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BeatriceM1:
please I need her contact

Justbesure:
To the best of my knowledge NIM validation after being acted upon is within 48 hours.
Validation is free, in my own case, the woman that attended to me in their Branch office asked me to go the head office or send my details to someone there to help me do it or if I don't have anyone I should buy card for her to help me send the details to her contact in head office to validate it for me, of which I agreed that should send it. I gave her #500 for recharge card and was very happy and the validation was successful after just two days

Reginah123:
Please who has done DIY for fresh application in Ibadan and was successful

LordPherule:
I did it. It was successful exactly after 3 months from application date.

fabem:
Here is my experience as a DIY applicant at Ibadan Office of NIS.


Good afternoon to you all. Its a lengthy one but if you take your time, you will find it worthy especially those that wants to do DIY.

I have been following this thread for years but just silent reader since i wasn't ready to apply for any passport.

Around March this year, I decided that it is time to get my passport because of incoming opportunities.

I went through like 50 new pages of the thread to gather latest new infos.

The journey begins;

I went through the web to read all the instructions before i begin my application and after going through it, i begin the application.

- I opened the portal www.passport.immigration.gov.ng and registered within 30mins.

- I copied out my application and reference number, it is a key DIY applicants must have on their phone anytime.

- Time for payment, my mastercard for declining for the payment. kept trying it for days using different options apart from paystack, the same thing, used different banks, the same issue persist I was like village no want make i apply). So i was already behind schedule. Without payment you can't choose appointment date.


- Some days later i open the portal login, i went through other payment options, i saw transfer options, called Sanna pay agent via their web and told me to ahead that they will confirm it within 30mins. I paid 25,000 and 500 as transaction fees making total of 25,500 qnd truly it was confirmed within 10mins and appears on my NIS application page that i have paid. I scaled that hurdle.

- I was like i will choose date later since na Ibadan, we no dey rush things like lag people make i rest small, something tells me to check on how their appointment page looks like, na so i went to through www.appointment.immigration.gov.ng, I paid around May 4th. All the remaining working days in may are fully booked. I said abi na my eyes dey pain me ni? I went through june, fully booked, i was like ha, so things be like this? Only July and August have space, i didn't choose date and left it.

- Few minutes later, i went back to book appointment, fortunately i saw an opening on June 8th, i sharply pick the date and save it for printing later. How did that happen, I don't know. I saved all the application on my phone. I went to business center and to get it printed.

-I have 5weeks of waiting for the appointed capturing date. Well i used the time to gather my documents, I couldn't get guarantor a week to the capturing date, because those i trusted to help as my guarantor are doing somehow even in Church, I let it slide. Chatted an old friend who is a big brother, he offered to help. He gave me his passport and ID to go and use it and bring it back whenever I am through with it this. He filled the form for me and signed. I can never forget that gesture forever.

- I went to local Government magistrate court near my house for the stamp, the man said #500, i sha bargain to #300 and got the stamp.
I went to do enough photocopies. This is just one day to the capturing.

I am ready for the capturing!

On June 8th, 2022. I left early, just an hour to my place, i got there 8.05am and i saw many people outside already. They ushered us in, we all sat down. One of the officers came to address us, they have a parade we should wait until they finished. They spent an hour on the parade ground.

Everyone went to their various offices, the officers brought files, and started calling names, mumu me sat and expecting my name to be called.

I waited for over two hours, i was like what is going on here? Not knowing my real journey just started.

THE REAL JOURNEY

I stood up and approached the officer who just finished calling names. Sir, i didn't hear my name for capturing, he said who is handling my files, i said myself. He asked why? I told him i applied online, he looked at me from head to toe, and hissed! He left! I was dumbfounded and disappointed.

I saw another officer and approached him, i told him my predicament, and i quote him "ha ha, you for don come before capturing date, you never do anything, you just applied, you never do anything. Online application have several stages which includes:"
i. Documents arrangements
ii. Account checking
iii. Verification
iv. Interview
v. Capturing

He said i can't capture that day again, i have to follow the due process first. He directed me to the office where my documents will be properly arranged. I went there, the officer who was on sit is a nice man, he sorted the files, gave me offline application form, almost same form we filled online, told me to go and do 10 photocopies . When i got to the photocopy shop, the one woman said #100/copy.

