📋 Tender Overview
The electronic passport should start operating in the last quarter of this year Joo da Costa Dias director-general of the Migration and Foreigners Service SME said on Thursday in Luanda.The official who was speaking at a meeting with the deputies of the III Committee of the National Assembly at the headquarters of the SME indicated that the Executive is working quickly to make the document come into force.Angola has a defined period to present this document he said stressing that the Executive should be quick in the process of launching the biometric passport. During the meeting with parliamentarians the director general of the SME announced shortly within 60 days the launch of the new model for identifying refugees who are under control in the SME database.We will end the documents that are circulating he said.Joo da Costa Dias said that Angola in coordination with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ended the refugee status of three countries Sierra Leone Liberia and Rwanda.Many of them who have been in Angola for more than 10 years will receive resident status. Those who decide to return to their countries must do so voluntarily he stressed.Regarding visa exemption Joo da Costa Dias recalled that the SME coordinated the technical groups to operationalize the visa suppression project.The Migration and Foreigners Service he added negotiated the agreement with South Africa Zambia Mozambique Malawi and eSwatini.For the head of the SME the mobility of citizens in SADC due to the visa exemption was a greater gain than the countries of the region had.In his opinion mobility will be greater with the implementation of Univisa for the implementation of the Okavango-Zambeze Project. This special visa he said will absorb tourism in countries in the SADC region.Joo da Costa Dias said that the institution he runs recently presented the package for work visa facilitation.The official told deputies that the SME created a one-stop shop at the Private Investment and Export Promotion Agency AIPEX to answer questions of public interest. Visas he said are delivered to applicants within 15 to 30 days.The official indicated that the priority is the training of seven thousand employees at national level. This number according to Joo da Costa Dias is limited to the total coverage of the SMEs activity.Rate applied to passportsThe Director of Migratory Acts Engrcia Francisco affirmed that Angola applies the rate for the issue of the most accessible passport in the world.The official indicated that the price of a passport abroad is higher than 30500 kwanzas.Engrcia Francisco admitted that the increase in passport prices led to a decrease in demand for this document.Regarding citizens who left the country with false documents the SME according to the official has already identified the countries and the networks of counterfeiters that facilitate the process.We have many citizens who do not appear at embassies do not submit their documentation and the SME only receives those processes that the embassy controls and in these documents many processes are doubtful he said.
