Police in boarder district of Mwanza have arrested 20 young men for allegedly wanting to cross the Malawi boarder dishonestly. Mwanza Police Spokesperson Victoria Chirwa said the 20 were arrested around 8.00pm on Tuesday as they tried to cross the Mwanza boarder. She said the law enforcers apprehended the group after discovering that their passports were already […]
The Department of Immigration has admitted having a backlog of passport applications due to an increase in applicants it receives on daily basis. Chief immigration officer Hudson Mankhwala said in an interview on Thursday the department currently prints passports in Blantyre only. “We face a big challenge to process passport applications for both old and […]
Police in Lilongwe on Sunday arrested five Pakistan nationals for being found in possession of British passport which they are suspected to be possessed illegally. Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) spokesperson Peter Botha has confirmed to Nyasa Times about the arrest. “I can confirm the arrest of the five who were coming from Pakistan to Malawi,” he said. […]
Malawi Immigration Department says it has ordered late president Bingu WA Mutharika’s children to surrender their diplomatic passports and that all former ministers with diplomatic passports should also surrender. Chief Immigration Officer Hudson Mankhwala confirmed to Nyasa Times that the published reports on the matter were true, saying the revocation of the diplomatic passports in […]
Malawi Immigration Department officials on Tuesday morning raided Paladin’a Kakerekera uranium mine in the northern border district of Karonga to check on foreignors if they had the right to work following media reports of illegal lags. An immigration official said they raided the mine following revelations that foreigners are working at the company without proper […]
The Malawi Government says it will repatriate the remaining Rwandese refugees and asylum seekers between June and December this year despite most of them showing no interest in returning to their country. Malawi has about 18 000 refugees and asylum seekers primarily from the Great Lakes region, Sudan and Somalia and most of them are living in […]
Malawi Immigration Department has arrested two foreigners suspected to have been processing fake visas. The two, Daniel Bat of Ghana and Israel Jere Mitsumbe of Cameroon, who are said to be members of Lord’s Chosen Charismatic Revival Ministries, were based in the capital city Lilongwe. Public Relations Officer for Immigration Department in the Centre, Ealack […]
President Joyce Banda on Tuesday launched the new Integrated Border Control System at Chileka International Airport in Blantyre on her way to Harare, Zimbabwe. The system which aims at computerising all border posts of Malawi has been introduced at the Immigration Department, has been running for two weeks on trial basis. Malawi Immigration Public Relation […]
The demand for a Malawian passport increased between 2011 and 2012 with the Immigration Department issuing over 200, 000 travel documents despite facing a shortage of passport booklets as well as the economic hardships that characterized the period. Immigration Deputy Public Relations Officer (PRO), Martin Gongolo said in an interview most of the passports were […]
The Malawi Immigration department in Mzuzu has arrested a Zimbabwean national and his accomplice for attempting to get a Malawian passport fraudulently. Public Relations officer for the Immigration department in the northern region Comet Jeremiah confirmed the arrest of Nevermind Kufakunesu from the Manicaland provisional city of Mutare and his Malawian ‘fixer’ Gibson Banda. Ironically, […]
Immigration Department has said it will not be joining the nationwide civil servants strike. More than 100,000 state workers started strike last week demanding a 65 percent wage increase – about double the inflation rate – to counter a rising cost of living triggered by a devaluation of the kwacha currency. By Wednesday, the strike […]
The Department of Immigration has uncovered a visa processing syndicate which is happening at the Malawi High Commission in Maputo, Mozambique. Public Relations Officer (PRO) for Central Region, Ealack Banda, said immigration officials at Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) suspected the coming of Pakistan nationals with visa letters prepared in Maputo-Mozambique to be fraudulent. He with […]
The Lilongwe Magistrate Court Monday continued hearing a case in which three immigration officers are answering charges of aiding and abetting unlawful entry of illegal entrants into the country. The three have been identified as Dickens Chiutsi (41), Rex Peter Phiri (54) and 47 year-old Bernard Zenifala Kadetseka are answering charges of aiding and abetting […]
The failure by Immigration Department to print passport application forms has forced some unscrupulous traders to turn on the luck and start selling the free forms on black market with each copy costing K500, Nyasa Times has established. The department of Immigration, which falls under the Ministry of Home Affairs and Internal Security, has for […]
Malawi’s Department of Immigration says it is planning to open new border posts in all the regions bordering with Mozambique, Zambia and Tanzania as one way of controlling illegal immigrants. Speaking during the inauguration of the 9th Intake of new recruits Immigration Course at Kanjedza Police Training School, Chief Immigration Officer, Hudson Mankhwala said his department […]
Malawi Immigration official have arrested Médecins Sans Frontières -MSF (Doctors Without Borders) head of mission in the country for allegedly working without a permit, Nyasa Times has learnt. MSF is an international medical humanitarian organization. Rodd Gerstenhaber, an American, was arrested by immigration officials on Thursday . An Immigration official not authorised to speak to the […]
The country’s immigration department has been allocated about K1billion for its operations; an amount the Immigration Chief says is not enough for the smooth running of the department’s operations. The new man at the helm of the department’s leadership, Hudson Mankhwala said this at the end of a day-long familiarisation tour of the immigration department […]
President Joyce Banda has appointed Hudson Mankhwala as Malawi’s new Chief Immigration Officer, in the department of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Nyasa Times understands. Mankhwala, who has served previously as Immigration spokesman and Chief Passport officer, replaces Elvis Thodi who was given his marching orders a day after he was hauled for a meeting between […]