Registry entry

Application for Nigeria Standard Passport (Form C1) — Adult

Apply for a Nigerian standard (e-)passport through the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS)'s "Form C1 — Application for Nigeria Standard Passport", scoped to the Adult applicant pathway (the specimen's own header prints a shared ADULT/MINOR toggle, but carries no distinct fields for the Minor pathway beyond that single toggle; Minor-specific requirements, if any exist on a fuller specimen, are left as a future-cycle candidate rather than assumed here), closing Nigeria's Passport vertical (5 of 6, alongside Business Formation, Taxes, Visa, and National ID; continuing the Nigeria research thread from GOV-2567/GOV-2569, where this candidate was first identified and left as backlog). This specimen is a flat, print-and-hand-fill PDF (0 AcroForm widgets, confirmed via `pdfjs-dist` `getAnnotations()` across all 6 pages) distributed by the Nigeria High Commission, London as part of a bundled "lost passport requirements" packet (HTTP 200, `application/pdf`, 170,446 bytes, `Last-Modified: Tue, 06 Jun 2023`, `sha256:85d970ee602c3bb9d98e1fd850541a8d63d9fd2f5c45c5a6b2281cf98bc317a4`), independently re-fetched and re-extracted this cycle. Form C1 itself occupies only the bundle's first page; the same PDF also bundles three further, distinct documents disclosed here rather than silently dropped: a "Form of Undertaking and Guarantee" (Form P/21, a guarantor affidavit with its own Parts I–III covering guarantor particulars, assets, an overseas-travel-specific declaration, and a notarized undertaking/indemnity), a "Statutory Declaration of Lost Passport" (a notarized affidavit specific to the Nigeria High Commission London's own lost-passport process), and a "Statutory Declaration of Age" (a notarized affidavit for cases where no birth registry existed at the time of the applicant's birth). Per this registry's established companion-document convention, none of these three is modelled as this schema's own `fields[]` (each is a separately executed, separately signed/notarized document with its own signatory), but each is captured as a conditionally-required `documents[]` entry rather than omitted. This schema's 40 `fields[]` entries cover Form C1's own applicant-particulars section (identity, physical description, next-of-kin, and a bounded 4-row "particulars of children to be endorsed on Mother's passport" table, matching this registry's established bounded-repeating-group convention) plus a `reasonForApplication` field (First Issue / Re-issue / Damaged / Lost / Change of data / Dual National) — modelled at its full printed enum breadth rather than narrowed to first-time-adult only, since the specimen itself is structured as one form serving all six reasons and narrowing would contradict this registry's source-fidelity principle. That checkbox set is disclosed as appearing only within the specimen's "For Official Use Only"/receipt-counterfoil portion of page 1 (duplicated across two near-identical receipt blocks), not the applicant-facing top section — included here anyway as core applicant data (the office transcribes the applicant's own stated reason onto the receipt) rather than excluded as pure office administrivia. The specimen's final office-only blocks (authority code, acquisition batch number, application form number, fee amount collected, officer/control-officer signatures, post-issuance passport-number recording) are excluded, consistent with this registry's established "for official use only" exclusion convention. 5 `documents[]` entries capture a caution/false-declaration acknowledgement (quoted verbatim from the specimen's own header warning), a passport fee payment (no fixed amount printed on this specimen), the Form P/21 guarantor undertaking, and the two lost-passport/age statutory declarations (each conditionally required). GovSchema is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the Government of Nigeria, the Nigeria Immigration Service, or the Nigeria High Commission, London.

Registry entry

ng/nis/application-for-nigeria-standard-passport

Jurisdiction
Nigeria · national
Version
1.0.0
Verification
draft
Authority
Nigeria Immigration Service

Authoritative source Form C1 — "Application for Nigeria Standard Passport" (Nigeria Immigration Service), page 1 of a 6-page flat (0 AcroForm widgets) PDF bundle distributed by the Nigeria High Commission, London, which also bundles Form P/21 ("Form of Undertaking and Guarantee", pages 2-3), a "Statutory Declaration of Lost Passport" (page 4), a "Statutory Declaration of Age" (page 5), and a public notice (page 6) — see `verification.notes` and VERIFICATION.md for how each companion document is scoped.

