Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration Control (DCIC) has revealed that Ugandans with expired National Identity Cards (IDs) shall still be eligible to acquire new passports. According to the Directorate, many people have been expressing worries about what will happen since most of the …
Read More »Ugandans start losing appetite for passports
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Internal Affairs has reported a significant drop in numbers of applicants for Ugandan passports. The Internal Affairs spokesperson Simon Peter Mundeyi said the Covid-19 pandemic saw an increase in the number of Ugandans applying for passports, prompting them to upgrade their system, …
Read More »Operation nets 1600 foreigners without proper documentation
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Statistics released by the Department of Inspection and Legal Services (DILS) in the Ministry of Internal Affairs indicate that 1,655 foreigners were arrested and interrogated between July and December 2023 on suspicion of illegally staying in the country. Headed by Dr. Josephine Ekwang Ali, …
Read More »Directorate of citizenship and immigration stuck with more than 5,000 passports
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration Control (DCI) has revealed that they are stuck with more than 5,000 passports over partial details. Simon Peter Mundeyi, the Spokesperson for the Ministry of Internal Affairs said that their system shows most of the passports that are …
Read More »Labour exporters warned for illegally withholding 8,000 passports
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Labor exporters are illegally withholding more than 8,000 passports, the Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration Control (DCIC) has revealed. Simon Peter Mundeyi, the Internal Affairs Ministry Spokesperson, says that they have been receiving complaints from mostly women whose passports have been confiscated by labour export firms. …
Read More »COMMENT: Satisfying experience at both NIRA, passport and driving permit offices
COMMENT | Samson Tinka | On 22nd Aug 2023, I started a process of acquiring my children’s passports. One of the requirements is that children applying for passports must have birth certificates from NIRA. That condition alone almost stopped me from starting the passport acquisition process. For many years, the NIRA …
Read More »Eritrean found with 80 passports at Entebbe Airport
Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Aviation Police, in conjunction with immigration officials, has launched a search for the owners of 80 passports discovered in the possession of an Eritrean national identified as Ali Hassan Hida. Hida was apprehended by the AVIPOL and immigration team at Entebbe Airport two …
Read More »Internal Affairs stuck with 20,000 uncollected passports
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Internal Affairs said it is currently stuck with over 20,000 new passport booklets that have not been picked by owners. Simon Peter Mundeyi, the ministry spokesperson said with the 3000 passports processed and printed every day, the Directorate of Immigration and Citizenship …
Read More »Weak Ugandan passports and powerful passports
New rankings show world is opening up – but not for everyone Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Imagine nine east Africans, one from each of the regional countries, travelling to Hong Kong on a business trip. The Ugandan, Kenyan, and Tanzanian would not need a visa. But the Rwandan, Ethiopian, …
Read More »Immigration, police warn Ugandans on fraudulent passport, visa agencies
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration Control has cautioned Ugandans against falling into traps by people purporting to help them secure visas, passports and jobs. The directorate says that cases of passport, visa and job scams have become rampant in recent months, many of them …
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