Date of Birth Issues on Transcripts and Parents’ Parts in the Problem

 Date of Birth Issues on Transcripts and Parents’ Parts in the Problem

Not until more and more years of attending to clients on their DOB discrepancy problem they are having on their academic transcripts and other documents, I originally believed the two major causes of DOB dissimilarities in documents among Nigerian graduates are:

(1). the insecurities of gaining admission too early or too late par age, that students feel the need to adjust their DOB to fit the admission age they feel secure with; and

(2). Students having the fear of post-graduation realities that could be caused by age (i.e. NYSC’s graduation age bar of 30 for disqualification from service, age discrimination rampant among Nigerian employers for selection for employment, retirement age factors, visa age factors, and so on).

More years of hearing DOB discrepancy cases, I have gotten to learn that parents/guardians spearheading their children/ward’s admissions and documents processing is unarguably the number one cause of the DOB discrepancy problems children/wards usually have to battle with later after graduation (when they are adults)—especially when they now want to process some kind of international admission, visa, employment or sort. Some Nigerian institutions and organisations might ignore a core dissimilarity on your documents, oyinbo will not ignore it, and a lot of opportunities can be denied just because of such fault.

It is a good thing for a child to have an adult monitoring and running their admissions for them, and also guiding them as well as helping them do things on their behalf, but it is time it gets known that as good as it is for the child, it can also be his/her misfortune later if the adult makes any mistake about any core information. If you are helping the younger ones do things that involve documents or will involve documents later—especially things that require their DOB, make sure you are not the one to make the decision for them—even if you know their DOB, it is possible they have been using on other documents/activities/programmes a different DOB from the one you know. I have heard a lot of adults sounding like they dislike their dad, mum, aunt, uncle or cousin for being the cause of the DOB issue they are having and will have to spend a lot of money to be able to rectify or lose so many life-changing opportunities. Don’t be your child/ward’s problem just because you are trying to help them achieve success on a thing.

If you are a person someone has caused this problem of DOB discrepancies on documents for, or maybe you caused yours yourself, we are able to solve this problem in several universities in the southwest, southeast and up north, although not for a token; it is a very expensive process because: (1). schools normally don’t correct DOB’s when it’s the DOB you gave them when you were admitted and you didn’t correct it before you graduated, so the solution path is always backdoors, and backdoors are never cheap; (2). several people and offices will be involved in solving this problem, with each of them collecting a good sum for their service and the risk they are taking. Bottomline, a person who cannot afford DOB modification on the academic transcript cannot get it.

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