NIN Assistance · Enrolment, Retrieval & Corrections
No NIN? Nothing else moves.
Your National Identification Number sits under everything — passport, SIM, bank, JAMB, pension. We help you get it done: enrol for the first time, retrieve a lost NIN, or fix the record errors that block everything downstream — in Nigeria or from abroad.
🛂 Passport📱 SIM registration🏦 Bank & BVN
🎓 JAMB & WAEC🗳️ Voter services💼 Pensions & tax
Before anyone charges you
What's free, what legitimately costs money
🟢 Free — by right
- New enrolment at NIMC's own offices in Nigeria — state and LGA offices charge nothing for standard enrolment
- Your NIN itself — it's issued, not sold
Anyone at an official NIMC office demanding money for basic enrolment is acting outside the rules — you can refuse, and report it.
🟡 Legitimate fees
- Diaspora enrolment — licensed partners abroad fund their own centres and charge published service fees; confirm the fee with the centre before attending
- Licensed private agents & telecom outlets in Nigeria — may charge a convenience/service fee for faster, closer service
- Corrections/modifications — official NIMC fees apply for changes to name, date of birth and other fields
- NIN retrieval by USSD — dialling *346# carries a small telco charge
📋 What to bring to enrolment
- One supporting identity document — international passport, birth certificate, voter's card, driver's licence, or declaration of age
- Yourself — biometrics (fingerprints + photo) are captured in person; no one can enrol for you
- For minors: birth certificate plus a parent/guardian present with their own NIN
- For corrections: documents proving the correct data (court affidavit, marriage certificate, birth certificate as applicable)
One visit, done properly, beats three visits done hopefully — confirm your exact document list with the desk before you go.
Where Travo comes in
We can't do your biometrics. Everything around them, we can.
Honest scope, like our passport service: the capture is yours by law — the logistics are ours.
- Right-channel guidance — which official channel fits your case, and what it legitimately costs, before you set out
- Queue & centre assistance — an errand assistant to accompany elderly parents or hold your place in Nigeria
- Corrections, navigated — the affidavit-and-portal maze for name/DOB fixes, sequenced correctly so your passport isn't blocked later
- Diaspora coordination — book and brief from abroad; we prepare your family member's visit end to end
- NIN → Passport pipeline — one desk sequences both, since your passport is built on your NIN
Straight answers
NIN questions
Is NIN enrolment free?
At NIMC's own offices in Nigeria — yes, completely. Licensed private agents and telecom outlets may charge a legitimate convenience fee, and diaspora enrolment through licensed partners abroad always carries a fee because those partners run their own centres. Know which channel you're in, and you'll never be scammed on price.
I enrolled years ago but lost my number — do I enrol again?
No — never double-enrol. Your NIN exists; retrieve it by dialling *346# from the phone number you enrolled with (small telco charge), or via NIMC's self-service channels. Duplicate enrolment creates database conflicts that take far longer to fix than a retrieval takes.
My name/date of birth is wrong on my NIN — how bad is it?
Bad enough to fix now: your passport, BVN and SIM records are all drawn from or checked against your NIN, so an error there blocks or corrupts everything downstream. Corrections run through NIMC's self-service modification portal with supporting documents and official fees — we navigate the sequence (affidavit → NIN correction → then passport) so nothing bounces.
Can I get a NIN for my child?
Yes — minors are enrolled with a birth certificate and a parent/guardian present (with their own NIN). Children need NINs for passports, school exams and increasingly everything else, so diaspora families especially should handle this before travel plans, not during them.
I'm abroad — do I have to fly home for this?
No — NIMC-licensed diaspora partners run walk-in centres across the UK, US, Canada and other countries, and some Nigerian embassies facilitate enrolment. Fees apply abroad. Alternatively, enrol free at any NIMC office on your next trip home — but if your passport has expired, you'll need the NIN first to renew it, which is exactly the trap the diaspora centres exist to solve.
Eleven digits. Everything else follows.
Bring the right documents, do it once — and if you'd rather have help at every step, the desk is one message away.
Get NIN help → Message the NIN desk