Nigerian consulates in Arkansas
Arkansas sits in the Atlanta district. Little Rock is roughly eight hours by road from the consulate, which is a long day but not an impossible one.
Which office covers Arkansas
Nigeria assigns Arkansas to the Consulate General of Nigeria in Atlanta, and that assignment is published rather than inferred.
The 3 places below run from 529 miles and 9 h 47 min (Little Rock) out to 710 miles and 12 h 49 min (Fayetteville), with Atlanta at the other end and a 640-mile average in between.
Distances from Arkansas
| City | Office | Distance | Driving time* |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fayetteville | Atlanta | 710 mi | 12 h 49 min |
| Fort Smith | Atlanta | 680 mi | 12 h 19 min |
| Little Rock | Atlanta | 529 mi | 9 h 47 min |
*Calculated at posted speed limits and without traffic, so a real journey always runs longer.
What you can settle from Arkansas
Distance matters less for this half of the paperwork:
- Police clearance certificate, requested from the Nigeria Police Force, never from a consulate
- Birth certificate, issued in Nigeria by the National Population Commission
- Consular registration, a form that costs nothing and takes minutes
- Emergency Travel Certificate, posted to the consulate, with no counter visit
The eleven procedure guides
Eleven procedures explained, from the passport to a burial permit:
- Nigerian passport renewal
- Applying for a Nigerian visa
- NIN enrolment from abroad
- Emergency Travel Certificate: flying home without a passport
- Nigerian dual citizenship and US naturalisation
- Nigerian birth certificates and attestation of birth
- Nigerian police clearance certificate from abroad
- Age declaration: fixing a date of birth
- Burial transit permit
- Consent letters for minors
- Consular registration
Fayetteville, in the north-west corner, is further still. Anything that can be done online is worth doing before booking a consular day.
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