The vex wey i vex leave the place, i went out and bargain with a guy outside the NIS compound, he did it 3 for #50 for me. I rushed back inside, the man told me to fill the form and collected the remaining, i did so. He also told me to write a letter, i asked for a sample and he gave me one . After writing the letter, he brought a [b]brown file[/b]and attached the documents with it.

He told to go and come back after an hour. I did. Where they took my file to, the officer said they can't do anything again because there are too many crowd. He told me to come back next week (15th June). I collected his number. I chat him two days later and he told me, they have gone through my files and is ready for capturing. I was happy.

On june 15th, i left early as usual. I went straight to the office, and asked the office about my file, na there i know say the officer dey lie. He didn't even know where they kept DIY files again. They were looking everywhere for almost 20mins before they finally saw it. You can imagine. I saw some DIY files which are already dusty and unattended to.

I collected my file, i wanted to get angry. I calm my nerves, he directed me to where do my account checking. He supposed to be the one to carry the files around and get it signed. Here i am, doing his job. But if I don't do it, my file won't be attended to unless i pay, which i have vowed not to give any officer shishi.

Fortunately for me, but unfortunately for other offline applicants, the NIS capturing portal was totally down. So they couldn't do anything, so the officers have time for other things. They have my time now since all their applicants they collected money from, no network to capture them.

I went to the account office, they checked online to be sure i really paid online. And i went for verification, few minutes later. The called me and two other offline applicants for interview. Everything went fast because they have nothing to do that period. The person that interview DIY is different from those that paid through agents. The man was nice. He was shocked that i haven't got captured and asked what the problem was, i told him. He said those officers lied to me, i could have done all everything same day i came last week.

He didn't even looked at my file that much, just glanced through it and signed every documents. He told me to take it back to verification unit, and he informed that Officer to take my file to the capturing unit which he did. I was relieved! It was around 2pm and capturing portal is still down.

Come and see film, some applicants who paid to some officers started shouting at them showing their frustrations. The officers were running up and down sweating. Why? The state controller is around and anyone caught lasan, you go collect kiakia.

When i see that the portal not coming up, there is Ibadan North local government secretariat sharing fence with NIS. I went to their INEC office, the gate man said they can't attend to anyone again time has gone. I was at the gate and saw of one of the Inec staff, i pleaded, told the gateman to open it for me. I went in, did my Inec registration within 10mins and i left. I don use 1 stone kills 2 birds bayen.


I went back, capturing never comes up, but that man at the interview session have told me, son do everything to get captured today because tomorrow or next week is not guaranteed. So i keep waiting, half of those to be captured have left.

We remain like 100+, around 5:25pm, portal came back. So they came with files and call to know who are still there for capturing. I was called among, then i knew i am 75% done! So by 7:30pm, i was called in, portal went off for another 20mins. Came back again. I was captured around 7:55pm. It was dark already.

After capturing, they gave me a piece of paper. Me i no send, i wanted to be sure, then i check www.track.immigration.gov.ng and i saw that my application is at production stage. I left!

Then i went into the production side and i was told to check within three to five weeks it will be out.

Note:

From my experience and mistakes;

1. If you are doing DIY, go there before capturing date, sort your files out till it reaches capturing unit. Then come on the capturing date. If you miss the capturing date, they can do it any day you go there, IF you tip officers at the capturing unit. No need to do reapportionment online again because online is fully booked till may August/September. Those agents are making it more complicated because they choose dates for their applicants too online.

2. What DIY applicants are doing is the same those officers are doing if you pay to them. What they do is, since they work there, they will fast track it. They also applied for you online.

3. If you are rushing to get your passport, DIY is not the best for you. The frustrations alone, many can't deal with it.

4. Many still don't know they can apply themselves. I have to create the awareness for applicants who paid to officers there. Some paid 50k, 70k depending on how the officer prey on their gullibility.

