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FRSC to applicants: Use bypass capture for renewal of drivers licence

David Adenekan
David Adenekan

The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, has advised members of the public applying for drivers licence to use the bypass capture scheme of the process.

This is to ease the process and prevent them from flooding the FRSC Drivers Licence Centres.

FRSC gave the advice in a press statement issued by its Corps Public Education Officer FRSC, Mr. Bisi Kazeem.

He explained that the FRSC introduced the Bypass Capture functionality on the National Drivers Licence (NDL) to improve the ease of obtaining the licence and save applicants time on waiting for capture.

According to Kazeem, an applicant for bypass capture would simply make payment online and visit the collection centre to pick up the permanent licence when it was ready.

He said there was no need to visit any Drivers Licence Centre (DLC) to recapture his/her biometric information again.

An applicant who is either renewing or applying for a re-issue, he stated, could use the bypass capture feature.

Said he:  “The bypass capture is only available to applicants who have existing biometric information on the NDL system i.e. such an applicant must have gone through the FRSC Driver’s License process and have their biometric capture at any of the FRSC DLC.”

According to him, an applicant could only apply for bypass capture for the first licence renewal which is after three (3) or five (5) years.

“The second renewal (which will be after a minimum of six (6) years, will require an applicant to recapture his biometrics,” he said.

Kazeem explained further that the first licence considered as a fresh application would require an applicant to capture his/her biometric at any of the DLC.

He said for the second licence which is a renewal or reissue, the applicant could choose to bypass capture since his record was already existing on the NDL database and the third license renewal would require applicant to recapture his biometric information as it was expected that there should be some changes to the applicant’s physical appearance at that period.

Subsequent renewal would follow the same cycle, he stated.

Also, Kazeem explained that the first step to begin the bypass capture process was for the applicant to visit the NDL portalhttps://www.nigeriadriverslicence.org, select the type of application (Renewal or Reissue) then provide the licence number and Date of Birth.

He added:  “The applicant thereafter reviews his existing demographic information to be sure all is correct, scroll to the bottom of the page and select which DLC to pick up the permanent licence when it is ready for collection.

“The applicant also selects “NO” where the page requests if an applicant wants to recapture his biometric information, submits the application, makes payment either online or at the bank and prints out the payment acknowledgement slip together with the application form (these will be required to collect the permanent licence.

“Finally, FRSC notifies the applicant when the permanent licence is printed and ready for collection.”

 

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