Machine access

Schema document
registry/ng/nis/application-for-nigeria-standard-passport/1.0.0/schema.jsonapplication/schema+json
Verification record
registry/ng/nis/application-for-nigeria-standard-passport/1.0.0/VERIFICATION.mdtext/markdown
Registry catalog
registry/index.jsonone record per schema id

Field reference

40 fields, read from the published schema.json, with names, types, requiredness, and validation as the document states them. The live government form remains the authoritative source.

Fields

  • applicantPhoneNumber string required

    Applicant Phone No

    length: 0–30classification: pii
  • surname string required

    Surname

    length: 0–150classification: pii
  • otherNames string required

    Other Names

    length: 0–150classification: pii
  • sex enum required

    The specimen prints no option beyond the binary Male/Female anywhere on the form.

    enum: male | femaleclassification: pii
  • dateOfBirth date required

    Date of Birth

    classification: sensitive-pii
  • placeOfBirthTown string required

    Place of Birth: Town

    length: 0–100classification: pii
  • placeOfBirthState string required

    Place of Birth: State

    length: 0–100classification: pii
  • stateOfOrigin string required

    Nigerian-specific concept, distinct from place of birth: the state the applicant is indigenous to.

    length: 0–100classification: pii
  • currentAddressState string required

    Current Address: State

    length: 0–100classification: pii
  • currentAddressStreet string required

    Current Address: Street

    length: 0–300classification: pii
  • profession string required

    Profession

    length: 0–150
  • occupation string required

    Printed as a separate blank from Profession; the specimen does not further distinguish the two, so both are modelled faithfully as distinct fields.

    length: 0–150
  • heightInMeters string required

    Height in Meters

    length: 0–30classification: pii
  • eyeColour enum required

    The specimen prints exactly four options in its Colour of Eyes column, no free-text alternative.

    enum: brown | green | grey | blueclassification: pii
  • hairColour enum required

    The specimen prints exactly three options in its Colour of Hair column (black/grey/white), narrower than its Colour of Eyes column; modelled faithfully rather than expanded.

    enum: black | grey | whiteclassification: pii
  • maritalStatus enum required

    Marital Status

    enum: single | married | widowed | divorcedclassification: pii
  • specialFeatures string optional

    Not required: an applicant with no distinguishing marks has nothing to declare and the specimen provides no separate "none" checkbox.

    length: 0–200classification: pii
  • maidenName string optional

    Applicable to an applicant who has been married; not required for an applicant who has never married, since a single applicant has nothing to declare here. Gated on marital status only (the specimen does not separately cross-reference sex against this field).

    length: 0–150classification: pii
  • nextOfKinName string required

    Next of Kin: Name

    length: 0–150classification: pii
  • nextOfKinAddress string required

    Next of Kin: Address

    length: 0–300classification: pii
  • nextOfKinContactTelephone string required

    Next of Kin: Contact Telephone No.

    length: 0–30classification: pii
  • reasonForApplication enum required

    The specimen prints this checkbox set only within its "For Official Use Only"/receipt-counterfoil portion of page 1 (duplicated across two near-identical receipt blocks), not the applicant-facing top section; modelled here as core applicant data since the office transcribes the applicant's own stated reason onto the receipt, not a value the office invents independently. Modelled at the specimen's full 6-value printed breadth rather than narrowed to first-time-adult only: Form C1 is one form serving all six reasons with equal footing, and narrowing would contradict this registry's source-fidelity principle.

    enum: first_issue | re_issue | damaged | lost | change_of_data | dual_national
  • previousPassportNumber string optional

    Applicable only when the reason for application is a lost passport; not applicable for any other reason.

    length: 0–30classification: sensitive-pii
  • child1Name string optional

    The specimen prints a bounded 4-row table (rows 1-4), not an open-ended list; flattened here to child1..4, matching this registry's bounded-repeating-group convention. Not required: an applicant with no children to endorse, or fewer than 4, leaves the remaining rows blank.

