It is now possible for any Ugandan to travel outbound without going through so much trouble to acquire a passport. This follows the government’s activation of an e-application portal which can be found on a website created by Ministry of Internal Affairs, www.passports.go.ug.
It is user friendly, and like any other e-application portal, one has to first read and agree to the terms of reference before they can proceed to enter their details into the system.
So far so good, since the development took effect three months back, there hasn’t been a case of any person who failed to acquire their digital passports after submitting the required documents.
According to the Privacy Policy on the website, applicants’ personal information is kept only for a limited period of time to fulfill the purpose for which it is collected.
The big catch in all this is that interested applicants no longer have to make endless trips to the long queues at the Ministry of Internal Affairs Head office at Port Bell Road in Kampala. And neither do they have to queue up as early as 7:00am so as to beat the numbers. It is all in the past!
Story by Solomon Oleny
