One-Day E-Passport Exercise – March 25, 2017.
Please hurry up, complete, and submit your completed applications with proof of payment to Dr. Reginald Obiamalu, immediately! Time is of the essence.
If you need assistance with completing the application process, help with be rendered with a nominal fee, just call 310-702-4566, anytime before 7:00 a.m. and after 4:00p.m. Monday to Friday, and anytime on weekends
The Embassy of Nigeria, Washington DC Is Coming Back to Los Angeles for the very last time in a long while
Dates: March 25, 2017. Venue: Centinela Medical Building Banquet Hall, 12900 S. Avalon Blvd, CA. 90061.
Hurry, and start your application process NOW!
Step I
Go to the Nigerian immigration website at
https://portal.immigration.gov.ng/index.htm or www.nigeriaembassyusa.org
- Click on E-Passport Application Form
- On passport type, select standard e-passport
- On processing country, select United States, then click on start application
- Choose one of the three application to use: Google, Yahoo, or Opened
- Choose United States as your processing country, and Washington DC office as your processing center
- Once you have completed the application, first, click on the “submit” button so that the system will generate an Application ID number and a Reference number at the top middle section of the first page, then scroll to the bottom of the application and click on “print”. Print out the entire application sheets (3 pages in most cases), before proceeding to payment. You can also scan and email the application to me before proceeding to payment
- If you find it difficult to make your online payment with a credit/debit card, please go to the US Postal office and purchase the appropriate amount of money order, and then come back to the Nigerian Immigration website and click on “Application Status” follow the prompts and choose the money order payment option. Be sure to overnight the actual money order to Innovate 1 in Connecticut, in order to be appropriately credited for your application. Do not mail your money order to Innovate after March 21, 2017. You will need to bring the application fee with a $25 surcharge to your appointment due to lateness
Step II
Copies of the following three items are needed from you in order to be processed by the embassy officials:
- i) Application Data pages, with your application ID and reference numbers on the first page ii) Passport Payment Slip, and iii) Passport Acknowledgment Slip, the last are accessible once the payment confirmation email is received, go to
https://portal.immigration.gov.ng/passport/passportPaymentStatus and print out the Passport Payment Slip & Passport Acknowledgment Slip.
You are to scan and email your completed online application to:
Reginaldobimalu@ymail.com, in order to be given an appointment
If you are not able to access the Nigerian immigration website and complete the application process, contact us and we will direct you to providers who can help you for a nominal fee. Also, “gate crashers” will be attended to, only after those with appointments have been served. They should exercise patience, and any assistance rendered with filling out, printing, or generating online application will incur additional fees.
Once we get your completed application in step II, we will send you an appointment notification through the email address provided in your application.
- You will be required to pay the following THREE FEES for the Epassport Exercise
1) Online Application Fees:
– Under 18 years & Above 59 years = $77, between 18 years and 60 years = $106
– Visa Application Fee is $180 payable online if you want a Visa
– Lost Passport will incur an additional $350 together with all other required fees
2)Processing Fees
Passport & Visa Processing fee of $100 per person, payable in cash or United States Postal Service Money Order to the Embassy of Nigeria, Washington DC. This is payable at your scheduled processing appointment, so bring it with you to your appointment do not put in drop-off envelope
3) Facilities fee – $50/applicant.
If you are unable to make your online application payment, bring it to the processing venue, with a $25 cash surcharge, so that embassy officials can assist you with payment when they get back to Washington DC.
- The three fees you will pay are: i) online application fee; ii) processing fee; iii) facility fee
- WHAT TO BRING TO YOUR PROCESSING APPOINTMENT
- a) Copies of your application materials you sent to us
- b) Processing fee of $100 in Cash or US Postal Money Order
- c) Your Express or Priority Mail Envelope with the appropriate stamps, tracking slip, and address label
- d) Your old Nigerian Passport
- e) Two passport photographs (for both passport and visa applications)
- f) $50 facility fee per applicant, in cash
Do note that it is your responsibility to arrive at the processing center with all required documents. Any assistance rendered to you with preparing, retrieving or photocopying any required items, will incur additional fees
For Assistance with Visas/EPassport/Emergency Travel Certificates Application Preparation/information or questions, call
Dr. Reginald Obiamalu @ 310-702-4566
(Mondays – Fridays- before 7:00 a.m. & after 4:00 p.m. and anytime on weekends)