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Oct 22, 2009 News
All machine readable passport applicants living aboard would now have their necessary particulars obtained from the nearest overseas missions, according to Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon.
He said that all the documents would be processed overseas and the information would be transported under secured cover to Guyana.
He said that the Central Passport Office in Georgetown Guyana would continue to be the sole issuing site for machine-readable passports.
Guyanese living aboard can either return home or they have the option of going through the nearest mission overseas.
The machine-readable passport would be returned to the overseas mission where the applicant can uplift it.
When asked about the contractor and the likelihood about a new contract being signed, Dr Luncheon said that the agreement was fashioned on the basis of demand and claims experience. Over the three years they have calculated the number of passports that Guyanese both in Guyana and the Diaspora have asked for.
Dr Luncheon further explained that the contract was fashioned on a previous amount of machine-readable passports.
He said that they have done some amount of conversion, but the amount is likely to accelerate because the deadline for the non-readable passport at some ports of entry looms near. The Canadians have already made their objections about the non-readable passports and have announced that after December 31, next, only non-readable passports would be accepted.
By 2011 non-readable passports would be “things for the museum”, Luncheon stated. Everyone would have to switch over the machine-readable passports.
He said that it is highly impossible for the government to issue three years of machine-readable passports since the distribution started.
He noted that the Central Passport Office is nowhere close to issuing the number of machine-readable passport to exhaust the contract.
Guyana joined the Caribbean in 2007 when it introduced the machine-readable passports.
Canadian Bank Note was awarded the contract to produce them.
The passport was introduced to protect against multiple issuance of the travel documents to persons under fraudulent identities by maintaining and checking all passport holders.
THIS IDIOT TELLING GUYANA WE HAVE NO SAY IN THE 50% PROFIT SHARING AGREEMENT WE HAVE WITH EXXON.
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