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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>In an effort to increase efficiency and security, the Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration control (DCIC) has announced that all Ugandans arriving from abroad have the option to utilize the self-clearance gates at Entebbe International Airport.<\/b><\/p>\n

The new e-gates at the airport will speed up passport control by allowing passengers to scan their own passports. It uses facial recognition to verify identity and captures the travelers\u2019 images.<\/p>\n

Ministry of Internal Affairs spokesperson Simon Mundeyi Wednesday told that people flying into Uganda will be required to provide fingerprints and undergo facial scanning for authentication and verification of the data on the passport chip.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe encouraged Ugandans to adopt this technology since it\u2019s efficient, saves time and minimizes errors. The e-gate machines at the airport have advanced technology which is tailored specifically to expedite the clearance process,\u201d Mundeyi observed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are many stations at the airport and they are only for Ugandans arriving back home with the new electronic passports which contain a chip, which is readable by the machines,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

But Mundeyi expressed concern that the gates are underutilized as Ugandans prefer interacting with people rather than machines even as machines are available at multiple points, but visibly left unused as people queue at immigration officer points.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s essential to emphasize that this system was specifically designed for Ugandan citizens,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Last year, government announced the upgrade of paper-based e-passport to polycarbonate e-passports designed with strong anti-fraud features, making them suitable for use at the new electronic gates at the airport for self-clearance, automated boarding pass issuance, and quick passenger processing around the world.<\/p>\n

According to immigration, as per last week, they had issued out only 1,346,560 passports -both paper based and polycarbonate– from the time they phased out EA passports in 2018, noting that over 43 million Ugandans don\u2019t have passports.<\/p>\n

Despite significant government investment in passport technology, Mundeyi said the anticipated surge has not yielded.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany Ugandans only apply for passports when they have a specific reason, such as travel or employment abroad,\u201d he told.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the passport office, we would feel glad to have many Ugandans apply for passports. Therefore, we put in place a new system because we anticipated 3,000 passport applications per day but to our surprise, the number has reduced to less than 1,000 applicants per day,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

According to Internal Affairs ministry, express passport applications are now disposed of in two days with applicants receiving their passports while for ordinary applicants get their passports in 10 working days.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you apply for an express passport, you will be given an appointment in the next 30 minutes. I therefore call upon Ugandans to desist from using brokers to apply for passports because there is no reason to do this when the system is as efficient as it can be,\u201d Mundeyi said.<\/p>\n

How the e-gate works<\/b><\/p>\n

1. Touch the screen<\/p>\n

2. \u2060 Place your passport and scan it and hold it until the machine tells you to remove the passport<\/p>\n

3. You identify if the scanned passport and the person in the system as identified is yourself by touching yes<\/p>\n

4. \u2060 You select the flight used and the element of returning citizen<\/p>\n

5. You proceed to look into the camera which is above the screen so that the system can match your facial features with the record in the ABC<\/p>\n

6. \u2060 Finally, it will issue you a ticket that you will proceeded to use at the e-gates. The gates open by scanning the barcode on the ticket and looking straight into the camera for face capture.<\/p>\n

Source: Monitor<\/b><\/p>\n

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