Passports

A passport officer at the Registrar-General’s Office will remain in custody pending trial on charges allegedly demanding a bribe from a passport applicant after the High Court threw out her appeal for bail.
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Passport seekers will soon be able to apply for the travel document in the comfort of their homes and schedule appointments with the Registrar-General’s Office online, following efforts being made to consolidate data that enables one to do…
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The government has introduced night shifts for round-the-clock production of passports to clear a backlog that has resulted in people having to sleep at registry offices.
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The government yesterday marginally reviewed upwards, application fees for ordinary passports and approved the release by Treasury of US$4,5 million to boost the production cycle of passports and clear a 256 000 backlog.
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Touts operating outside the Bulawayo Passport Offices are allegedly cashing in on desperate travel document seekers as they claim to be working with registry officials to facilitate processing of passports.
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The Registrar-General’s Department has increased its production capacity for passports from 60 to 800 a day and is targeting to print 8 000 in the same period in the next few weeks following the delivery of new equipment and consumables.
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A shadowy Israeli security company, Nikuv International Projects Ltd contracted to produce passports is now giving government a headache as it is failing to hand-over the contract to Fidelity Printers since the company still has a running…
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Government yesterday said production of passports is expected to improve within a month as Treasury has bought new machines to print the travel documents at a cost of nearly US$600 000.
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Beitbridge residents have called on Government to decentralise the issuance of passports to district level to ease the challenges that people are encountering when applying for the travel documents.
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A BULAWAYO man who masqueraded as an immigration official has been arrested after being found with 107 passports, police have confirmed. Detectives arrested Thulani Humbe, 29, in an early morning raid at a house in Cowdray Park suburb.
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