    length: 0–150classification: pii
  • child1DateOfBirth date optional

    Particulars of children to be endorsed on Mother's Passport, row 1: Date of Birth

    classification: sensitive-pii
  • child1Sex enum optional

    Particulars of children to be endorsed on Mother's Passport, row 1: Sex

    enum: male | femaleclassification: pii
  • child1PlaceOfBirth string optional

    Particulars of children to be endorsed on Mother's Passport, row 1: Place of Birth

    length: 0–100classification: pii
  • child2Name string optional

    Particulars of children to be endorsed on Mother's Passport, row 2: Name

    length: 0–150classification: pii
  • child2DateOfBirth date optional

    Particulars of children to be endorsed on Mother's Passport, row 2: Date of Birth

    classification: sensitive-pii
  • child2Sex enum optional

    Particulars of children to be endorsed on Mother's Passport, row 2: Sex

    enum: male | femaleclassification: pii
  • child2PlaceOfBirth string optional

    Particulars of children to be endorsed on Mother's Passport, row 2: Place of Birth

    length: 0–100classification: pii
  • child3Name string optional

    Particulars of children to be endorsed on Mother's Passport, row 3: Name

    length: 0–150classification: pii
  • child3DateOfBirth date optional

    Particulars of children to be endorsed on Mother's Passport, row 3: Date of Birth

    classification: sensitive-pii
  • child3Sex enum optional

    Particulars of children to be endorsed on Mother's Passport, row 3: Sex

    enum: male | femaleclassification: pii
  • child3PlaceOfBirth string optional

    Particulars of children to be endorsed on Mother's Passport, row 3: Place of Birth

    length: 0–100classification: pii
  • child4Name string optional

    Particulars of children to be endorsed on Mother's Passport, row 4: Name

    length: 0–150classification: pii
  • child4DateOfBirth date optional

    Particulars of children to be endorsed on Mother's Passport, row 4: Date of Birth

    classification: sensitive-pii
  • child4Sex enum optional

    Particulars of children to be endorsed on Mother's Passport, row 4: Sex

    enum: male | femaleclassification: pii
  • child4PlaceOfBirth string optional

    Particulars of children to be endorsed on Mother's Passport, row 4: Place of Birth

    length: 0–100classification: pii
  • signatureDate date required

    Signature date

Verification record

This file is the source-review record for this document version, per the manual-source-review-v1 practice. It documents the provenance of the published fields and states the current verification claim honestly.

Current claim

  • status: draft
  • verification.method: manual-source-review-v1
  • verification.lastVerifiedAt: 2026-07-12

This is a GovSchema Standard Research cycle (GOV-2577), continuing Nigeria's research thread from GOV-2567 (parent) and GOV-2569 (National ID, 4 of 6), where this candidate — NIS Form C1 via the Nigeria High Commission London mirror — was first identified and left as backlog.

Why this candidate

Nigeria stood at 4 of 6 verticals (Business Formation, Taxes, Visa, National ID) entering this cycle, with Passport as the sole open backlog vertical and DMV a confirmed dead end (state/FRSC licensing is SSO-portal-gated with no downloadable specimen, per GOV-2561). This cycle authors the schema and independently re-verifies the cited source rather than trusting the prior cycle's citation at face value.

Source examined

  • Authority: Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS); distributed by the Nigeria High Commission, London.
  • Document: "APPLICATION FOR NIGERIA STANDARD PASSPORT Form C1"
  • URL (directly retrieved, HTTP 200, no login): https://www.nigeriahc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/LostReqForm.pdf
  • File identity: sha256:85d970ee602c3bb9d98e1fd850541a8d63d9fd2f5c45c5a6b2281cf98bc317a4, 170,446 bytes, Content-Type: application/pdf, Last-Modified: Tue, 06 Jun 2023 05:55:47 GMT. Byte count matches the figure already recorded in CATALOG.md's GOV-2569 update exactly.
  • Retrieved / reviewed: 2026-07-12

The filename (LostReqForm.pdf) is misleading: the PDF is a 6-page bundle assembled by the London mission, of which Form C1 itself is only page 1. The bundle also contains:

  • Pages 2-3: "FORM OF UNDERTAKING AND GUARANTEE" ("Form P/21"), a guarantor affidavit with its own Parts I-III.
  • Page 4: "STATUTORY DECLARATION OF LOST PASSPORT", a notarized declaration specific to this mission's lost-passport process.
  • Page 5: "STATUTORY DECLARATION OF AGE", a notarized declaration used where no birth registry existed at the time of the applicant's birth.
  • Page 6: a public notice (anti-tout warning, e-passport application channel, payment-status lookup instructions) — not a form, no fields.

