Passport applicants paying for free forms
Passport applicants in Blantyre are being forced to pay for free application forms as the Immigration Department is unable to produce the forms.
The visit to the Immigration Department’s offices in Blantyre by Nyasa Times reporter noted that for almost two months now applicants are being turned back due to lack of application forms.
The applicants are instead forced to buy the forms on black market with a single form selling at K300.
Immigration Department Public Relations Officer, Martha Gonondo in an interview admitted they were currently failing to print the forms due to faulty printers.
Gonondo argued they were still issuing out the free forms but sporadically.
”Our printers developed a problem and we are relying on Lilongwe offices. We send papers to Lilongwe for printing but are not enough to meet the demand,” explained Gonondo.
The lack of free application forms has reduced congestion at the department.
Immigration Department hiked fees in November last year with an ordinary Passport now at MK48, 500 up from K15,000.
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Asians of Indian origin always in papers announcing there lost passports, my foot why on earth only these people loose there passports at this alarming frequency? Something is happening behind the scenes. Please Immigration authorities lets jack up, We don`t want to have a scenario of Malawi man hanged in China when in actual sense it is not a Malawian.
I thought documents are downloaded on the Internet. Is it also free? What is K300? When someone uses airtime, papers and toner to produce. If you don’t have money then you don’t need a passport.
anazolowera katangale, muja ankalandira ziphuphu bwanji ma form sankasowa, ndiye mukufuna tizikuwonjezeraninso pa fee yonse manapereka. ma passport sakutulukanso akutuluka ndi omwe a diza basi ya ine diza simuiwona kuti passport yanga ndikuifuna agaru inu adyera, kumangoti network ayi uko kagwereni vitsiru
Viri ku malawi kwali, pitirizgani nkhaza na kuba uko.
Please Mr Billionaire help. Am sure u can graffitti a fwifwifwi cheque to buy the printer, scanner & photocopier. Don’t just sit on those Billions ? Source.
Sizachilendo iz kwa ife a PRO , a Martha Gonondomuti mutinamizenji apa?
Amalawi kukonda chidule.
MRA ASSIST IMMIGRATION PLEASE, YOU USE THE SAME DOOR.
Comment: frm 15 pin to 48 pin? Eish! Milking an already thin cow. Instead of milk guess what they will get? You mean the whole department can’t get a printer, min printer ka K18,500 kaja nkupanga print ma form wo? Ho. Laziness spiced with stubborness
just go on the Malawian immigration site and download the forms easy otherwise azingokubereni mmaso muli mbee kugona a malawi tachangamukani!