5. If you can negotiate with your agent and agree on 35k -40k, pls go for the agent because the 10k to 15k worth the stress especially if you are a busy type.

6. You can DIY and still pay like 10k to fast track your passport depending on how fast you need it.

7. You can pay to officers and still get delayed. So be sure the options that suite you.

8. DIY applicants are respected because they don't know who is who and nobody wants to loose their job. So they are being careful attending to you, they only use body language to frustrate you.

9. Do every photocopies before coming in or else photocopies go chop all of your money.

10. In Ibadan office, throughout the day i did capturing, out of 100s of files, only 3 are DIY and DIY uses brown file. While others uses white file.

I will stop here for now, sorry for length post, i hope new applicants can learn from it. Questions are welcome.

Thank you.

Sparekey:
Good day house, please i really need some answers. I paid for my passport today DIY and I selected Tuesday date as appointment date. Please what do I need to go with on that Tuesday? and please can I extend the appointment date, it seems I don't have all the required documents available

Jeremy123:
Good morning
Thanks to the creator of this thread.
This thread made me or should I say motivated me to get my international passport using the DIY method myself.
Well, I'm presently a corper serving in osun state and I used my allawee yesterday to apply for my international passport. I don't intend travelling now cos I still have 8 months left but I just want to have a passport incase and opportunity to travel comes. You never can tell

I applied yesterday, made payment yesterday and the only date available for appointment was November 28th so I selected that.

Now, my question
The documents you mentioned
1. [Birth certificate (I have the original in the cloud), Can it be printed coloured to use as original]
2. NIN: I have the plastic NIN presently with me and I don't have the slip anymore, I only have the original of the slip in my cloud
3. LGA identification: This is the major one where I have problem. The 1 above, I have the original at home physically but I can't seem to go home now cos of the tag on corpers travelling, I have the original of this on my cloud. The problem with this is that, it was done 2015. Secondly, my passport photograph is on it, if I decide to print it coloured to show them with my passport directly on it, would it be accepted. The passport was added when i gained admission into school, passport was asked to be added. Image shown below as 3. What do I do in this scenario
4. Guarantor Form: There's no one in my family who has an international passport, I also want to keep it on a low key. I have a friend tho who's same age with me and he has agreed to give me his data page.
Now, he only has NIN instead of the national ID card (I don't know if NIN would work in place of national ID card) and he doesn't have a driver license either. What do I do in this scenario
Again, should the guarantor form be hand written I.e printed and filled using biro or should I fill it online.
5. Can I go before the appointment date to drop my documents and would it be worked upon. In as much as I'm not in a haste, I find November 28th far. It might skip my memory as well.

What else am I missing.

In image 5, which is a sample of the guarantor form, what's should I fill in the dotted place. (Remember I said it was my friend, he's still a student while I am currently serving. Should the profession be student. How about the business address, cash available, name and address of banker,other assets, houses, name of country, purpose of travelling.
Thank you for all the responses you're about to give and for those that has been given.
I really appreciate


I would appreciate if someone can just fill it from his own end and upload
I mean if he or she would tell me things to be written on the dotted line. An example or sample would be appreciated

steph6:
hi all please where is the fastest state for passport renewal, that takes at most a week and please i will like direct verifiable contact

megaxart:
Hello I checked for the progress of my passport at Alausa yesterday and this time instead of "AA" they wrote "UP". What does it mean?

I'm guessing they mean:

Awaiting approval- AA
Undergoing production -UP

But could anyone confirm and how quickly should my passport be ready after it starts showing UP?

Yayaharoon44:
I almost spent 30k here in kano state, done everything I even submit undertaking paper for them to do it quick to me but it has been 1month now no response they keep telling me no papers

27k isn't must you should pay if they promise you they can do it quick

bigboyinthelord:
Guys, please I need help.
I've lost my enrollment ID, and I captured since may, at alausa and I'm yet to receive any passport pick up text. I tracked online and it's still at production stage. The last time I went there to check my passport status because I didn't have my enrollment ID they said I should go that I'd get a text when it's ready for collection. I'm tired of waiting.

Abeg make Una help.

