Do you have a passport? A Nigerian Passport? Congratulations!

You are one of the lucky few who have endured the torment of queuing up for hours, days, weeks and sometimes months to secure a passport for the official fee of N17,800.

If you don’t have the patience for queues and weeks of meaningless visits, paying an official as much as N40,000 will guarantee you get your passport the same day or at most, in 3 days (depending on the state).

Apparently, I thought I could “do it on my own”. I made the grievous error of paying for my passport renewal online on January 4, 2019. Here is a quick rundown of how the immigration service has frustrated my life.

January 4:

Paid for Passport renewal online (a big mistake as not paying in cash and paying through your nose means your passport renewal/procurement process can take forever).

February 19:

I went to submit my old passport at the Oyo state command, and filled some forms. I was not told a capture was needed. I was only told to come back next week.

March 1:

I went to ask about my passport. Told to come back next week.

March 4:

Visited: no booklet, no passport.

March 6:

Visited and accidentally learned I needed to be captured (it was my first renewal ever). After nearly six hours of waiting, I was captured (picture taken and biodata captured on the portal). As I would later learn, allowing them to capture me when they were already complaining about booklet scarcity was another mistake because once you are captured, you cannot cancel or transfer to another state.

March 11:

Visited: no booklet, no passport.

March 13:

Visited, no booklet, no passport. I met with several officials who advised I meet with the Comptroller. I did meet and He asked me to meet with the official in charge. He was not on seat. The very next day, someone else was occupying the same seat and He did not attend to my request. Meanwhile, a friend told me his brother secured a passport at the Oyo state command within 4 days after paying N27,000.

March 15:

Visited, no booklet, no passport.

March 20:

Visited, no booklet, no passport.

March 25:

Visited twice. On my first visit, the officer I met told me they were attending to backlogs. No time for my passport. The comptroller was on his way out, I could not meet him. I went back by 3:30pm. He told me the person in charge is not on seat, I should check back when He returns. I asked another official who told me the said official had travelled for a marriage ceremony in faraway Kano. Another official asked me the Church I attend, and advised I start praying and fasting. Another official asked me to take my grievances to Servicom. Yet another official encouraged me to take to twitter.

In between these visits, I made countless phone calls to friends, family and immigration officials asking for help. Nothing has worked.

Why do I need my passport badly?

I have been selected as one of the top 24 entrepreneurs in the world with game-changing social enterprise ideas in the GIST TECH-I competition organized by the US Department of State. My flight is booked for April 13. Hotel booked. But I have no Visa. Why? I have no passport. I have also been selected as a Mandela Washington Fellow. I also need to submit my passport by the 27th of March (for Mandela Washington fellowship) and 28th of March (to process my Bahrain Visa).

Every time I visit the Oyo state command, I take along documents, explaining how I am going to be representing Nigeria in Bahrain for GIST TECH-I and why I need my passport badly. It seems I have been speaking Greek and the immigration service has left me no choice but to cry out to Nigerians to save me.

I have a few questions for the Comptroller General and the Comptroller in Charge of Oyo State:

Why is the immigration service always running out of booklets & dealing with backlogs?

Why are immigration officials immune to deadlines & genuine emergencies?

Why must an entire command stand still because an official is not around?

Why must I need to know someone who knows someone before I can secure my passport?

Why do I need to pay 2X or 3X the official rate before I secure my passport?

Why do I need to pray and fast, trend on twitter or write a diary such as this before I get my passport?

I have deadlines looming.

I am a law abiding citizen. No criminal records.

I am travelling to make Nigeria proud.

Immigration service, give me my Passport.


https://www.sagetravels.com/the-challenges-extreme-ways-of-getting-nigeria-passport/

Mark my word
THIS COUNTRY NO FIT BETA

So sorry. That is Nigeria for you. Corruption is the cause. But the FG EFCC are hunting political foes and judges. There is no govt agency or ministry that corruption is not reigning. Change my arse. Integrity my arse.

As a good citizen of Nigeria, the only way my administration can make you know the importance of the Nigerian passport, is to make you suffer before you get it.

USA, Germany, Japan and co. passport have no value compared to the Nigerian passport, that's why it is very easy for their citizens to get it without stress.


~ProsidentBuhari

I oted

Thou what happens in most of the immigration offices is abnormal it is wise to go to a state with less population, thou you might pay 30k but you are likely to get your passport in a day.

I told you guys Nigeria should be sold to China, you guys called me offpoint.

bad nation

Nigeria My country

fake news


I wonder how this got to fp

Chai! I feel for you, next time seek advice before making a move like this.

Op PM make I help you get am

Got mine in a day from their Ilorin Office. I paid 28k

Did express payment for mine only to discover that 99% of the people are also there for express so I had to wait for two weeks before I got it.

I also had to package something inside my printout for the officers to properly search for it and give it to me without delay

Their is No Hope is this con tree
Argue my English with your keyboard

KendrickAyomide:
Mark my word

THIS COUNTRY NO FIT BETA

Sure....

When you eventually get your passport and leave ,try not to go back there.

There's no hope for Nigeria or even Africa as a continent

I know some1 with similar issue in Lagos, very sad.

That was how I made mistake of renewing my drivers licence online, the rest is history.

Nigerian civil servants can frustrate the public that don't want to pay bribe.

The corruption level associated with this passport is alarming not only this every other sector. My advice don't pay any money online for any government documents the officials are too corrupt.

This is our country...

Hehehe.... i do tell people that the civil s3rviceb is d most corrupt set of mofos

This same issue was air on splash fm this morning, the rate at which are complaining is alarming. Every government paratals is corrupted. Don't pay money online again.

Sorry for all the stress you have gone through. This Nigeria for you. The system is not working well at all.
If you were in Kaduna I would have helped you on this with the sum of #25,000 and you will get it within two days.
I did mine with the sum of #23,000 and got it within 2 days.

klever18:
fake news



I wonder how this got to fp

I know some1 with similar issue in Lagos thats needs to start travel process but can't becos of this problem.

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I learnt that NIS was out of booklet recently.

This is Nigeria. If the guy had paid 27-35k, he would have gotten his passport within a week.

It's well

Na mallams full there

Exactly...... I registered for my passport since February. Up till now I have not received mine...... even though I did the so called EXPRESS.... God help us