Most forms related to this travel document whether its renewal or a new Nigerian passport can be downloaded and printed from the Nigerian immigration services portal.
To renew a Nigerian passport applicants will be required to pay the renewal fee, then fill a passport renewal form, submit the expired passport (which will be collected with the renewed copy), then get a biometric capture done. If there is a scarcity of booklets, then the date could extend to 3 to 4 months. In event that there are sufficient booklets, this date is 6 weeks after biometric capture. The officer in charge of an application file is usually always ideally placed to communicate the release date for a passport. The application can be tracked on the immigration services website, but this hardly ever works. Nigerian Passport Application StatusĪfter applying for a Nigerian passport, an application status can be checked by placing a call to the officer who was in charge of the applicant’s file. The biometric officer will also require applicants to confirm that their information in the immigration services database is correct. This is a mandatory requirement.īiometric Capture For A Nigerian Passport ApplicationĪfter all above mentioned documents are submitted, applicants will need to go in for a biometric capture were their facials will be photographed as well as their finger prints and other vital information taken. Say a family has 3 children whom together with their parents, are applying for passports, each child will need to append his/her passport photograph to an application as well as passport photographs of their mother and father. If a husband and wife are applying for a passport together with their children, then in addition to the children’s passport photographs, the parents have to append theirs in the children’s application forms as well. The application for a new Nigerian passport must be accompanied with a passport photograph, which can’t be taken with a mobile phone, meaning it has to be done professionally. This document has to be signed by both members of a legal union.
If it’s located elsewhere then the cost may vary. There is a fee associated with this legal duty, if the court clerk is located close the Nigerian immigration service office, then the fee is N1,000 (One thousand Naira). This document has to be stamped by a court clerk. Without this fee, other documents will not be received as all money collected is usually remitted to the government. As soon as the application fee for a passport type is paid, preliminary documents will be requested and appointment date given.Īnother important point to note is that the Nigerian passport fee has to be paid before other mandatory documents can be submitted for processing. This fee has to be paid before data capture, as without it appointment dates will not be given. Meaning after 5 years whether a 35 or 80-page booklet is chosen, a Nigerian passport will have to be renewed. Usually, the choice of passport pages depends on the applicant, however they both expire after 5 years from the date of issuance. A 35-page passport booklet currently goes for N45,000 (forty-five thousand Naira) and an 80-page passport booklet has a price of N55,000 (fifty-five thousand Naira) attached to it. This fee varies depending on the volume of booklet being sought by the applicant. While in the past, a Nigerian passport was issued on the same day of data capture, the narrative has since changed as to get a data capture done now will literally take up the whole of an applicant’s day after which depending on availability of passport booklets, pickup might be in 90 days if one is lucky or 180 days.Īn extreme picture painted here I know, but passport office lobbies of the Nigerian immigration service in Lagos and Abuja are still packed to the rafters with intending travelers looking to get their passports issued and, in this article, everything related to Nigerian passport requirement will be highlighted. Did I mention that the price for issuance of a first passport has since tripled in price.
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To get a new Nigerian passport issued these days there are a plethora of personal documents that are required to be submitted, plus series of letters written to the Nigerian immigration services.
However, the good old times are gone never to return. Related Article: Moving abroad: 12 vital points that nobody talks about Related Article: Lost passport replacement All it took back then was making an appearance at your nearest immigration office in Nigeria, filling a form, paying a token sum of N15,000 (fifteen thousand Naira), then doing your data capture and just like that your new Nigerian passport was issued to you on the same day. It used to be the easiest task in the world to get a Nigerian passport issued for the first time.
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