Nigeria - Renew Expatriate Quota

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Procedure

Apply In-Person:

1. To Renew Expatriate quota in person, the applicant has to visit the office of The Ministry of Interior Affairs. The address and contact details of branch offices across the country can be found in the following link: address details
2. Visit the office and get an application form for Renewal of Expatriate quota from the relevant department.
3. Complete the application form with appropriate information under relevant sections.
4. Once completed filling the application form, make sure that you have attached all the documents listed in the “Required Documents” section of this page.
5. Then, submit it in person to the relevant authority at the office.
6. After submission, your application along with the attached documents will be forwarded for further verifications.
7. Once all the internal processes are over, the applicants will be notified through any applicable means, with further instructions regarding the renewal.

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Required Documents

The requirements for the renewal of Expatriate Quota include the followings:

• Copy of the expiring Quota.
• Certificate of Other incorporation documents and incorporation.
• Payment of prescribed fees.
• Other documentation accompanying the application, including the report of the use of the expiring quotas.

Office Locations & Contacts

Ministry of Interior - Head Office
Old Federal Secretariat Area 1,
Garki Abuja.
FCT-Abuja, Nigeria.
Tele:+234 (0) 700 009 9999
Email: [email protected]
Website: Ministry of Interior Contacts

Eligibility

• Anyone in possession of an expiring Quota can apply for renewal.
  

Fees

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Validity

• Expatriate Quotas (EQ) is generally valid for three years.
• In case the EQ expired, it should be renewed by the organization before the expatriate can obtain or perhaps renew his or perhaps her CERPAC.

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Processing Time

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Instructions

• Applicants are able to apply for as many quotas based on the slots required, though expatriate quota in Nigeria is strictly controlled and not just easily approved to companies in other to protect the Nigerian working population.
• Companies are instructed to allow their expatriates pass on the knowledge of skills that are relevant entailed in the job to Nigerians understudying for the purpose of minimize the unemployment situation of the country and avail indigenes the chance to gain requisite abilities and take up jobs that are available in future from foreign employees relying on temporary expatriate quotas.

Required Information

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1. Date of Birth.
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Need for the Document

• Expatriate Quota is a form of approval granted to companies and registered firms to employ the services of expatriates with relevant competences.
  

Information which might help

• The expatriate quota application in Nigeria immediately comes after the registration of company in Nigeria by any foreigners seeking to migrate to Nigeria to carry out any permanent work. Subsequent to a successful application of the Expatriate Quota in Nigeria, the business would be in a position to process a Subject to Regularization(STR) Visa for its expatriates, which will enable such expatriates to get the mandatory Combined Expatriate Residence Permit and Aliens Card (CERPAC) that will allow them to live and work in Nigeria.
• The expatriate quota in Nigeria is granted by the Minister of Interior Affairs to indigenous or foreign-owned companies to allow them to employ or perhaps recruit foreign employees or perhaps directors of the company to legitimately work and live in Nigeria.
• The Ministry of Interior Affairs is saddled with the responsibility of issuing the expatriate quota approval in Nigeria. A Business Permit is typically processed together with an expatriate quota in the case of wholly owned foreign company. Every business that wishes to employ a foreigner is expected to get the Expatriate quota approval before processing the work permit, which is also known as the Combined Expatriate Residence Permit and Alien Card (CERPAC).

Other uses of the Document/Certificate

• The Expatriate Quota might serve as a short-term stay during the pendency of an application to renew the CERPAC.
  

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