Extraction method

pdfjs-dist (legacy build, v3, require'd via createRequire) was used for page.getAnnotations() (confirming 0 Widget annotations across all 6 pages — a flat, print-and-hand-fill bundle, the same tier as this registry's ng/nis/application-for-visa-entry-permit precedent) and page.getTextContent() (row-grouped by rounded y-coordinate, sorted left-to-right by x) to read the full printed text of every page directly. With 0 widgets, there are no digital field names to cross-check against; every field in this schema is derived directly from Form C1's own printed labels and row/column position on page 1.

Field inventory

40 fields[] entries, all sourced from page 1:

| Source (page 1) | Printed content | Schema field(s) | |---|---|---| | Header | Applicant Phone No | applicantPhoneNumber | | — | Surname / Other Names | surname, otherNames | | — | Sex: Male Female | sex | | — | Date of Birth (Day/Month/Year) | dateOfBirth | | — | Place of Birth: Town / State | placeOfBirthTown, placeOfBirthState | | — | State of Origin | stateOfOrigin | | — | Current Address: State / Street | currentAddressState, currentAddressStreet | | — | Profession / Occupation | profession, occupation | | — | Height in Meters | heightInMeters | | — | Colour of Eyes (brown/green/grey/blue) | eyeColour | | — | Colour of Hair (black/grey/white) | hairColour | | — | Marital Status (single/married/widowed/divorced) | maritalStatus | | — | Special features | specialFeatures | | — | Maiden Name | maidenName (requiredWhen maritalStatus in married/widowed/divorced) | | — | Next of Kin: Name / Address / Contact Telephone No. | nextOfKinName, nextOfKinAddress, nextOfKinContactTelephone | | For Official Use Only | Reason for application (First Issue / Re-issue / Damaged / Lost / Change of data / Dual National) | reasonForApplication | | For Official Use Only | Lost Previous Passport No. | previousPassportNumber (requiredWhen reasonForApplication=lost) | | Particulars of Children table (bounded 4-row) | Name / Date of Birth / Sex / Place of Birth, rows 1-4 | child1..4Name/DateOfBirth/Sex/PlaceOfBirth | | Receipt footer | Date (beside "Signature or thumbprint of applicant") | signatureDate |

documents[] (5 entries):

  • cautionAcknowledgement — the page-1 header warning, quoted verbatim (attestation).
  • passportFeePayment — "Amount of fees charged" (payment, no fixed amount printed on this specimen).
  • guarantorUndertakingForm — Form P/21 (pages 2-3), modelled as a companion document (supporting-evidence, belongsTo: responsible-party).
  • statutoryDeclarationOfLostPassport — page 4 (supporting-evidence, requiredWhen reasonForApplication=lost).
  • statutoryDeclarationOfAge — page 5 (supporting-evidence, not machine-gated).

The specimen's final office-only block (authority code, acquisition batch number, application form number, fee amount collected by the office, officer/control-officer signatures, post-issuance passport-number recording) is excluded, consistent with this registry's established "for official use only" exclusion convention (cf. ng/nis/application-for- visa-entry-permit's DC-edition page-3 exclusion).

