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Liberia: Liberian Government Launches New Passports in Four Categories
Nov 1, 2009
by MOFA Press Release /
(MONROVIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2009): The Government of Liberia will on Monday, November 2, 2009, formally launch the New Machine Readable Liberia National Passports at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Capitol Hill.
These passports will meet the global requirements of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Compliant Machine Readable Passports to be in effect by April 2010. The new passports are categorized in the following: Diplomatic, Official, Service and Ordinary.
The new Ordinary Passport will be valid for five years, while the new Diplomatic and Official Passports shall be issued for two years, consistent with existing guidelines. Service Passports shall be issued for one or two years, depending on the mission for which they are being issued.
All Liberians are entitled to travel document which is the Ordinary Passport, without discrimination.
All passports will be issued in Monrovia at a price of USD50.00 each. All applicants in the country are required to physically appear at the Division of Passports and Visas of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to process their passports. Necessary procedures will be available at the Division of Passports and Visas.
Those applicants residing Abroad may continue to use their current passports until the Data Collection Points at Designated Embassies are set up for processing passports applicants as follows: new York and Washington: week of 16 November 2009, Ghana: last week of London and Paris: mid December 2009.
Accordingly, documentation, including forms and fingerprints will be processed at their various data collection points at Designated Embassies and forwarded to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for issuance of passports.
All existing passports will remain valid until April 2010. However, people are encouraged to start processing their new passports before the deadline of 2010.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has forwarded samples of the new National ICAO Complaint Machine Readable Passports to the various Embassies near Monrovia as well as to Liberia's Embassies overseas, including Liberia's Permanent Mission in New York for onward presentation at the United Nations to countries which do not have Embassies in Liberia.
Signed:
Josephus M. Gray
Assistant Foreign Minister for Public Affairs
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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