LordPherule:
I did it. It was successful exactly after 3 months from application date.

fabem:
MY PASSPORT IS OUT

Finally, after four months of waiting, my passport is out!

...

You can ask questions especially for Ibadan people.

KangaIye:
To answer your questions....

1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. Not clear enough
5. Yes

Layormiii:
just go to Local Government with his birth certificate and his mum,s NIN slip

finebois:
Hello guys, must my Guarantor have an international passport.

Jeremy123:
Yes

Jeremy123:
Yes

Jeremy123:
Let me explain again cos it seems I got only the rest

The LGA identification documents
I don't have the physical original one anymore. I only have it in cloud.
When I was uploading it around 2015, I forgot to remove the passport so that's why it's like that

Image below

If I print this the way it is online in coloured. Would it be accepted as lga identification. And also, the passport is not recent, the passport was 2015 and now its 2022

sakieja:
Please where did you get the guarantor form.urgent please.TEAM DIY

panini:
Hello everyone here!
My experience at the NIS Passport office. This is to help those who plan to get theirs as those who shared theirs helped me too.

Location: Alausa
Passport reissue, #TeamDIY
I went for capturing today, 01/07.
I placed the booking on 01/05.

Time: 9:00 am

I planned getting there earlier but the rain didn't help matters. I got there exactly 9am and they were calling names already and people were collecting files and going inside. I met the servicom desk to direct me to the appropriate desk. They pointed at the desk opposite their cubicle: The internet registration desk.
I went there and asked an officer about the process, she asked me to get a file outside and put my documents inside. I was directed to the VIO car park adjacent the NIS compound. Under a small canopy in the car park, there's a business centre. I bought the file (#500), a 3-page form I saw people filling (#300), they typed and printed my application letter (#300) and a tiny rope to hold perforated papers (#100). The lady there seemed to know the process very well, she helped me arrange the documents and told me the documents I brought that were not needed like the birth certificate and state of origin since it was a reissue (God bless her).
I took the folder back to the Internet registration desk and they checked the documents, wrote some things, asked me to write a few things. They pointed at a door behind a glass and asked me to take my file there. I took it there and met another officer who checked some things in my original passport and the photocopies I brought and handed everything back to me. I took it again to the Internet Registration Desk and they told me that there are 2 other steps that will need to take place before I can get the file back to go for capturing. She asked me to exercise patience and come back in 2 hours. Lol. She said because of the crowd present.
I went back to the business centre and they asked me to wait at the NIS office, so that my file won't be misplaced. (Again, God bless her and her colleague). I went back and in 30 minutes, my name was called to collect my file and go for capturing. I collected my file and sat inside. The qeue was moving despite the number of people inside. It may have been an hour of waiting before I finally got to the capturing room. I was captured, got my enrollment form and en route home!
Left around 1.

Looking forward to the best. The date of collection written on the enrollment form says 01/08. Let's see if it is. Selah.

fabem:
MY PASSPORT IS OUT

Finally, after four months of waiting, my passport is out!

After capturing in mid-june, i went to their office in August (8 weeks) to check if the passport is ready and i didn't know how i did it, i lost my enrollment ID along the line and that is where another war started.

I mail, tweet and chat them on Facebook, no response. I even did a thread, no response.

Village people: 1
Me: 0

I remembered during one of my tweet before i lost the ID, i dropped my details for NIS Twitter page to confirm if the passport is out, and i went back to check and i couldn't find that tweet again, i was like this is odd. I hardly lost stuff like this, how come it just vanished like that?

Village people: 2
Me: 0



I did all i could to retrieve it but I couldn't. I accepted my fate and was tracking online, still at the production stage. Same stage since i captured.

I was going out one day when i saw the officer at the front office that helped me sorted my files, before i could reach where he was, he was no more there.

I went back to the office a week later, went to his office and we were discussing and i discovered we lives almost same area, if you see the excitement on my face.

Village people: 2
Me: 1


Collected his contact and we got talking, he told me "they print passport every Tuesday and they have backlog passports they are still printing because of no paper Issue back then. So once they finished backlog printing, they stopped at April production, so they would continue from there".

