The National Youth Service Corps relocation and redeployment exercise for Batch A, B, C corps members comes up in every batch and streams.
The NYSC relocation is transferring a corps member from their original state of orientation exercise camping and place of primary assignment to a new one.
Corps members can request to be relocated for health, family, security, and personal reasons.
To be eligible for relocation, meet these requirements:
- Be a serving corps member.
- Have a valid reason for requesting relocation.
- Have the approval of NYSC.
If you meet these requirements, submit a request for relocation in camp or online portal.
Your request will be reviewed and decided by the officials and management.
Disadvantages
Here are the disadvantages of relocation:
1. Stressful
Moving to a new place can be stressful, even if it is only for a year.
You will have to find a new place to live, get settled in, and make new friends.
This can be especially difficult if you are moving to a place that differs from your hometown.
2. Expensive
Moving can be expensive, especially if you have to pay for transportation, housing, and other expenses.
3. Service Disruption
If you are relocated, you may have to miss some of your training or other activities.
This can disrupt your service and make it difficult to complete your service requirements.
4. Approval Difficulty
The NYSC is not always willing to approve requests, especially if they are not for medical reasons.
Provide powerful evidence to support your request, such as a medical report or a letter from your employer.
If you are considering relocating, weigh the pros and cons carefully.
Relocation can be a great option if you are facing health challenges or if you have a personal reason for needing to relocate.
Be aware of the potential disadvantages before deciding.
There is no specific number of times NYSC can relocate a corps member.
The relocation process can take anywhere from a few weeks to a few months.
The exact time it takes will depend on these factors:
1. The reason for your relocation request.
If you are relocating for health reasons, your request may be approved more quickly than if you are relocating for personal reasons.
2. The availability of PPAs.
If there are limited PPAs available in the location you want to relocate to, your request may take longer to be approved.
3. The workload of the NYSC.
NYSC is a large organization, and they may have a lot of requests to process.
This can delay the approval process.
If you are requesting relocation for health reasons, expedite the process by submitting a medical report from your doctor.
Contact the NYSC directly to inquire about the status of your request.
After you submit your form in camp, the officials will verify the documents and some other things and your relocation letter will be ready.
If your issue is on health ground and it needs serious attention or life-threatening, the management will relocate you immediately and you will leave camp immediately, maybe after 2 days.
If yours is marital ground and you already have a little baby or you are heavily pregnant, the duration of your relocation will be instant.
The camp is not conducive to small babies and pregnant women.
Nursing married mothers will also get their relocation instantly within days.
If yours is based on other reasons, you might get your relocation letter at the end of the orientation camp.
NYSC Relocation Application
Here are the steps to apply for NYSC relocation online:
- Visit the online website.
- Sign in with your email and password (same as the ones you earlier used in registering on the portal).
- Click on “Relocation”.
- Fill in your details appropriately into the fields provided.
You will be notified afterward through text messages and emails about developments on your application (whether it was approved or rejected).
Print NYSC Relocation Letter Online
Follow these steps to print your NYSC relocation letter online:
- Visit the official NYSC portal.
- Log in with your email and password.
- Click on manage relocation.
- Make a payment and wait for it to redirect you after a successful payment.
- Print your payment receipt, which will serve as your evidence of successful payment after printing your relocation letter online.
- After payment, print a redeployment/relocation letter.
- Print the letter in colored and make a copy.
- Take it to your new state of deployment.
- Make copies of the printed letter for reference during your passing out.
NYSC Requirements for Documentation of Relocated Corps Members
Upon approval, corps members are to go for documentation at the NYSC secretariat in the relocated state within a specified period.
Be on your kit and go to the NYSC secretariat in the new state with these documents:
- Relocation approval letter.
- Call up letter.
- Green card.
- Statement of result.
- Passport photograph.
- NYSC ID card.
- Photocopy of physical verification clearance (foreign graduates only).
Cancellation
Relocation is not something you apply for fun or do because your friends are applying for it.
Assuming you finally made a mistake or after applying for relocation, you discover you are in love with the state and then want to cancel it.
Here is what you will do.
If you applied for relocation and you are still in camp when you changed your mind, all you have to do is go to the camp commandant through your platoon instructors or just go directly.
You will need a good reason, and it might get canceled it for you.
If you applied online after the orientation camp, go straight to the L.I and inform him or her about the cancellation of your relocation.
If the redeployment letter is already out with your new state, and you want to cancel it, you will need your state coordinator.
Most of the time, relocation cancelation can be stressful and doesn’t work out.
Once you apply, there is no going back.
