travelinfo:
BREAKING NEWS!!!

BOOKING OF APPOINTMENT AT ALAUSA HAD REACHED 29TH OF AUGUST SO IF YOU BOOK APPOINTMENT FROM TODAY, EXPECT TO SEE DATES LIKE 30TH AUGUST, 31ST AUGUST EVEN SEPTEMBER WHEREAS TODAY IS JUST 18TH AUGUST.

adubam:


Today 18th August?

travelinfo:

you are to pay with your atm card like normal paystack payment. you are not submitting the receipt online, you will be able to book appointment after that you've completed the payment.

travelinfo:
DIY means Do It Yourself

Honeysweetest:
thank you, but I don't intend to submit the receipts online, I want to know if I can pay with my mobile banking app, generate receipt, or is it better I go to bank?

travelinfo:


You can pay with your ATM card for online payment

or

Walk in to the bank for cash payment

travelinfo:


Please I sent you private message, kindly check your mailbox

I want to ask you 2 questions

Question 1: is it those photocopy shop people that served as your guarantor or they only helped you to get the commissioner of oath signature part?


Question 2: Can I get contact of the person who helped you fast track collection? If yes, please check your mailbox as I already sent you private message

I already made payment & booked appointment

Thank you

Honeysweetest:
People that did DIY, did you pay with your phone bank app? How did you submit the receipts of payment?

sheyihandsy:
I have a tips that can work for DIYers (Tested and Trusted TWICE me and my wife). Please find out day of the week that your preferred location do productions before you pick a capturing date.
For instance, Ibadan produce every Tuesday of the week, so Monday is best capturing day. Go to the location 2-3days to open file , and find an officer that can help you capture in time(without paying a dime). Then ask him if he can fast track...10k to 15k is all that will cost you to collect your passport the following day. I promise you. Online payment: 27k + 15k= 42k total package. Not a bad deal if you want to pay for fast track

Yampotatocarrot:


I've replied you, Boss.

Yampotatocarrot:


Thanks. You kinda just summarised all the jargons I wrote up there.

10k for fast track will bring your amount to less than 40k, if you already opened file before that day, plus save you a lot of stress.

Thank for the correct info

NairaLux:


Bros, what is DIY?
Can you please share your WhatsApp digits?

DaSugarBoi:

Pls I sent a message to your mail

AgentXxx:
Used my ATM card through flutter waves on the website

Honeysweetest:
they will charge more oooo, I will just put in my card details.

travelinfo:


Extra 1k making total of 26k

If you are paying inside bank, it's extra 700naira

I urge you to pay online with card, appointment book for August will soon be filled up & you will be left with September

seggzzy:
I am at Alausa NIS, trying to arrange all my docs in a file. But I was told by someone that I don't need Guarantor's form and birth certificate, Local govt identification in my file. Pls how true is this your response is appreciated, thanks.

Afunleshin26:
Good morning everyone,
I did my capturing in 23 January 2022. I collected my passport on 13th June 2022. DIY.

It is quite frustrating to be candid.

Even though my passport the date was April.

Oyo state.

fabem:
When i am less busy, i will share own my experience at Ibadan Immigration Office as a DIY applicant.

I will give indepth analysis because people hardly know about the online application here in Ibadan, only few did DIY, the rest are through agents. So you can imagine the intimidations and stress i went through before capturing.


Bros, I'll gladly need your help as I want to do the DIY. I stayed at Agodi Gate, Ibadan. Please help. Very urgent

Anyways, for now questions are welcome.

Yampotatocarrot:


Replied already

DaSugarBoi:

I did not see your response. Could you pls resend.

sheyihandsy:
I have a tips that can work for DIYers (Tested and Trusted TWICE me and my wife). Please find out day of the week that your preferred location do productions before you pick a capturing date.
For instance, Ibadan produce every Tuesday of the week, so Monday is best capturing day. Go to the location 2-3days to open file , and find an officer that can help you capture in time(without paying a dime). Then ask him if he can fast track...10k to 15k is all that will cost you to collect your passport the following day. I promise you. Online payment: 27k + 15k= 42k total package. Not a bad deal if you want to pay for fast track

Yampotatocarrot:


I just checked. All my replies didn't go through, showing "error something sha"

If you don't mind, drop your email let me send a Hi to you

Olaoptech:



Bro, how can I contact you for more tori abeg, I'm in Ibadan and stayed at Agodi Gate. I also want to do the DIY

Yampotatocarrot:
My experience at Alausa office (I did DIY plus fast track, total amount spent was less than 40k)

I want to start by saying the Alausa office are very effective in carrying out their duties. I really appreciate them for that. Let me add that their approach to those doing DIY is quite commendable. They relate with you with a mixture of both disdain and fear/respect. I noticed they treated me with "special respect" due to the DIY. Noticed it with others that did same.

My advice: Do the first payment online, then do fast track after biometrics

After making your payment online, YOU ARE EXPECTED TO GO TO THE OFFICE BEFORE YOUR CAPTURING DATE TO OPEN A FILE (This is an information most DIY don't know). If this is done, it makes it easier for you on the day you finally go for capturing.

But just incase you can't/didn't go (like me), you can get it done on that capturing date. I'll suggest you budget 2k and those photocopy shops will help you get it done. Please, go with passport photograph o, except you have excess money to spend

After this point is where my fast track started. You'll be given a brown envelope at the shop (request for it, it you want to do fast track). Take the envelope and move in, submit it to the person helping you with fast tracking, and you'll join the queue for capturing.

After that, you should collect it in less than one week if your fast track is sure. Got mine in less than four days, although I went to pick it up today (already had my new passport number before today)

SUMMARY: Note that this is for Alausa office oooo
- On the day of your capturing, go in the afternoon, around 2/3pm. By then, the crowd would have subsided (Don't mind the time on your slip)

- Get someone to fast track for you before capturing

- When you go to prepare your file at the photocopy shops, go for the brown file... DIY is pink file (I think that's to differentiate us), but since you already plan to fast track, don't use that file

- You'll pay #3000 for one stamp like this sha inside the office

- After capturing, don't misplace your slip. You'll need it for your passport collection

- When you go to collect your passport, go around 9am. Ensure you go with the old passport else you'll be sent back

- No "Gara" for there o, else they'll ask you to go to hell. I saw instances like that where people thought they could bully the officials maybe because of who they think they know, and the official asked them to do their worse.

I noticed the officials there know their rights and don't stand for any intimidation especially when on their right

- If you're going with kids, they give you priority, and they treat the kids very well.

Downside: The dustbin in the compound is full and overflowing, hence the wait area stinks.

Yampotatocarrot:


Thanks for stating your experience. Im probably wrong, but I know those that did DIY the day I captured and today I collected my file were with pink files

giselle237:
go with the birth certificate you have. I think the portal has stopped printing/sending out acknowledgmnt slips.

TBrownAuto:


How did you get the local government identification doc, I need one

sheyihandsy:
I have a tips that can work for DIYers (Tested and Trusted TWICE me and my wife). Please find out day of the week that your preferred location do productions before you pick a capturing date.
For instance, Ibadan produce every Tuesday of the week, so Monday is best capturing day. Go to the location 2-3days to open file , and find an officer that can help you capture in time(without paying a dime). Then ask him if he can fast track...10k to 15k is all that will cost you to collect your passport the following day. I promise you. Online payment: 27k + 15k= 42k total package. Not a bad deal if you want to pay for fast track