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Nigeria High Commission

Canberra, Australia

Requirements for Police Character Clearance Certificate:

  • Two passport size photographs
  • Photocopies of relevant pages of your present passport
  • 1 complete set of your fingerprints in a prescribed from of an Australian police station (and not on a Nigerian police format)
  • A processing fee of the sum of seventy Australian dollars (AU$70.00) or fifty United States dollars (US$50.00) (if application is sent directly to Nigeria) in bank draft or postal money order in favour of the Nigeria High Commission in Canberra;
  • Administration fee of AU$50.00 in postal money order in favour of the Nigeria High Commission in Canberra; and,
  • Copies of request for the character clearance certificate

Please be advised that the processing of the certificate usually takes some time, possibly six month or more. In view of time constraints, you may also wish to explore the possibility of requesting your friends/relations/employers whom you once worked with back in Nigeria to contact the Nigerian police directly for the character certificate, on your behalf, through the address below:

    The Registrar of Criminals
    Central Criminal Registrar
    The Office of the Inspector-General of Police
    Federal Investigation and Intelligence Bureau (FIIB)
    Alagbon Close
    P.M.B. 12513 Ikoyi Lagos NIGERIA