So around late August, they started printing April and by September they had printed may and June. The Officer do chat me to update me.

I sent him token for recharge card to appreciate him and he still went ahead and gave it to someone at the production unit so that once my passport is out, i will be informed. Truly, yesterday he chat me up that production unit informed him my passport is out! and i can come anytime for it.

Village people: 2
Me: 2


So he helped me bypass that enrollment ID wahala. I went there around 3pm, called him and he took me to the lady in charge and she had already helped me kept my passport , called my name with the rest, handed over to me.

Sat down for activations and left few mins later.

Checked my passport and it was correct and also it was printed just last week since June.

Note: They are just starting printing for July, I don't know about fast tracking, i am talking about DIY.

DIY is not for the faint hearted applicants o. Funniest is, it is getting more harder for DIY because of the crowd getting more increasing daily who wants to fast track their passport especially Lagos and Ibadan.

Do not lose that enrollment ID, i was just lucky because if not, they are ready to frustrate your life.

If you are not in hurry, you can do DIY and wait. As at now, the officer told me they are fully booked throughout this year and January. So the more you wait, the more time you are wasting.

Apart from 25,500 i paid online, i didn't give anyone dime. The token i gave the officer, he didn't request for it, i gave him myself just because he was good to me and also we live same area

The end.

You can ask questions especially for Ibadan people.

Jeremy123:
Let me explain again cos it seems I got only the rest

The LGA identification documents
I don't have the physical original one anymore. I only have it in cloud.
When I was uploading it around 2015, I forgot to remove the passport so that's why it's like that

Image below

If I print this the way it is online in coloured. Would it be accepted as lga identification. And also, the passport is not recent, the passport was 2015 and now its 2022

KangaIye:
To the best of my knowledge Yes you can use this. All the documents you are submitting are ob black and white. In Osogbo

Sparekey:
Good morning house, please before going for the capture do I need to print all the documents in black and white or coloured.

Documents like the Gurrantors form, and the rest..

Thanks

panini:
So this is it!

#TeamDIY, #Team_I_NoGoPayShiShi
Location: Alausa
Total amount spent: 26k

Finally I collected my passport today. However, I did get an SMS on Wednesday 5th, that my passport was ready for collection.
I arrived there by 10am but the gates weren't opened till much later. I even feared they were not around.
After entering and submitting my enrollment ID, I went to sit for about 2 hours before they started calling names. The names being called were for those whose passport were not ready. Some were asked to come next week Wednesday.
After that we continued waiting. An officer apologised that today they were few on ground and would take longer in sorting the passports.
Finally, about an hour later, they started calling names again for those whose passports were ready. I was called too. We proceeded to the collection room. It didn't take long and I was done. The journey finally ended.
I observed some things sha...

Observations:
1. Go with your old passport if you are doing re-issue! They no send the man who was ahead of me and didn't bring his old passport. They no listen to am. The man claimed he submitted his old passport in the folder he opened...omooo... They told him to go and look for it. I don't know how that ended, I kuku commot with my own passport jejely.

2. See, all these beliefs that you can't achieve something without paying your away is enabling corruption. Many of them are ready to do their job, but are tempted when people approach them begging them for favours in exchange of cash.
A lady begged one of them that she needed the passport bla bla bla, so she wanted to 'fast-track' it. Omo, they'll take your money (many of us here would do same, maybe). Another woman with her kids walked straight into the collection office to meet with Mr. O...., Her passport was in another bunch...(special candidates, I guess).

3. I met a guy who applied with 70k since June. They no see him passport. He was frustrated and complained loudly, started explaining his story to those around (I pity am, but I dey laugh am for my mind. God knows if he'll read this). He was asked to come back next week. Indeed, he's a special candidate. He said he wanted to fast track his passport.... Since June.... After 70k....LMAO. What happened was that the person who worked his passport was not around to release it.

Conclusion
Let's collective stop this act of greasing hands. Appreciating for a job well done is welcomed, but let's exercise caution.
It's hard to say this but Nigeria will work and God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Change begins with me.

Regards,
A non-partisan fellow

Jeremy123:
I thought they would need to see the original or won't they love to sight the original