THE HIGH COMMISSION OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA IN CANADA WISHES TO INFORM PASSPORT APPLICANTS OF THE UPDATED PASSPORT RENEWAL PROCESS.

Kindly note that the above charges are Administrative Charges/Fees, and are different from the main fees paid to innovate 1. The charges are non-refundable.

The mode of payment shall be by money order, payable to the Nigeria High Commission, Ottawa, ONLY. 

ENSURE THAT YOU HAVE A VALID NIN BEFORE PROCEEDING WITH THE APPLICATION.

Please, visit https://passport.immigration.gov.ng/ to fill out the application forms and proceed to innovate1services.com for payment. Also, ensure that you click on the link on your acknowledgment slip to pick your appointment date https://portal.immigration.gov.ng/visa/OnlineQueryStatus 

. Procedures for E-Passport

1.    In the Passport menu on the Nigeria Immigration website, choose to apply for passport renewal and sign in using your Google account. You may use it to log into the system, otherwise, select the Open ID option and create an account for the application process. 

2.    Please, click on create a new application, fill out the online forms, and submit. 

3.    Once the application has been successfully submitted, you will be provided with a Reference Number and Application ID. Please print it out, as you will need it later in the application process.

4.    Please, pay for your passport via innovate1services using your credit card. Print your application form, acknowledgment slip and payment slip. (If acknowledgment and payment slips cannot be found, kindly click the link below.
https://portal.immigration.gov.ng/visa/OnlineQueryStatus

5.     The applicant should appear at the Nigerian High Commission Ottawa on the appointment date, with his or her expired Nigerian passport and required documents. If the application is for a first issuance, and the applicant is under the age of sixteen, the following requirements must also be met.

THE PASSPORT RENEWAL ARRANGEMENT AS IS FOLLOWS:

1.  ALL PASSPORT APPLICANTS AFTER FILLING OUT THE FORMS AND MEETING THE ONLINE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE PASSPORT PROCESS SHOULD SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT ON THE IMMIGRATION WEBSITE  AND PICK A DATE FROM THERE.

2.  EACH REQUEST SENT IN FOR AN APPOINTMENT MUST STATE THE FULL NAME OF THE PASSPORT APPLICANT AS IT APPEARS ON THE NIGERIAN PASSPORT AND ENSURE IT IS THE SAME ON YOUR NIN.

3.  FOR FAMILY SCHEDULING PLEASE INDICATE ALL FAMILY MEMBERS THAT REQUIRE RENEWAL AS YOU WILL NOT BE RECOGNIZED AS ONE UNIT. EACH MEMBER OF THE FAMILY WILL NEED TO BE GIVEN AN APPOINTMENT.

4. UPON ARRIVAL ALL APPLICANTS MUST PRESENT PRINTED COPIES OF THEIR PASSPORT RENEWAL APPOINTMENT SLIP AND ALL RELEVANT DOCUMENTS INCLUDING THE MANDATORY $50 CAD ADMIN FEE  RECEIPT FOR THE HIGH COMMISSION, AND EXPRESS CANADA POST ENVELOPES BEFORE ENTRY INTO THE CHANCERY. REMEMBER TO LEAVE YOUR OLD PASSPORT IN YOUR ENVELOPE AFTER YOUR BIOMETRIC EXERCISE.

5.   APPLICANTS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BRING CELL PHONES AND BAGS  INTO THE CHANCERY.

6.  IN A SITUATION WHERE A PARENT HAS TO ACCOMPANY A MINOR FOR THE PASSPORT RENEWAL PROCESS, ONLY ONE PARENT WOULD BE ALLOWED TO COME INTO THE CHANCERY WITH THE PASSPORT APPLICANT.

7.  THE HOURS FOR PASSPORT RENEWALS ARE 9:30 AM – 2:30 PM. ANYONE WHO SHOWS UP AT A LATER TIME WOULD NOT BE ALLOWED INTO THE BUILDING, EVEN IF SUCH A PERSON HAS AN APPOINTMENT.

8.  PLEASE NOTE THAT ANYONE WHO SHOWS UP AT THE CHANCERY WITHOUT A PRINTED APPOINTMENT SLIP FOR AN INTERVIEW WOULD NOT BE ATTENDED TO.

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR COOPERATION.

NIGERIA HIGH COMMISSION OTTAWA

295 METCALFE STREET

OTTAWA ONTARIO

K2P1R9 

PLEASE, PROVIDE ALL REQUIRED
DOCUMENTS AS LISTED BELOW. YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED INTO THE CHANCERY OR CONTACTED
IF YOU HAVE ANY MISSING DOCUMENTS AND YOU WILL BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY
DELAYS ON YOUR PASSPORT PROCESS.

Requirements for First Issue of E-passport

1.    Passport
Application form to be completed online and printed out 

2.    Payment
Slip print out (NIN IS MANDATORY)

3.    Acknowledgement
Slip print out

4.    Photocopy
of birth certificate

5. Photocopy of Machine-Readable Passport (the old
Passport) if applicable.

6.   Photocopy
of Birth Certificate and Local Government Identification Letter if you have the
Machine-Readable Passport (the Old Passport).

7.    Two
current passport-size photographs with white background (35MM X 45MM)

8.   Administrative fee of $50 CAD receipt.  Or buy a money order in the name of the Nigeria High Commission.

9.  Self-addressed Canada Post express post
envelope (REGIONAL if you reside within Ontario and NATIONAL if
you reside outside Ontario. ENSURE to take the tracking number of envelope
before dropping it.

Requirements for Renewal of E-Passport

1.    Passport
Application form to be completed online and print out

2.    Payment
Slip print out

3.    Acknowledgment
Slip print out

4.    Applicant
should come with the Original Expired Nigerian E-Passport and Photocopy of
Bio data page of the E-Passport. Remember to leave your expired passport in the
return envelope. The High Commission cannot mail your new passport without
canceling the old copy.

