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At least 1,470 illegal immigrants were caught by the Department of Immigration in the Kagera region between January and June 30, this year, the regional agent of 39, Kagera immigration, said Mr. Abdallah Towo. Towo told reporters at a press conference that foreigners included 994 Burundians, 223 Ugandans, 193 Rwandans, 19 Ethiopians, 39 from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and two Kenyans.
He said that out of 1300 deportees in their country of origin, 59 were arrested, adding that about 90 foreigners serving a prison sentence had served their sentences and thus were deported.
According to Mr. Towo, about 5,787 Burundians from Mtendeli Refugee Camp, Nduta and Nyarugusu in Kigoma The area and a few others from Rumasi Transit Camp in Ngara District have voluntarily returned home.
He noted that about 491,513 residents had been registered to obtain national identity cards from the ex. stitched 1,200,000. He also revealed that to date, about 64 ePbadports had been issued after launch launch on June 8 this year.
Tanzania rolled out the new e-pbadport of the East African Community in January of this year to replace the existing national documents, which are scheduled to be in place by January 2020.
President John Magufuli has attended the launch stating that the ePbadport would bring lasting solutions to a number of problems related to immigration services in the country. [19659009"Jesuissatisfaitdeschangementsc'estuntravailbienfaitparleDépartementdel'Immigrationvousavezmonsoutien"adéclaréleDrMagufuli[19659008]. The use of new technology in issuing pbadports should fill any gaps. Tanzania becomes the second member country of the East African Community (EAC) to deploy ePbadports after Kenya which launched the documents in September, last year, 17 years later the discussions to develop the comm
The 35th Council of Ministers of EAC, meeting last April, asked the Member States to start issuing the regional electronic pbadport by January 2018. The Tanzanians will continue to use old pbadports until 2020, by which time they will be totally eliminated.
The new technology for printing the ePbadport in Tanzania was installed by the American company HID with the support of the Irish government and cost about 58 million dollars.
The new travel document will cost $ 67.5 (150,000 / -) and will be valid for 10 years.
Gerald Kihinga, Commissioner of Pbadports and Citizenship of the Immigration Department, noted that the introduction of ePbadports would accompany a modernization of services to the department in order to comply with the rapid settlement.
The ePbadport is endowed with a machine-readable computer chip that contains the holder's biometric information on a tamper-proof page, and has been touted as a major step in the fight against fraud. fraud and easing at international airports where electronic readers are installed.
"It will not be easy to make a copy. It will remain authentic and will last as long and contain many more pages than the previous ones
It will help the department to stop the misuse or fraudulent use of the manual pbadport issuance system, "he said.
According to Mr. Kihinga to date about 17,289 ordinary pbadports, 56 service pbadports, 248 diplomatic pbadports and 2 special diplomatic pbadports have been issued
Five regions have already launched electronic pbadports, including Dodoma, Dar es Salaam, Arusha, Kilimanjaro and Kagera
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