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TO ALL NIGERIANS IN BRAZIL, BOLIVIA & PARAGUAY
Please be hereby informed
that due to the absence of the Consular Officer from Brazil, the Embassy
has suspended issuance of Passports (the usual Machine Readable Passports
- MRPs) to interested/eligible Nigerian applicants until Tuesday, 15th
June, 2010. This notice is to be publicised as wide as possible among
Nigerians in Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay. The Consular Officer is on
official assignment in Abuja and will be back in the weekend of 12th-13th
June, 2010. No passport applicant is, therefore, expected to come to the
Embassy in Brasilia during the period of the Consular Officer's absence.
Thank you.
Consular Section
Embassy of Nigeria
Brasilia-DF
1st June, 2010
ATTENTION
BRASILIA EXERCISE
Nigerians who wish to participate in the exercise detailed below, in Brasilia,
are hereby notified to report at the Nigerian Embassy in Brasilia on Saturday,
22/05/2010 at 10.00 am prompt. Note that interested applicants are expected
to access the Nigerian Immigration website as stated below to complete
the form and effect payment before coming to the Embassy.
Procedure:
- Log onto the site and choose "E-Passport"
- Look out for & Copy the Reference/ID number
- Proceed to the point where the Reference/ID number will be required
to fill in
- The last stage will lead to payment with credit card
- Print out the payment receipt/Acnowledged receipt and "Payment
Confirmed" and attach to the form
- You are ready to be captured.
Otherwise
In event of difficulty making payment of the required US$65.00 online,
simply print out the completed form and take along to the Embassy for
guidance or contact the Embassy at any point of difficulty while filling
the form for guidance. Embassy contact lines are provided below.
Plse Mote that the Sao Paulo excercise continues till Friday, 21/05/2010,
while the exercise holds in Brasilia in the Embassy premises for one day
only, Saturday, 22/05/2010.
Consular Section
Embassy of Nigeria
19th May, 2010
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LEADERS/MEMBERS
OF NIGERIAN COMMUNITY IN BRAZIL, BOLIVIA & PARAGUAY
MOBILIZATION OF NIGERIANS
FOR E-PASSPORT CAPTURING EXERCISE IN SAO PAULO AND BRAZILIA
The Above-mentioned subject
refers. Please be informed that a Federal Government technical team
comprising personnel of Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) and Ministry
of Interior, led by a Deputy Comptroller-General of Immigration (DCGI),
will be in São Paulo from 18th-23rd May, 2010 for “passport
intervention exercise”.
2. The exercise is meant
to afford Nigerians in Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, who do not have
the new electronic-passport (E-Passport), an opportunity to obtain the
document. The E-Passport is expected to soon replace the Machine Readable
Passports (MRPs) widely used by Nigerians abroad and currently being
issued by our Embassy in Brasilia.
3. All interested Nigerians in the afore-mentioned countries are expected
to assemble for the exercise in São Paulo at HOTEL GRAN CORONA
– RUA BASILIO DA GAMA, No. 101, CENTRO, SÃO PAULO; Phone:
011 3214 0043, from 12 noon on Tuesday, 18th May, 2010.
4. The exercise involves taking passport-size pictures of Nigerians
and collecting their bio-data information individually, for the purpose
of issuing them with the new E-Passports. The pictures/data will be
taken to Nigeria for processing and issuance of the new E-Passports,
which will be sent back to the Embassy in Brasilia for onward distribution
to the beneficiaries in a center to be designated in São Paulo
for Nigerians who cannot come to the Embassy to collect their new passports.
COMPLETION OF FORM/MODE OF PAYMENT
5. Completion of form/payment
for E-Passport is strictly on-line with the use of credit card, by accessing
NIS website: www.immigration.gov.ng.
Applicants are guided electronically to the last stage, which is payment
with credit card, after which a confirmed payment form is printed out,
with which the applicant can proceed for capturing. The fee is US$65.00
( sixty-five United States Dollars only).
6. This exercise is opened to all Nigerians who can prove their Nigerian
nationality. Please note that Consular Officers/Staff of the Embassy
will be at the venue to detect any untoward development and report impostors
to local security authorities.
7. Interested applicants in Brasilia and its environs are advised to
call the Embassy or visit the website to know when the exercise will
take place in the Embassy immediately after the São Paulo exercise.
8. Please disseminate this information to all Nigerians you know in
Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, irrespective of status. This information
will also appear on the Embassy’s website, Consular Section-“Passports”,
from Monday, 17th May, 2010 www.nigerianembassy-brazil.org.
9. For further clarification, call the following numbers: 55 (61) 8122-4871,
8122-4875, 3208 1711, 3208-1717 & 3208-1702.
Warm
Regards.
CONSULAR SECTION
EMBASSY OF NIGERIA, BRASILIA-DF
14TH MAY, 2010
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