of NIS, Muham­mad Babandede said the measure was part of the resolution of the Presi­dential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) aimed at attract­ing foreign investors to the country to ensure that all genuine requests for Visa on Arrival facility from any part of the world are pro­cessed and issued within 48 hours.

According to him, a VOA desk had been opened at all international airports in the country where visas would be is­sued upon the presentation of all the necessary travel documents and evidence of visa payment.

He further stated that the online VOA applica­tion and processing facility is a product of robust visa reforms regime in line with global best practices and will eliminate all unnec-essary rigid visa process­ing procedures in Nigeria. THE AUTHORITY