Nigeria Immigration Service


The Nigeria Immigration Service was extracted from the Nigeria Police in August, 1958. It was at that time referred to as the Immigration Department and headed by the Chief Federal Immigration Officer.
The Immigration Department was established by an Act of Parliament on August 1, 1963 when Alhaji Shehu Shagari was the Minister of Internal Affairs.
The initial Law regulating Immigration Duties was the Immigration Act of 1963 which was amended in 2014 and again in 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:
As empowered by Section 2 the Immigration Act, 2015, the Service is responsible for:
The Nigeria Immigration Service has been under the leadership of the following from inception: