rume:

okay, I want one but my problem is paying in dollars. I don't have a dollar account so can't pay online.
Also, did you take the so called guarantor's form along with you?

You don't need to have dollar account, i paid with my UK bank account and it was converted. Yes u can payonline with ur debt card.

I did not submit any guarantor form.

I was there 3wks ago to submit and got it after one week

justwise:

You don't need to have dollar account, i paid with my UK bank account and it was converted. Yes u can payonline with your debt card.

I did not submit any guarantor form.

I was there 3wks ago to submit and got it after one week

Okay then. Am I right in guessing after you paid, you were given an interview date by post or email.

I personally think Nigeria embassy should relocate to another place more than anything else, Nigerians Government can afford a better place than that basement we call an embassy. I would advice people not to go there during the summer, as the there is no fresh air due to been in the basement. Then we Nigerians should learn to talk to them politely, they can't be that bad as most people say.

rume:

Okay then. Am I right in guessing after you paid, you were given an interview date by post or email.

Yes you will print out the Payment confirmation slip of the $65 online payment
And. .
Passport acknowledgement slip that will show the date of your appointment

l applied online to renew my passport today (17th April) with the High Commission here in Londonand was given an interview date for 5th of July, 2010. l think the waiting time for interview is ridiculously too long. Does any one know whether l could probably reschedule for a nearer time please?

You can re-schedule,just go back to the site and put in your ref number, as usual you will see a column for re-scheduling appt,
it will give you a nearer date,its easy.good luck

Thanks NVQ2. But l need to be sure that its not going to give a date farther than the one l already have. Please can you confirm that it will not. Thanks

I've waited for 2 months,
SILLY website gave me 31st of May which is a UK Bank Holiday
After rescheduling, it gave me 3 August!
All this after starting my application in February.

Words fail me to describe how much I feel like killing someone who works there or made the website.

Nonsense.

Lord have mercy!

I shoulda just gone back to Nigeria to have my passport renewed.

I finished my application for e-passport last night and I was randomly given an appointment for June 10 at the NHC in London.

Unfortunately, I am going to be in the US till the 16th and I decided to just have it done in London since I was already traveling there for summer holiday. I have been trying to re-schedule the damn thing but I keep getting the message "your interview has now been rescheduled. your date is on June 10, 2010". Seriously?? Is that not the same damn day that was assigned to me randomly that I am trying to have re-scheduled.

Up until 2 minutes ago, the man that I have been talking to over the phone had been so helpful. He gave me the impression that after 24 hours I should be able to pick a different date (assigned a different day). However, I called and spoke to this rude, impatient and clueless slowpoke that had not the slightest clue how to help me. Instead of just letting me know he had no idea how to help me, he starts to yell that I should go to the one in NY since I am in America because they have too many people (over 100 a day according to him)

How does someone apply in February and eventually get a day in AUGUST for God's sake
My own luck is unfortunate because I applied May 31 and got June 10 which is good but I unfortunately cannot make.

And here I am trying to get helpful information on the so-called re-scheduling and having this man yell about how I think I am so big because I tell him I cannot buy a $600 ticket to fly to NY WITHOUT an appointment and with a chance that they will take forever to process my application and possibly delay my flight.

This guy eventually hung up the phone after shouting that"if that is how you do it in the US that is not how we do it in the UK" and I am like Never would have imagined all the palaver. I think the next thing is to pay BA to move my flight a week earlier.

I am not about to get a date in August because I need to begin to apply for my student visa.

Lord have mercy!!!

I'm worried now after reading this thread

I will be going to Nigeria in July but will be needing a visa. I thought it will be a straightforward thing. Seems I'll need to pray and fast before heading to the embassy

Omo Alata:

I'm worried now after reading this thread

I will be going to Nigeria in July but will be needing a visa. I thought it will be a straightforward thing. Seems I'll need to pray and fast before heading to the embassy

Good luck with that

Omo Alata:

I'm worried now after reading this thread

I will be going to Nigeria in July but will be needing a visa. I thought it will be a straightforward thing. Seems I'll need to pray and fast before heading to the embassy

You don't have much to worry about, i got mine within 2weeks, they are improving, things are not that bad.

Thanks guys. I suppose I'll have to risk it.

I need visa for 2 adults and 5 children. Eek!!!!

will be going to Nigeria in July but will be needing a visa.  I thought it will be a straightforward thing.  Seems I'll need to pray and fast before heading to the embassy 

at all and the poster above
I would advise that if you have the old passport that phases out in Dec, Just renew it[i],(and go and get the NEW one in 9ja, its cheaper, easier, and less hassle, all you do is take a pic and sign, and get your passport the very next day,  it CAN ALSO BE delivered at home for U, at a token fee but still not up to the total amount you pay here,NO WAHALA, NO FUSS, CHIKENA, )[/i], EVEN SEF IF U WANT THEM TO COME AND TAKE THE PIX AT HOME, THEY WILL, owo lo maa je, but not at the total price you still pay here with all the wahala attached to it, you get the passport without moving outta ya house!

For renewal or extension as they call it. its only 40 pounds postal order (44pounds in total plus commission, awon ole!) and you get it the same day you submit, you will just wait for about 2 hours max, i got there just after 12 noon and they called me at 1pm to submit and the passport was out 15minutes later, (dont go early in the morning though, go towards the start of Lunchtime when all of the crowd might have gone)

But while i was there i noticed that the queue for the New Passports was faster 4 some reason, oh well its 9ja, anything is possible

Thanks Orilee9ice but I don't need a passport I need a Nigerian visa in my British passport so I can visit Nigeria

Thanks guys.  I suppose I'll have to risk it.
I need visa for 2 adults and 5 children.  Eek!!!!   

 

eyaaaaaaaaaaaaaa @ omo alata, i feel u jare, 5 children, you try oh! , saying that the visa quote wasnt that bad either, dont go early in the morning when everybody rushs there, go there around 12ish, when most of them have gone, when i walked in just after 12noon, i was surprised at the small number of pple there, i was expecting a crowd, they even put the air con  on and IT ACTUALLY WORKED! , CUSTOMER SERVICE, HUUUUUmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! no comment!

eyaaaaaaaaaaaaaa @ omo alata, i feel u jare, 5 children, you try oh!

I wanted 6 but hubby now says no more

Although I see your point.

Nigerian visa ONLY will cost us £630 [ £70 each for visa; £20 each processing fee]

When we visit Ghana, it cost us £280 [ £40 visa fee] - no extras

@ omo alata
you see now, mi o ba t'orogun wai ye oh, , i have renewed all my 3 kids, 9ja passports, when they go home for xmas in Dec, we shall get them new ones in 9ja,(no fuss, no wahala, and as easy as A.B.C, )@ AT MOST 20,000NAIRA each, plus owo foto (at home service) thats how we did the ones that are expiring now 5 years ago, , with the wahala those gunns at the emabssy gave me i have told them that they will not see my legs in their basement of an office anymore. ori yato s'ori oh,

Orilee9ice

Would my kids qualify for Nigerian passport? I wasn't born in Nigeria (nor my husband) but my parents are Nigerians so can they qualify on the basis that their grandparents are Nigerians?

I do not hold a Nigerian passport myself

@ omo alata
how can you claim to be omo alata and not be a 9ijirian, not to talk of having a 9jirian passport
anywayz if your parents are nigerians then YOU qualify to have a nigerian passport (so you will have dual nationality) which i have (Born in Jand but of Nigerian Parents), once you get your Nigerian Passport then your 5 children, also qualify to have Nigerian passports, same will apply to your hubby (in what ever contry his parents are from, ) this means, and i take it from what you said earlier, if he is Ghanaian, your kids will have triple nationality then (Ghana/9JA/British), i envy you oh!!, i used to go down the route you are going now with visas until i woke up one day and got Nigerian passports for all my clan

My dear, you nor be real omo alata o, until u get that green pali , gbaaa ooooooooH!

how can you claim to be omo alata and not be a 9ijirian

The Ghanaians call every Nigerian 'Omo alata'. I've never found out if they mean it derogatorily though They ask my husband "how is your Omo alata"? [like we all sell pepper in Nigeria lol]

Born in Jand

Where is Jand?

@ omo alata
really, i didnt know that.humm interesting!,  and i did guess right that your hubby must be Ghanaian,  of course you know what "omo alata" means in yoruba, someone really local, 
anyway Jand is LONDON-ENGLAND, thats what we used to call it when i was in School/Uni, back in di day! my nephews and nieces in 9ja still call it that 2 now,
was my info useful though?

"omo alata" means in yoruba, someone really local

I speak yoruba as I went to Secondary School and Kadpoly in Nigeria but thought Omo alata is a seller of pepper So they have been calling me a local woman?

Jand is LONDON-ENGLAND

Never knew this lol

We have single-handedly taken over this thread

@ omo alata
plez dont kill me with laff-ta jare o, yeeeee paa! they have been abusing you all this while and you did not know, shine ya eye!! wake up girl!!

yes o we have taken over, just noticed!

they have been abusing you all this while and you did not know

I await them

abegi OMO ALATA, u have just made my day, even my couleauges here are laughing 2!!

@rume

Did you have to wait for your interview date to pass before being able to re-schedule?

babyjowo:

@rume

Did you have to wait for your interview date to pass before being able to re-schedule?

No you don't have to wait, just log back on with the details

babyjowo:

@rume

Did you have to wait for your interview date to pass before being able to re-schedule?

No I didn't have to wait. Actually the silly website rescheduled the date itself without my involvement, I logged on to see they had changed the date few days before that day and when I tried to change it, it kept giving me the same date