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Immigration Update

There have been many inquiries on the on-going exercise of changing the current passports into new machine readable (new generation) passports. To keep you updated here are answers to the frequently asked questions.

1. On Traveling with the Current Passport to Tanzania: Immigration Headquarters (ImHq) has issued a circular that the current passport will no longer be valid from October 1st, 2005. However, for those who wish to travel back to Tanzania and they do not possess the new passports, they can travel with the current ones. In case, you are in this category, have already processed the documents for the passport, and have not yet received the passport, this mission will issue you with a letter of introduction to the ImHq so that you can collect the passport after it has been processed.

 

2. On traveling with the Current Passport to other destinations other than Tanzania: One needs to process an Emergency Travel Document (ETD) with this mission that will enable him/her to travel out and return back to this country. The ETD will have to be presented to the authorities together with the current passport as your visa(s) and other documents are still in that passport.

    

3. How to process an ETD: Visit our website and go the Tanzanian Passport page. Print the “OMBI LA PASIPOTI” form, fill it accordingly and send it to this mission with your current passport, 2 passport size pictures and money order of $ 31.00 as processing fee. Please use the most secure mail and do not forget to send a prepaid mail for the mission to send back to you a processed ETD and your current passport. It takes 3 to 5 working days to process an ETD.

    

4. Duration of processing new passports: Processing for new passports will continue until all those who have not processed have done so.

    

5. On the dispatch of the new passports: We mail out new passports as soon as we receive them from ImHq to the applicants who reside outside Washington, DC Metro. In case there is a change of address, please let us know so that we mail your passport to the correct address. Walk-in pick-ups are allowed.

Consular Office,
Washington, DC,
October 19, 2005