Udaba lwamapasi amasha ezakhamizi ze Umphakathi waseMpumalanga Afrika imisiwe okwesikhashana ukuze kuvunyelwe izici ezintsha ezisezingeni eliphezulu ukuthi zifakwe kuhlelo olulandelayo. Njengamanje, ama-passport awafundeki ngomshini noma aphathe idatha ye-biometric kuma-chips afakwe ekhompyutheni, futhi ukuze awenze amukeleke kabanzi, lezi zengezo ezintsha kufanele zihlungwe kuqala.
Lawa mapasi ayedumile e-Uganda naseKenya, lapho abahambi babedinga kuphela isigxivizo samapasi abo kanye njalo ezinyangeni eziyisithupha uma bewela imingcele kazwelonke beya kwelinye lamazwe angamalungu e-EAC, kodwa kuphinde kwavela izinsolo zokuthi izikhulu zabokufika emingceleni yezwe nasezikhumulweni zezindiza. wavele wayishaya indiva le mithetho futhi elokhu eyigxiviza noma yikanjani njengamapasi esizwe. IBurundi neRwanda, ngemuva kokujoyina i-EAC ngonyaka odlule, bebengakaluqalisi udaba lwalezi zincwadi zokuhamba.
Amaphasiphothi e-EAC nawo awazange avunyelwe ukudlula lesi sifunda, njengoba abantu abaningi abahamba njalo bephethe amaphasipoti kazwelonke nawe-EAC, isimo uNobhala Womphakathi wase-East African e-Arusha ethembise ukusisingatha kusenesikhathi ukuze kuqalwe ukukhishwa kwamapasi esizukulwane esilandelayo se-EAC. . Khonamanjalo, izakhamizi zamazwe amahlanu angamalungu azosebenzisa amaphasipoti azo kazwelonke ukuhamba esifundeni.
LOKHO ONGAKUTHATHE KULESI SIHLOKO:
- The EAC passports were also not commonly accepted beyond the region, having many regular travelers carry both national and EAC passports, a situation the secretariat of the East African Community in Arusha also promised to address in time for the start of issuing the next generation EAC passports.
- The passports were popular in Uganda and Kenya, where travelers only needed to have their passports stamped once in every six months if moving across the national borders to one of the EAC member states, but allegations have also emerged that immigration officials at land borders and airports just ignored these rules and kept stamping them anyway like national passports.
- The issue of new passports for citizens of the East African Community has been temporarily suspended to allow new state-of-the-art features to be incorporated in the next edition.
