Ugandan Government Extends Deadline For Expiry Of Old Passports Again
January 10, 2021Government has announced the extension of the deadline for the expiry of the old machine-readable passports to 2022.
Following the introduction of the new East African E-passport, government had mulled plans to have the old machine-readable passports phased out for the new ones.
However, according to the latest statement by the Ministry of Internal Affairs Permanent Secretary, Benon Mutambi, government has decided to halt plans to phase out the old passports by January 2021 as had earlier been announced.
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The Ministry of Internal Affairs Permanent Secretary however urged members of the public to use this window until 2022 to acquire the new e-passports to avoid any inconveniences when the deadline approaches.
Government recently moved passport applications online, a process which is quicker since it doesn’t need one to get recommendations from local leaders as was the procedure in the past.
The new online system is integrated with the National Identity Registration Authority-NIRA where information on national IDs is used for the passport.
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