TO ALL NIGERIANS IN THE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA REGION WHO ARE INTERESTED IN GETTING NEW OR RENEW THEIR NIGERIAN PASSPORTS OR E-PASSPORT
E-PASSPORT PROCESSING IS COMING BACK TO SACRAMENTO CALIFORNIA NIGERIAN EMBASSY, WASHINGTON DC
Dates: August 29th and 30th (Thursday and Friday), 2013.
Venue: St. Anthony Parish Memorial Center, 660 Florin Road, Sacramento, CA 95831.
HERE ARE THE INSTRUCTIONS OF WHAT YOU NEED TO DO. PLEASE FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW.
E-Passport Steps
Step I
- Go to the Nigerian immigration website at https://portal.immigration.gov.ng/index.htm
- 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 Washington DC office as your processing office
- Be sure to print out the following important pages:
i) Application Data Page before clicking "submit"
ii) The page the lists your Application ID, and Reference Number
iii) A copy of Payment Confirmation page
Step II
- Make copies of the following:
i) Application Data page
ii) Passport Acknowledgement slip , and
iii) Passport Payment slip, and
iv) put photo copies of the original(Make Sure they are legible) of all three above in a large envelope and mail to the
Mailing Address:
(1) Davies Ononiwu.
9379 Briartown Court, Elk Grove, CA. 95624. Phone: (916)416-3240.
NOTE: YOUR DOCUMENTS MUST REACH THE ABOVE ADDRESS NOT LATER THAN AUGUST 12TH, 2013.
(2) You can also send by email application to: Davieso@onitech.net; After August 12th , please DO NOT SEND YOUR APPLICATION TO THE EMAIL ADDRESS. THANK YOU.
Your mailing envelope should have your full name, Application ID, Reference Number, contact phone, address and email address.
Step III
Once we get your completed envelope in step II, we will schedule you for e-passport processing for either August 29th or 30th , 2013. Please adhere strictly to your date and time. It is strictly by appointment only, however, if you are not able to access the Nigerian immigration website and complete the application process, help will be rendered at the processing site.
For further concerns/questions, call
Davies Ononiwu, 916 416-3240
AyoDeji Akinyele, 916-613-8367
Chief Lanre Hassan, 916-774-8229
BREAKDOWN OF ALL REQUIRED FEES
The following is the breakdown of all of the monies you will be required to dole out for the entire e-passport process:
(a) Online application fee of sixty-five US Dollars ($65)
(b) Passport processing fee of one hundred US Dollars ($100). You will bring a money order for the said amount to your appointed processing time. The money order will be made payable to Nigerian Embassy
(c) You are also required to bring either a Priority or Express Stamped US Mail envelope to your appointed processing time. Depending on urgent you need your new e-passport, Priority envelop is about $5, and takes about 5 days from date of mailing to arrive, while the Express envelope costs about $18 and takes about 2 days from date of mailing to arrive back to you.
The envelopes are used by the embassy officials to mail back your new e-passports.
(d) Overall, it will cost you between $170 and $183 per person, to obtain the e-passport.
(e) Visa Application Fee is $160
(f) If your passport is expired, you will obtain a new one and pay all required fees
(g) Lost passport will incur a $350 plus applicable fees for new passport
(i) In Addition to the above fees, We are asking everyone to please Donate $25.00 per application to the local organizing non-profit entity.
Please make the money order payable to Sacramento Association of Nigerians. NO Personal Checks Please.
We are also asking people to volunteer to help make things run smoothly. Please let us know if you can help with your time especially local Sacramento residents.
As usual, the e-passport process will be strictly by appointment only. IF YOU DON'T HAVE AN APPOINTMENT, PLEASE DO NOT SHOW UP TO AVOID EMBARRASTMENT AND COMMOTION. However, All Applicants will be attended to after those with appointments have been processed. Also, if you are not able to do the application online, there will be someone available to assist you but you will have to pay for the service and at the same time pay all required fees(application fee($65), processing fee($100), & mailing envelope($4) or ($18) "Gate-crashers" shall be welcome at processing venue, they will have to exercise some patience.
Our Goal is to assist All Nigerians with the E-Passport process
For questions/concerns regarding this email, please contact:
Davies Ononiwu, 916 416-3240
AyoDeji Akinyele, 916-613-8367
Chief Lanre Hassan, 916-774-8229
Sacramento Association of Nigerians
NOTE: IF YOU HAVE CHILDREN THAT ARE MINORS, MAKE SURE YOU READ THE INSTRUCTIONS ON THE WEBSITE ABOUT PARENTAL CONSENT.
