Xerum:


This much is clear. The question the op has is, why can’t the Nigerian immigration do this themselves.
It is very a simple process; all they need do is, link their website to some back-end payment platform (The telecom companies in Nigeria have been doing this for years, where you buy credit to your phone via your bank site) and then audit the amount of visas issued against the revenue from visa fees periodically i.e. quarterly, bi-annually or annually. All the visas issued have reference numbers, so it should not be that difficult to reconcile. No, they won’t do that. They will make every simple process a draconian task in order to create loop holes for corruption.

banmee:


Don't take my word for it. Just go and see it for yourself.

belindar:


I disagreed with you. they are not fully staffed Nigerians. I have calls to the embassy on many occasions, All the people I talked to are not Nigerian. Pakistan, Indians, mostly Asians. So get your fact right.

maestro2000:



At OP, if I read you correctly, you're in the United States and you're talking about a third party payment and contractor... I am really disappointed in you. If truly you've travelled like you claimed, you will know it's nothing new. Atleast you've filed taxes in the US , let's assumes you always get a tax refund and you have never owed any back taxes to irs, I am sure you have friend who has at one time or the other owed Irs, ..IRS in the United States doesn't process your payment money, it has to go through a third party which will attract a processing fee of atleast $107 (as at this year 2016 tax that's the least filling fee which comes out of your bank acct). Sometimes I come here to read some wannabe who always use Nigeria to gain some cheap publicity... This procedure happens virtually in all countries... when you're paying with visa or MasterCard for visa processing you don't complain or is mastercard a US government entity? .


Smh.


Pardon my sentence construction.. I am just angry at how people see Nigeria as the worse country ever.

chrisj2:


I am not sure this is about bias... It is the way the system runs that is disturbing and wrong.

I paid close to £250 for a visa to go to Nigeria; in fact those in the US have reduced rate on multiple visas and cost less than UK.

$160 plus $20+ fees, plus £20 postal order and £70 to Nja immigration, £72 to OIS (or Innovative...) and then postal fees etc

It was just too expensive but I got it quickly than applying for a Nja passport. That took me more than 3 months in Nja to get it...

Worst still - I found out that the bastard immigration only stamped 1 month on my passport; whereas I paid for 6 months VISA.

Outsourcing is not the issue here but a failed country.

IpobExposed:
Biafra must fail stupid people

slysteel:
Nigeria is not alone on that,the UK,Australia,Ireland and a whole lot of embassies use contractors,most of these countries i mentioned use a contractor known as vfs global to process visas and applicants are made to pay money to vfs even in Nigeria,you can outsource if the number of visa applicants are much higher than what the few staffs you have at your embassy can handle.

Jaqenhghar:

Its the same everywhere. My sister almost went crazy trying to get her passport renewed. WTF. we see the stories here nah. Some Nigerians in Senegal were so disgusted they wrecked the embassy

I celebrate your intellect Sir.

Many will consider themselves educated but have woefully failed this simply question posed.

Have a nice Sunday.

SirJeffry:
I recently secured a Nigerian visa and I was led to apply through one INNOVATE 1 SERVICES who ended up taking $20 as a processing fee after paying $160 visa fees. At the end of the day, I still paid another $30 processing fee to Nigeria embassy Washington. I'm not much worried about the fees but why establish and fund Nigeria immigration services when they can't take care of their business such as this? I've never heard or seen this practice done in other countries. I don't even want to talk about the shabby Nigeria visa with no passport photograph included, no visa interview, unlike other countries who grill intending travelers at interviews.

Any immigration officer here to clarify these?

SirJeffry:
Those contracted to do IRS taxes in the US like Turbo tax do the job atleast. Innovate Services do actually nothing in particular. They just provide the application form for you to fill after which you submit the form to the immigrations office by mail, is that one job? Can't Nigeria immigrations provide the same application form in their own website? You talk of IRS tax in the US, do you know many people that file tax? Giving out the job to contractors will help IRS with the workload. I ask you, how many people apply for nigerian visa? Are they so much that immigrations can not handle it? Even US visa which is the most sought visa is still being handled by US Immigration and not contractors.

banmee:


It is the way Nigerians are built. Corruption rules their lives. I went to the Nigerian embassy in Berlin once and i swore never to set foot in another Nigerian embassy till the day i die. The staff were rude and did not give a phuck about Nigerians trying to do business there. Plus, they were glaringly collecting bribe to expedite whatever you wanted to do. The worst thing was, they were selling food inside offices while conducting business. Can you imagine? One official was eating rice and beans while asking questions? That country is living on borrowed time.

banmee:


It is the way Nigerians are built. Corruption rules their lives. I went to the Nigerian embassy in Berlin once and i swore never to set foot in another Nigerian embassy till the day i die. The staff were rude and did not give a phuck about Nigerians trying to do business there. Plus, they were glaringly collecting bribe to expedite whatever you wanted to do. The worst thing was, they were selling food inside offices while conducting business. Can you imagine? One official was eating rice and beans while asking questions? That country is living on borrowed time.

