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I hold dual citizenship. I want to travel back but my carribean passport has expired and no embassy here in Nigeria, but my Nigerian passport is current. How do l navigate my way back to the carribean? What is the easiest way out to avoid visa fees and rejection?

My options are;

¹. Nigeria to London - Jamaica - panama - El Salvador to Belize.

Please any other option to my destination? Is there direct flight to panama through other African countries? Please sound advice from Airlines Agent

vineyardfarms:
I hold dual citizenship. I want to travel back but my carribean passport has expired and no embassy here in Nigeria, but my Nigerian passport is current. How do l navigate my way back to the carribean? What is the easiest way out to avoid visa fees and rejection? My options are;
¹. Nigeria to London - Jamaica - panama - El Salvador to Belize.
Please any other option to my destination? Is there direct flight to panama through other African countries? Please sound advice from Airlines Agent

You cannot fly out of Nigeria using your expired Caribbean passport, and your suggested route will result in a near-certain boarding rejection. As an airline agent would advise you, your most critical barrier isn't your final destination; it is the transit countries.

I will assume your you're a Panamanian citizen.

There is no International law that prohibits a citizen from entering with an expired passport. The catch here is that airlines have the obligations to verify your identity, and an expired passport can mean many things which can lead to heavy fines and license seizure.

Your best bet is to contact Panamanian embassy that has geographical competence over Nigeria (the one is South Africa), and request for an emergency travel certificate.

With the ETC, you can travel and transit to Panama without any issues.

Imalwayshorny:
You cannot fly out of Nigeria using your expired Caribbean passport, and your suggested route will result in a near-certain boarding rejection. As an airline agent would advise you, your most critical barrier isn't your final destination; it is the transit countries.

What are your suggestions?
The Nigeria passport can take me to Jamaica unhindered via British airways, l can proceed from there

vineyardfarms:
I hold dual citizenship. I want to travel back but my carribean passport has expired and no embassy here in Nigeria, but my Nigerian passport is current. How do l navigate my way back to the carribean? What is the easiest way out to avoid visa fees and rejection?

My options are;

¹. Nigeria to London - Jamaica - panama - El Salvador to Belize.

Please any other option to my destination? Is there direct flight to panama through other African countries? Please sound advice from Airlines Agent

I don't get it? You mean don't want to pay visa fees? But you have money ro undertake multiple connecting flights and transit countries? I just no understand.

Nonsense. What is "Caribbean passport?"If you aren't ready to name the name of the Caribbean country that issued you the passport, close this thread.

vineyardfarms:
I hold dual citizenship. I want to travel back but my carribean passport has expired and no embassy here in Nigeria, but my Nigerian passport is current. How do l navigate my way back to the carribean? What is the easiest way out to avoid visa fees and rejection?

My options are;

¹. Nigeria to London - Jamaica - panama - El Salvador to Belize.

Please any other option to my destination? Is there direct flight to panama through other African countries? Please sound advice from Airlines Agent

please don't travel yet stay and help vote out that agbero chairman agbero union nairaland branch smuggled into aso rock for retirement.unless you promise to travel and come back

Typically you can fly to your home country with an expired passport. Look it up on the airline website or country website.

I have flown into Nigeria many times with expired Nigerian passport from the USA.

Imalwayshorny:
You cannot fly out of Nigeria using your expired Caribbean passport, and your suggested route will result in a near-certain boarding rejection. As an airline agent would advise you, your most critical barrier isn't your final destination; it is the transit countries.

October1960:
Typically you can fly to your home country with an expired passport. Look it up on the airline website or country website.

I have flown into Nigeria many times with expired Nigerian passport from the USA.

Thanks for making this clarification.
The way some folks dash in here to comment what they know nothing about is sickening.
ETC (travel certificate) should be necessary in case of loss of your passport.

Imalwayshorny:
You cannot fly out of Nigeria using your expired Caribbean passport, and your suggested route will result in a near-certain boarding rejection. As an airline agent would advise you, your most critical barrier isn't your final destination; it is the transit countries.

Chat GPT answer detected.

Your best bet is to contact the Panama embassy. They will issue you a certificate which will be accepted by any airline for your travel.

If you have dual citizenship and you have both countries valid passports with you, you need no visa. present both passports at port of exit with any other required document.
You can not overstay in Nigeria as long as you have Nigerian passport stamped in when you arrived Nigeria. You may have problems if you only stamped in foreign passport with visa and overstayed. You will have to ask your local immigration office for extension and contact your embassy for guidance.
All countries have emegency travel document. You have to travel to the country that has your embassy to have emmergency travel document issued to you by your embassy. Mind you, to save yourself from headache, board a direct flight to avoid transit country visa issues.

AbosedeFalade:
Nonsense. What is "Caribbean passport?"If you aren't ready to name the name of the Caribbean country that issued you the passport, close this thread.

Did you read the comment before responding? Didn't you see the Jamaica expired passport in the comment? Na.waoi

What were you doing before your visa expire?

Wispower:
Did you read the comment before responding? Didn't you see the Jamaica expired passport in the comment? Na.waoi

Be mindful of how you quote and talk to your betters next time. Nowhere in the OP's post that I read did he say that he holds a Jamaican passport. If he were to hold a Jamaican passport, he wouldn't have created this thread, unless he's ignorant and chasing clout, because Jamaica has its High Commission in Abuja and a consulate in Lagos.

In fact, I blame Nairaland, which has stifled members' ability to pass brutal truths. Thank your stars.

vineyardfarms:
I hold dual citizenship. I want to travel back but my carribean passport has expired and no embassy here in Nigeria, but my Nigerian passport is current. How do l navigate my way back to the carribean? What is the easiest way out to avoid visa fees and rejection?

My options are;

¹. Nigeria to London - Jamaica - panama - El Salvador to Belize.

Please any other option to my destination? Is there direct flight to panama through other African countries? Please sound advice from Airlines Agent

I recommend that u look for embassies near Nija to email for advice

So we can contact him if we need to travel to Jamaica

AbosedeFalade:
Be mindful of how you quote and talk to your betters next time. Nowhere in the OP's post that I read did he say that he holds a Jamaican passport. If he were to hold a Jamaican passport, he wouldn't have created this thread, unless he's ignorant and chasing clout, because Jamaica has its High Commission in Abuja and a consulate in Lagos.

In fact, I blame Nairaland, which has stifled members' ability to pass brutal truths. Thank your stars.

AbosedeFalade:
Nonsense. What is "Caribbean passport?"If you aren't ready to name the name of the Caribbean country that issued you the passport, close this thread.

What is your business with the name of the Carribbean country. Wetin you wan use am do?

Next thing, you will ask him- How did you get your Carribbean passport?

Then una go come rush cast update as usual, messing up the whole for the genuine people wey don use their hand do their own research to get that passport..

Nigerians, una think say una wise pass everybody..

Imalwayshorny:
You cannot fly out of Nigeria using your expired Caribbean passport, and your suggested route will result in a near-certain boarding rejection. As an airline agent would advise you, your most critical barrier isn't your final destination; it is the transit countries.

AI has made you dumb. Do something about it.

Dalohad:
What is your business with the name of the Carribbean country. Wetin you wan use am do?

Next thing, you will ask him- How did you get your Carribbean passport?

Then una go come rush cast update as usual, messing up the whole for the genuine people wey don use their hand do their own research to get that passport..

Nigerians, una think say una wise pass everybody..

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