After receiving 100% guarantee that the Consular General of the Nigerian Embassy in New York, Mrs. Okorie-Haidara her colleagues (totaling 6 staffers) the Nigerian Association of Greater Cincinnati Area (NAGCA) successfully conducted Passport Exercise 2016.
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Nigerian Association of Greater Cincinnati Area (NAGCA) has made alternative arrangements to invite the Nigerian Consulate in New York (instead of the one in Washington DC), to come to Cincinnati for the Passport Issuance and Renewal program.
According to a statement by Ovie Fred Okotie, the secretary general of the organization, the change was because the Washington consulate continues to insist on us obtaining 300 completed applications in other for them to come to Cincinnati for the Passport Exercise. “This is a comparatively high number that we have not been able to achieve; neither did we anticipate that that number will be obtainable by their deadline of Friday next week”
On a positive note, the consulate in New York has been more moderately considerate in all our dealings with them and has agreed to come to Cincinnati (within a two-week period notice) as soon as we are able to get eligible Nigerians to complete 200 applications only – we are already half way there right now (about 100+). Ovie Fred Okotie states
In light of the new development, the organization led by Dr. Olusegun Akomolede is asking all eligible Nigerian in need of passport issuance or renewal to follow the steps below:
- Complete an application on https://portal.immigration.gov.ng/pages/welcome BUT BEFORE YOU MAKE PAYMENT, PRINT THE APPLICATION WHICH YOU WILL fax / email to us immediately as stated in the information Flier attached (Choose “New York” and choose 32 pages).
- Print the completed application and proceed to make payment online: payment will be $106 for adults between 18 and 65 or $79 for children under 18 and seniors over 65. Once payment is made, print receipt and keep safely and bring it on the day of passport processing. Note: a copy of the receipt will be needed to process.
Once NAGCA has 200 applications, the organization plans to forward them to New York, a obtain a date of processing and immediately communicate the date and time of processing to applicants
.Ovie Fred Okotie states further “If you have immediate travel plan, this schedule may not be suitable for you and you may have to go directly to the consulate office. However, if you travel plan is a little more flexible, please join with us because the soon we have 200 applicants, the sooner will we have them here and have your passport processed.
NAGCA explained that applicants have nothing to lose even if they start this process with the organization because if for one reason or the other their travel becomes more urgent, they could still go ahead directly to the Consulate office with the receipt for the application fees paid.
- Applicants who have already send applications to NAGCA selecting Washington should log back into the site and edit their application to select “New York” as well as change number of pages to “32”, then fax or email us another copy.
- Please feel free to read the requirement as stated in the Nigerian Immigration website applicable toyou on call us if you have any questions (see Flier for details).
- Apart from the application fee you will be paying directly to the consulate online, you must remember to bring a processing fee of $144 to the processing center. This fee covers the $100 charged per applicant by the consulate to bring their personnel and processing facilities from the consulate to the processing center. It also covers their flight, hotel accommodation, feeding and booking the processing hall and NAGCA expenses such as telephone, travel to the consulate to bring the passports after processing, and other incidentals.
‘”Please note that NAGCA remains solely committed to making this venture successful. Members of the Executive have put in several hours of work so far and have no intention to rebuff these efforts at this state. We look forward to your assistance in helping us achieve the 200 application needed to bring the New York Consulate on the earliest possible date and time’ Ovie Fred Okotie states.
