🇳🇬Nigeria immigration routes

Every route we track for Nigeria, with the official source behind each one.

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routes tracked

0

need no employer sponsor

0

map to permanent residence

Routes

• Business Permit

  A Business Permit is the Ministry of Interior approval that authorises a company with foreign participation to operate legally in Nigeria.

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• Combined Expatriate Residence Permit and Aliens Card (CERPAC)

  Nigeria's Combined Expatriate Residence Permit and Aliens Card (CERPAC), issued by the Nigeria Immigration Service, is a residence permit and identity document for foreigners residing or working in Nigeria, governed by Sections 37, 38, and 39 of the Immigration Act 2015 (covering residency, employment, and revocatio…

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• Employment (Expatriate) Visa

  This is the entry route a foreign national uses to take up salaried employment in Nigeria, and the visa that is issued Subject to Regularisation - the holder enters on it and then converts the stay into a residence permit.

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• Expatriate Quota

  An Expatriate Quota is the Ministry of Interior approval that allows a company operating in Nigeria to employ a specified number of foreign professionals in designated positions.

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• Investors Visa

  Nigeria's investor route is not a single visa but a graded family of Investors Visas sitting inside the Permanent Residence Visa group of the Nigeria Immigration Service.

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• Permanent Residence Visas

  Permanent Residence Visas are the Nigeria Immigration Service's long-stay category, permitting certain classes of individual to obtain permanent residence status rather than the two-year renewable temporary residence that governs ordinary expatriate employment.

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• Short Stay Visa (e-Visa)

  Nigeria now splits its short-stay visas into two delivery channels, and the Nigeria Immigration Service presents them side by side: a Short Stay Visa applied for electronically as an e-Visa, and a Short Stay Visa obtained at a Nigerian embassy or consulate.

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