By Bida Elly David<\/p>\n
Directorate for Civil Registry, Nationality, Passport, and Immigration (DCRPI) has received 20,000 passport booklets from a German firm after clearing outstanding financial debts for the IT Company.<\/p>\n
Deputy Director of Finance at the Directorate, Phillip Kuch said the booklets received were part of 212,000 passports formerly ordered for production.<\/p>\n
He said the department had recently received 10,000 booklets before the new consignment.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you sum up the two shipments, it will give a cumulative sum of 30,000, respectively, with a balance of 182,000 that are yet to be imported into the Country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
According to the deputy director, the current passport booklets will take two years to run out of stock, noting that there are enough to be used.<\/p>\n
He said that the booklets would have reached South Sudan earlier than now, but financial constraints from the government\u2019s side impeded the process.<\/p>\n
“We have now received more passport booklets that were left behind. The reason we did not have these booklets was because we had arrears of $1.7 million to be paid for passport printing,” he said.<\/p>\n
Kuch, who said the Ministry of Finance has cleared the money, underlined that the government faced a series of drawbacks during the logistical and procurement processes of the passport booklets.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t easy to persuade the printing company in Germany to release the passport booklets\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
The deputy director of finance appreciated the Ministry of Finance and economic planning for releasing the money to settle the outstanding debts for the release of the passport booklets.<\/p>\n
Kuch apologized on behalf of the immigration department, for delays in the processing of passports, particularly for students and people with health issues.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Director of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the immigration department, David Oromo, said the database has had cumulative passport backlogs for the last seven years.<\/p>\n
“We have been having about 70,000 unissued passports due to a lack of booklets, but as you can see today, we have a backlog of passports in the system,” Oromo said.<\/p>\n
He called on citizens who failed to pick up their passports to immediately get them, saying that their store is getting full.<\/p>\n
“Once we store these passports for six months and you don\u2019t report, we shall take them into our stores,” he said.<\/p>\n
Omoro, however, warned the public against collaborating with non-officers in the immigration office, saying that most of them are crooks and sycophants.<\/p>\n
Oromo said the immigration department doesn\u2019t have enough to store all the passports, adding that the temperature of the house is another factor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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