The Lilongwe Magistrate Court has ordered the deportation of an Indian national Mohammad Torif Patel and Bangladesh national Abdul Aziz after they were caught trying to sneak into the country illegally. The court on Monday found Patel guilty of aiding and abetting illegal entry of Aziz contrary to Section 36 (1) of the Malawi’s Immigration Act. Aziz was […]
In an effort to protect passport clients from being duped by middlemen in accessing immigration services, the Department of Immigration has introduced an electronic facility known as Passport Enquiry to contact its clients directly. The facility enables passport applicants to enquire about the status of their passport application electronically, thereby reducing travelling hassles and also […]
Malawi Immigration authorities have cleared Lilongwe based Indian dentist Dr. Anthony John of Dr Anthony’s Dental Clinic working at a private dental clinic of any wrong doing. Two doctors, Rajan Ahuja and his wife Sucheta Bector, working at the dentist were accused of flouted their work contract agreements. Dr. John had asked the the two […]
In a bid to crack down illegal immigrants, Malawi Immigration Department conducted a sweeping exercise in the central region border district of Mchinji where they arrested three Rwandese and two Burundians who relocated from Dzaleka refugee camp and are operating their businesses in Mchinji. According to the Immigration Public Relations Officer for Mchinji, Madalitso Banda, […]
Anti Corruptuon Bureau (ACB) says it is digging deeper to exposed circumstances of a syndicate that led to a loss of 250 blank Malawian passport books last December, one of which was found in the hands of a Nigerian. The can of worms about the missing blank passports was opened when outspoken People’s Party (PP) […]
Migration is a natural phenomenon and no one can stop it. Mankind is known to migrate from one country to another from time immemorial. Malawi has seen an influx foreign nationals over the past decade. They have come for various reasons. Some are asylum seekers, running away from war ravaged countries like DRC and South […]
People’s Party (PP) interim leader Uladi Mussa who was recently arrested over the apparent citizenship and passport scams is challenging Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) and government to arrest and charge Minister of Home Affairs Grace Chiumia on abuse of office and corruption. Whitsle-blower is said to have alerted law enforcing agencies that the Minister of Home Affairs […]
The Immigration Department—under the Ministry of Home Affairs and Internal Security—collected K10 708 436 091 in the financial year ending June 30, representing 155 percent collections of its approved target. In a media statement signed by the department’s public relations officer, Joseph Chauwa, the development has been described as a huge success. The success comes […]
Officials from Immigration Department say they have launched investigations into how mobile phone numbers of applicants for a job have landed into the hands of some unscrupulous people who are demanding money from the job applicants. Spokesperson for the department Joseph Chauwa said officials suspect some officers are conniving with people from outside the department […]
The Department of Immigration Services in the Northern Region will on 21 June embark on a three-day awareness campaign aimed at sensitizing local communities on the dangers of aiding aliens enter into the country. The campaign which will end on 23rd of June is targeting border districts of Karonga and Chitipa which are among those […]
Malawi government has opened the investigations into a passport syndicate where a box of 250 blank Malawian passport books got lost in December last year. Outspoken Mzimba West member of parliament Harry Mkandawire (People’s Party –PP) exposed the ‘passportgate’ in the National Assembly. Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Home Adffairs and Internal Security, Sam […]
An Asian businessman Kassam Nurmahomed has been arrested by the Immigration Department for contravening the Citizenship Act after he was found in possession of a British and Malawian passport when he was about to leave the country for South Africa. Nurmahomed was arrested at Chileka IAirport in Blantyre after Immigration Department got a tip-off to […]
Mzimba West Member of Parliament Harry Mkandawire (People’s Party –PP) has christened the passport racket he exposed in the National Assembly as ‘Passport-gate” and said top government officials are involved hence inaction from law enforcing agencies. Mkandawire disclosed that a box of 250 blank Malawian passports got lost in December last year. “I would term it passport-Gate under […]
Outspoken Mzimba West member of parliament Harry Mkandawire (People’s Party –PP) on Thursday exposed a passport syndicate in the National Assembly when he disclosed that a box of 250 blank Malawian passports got lost in December last year. He told the House that on December 29 2016, the Department of Immigration received a consignment of […]
Immigration officers at Mwanza border have arrested a Democratic Republic of Congo or DRC national for using fake travel document to enter Malawi. The Mwanza border spokesperson Assistant Immigration Officer Pasqually Zulu says the 30 year old Dodo Kabasele comes from South Kivu in the DRC but he was trying to enter Malawi using a […]
Department of Immigration has arrested a 20 year old Zimbabwean, Tinashe Blessings Sabu, for illegally entering the country. The arrest took place at Chileka International Airport on May 3, 2017 when Sabu was trying to board a flight on his way to Dublin in Ireland. Confirming the arrest Friday, Immigration National Public Relations Officer, Joseph […]
An Immigration Officer has been arrested in Lilongwe for allegedly issuing fake temporary employment permits to foreigners. This followed ministry of Labour officials inspection on work places following President Peter Mutharika’s directive on racist expatriate bosses. Spokesperson for the Immigration Department Joseph Chauwa confirmed the arrest of Henry Kwanjana after some arrested foreigners named him […]
Graft busting body, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) says it has now completed going through documents which some people used to illegally naturalise over 50 foreigners in a high profile case whose suspects included the maverick Peoples Party acting president Uladi Mussa. ACB deputy director Reyneck Matemba said the ACB investigators are now looking at other […]