The Directorate of Immigration and Citizenship Control (DCIC) has opened an e-Passport enrollment center at the Uganda High Commission in Pretoria. This center will enroll Ugandans living and working in South Africa and surrounding countries including Botswana, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Namibia, and Swaziland, with the newly introduced East African Community Electronic Passports.

RESCHEDULING OF PASSPORT APPLICANTS FROM MONDAY 2ND MAY 2022 TO SATURDAY 7TH MAY 2022

DCIC received various Migration Information and Data Analysis System (MIDAS) equipment from IOM-Uganda. The equipment included servers, passport readers, fingerprint readers, computers, webcams, printers, as well as related licenses. This latest technology will enable eight of Uganda's border posts to collect, store, and analyze traveler information in real-time. Mr. Olivier Baguma from IOM Uganda handed over the equipment to the Director, Maj.Gen. Apollo Kasiita-Gowa as part of the project 'Enhancing Uganda's Border Management Information System'

Students and staff of the American War College in Alabama visited the Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration Control on 23rd/March/2022. The group led by led by Lt. Gen. James B. Hecker, commander and President of Air University, Maxwell Airforce Base-Alabama, the students largely consisting of Senior Officers and a few civilian military staff was on a research visit. They were hosted by the Director, Maj.Gen. Apollo Kasiita-Gowa, and the Commissioner Citizenship and Passport Control, Brig.

As we approach the deadline for phase out of the Machine-Readable Passports (MRP) on 4th April 2022, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration Control), wishes to inform all Ugandans living in the diaspora that after the deadline on 4th April, 2022, MRPs will only be used by citizens returning back to Uganda.