Access notes and judgment calls

  1. Scoped to the Adult applicant pathway. The specimen's header prints a shared ADULT MINOR toggle, but no distinct fields exist anywhere on the page for a Minor applicant beyond that single toggle (no separate parent/guardian-particulars block, unlike this registry's ng/nimc/nin-enrolment-form, which does have a dedicated Guardian Details section). Rather than fabricate Minor-specific fields this specimen does not print, this schema models the Adult pathway only, matching this issue's own title/scope; a Minor-pathway schema is left as a future candidate if a fuller specimen with distinct Minor fields is ever found.
  2. reasonForApplication is modelled at its full 6-value printed breadth, not narrowed to first-time/adult only. Form C1 is structurally one form serving First Issue, Re-issue, Damaged, Lost, Change of data, and Dual National with equal footing (all six printed as one checkbox row); narrowing to a single reason would contradict this registry's source-fidelity principle, which models what the specimen actually asks rather than an assumed narrower scenario.
  3. reasonForApplication's printed position is disclosed as unusual. The checkbox set appears only within the specimen's "For Official Use Only"/receipt-counterfoil portion of page 1 (printed twice, once per near-identical receipt block), not the applicant-facing top section. It is nonetheless modelled as core applicant fields[] data (not excluded as office administrivia) because it represents the applicant's own stated reason for applying, transcribed by the office onto the receipt — unlike the surrounding pure-administrivia fields (authority code, batch number, fee amount, officer signatures), which are excluded.
  4. The guarantor form (Form P/21), the Statutory Declaration of Lost Passport, and the Statutory Declaration of Age are each modelled as a documents[] entry, not as this schema's own fields[]. Each is a separately executed, separately signed/notarized instrument with its own signatory (a guarantor or declarant, distinct from the passport applicant), consistent with this registry's companion-document convention for genuinely distinct bundled forms (cf. the guardian- consent companion-form pattern used elsewhere in this registry). This is a disclosed scoping call, not a silent drop: each companion document's own internal structure (Form P/21's Parts I-III; each statutory declaration's own sworn content) is described in its sourceRef rather than flattened into this schema's fields[].
  5. guarantorUndertakingForm is modelled as required: true, since Form P/21's own header states "(To be furnished by applicant for Nigerian Passports)" without qualification — i.e. it applies to Form C1 applications generally, not only a subset of reasons. Its own Part II (the overseas-travel-specific declaration) carries a narrower, explicitly-stated carve-out ("except those sponsored by the Federal or State Government or Corporation"), quoted in the document's own sourceRef rather than modelled as a machine-checkable condition on this schema (Form C1 has no dedicated "government-sponsored" eligibility field to gate against).
  6. statutoryDeclarationOfLostPassport is gated requiredWhen: { field: "reasonForApplication", equals: "lost" }. Safe to gate this way since reasonForApplication is itself required: true (always present in a conforming submission).
  7. statutoryDeclarationOfAge is not machine-gated. The specimen's own page 5 states this declaration applies "where there was no Birth Registry" at the time of birth — a condition Form C1 provides no dedicated field to check against.
  8. maidenName is gated on maritalStatus via the in operator (["married", "widowed", "divorced"]), not equals, since more than one marital-status value can plausibly carry a maiden name. Safe to gate this way since maritalStatus is itself required: true. The specimen does not separately cross-reference sex against this field, so no additional sex-based condition is modelled.
  9. eyeColour and hairColour are modelled as narrow, source-derived enums (4 and 3 options respectively), not expanded to a fuller real-world colour vocabulary. The specimen prints exactly these options in each column with no free-text alternative; modelled faithfully rather than invented.
  10. No photograph requirement is modelled. Unlike this registry's ng/nis/application-for-visa-entry-permit (which prints an explicit "PHOTOGRAPH" box), the extracted text of all 6 pages of this bundle contains no printed mention of a photograph requirement. This is flagged as a plausible real-world gap (Nigerian passport applications almost certainly require a photograph via the online e-passport portal referenced on page 6) for a future verification cycle, rather than assumed and silently added without source support.
  11. profession and occupation are modelled as two distinct fields, since the specimen prints them as two separate blanks with no further distinguishing text between them.
  12. The 4-row "Particulars of Children to be endorsed on Mother's Passport" table is flattened to child1..child4, matching this registry's established bounded-repeating-group convention (cf. the Visa sibling's 3-row prior-visit table and 4-row countries-lived-in/ visited tables).

Test run (Phase 4)

No live submission was attempted: Nigeria's passport-application channel is a printed, hand-completed application submitted in person or by mail to a specific NIS office or diplomatic mission together with notarized companion documents and a processing fee, not a portal accepting programmatic submissions — the same reasoning already documented for this registry's other NG/NIS and consular schemas (ng/nis/application-for-visa- entry-permit, rw/dgie/visa-application).

