Angola Executive Approves Tender

The Law Proposal of the Angolan Passport and the Exit and Entry Regime of the National Citizen was validated on Thursday 27 in Luanda at the VI Meeting of the Council of Ministers chaired by the President of the Republic Joao Lourenco.The document approved by the Council of Ministers will be sent to the National Assembly for discussion and voting. Gil Famoso director general of the Migration and Foreigners Service SME told the press in the margins of the meeting that the biometric passport guarantees a higher level of security because it consists of fingerprints face and identification.In addition to requiring it to be dealt with in person it prevents third parties from initiating their issuance process. Regarding the passports for minors the official explained that the parents or legal representatives are the only people who should start the process of issuing a passport which must incorporate the data of the country or tutors.When you go into circulation the biometric passport will apply simultaneously with the current one. However only until the expiration of the passport in use according to Gil Famoso. The great innovation of this law has to do with the integration in the passport of a chip that reproduces integrally the biometric elements of the holder who are registered in a chip incorporated in the passport he said.For now the changes from the current passport to the new pass through the ballot and an international biometric symbol capable of identifying and attesting whether one is in the presence of an electronic passport or not.In the data page a chip is incorporated that will have inside the citizen data that can only be read by electronic devices.This means that the citizen when arriving at the airport may have access to an electronic port that will automatically read the data showing the citizens face on the screen the biometric and citizen identification data incorporated in the passport cover he said. Regarding the passport for minors and with the aim of giving greater change to the displacement of children Gil Famoso explained that the document integrates data from the parents or legal representatives inhibiting their misconduct.With regard to diplomatic passports the official stated that it was found necessary to restrict the granting of this category of passports to certain entities whose quality and nature of the issue justify this decision putting an end to certain practices to which he has been subject in recent years.