Kitts and Nevis to open first African biometric collection centre in Lagos

Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis: The St. Kitts and Nevis Citizenship Unit has announced that a caller biometric postulation centre successful Lagos, Nigeria volition unfastened during the week commencing Monday (13 July), with confirmation to travel erstwhile the determination is operational.

The Lagos centre becomes the archetypal enrolment determination connected the African continent nether the National Biometric Enrolment and Passport Modernisation Programme, importantly expanding entree for citizens crossed the portion who antecedently faced planetary question to implicit enrolment.

The Ministry of National Security, Citizenship and Immigration, successful concern with the Citizenship Unit, launched the programme connected 14 April 2026.

The inaugural brings the Federation’s question documents into afloat alignment with planetary champion signifier successful individuality verification and borderline security, adopting the aforesaid modular already successful usage crossed the European Union, the United States and the United Kingdom.

As the birthplace of citizenship by investment, St. Kitts and Nevis continues to pb the manufacture successful modernisation.

The Lagos opening forms portion of a wider planetary enlargement that includes a recently unrecorded centre successful the Washington DC country and forthcoming locations successful Jeddah, Iraq and Singapore.

The rollout reflects the Government’s committedness to accessibility, with postulation centres opening worldwide, and to information protectio...