Instead, two independent worked mock records were built from this document's own field inventory and checked with a purpose-written script (validate_instance.mjs, mirroring the approach used by the Visa sibling): compiles schema.json's fields[] into a JSON Schema document checked with ajv (+ajv-formats for date), plus a from-scratch evaluator for requiredWhen/documents[] conditional requiredness.

``` $ node validate_instance.mjs registry/ng/nis/application-for-nigeria-standard-passport/1.0.0/schema.json \ conformance/ng/nis/application-for-nigeria-standard-passport/1.0.0/first-issue-single-applicant.json Static (required/type/pattern/enum) validation: PASS requiredWhen/documents[] conditional validation: PASS

OVERALL: PASS

$ node validate_instance.mjs registry/ng/nis/application-for-nigeria-standard-passport/1.0.0/schema.json \ conformance/ng/nis/application-for-nigeria-standard-passport/1.0.0/lost-passport-married-applicant-with-child.json Static (required/type/pattern/enum) validation: PASS requiredWhen/documents[] conditional validation: PASS

OVERALL: PASS ```

Mutation controls — five negative fixtures, each targeting a distinct validation rule:

``` $ # mutation-control-missing-required-field.json: 'surname' (required: true) removed Static (required/type/pattern/enum) validation: FAIL - (root) must have required property 'surname' requiredWhen/documents[] conditional validation: PASS OVERALL: FAIL

$ # mutation-control-invalid-date-format.json: 'dateOfBirth' set to 'not-a-date' Static (required/type/pattern/enum) validation: FAIL - /dateOfBirth must match format "date" requiredWhen/documents[] conditional validation: PASS OVERALL: FAIL

$ # mutation-control-invalid-enum-value.json: 'reasonForApplication' set to 'renewal' (not in enum) Static (required/type/pattern/enum) validation: FAIL - /reasonForApplication must be equal to one of the allowed values requiredWhen/documents[] conditional validation: PASS OVERALL: FAIL

$ # mutation-control-missing-conditional-previous-passport-number.json: reasonForApplication='lost' $ # (with statutoryDeclarationOfLostPassport already provided:true) but 'previousPassportNumber' removed Static (required/type/pattern/enum) validation: PASS requiredWhen/documents[] conditional validation: FAIL - field 'previousPassportNumber' is required (requiredWhen matched) but not provided OVERALL: FAIL

$ # mutation-control-missing-required-document.json: 'guarantorUndertakingForm' removed from documents[] Static (required/type/pattern/enum) validation: PASS requiredWhen/documents[] conditional validation: FAIL - document 'guarantorUndertakingForm' is required but not marked provided OVERALL: FAIL ```

Both meta-schema validators were run against the finished document and pass clean:

``` $ node tools/validate.mjs registry/ng/nis/application-for-nigeria-standard-passport/1.0.0/schema.json ok registry/ng/nis/application-for-nigeria-standard-passport/1.0.0/schema.json

1/1 document(s) passed.

$ node tools/validate-ajv.mjs registry/ng/nis/application-for-nigeria-standard-passport/1.0.0/schema.json ok registry/ng/nis/application-for-nigeria-standard-passport/1.0.0/schema.json [v0.3]

1/1 document(s) validated against the meta-schema (ajv 2020-12). ```

A full-registry run of both validators (387/387 documents plus 3/3 mapping.json companions) also passed clean, and tools/govschema-client/registry-index.json was regenerated via npm run build-index (in tools/govschema-client/, after npm ci --include=dev since a plain npm ci under a local NODE_ENV=production skips ajv's devDependency install) to include this document's entry.

Nigeria's vertical status

Nigeria now stands at 5 of 6 verticals (Business Formation, Taxes, Visa, National ID, Passport). DMV remains a confirmed dead end (state/FRSC driving-licence issuance is SSO-portal-gated nationally with no downloadable blank specimen found at any tier, per GOV-2561's screening pass) — not a hard dead end if a genuinely new third-party-republished specimen surfaces.

View the raw record (VERIFICATION.md)

Version history

  • 1.0.0 draft latest this page has verification record schema.json

Independent and non-affiliated

GovSchema is an independent, open-source project. This reference is not produced, reviewed, or endorsed by Nigeria Immigration Service or any government. The authoritative source is always the live government form and its official instructions.