Registration Requirements For NYSC 2017/18

This is to hereby inform all prospective corps members, especially Nigerians students who have graduated from Universities and Mono/Polytechnics both at home and abroad that the NYSC On-line registration portal will be opened from Monday 17th april till Thursday 4th May, 2017 to enable them register for the 2017 Batch ‘A’ mobilization.

In order to ensure a successfull registration, prospective corps members are to take note of the following,compliance is necessary:

The Official Websites to visit are as follows :

1. www.nysc.gov.ng
2. www.nysc.org.ng
3. www.portal.nysc.org.ng

Prospective Corps members should ensure that they have functional e-mail addresses that they can access and Nigerian (GSM) telephone numbers with which to register.
Locally trained prospective Corps members are expected to use correct Matriculation numbers to register.
For locally-trained graduates, only those whose names appear in the Senate/Academic Board Approved Result lists submitted by their Institutions will have access to the register on the NYSC portal.
Foreign-trained prospective corps members should ensure that their Institutions are accredited. Where in doubt, it is their responsibility to approach Federal Ministry of Education for verification. The letter of verification must be uploaded during registration.
Those who graduated from Institutions outside Nigeria soil (i.e Foreign-trained graduates), are to visit the NYSC portal, register and upload the following documents:

West African School Certificate(WASC) (with not less than 5 Credits at 2 sittings) or its equivalent; or General Certificate of Education (GCE O’ Level) (with not less than 5 Credits at 2 sittings) or its equivalent; or NECO (with not less than 5 Credits at 2 sittings) or its equivalent; or High School Diploma or its equivalent.
First Degree or Higher National Diploma (HND) Certificate (Second Degree or Ph.D not necessary).
Transcript of the first Degree or HND. International travelling Passport showing data page and date of departure for the course of study.

• Foreign-trained prospective corps members who studied in non-English speaking countries should ensure to get their Certificates and Transcripts translated into English language before uploading them.

• All graduates of Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, Physiotheraphy, Radiology, Optometry, Medical Laboratory Science and Pharmacy are expected to have their Certificates of Registration with their professional bodies. Payment receipts are not acceptable.

• Unlike in the past, Foreign-trained graduates should NOT visit NYSC Headquarters, Abuja for verification of their documents. This exercise will now be done at the Orientation Camps. They should simply print their call-up letters on-line and report at the Orientation camps in their States of deployment, but should come to the camp with the original documents they uploaded for verification.

• Anybody who presents any fake document will be demobilized and decamped with immediate effect.

Prospective corps members should ensure that Passport photographs used meet the following specifications:

- Ensure your face (eyes, nose, ears, mouth and jaw) is fully shown and clear without          bending
- Ensure the picture fills the frame and centralized
- Ensure the Photo background is white or off-white with no shadow.

On no account should prospective corps members register by PROXY.
They should also remember the fingers used for their biometric capturing as these will be used for verification at the orientation camps. Those who cannot be verified with their biometric at the orientation camp will not be registered.
Only prospective corps members who want their call-up numbers sent to them through SMS and wish to PRINT their call-up letters on-line are expected to pay the sum of Three Thousand Naira (N3,000.00) (see NYSC Portal on how to make payment www.portal.nysc.org.ng).
Prospective Corps members who do not want to pay the N3,000.00 have the option of going to their schools to collect their call-up numbers and call-up letters.
All prospective corps members who paid for the online registration before but were not mobilized need not pay again.
Married female prospective corps members (whether locally or foreign-trained) should upload copies of their marriage Certificates, evidence of Change of name and their husbands’ place of domicile during registration.
The orientation camp is highly not ideal for pregnant and nursing mothers. Prospective corps members in this categoriy are therefore to note that they will not be accommodated.
Prospective corps members who graduated from Institutions located in the following Geo-Political Zones with challenges related to mobilization should contact the following Telephone Numbers between 17th April to 4th May, 2017:
North Central - 08092142614
North East - 08102790538
North West - 08092142661
South East - 09038034460
South West - 07019190810
South South - 08092142616

All Part-time graduates are expected to register online and wait for collection of their Letter of Exclusion at their various Universities. For those willing to print the Letter of Exclusion online, this can be done on payment of Three Thousand Naira (N3, 000.00) only as stated earlier.

PLEASE NOTE THAT ONCE THE PORTAL IS CLOSED ON THURSDAY, 4TH May 2017, THERE WILL BE NO FURTHER REGISTRATION.