{"id":26272,"date":"2020-02-01T10:28:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T10:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=26272"},"modified":"2020-02-03T10:30:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T10:30:23","slug":"tanzania-rolls-out-new-electronic-eac-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/tanzania-rolls-out-new-electronic-eac-passports\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania rolls out new electronic EAC passports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By ROSE MIREMBE<\/p>\n<p>Tanzania will from Saturday enforce the use of the new East African Community electronic passport (e-passport) as its official international travel document.<\/p>\n<p>Phasing out of the old passports will end on March 1 to allow Tanzanians in foreign countries one month to use the old passports to travel back home.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mtanda said since the e-passports\u2019 roll-out began in 2018, 283,877 people have applied for and received the document to date.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf these, 281,544 are of the ordinary type, 499 are service and 1,829 are diplomatic passports for ambassadors and five are for the highest-ranking government officials,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The electronic passport costs $64.45, and applicants are required to produce a national identity card and other documents as required.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/news\/ea\/Tanzania-rolls-out-new-electronic-EAC-passports\/4552908-5440146-format-xhtml-evlj9hz\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/news\/ea\/Tanzania-rolls-out-new-electronic-EAC-passports\/4552908-5440146-format-xhtml-evlj9hz\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By ROSE MIREMBE Tanzania will from Saturday enforce the use of the new East African Community electronic passport (e-passport) as its official international travel document. Phasing out of the old passports will end on March 1 to allow Tanzanians in foreign countries one month to use the old passports to travel back home. [&#8230;] Mr [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-tanzania","type-news-articles","item-year-668","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26272","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=26272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26273,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26272\/revisions\/26273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}