5.   Photocopy of Bio-data page of Nigerian
E-passport.

6.   Two current passport-size photographs with white background 1.    Passport
Application form to be completed online and print out

2.    Payment
Slip print out (NIN IS MANDATORY)

3.    Acknowledgment
Slip print out

4.    Applicant
should come with the Original Expired Nigerian E-Passport and Photocopy of
Bio data page of the E-Passport. Remember to leave your expired passport in the
return envelope. The High Commission cannot mail your new passport without
canceling the old copy.

5.   Photocopy of the Bio-data page of the Nigerian
E-passport.

6.   Two
current passport-size photographs with white background

7.   Persons
under the Age of 18 OR Minors will be required to submit a Consent letter
signed by parents with a photocopy of the Bio-data page of the Nigeria E-Passport (per
applicant).

8.   Administrative fee of $50 CAD receipt.

9.   Self
addressed Canada Post express post envelope (REGIONAL if you reside
within Ontario and NATIONAL if you reside outside Ontario. ENSURE
to take the tracking number of the envelope before dropping it. If you will be using one
envelope for the family, have the names listed on the envelope.

PLEASE,
PROVIDE ALL REQUIRED DOCUMENTS AS LISTED BELOW. YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED INTO
THE CHANCERY OR CONTACTED IF YOU HAVE ANY MISSING DOCUMENTS AND YOU WILL BE
HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DELAYS IN YOUR PASSPORT PROCESS.

Requirements for change of name via marriage

(Only LAST
NAME, NO changing, adding, or removing of first name, middle name, date, or
place of birth)

 1.   Passport Application form
to be completed online and printed out (FILL FORM AS RENEWAL AND
NOT NAME CHANGE. ALSO FILL THE FORM IN THE NEW NAME AND NOT THE MAIDEN NAME)

2.   Payment Slip print out (NIN IS MANDATORY)

3.   Acknowledgment Slip print
out

4.  Applicant should come with the Original
Expired Nigerian E-Passport and Photocopy of Bio data page of the
E-Passport. Remember to leave your expired passport in the return envelope. The
High Commission cannot mail your new passport without canceling the old copy.

5.   Photocopy
of Bio-data page of Nigerian E-passport. (NIN MUST BE CHANGED TO THE NEW NAME BEFORE COMING TO THE MISSION)

6.   Photocopy of Marriage
certificate

7.   Consent Letter from Spouse
(Signed)

8.   Valid bio-data page of
passport of Spouse 

9.    Newspaper publication in
the national dailies for marriages done in Nigeria.

10.  Court affidavit of
change of name via marriage.

11.  Two current passport-size photographs with
white background

12.  Administrative fee of $50 CAD receipt.

13. $100 CAD receipt for a change of name via marriage

14. Self
addressed Canada Post express post envelope (REGIONAL if you reside
within Ontario and NATIONAL if you reside outside Ontario. ENSURE
to take the tracking number of the envelope before dropping it. You are also advised to drop a separate
return envelope addressed with the new name if you are a family.

PLEASE, PROVIDE ALL REQUIRED
DOCUMENTS AS LISTED BELOW. YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED INTO THE CHANCERY OR CONTACTED
IF YOU HAVE ANY MISSING DOCUMENTS AND YOU WILL BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY
DELAYS ON YOUR PASSPORT PROCESS.

Requirement for Persons under the Age of 18 OR Minors

Applicants under the age of 18 (eighteen) MUST provide the following requirements:

1.    Passport
Application form to be completed online and printed out

2.    Payment
Slip print out  (NIN IS MANDATORY)

3.    Acknowledgment
Slip print out

4.    Copy
of child’s birth certificate

5.    Letter
of Consent jointly signed by both parents (per applicant)

6.    Photocopies
of the parents’ passports data page. One of the passport data pages must be a
Nigerian Passport (per applicant)

7.   Additional
documents for single parents (proof of custody of the child/children)

8.   Two
current passport-size photographs with white background

9.   Administrative fee of $50 CAD receipt.

10.  Self addressed Canada Post express post
envelope (REGIONAL if you reside within Ontario and NATIONAL if
you reside outside Ontario. ENSURE to take tracking number of envelope
before dropping.

11.  Applicant
will be required to appear in person for biometrics

PLEASE, PROVIDE ALL REQUIRED
DOCUMENTS AS LISTED BELOW. YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED INTO THE CHANCERY OR CONTACTED
IF YOU HAVE ANY MISSING DOCUMENTS AND YOU WILL BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY
DELAYS ON YOUR PASSPORT PROCESS.

Requirements for Replacement of Lost e-Passport 

1.    Passport
Application form to be completed online and printed out 

2.    Payment
Slip print out (NIN IS MANDATORY)

3.    Acknowledgement
Slip print out

4.   Photocopy of Bio-data page of Nigerian
E-passport (if you have a copy)

5.    Police
Report not a file number (have the police forward the police report to passportinquiries@nigeriahcottawa.ca
before coming in for your appointment)

6.   Request
letter for Lost Passport (signed by the applicant)

7.   Two
(2) passport-size photographs with white background (35 MM X45MM)

8.   Administrative fee of $50cad in Money Order
payable to the Nigeria High Commission

9.  $400 CAD receipt of  payment to Nigeria
High Commission for Lost Passports

10.  Self-addressed Canada Post express post
envelope (REGIONAL if you reside within Ontario and NATIONAL if
you reside outside Ontario. ENSURE to take the tracking number of the envelope
before dropping it. You are also advised to drop a separate return envelope
addressed with the new name if you are a family.