Africa-Press – Angola. Five hundred and 30 ordinary passports of national citizens, issued between 2021 and 2022, are abandoned at the window of the Migration and Foreigners Service (SME), in Cunene province.
The price for issuing an ordinary passport, within the scope of the new fees for migratory acts, increased from 3,000 until 2019, to 31,500 kwanzas to date. Following Presidential Decree 21/19, of 14 January.
The information was provided this Thursday, to ANGOP, by the director of the Foreign Migration Service (SME) in Cunene, migration commissioner Ribeiro Ferraz, as part of the commemorative day of the body’s 47th anniversary, marked on 19 April.
The source asked users who find themselves in this condition to make their survey at the Migration Files Section, taking into account the importance of it for emergency and scheduled trips.
With regard to the issuance of passports, he explained that during the first quarter of this year, 274 requests for issuance and remission were received, as well as 353 ordinary passports, from the Directorate of Migratory Acts.
He recalled that, in the same period, 1,844 safe-conducts and 12,698 crossing passes were issued for the population residing near the common border, which resulted in the collection of two million, 691,900 kwanzas.
659 inspection actions were also carried out to combat illegal immigration and related crimes, which resulted in the registration of 173 migratory offenses, involving 129 Namibian citizens for illegally entering and staying in the country.
The official made it known that over the period, 130 citizens of Namibian, South African, Chinese, Mozambican and Brazilian origin were notified to leave the national territory, due to illegal stay.
Likewise, they saw 28 citizens, 23 from Namibia, two from Mozambique, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Guinea Conakry, with one each, being expelled through the border post of Santa-Clara, Calueque and Okalongo.
In the field of migratory movement, he said that the exit and entry of 205,492 citizens were controlled, of which 56,418 were foreigners, mostly Namibians, at the border posts of Santa Clara, Calueque, Ruacaná and Okalongo.
The SME in Cunene controls 570 foreign citizens, 443 with work visas, 72 residents, 55 with temporary stay, 26 convicts and six detainees.
The province of Cunene shares 460 kilometres, 340 land and 120 river borders with the Republic of Namibia.
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