On this page below you will find all the information you need for your visa application

• Our order form, click here to open
• To avoid errors, please complete this form digitally, print and sign
• Everything you write on this form will appear on the invoice
• With this form, we also have your contact details if we need to call or email you
• We will send you the invoice by email.
• With this form, you authorise us to apply for your visa.

To obtain the visa, you must fill in the application form.

Click here to fill in the application form, print out and sign.

• Your passport.
• We need to have the passport physically, so no copy.
• Your passport must still be valid for at least 6½ months after the validity of the visa (ie one and a half year valid if it is an annual visa).
• The passport must have at least two blank facing visa pages.

• Two (2 x) color passport photos.
• Note that these photos are according to the Dutch standard of ‘passport photo’, that is to say, looking forward, white background, do not laugh and do not show teeth.
• Wearing glasses in the photo is not permitted
• Nine times out of ten, the consulate does not accept a photo from your own printer. If you do so, make sure you use gloss paper and there are no stripes visible from the print.
• Do not staple the photo to the application form, but rather use a Pritt stick. If you do not have a Pritt stick, please include your loose photo and we will attach it to the form for you.
• Do not stick the photos with adhesive tape

Other conditions that you must pay extra attention to:

• The photos may not be older than 3 months
• The photos may not be the same as on the passport unless the passport is not older than 3 months
• The photos must have a white background.

• A booking confirmation of your flight (return ticket)
• The consulate wants to see when you enter the country and go out again
• It may be a booking for a flight, bus, train, boat
• Your name must be mentioned on it
• The consulate must recognize the confirmation as being that it comes from a travel agency or an airline.
• A confirmation of a flight by a customer of your will not be accepted because the consulate will say that anyone can do this. Think of logos, photos or other features that an official confirmation of an airline by mail in general meets
• Our advice, make sure you take out cancellation insurance when purchasing your flight. In the event that you do not receive your visa, you will not suffer any financial

If you are staying in a hotel, make a hotel reservation with the following points;

• All contact information of the hotel.
• The dates of the stay.
• A detailed description of the activities during your stay.
• The hotel reservation must be signed and stamped by the manager of the hotel.

or

If you are staying with family/friends, an invitation letter + copy of passport.

**Applicants of Nigerian origin can address an introduction letter to the ambassador. This can be instead of an invitation letter.

The invitation must state;

• State the name and address of the inviting party.
• Include the full name of the applicant + passport details.
• A detailed description of the activities during your stay.
• The inviting party takes responsibility for the traveler’s stay and expenses.
• The letter must be signed by the inviting party.

For the visa application, you must be vaccinated against yellow fever. You must enclose a copy of the yellow booklet, within the valid stamp that you have been vaccinated against yellow fever.

Our advice: ask the GGD or your doctor whether further vaccinations are needed for this country. But for the visa application is the vaccination against yellow fever sufficient.

The ambassador wants to see that you have sufficient financial means for your trip to Nigeria.

This can be done in the following ways;

• A recent salary slip.

or if you do not have a job;

• A bank statement with sufficient balance for your trip.

Seamen must send a copy of their logbook.

• If your minor child applies for the visa together with the parents (that is, a visa for the father, mother, and child) and the child has the same surname as the father or mother, you do not have to fill in a consent form.

• If your minor child only applies for a visa or only with one of the parents (ie one of the parents does not apply for a visa), you must complete a consent letter from both parents and sign it by both parents.
• Click here to complete and sign the consent form
• Also a copy of the father and mother’s passport
• Also a copy of the father and mother’s passport

1.)

If you are Dutch, you do not need additional documents.

2.)

For the EU or Schengen country nationalities:

If nationality comes from an EU or Schengen country (not for a Dutch passport), you must show that you are registered in the Netherlands.
You have two options;

• Option 1: a copy of the front- and backside of your residence permit.
• Option 2: a copy of the extract from the population register (GBA).

3.)

Other nationalities from outside the EU or Schengen countries:

• You need a copy of your Dutch residence permit’s front- and back-side for all nationalities from outside the EU and Schengen countries.