Ilaje44:


You are absolutely right.

Du hast absolut Recht. Es gibt absolut keine nigerianische Regierungs-Behörde, die gute Arbeitsethik kennt.

They are all corrupt.

SirJeffry:
Those contracted to do IRS taxes in the US like Turbo tax do the job atleast. Innovate Services do actually nothing in particular. They just provide the application form for you to fill after which you submit the form to the immigrations office by mail, is that one job? Can't Nigeria immigrations provide the same application form in their own website? You talk of IRS tax in the US, do you know many people that file tax? Giving out the job to contractors will help IRS with the workload. I ask you, how many people apply for nigerian visa? Are they so much that immigrations can not handle it? Even US visa which is the most sought visa is still being handled by US Immigration and not contractors.

Delightbaby:
Nigeria can never do anything good like other countries. Everything in this country is just different from it's conterpact.

Amoto94:
Oga the thing tire me most NLs are ignorant of simple facts yet ran amok thinking they know it all. I pity the future of this country

napoleon77:
It's all about efficiency and it's not restricted to the Nigeria Immigration Service. If a private sector organisation can perform a service better then government then it's best to outsource the service. VFS Global handle visa applications for the UK and many other countries

SirJeffry:
I recently secured a Nigerian visa and I was led to apply through one INNOVATE 1 SERVICES who ended up taking $20 as a processing fee after paying $160 visa fees. At the end of the day, I still paid another $30 processing fee to Nigeria embassy Washington. I'm not much worried about the fees but why establish and fund Nigeria immigration services when they can't take care of their business such as this? I've never heard or seen this practice done in other countries. I don't even want to talk about the shabby Nigeria visa with no passport photograph included, no visa interview, unlike other countries who grill intending travelers at interviews.

Any immigration officer here to clarify these?

banmee:


There's more. Do you know that the embassy is broken down into two areas. One for white people and the other for Nigerians. The one for Nigerians is underground and the one for whites which is clean is up top. A Nigerian embassy.

banmee:


This is the only thing i regret not learning while in Germany. The language. I just wasted six years there.

Jaqenhghar:

You Bleep up brah. Mybrother -in law sabi d tin pieces. I go like make ina meet up. You remind me of him in so many ways

Jaqenhghar:

Are you fvcking serious?
She must hear this.
Nigerians and eye service... SMH..U were talking about not being avlble to maintain toilets I tell you the cleanest public toilets in Naija are at the aorports.. international wing of course. Even in my office I see these things bro.
I told you I work for a foreign organization I swear if you want to see Nigerians doing well at work let one oyonbo be nearby. Nigerians are like dogs. once one oyinbo steps into tue picture they start tearing each other down. If I begin talk bro I go full NL with gist.

banmee:


It is the way Nigerians are built. Corruption rules their lives. I went to the Nigerian embassy in Berlin once and i swore never to set foot in another Nigerian embassy till the day i die. The staff were rude and did not give a phuck about Nigerians trying to do business there. Plus, they were glaringly collecting bribe to expedite whatever you wanted to do. The worst thing was, they were selling food inside offices while conducting business. Can you imagine? One official was eating rice and beans while asking questions? That country is living on borrowed time.

gantic:


It's actually scary because most of the posters are young (under 30) with ready access to internet. Our youth can't be sooooo ignorant, the fear from our leadership failures is a joke compared to the fear from an ignorant youth.

SirJeffry:
I recently secured a Nigerian visa and I was led to apply through one INNOVATE 1 SERVICES who ended up taking $20 as a processing fee after paying $160 visa fees. At the end of the day, I still paid another $30 processing fee to Nigeria embassy Washington. I'm not much worried about the fees but why establish and fund Nigeria immigration services when they can't take care of their business such as this? I've never heard or seen this practice done in other countries. I don't even want to talk about the shabby Nigeria visa with no passport photograph included, no visa interview, unlike other countries who grill intending travelers at interviews.

Any immigration officer here to clarify these?

yhemster:

**The contractor handling this payment is a Nigerian company based in CT and fully staffed by Nigerians.

**Oga you can't expect Nigeria to have embassy in all states of the US. The country has 3-4 embassies around the US, in my opinion they don try. You choose to live in LA biko, go ask the Nigerians in Canada where the only embassy is in Ottawa.