{"id":23567,"date":"2017-07-13T17:09:09","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T17:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=23567"},"modified":"2020-07-30T13:04:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T13:04:47","slug":"sudan-requirements-and-procedures-to-obtain-a-sudanese-passport-including-business-passports-information-on-appearance-and-security-features-information-on-the-prevalence-of-fraudulent-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/sudan-requirements-and-procedures-to-obtain-a-sudanese-passport-including-business-passports-information-on-appearance-and-security-features-information-on-the-prevalence-of-fraudulent-passports\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Requirements and procedures to obtain a Sudanese passport, including business passports; information on appearance and security features; information on the prevalence of fraudulent passports (2015-2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SDN105838.E <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Overview<\/p>\n<p>According to a 2015 case study document on electronic passports in Sudan, published by HJP Consulting, a company that &#8220;provided [c]onsulting and [p]roject [m]anagement [s]ervices for the planning, procurement, testing and implementation of the Sudanese [electronic] passport project&#8221; (HJP Consulting 9 June 2015a), electronic passports have been in place since 25 November 2008, after a migration from hand-written passports to electronic-passports (HJP Consulting 9 June 2015b, 5-6).<\/p>\n<p>A 2012 article by the <em>National<\/em>, a newspaper published in the United Arab Emirates, cites the Sudanese Ambassador in Dubai as stating that Sudanese electronic passports were introduced in 2009 (<em>The National<\/em> 5 Aug. 2012). According to the same source,<\/p>\n<p>[t]here are three versions of the new electronic passport: a citizen&#8217;s passport containing 48 pages and valid for five years, a commercial passport for frequent travellers containing 64 pages and valid for seven years and a 32-page passport issued to children. (<em>The National<\/em> 5 Aug. 2012)<\/p>\n<p>The 2012 article by the <em>National<\/em> further reports that, due to &#8220;problems [that] have delayed their availability at embassies around the world,&#8221; new electronic passports will be issued in September 2012 for the first time outside Sudan, at the Sudanese consulate in Dubai (<em>The National<\/em> 5 Aug. 2012). Corroborating information could not be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate within the time constraints of this Response.<\/p>\n<p>Download from Refworld: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.refworld.org\/docid\/5aa90dfa0.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.refworld.org\/docid\/5aa90dfa0.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SDN105838.E 1. Overview According to a 2015 case study document on electronic passports in Sudan, published by HJP Consulting, a company that &#8220;provided [c]onsulting and [p]roject [m]anagement [s]ervices for the planning, procurement, testing and implementation of the Sudanese [electronic] passport project&#8221; (HJP Consulting 9 June 2015a), electronic passports have been in place since 25 November [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-sudan","type-government-bodies","item-year-631","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23568,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23567\/revisions\/23568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}