 Hi guys, welcome back to this channel and if it's your first time to come across this channel, consider subscribing. BTW, don't forget to hit that notification bell. It will be the only way that it will be updated when uploading. For the returning subscribers, thank you so much for coming back to this channel and thank you so much for supporting this channel. I appreciate. For the new subscribers, thank you so much for coming back to this channel. It's the right channel. BTW, do not forget to hit that notification bell. And do not forget to give up a thumbs up. Give a comment in the comment section. It will be the only way that we are motivated to look for more content and more content for you. In today's video, we are going to talk about one interesting subject and that is interesting subject. It grubless touches the countries of East Africa. If you are coming from Kenya, you are coming from Tanzania, you are coming from Rwanda, you are coming from Rwanda, you are coming from Tanzania and you are also coming from Uganda. It's quite very interesting. Remember, the East African community or the East African countries are phrasing out what we call the old passports. They are introducing what we call the E-passports. If you've ever heard of what we call the E-passports, this has been a long process since it was introduced. Remember, there was a period of what we call the COVID pandemic. COVID pandemic destructed the process in one way or the other. So they kept on longing, shifting the updates all the time. Remember, most of the time when longing that keep on pushing the deadline, the deadline pushing, still at one moment of time, the deadline day will always be. What am I talking about? Are you coming from Uganda? Are you coming from Kenya? Are you coming from Tanzania? Please, the deadline for phasing out of the East African passports is first every as agreed by the leaders of the East African or the East African countries. In this case, let me talk about one country that is Uganda. Remember, for the other countries like Tanzania and Kenya, their process is quite very good. Why? Because they have embassies, especially if you are living in Katalu, if you are living in Dubai, if you are living in Saudi Arabia, if you are living in Oman, if you are living in Kuwait, if you are living in any of those countries and you feel you need to renew your passports. I'm just going to give you the right procedure, what you need to do. You are not in your country, but you need to renew your passport before it comes to fasting every month. Remember, when you have that old passport, you can exit and go back home. But when it is phased out when the deadline reach, that means you cannot use that old passport to get a visa to a new country. Most of you have visas that are in the old passports and your residence permits wherever you are are visas in the old passports. But again, still even if you are going to renew what you call your residence visa in any country of the Middle East where you are, you will need what you call a new passport such that they can have a new passport number in what you call your residence visa. Because they need to have the two passports, the old passports and the new passports, they convert your visa or the convert your residence back to the new passport number. That is what I'm telling you, because remember right now, you may not see it as something that is going to inconvenience you, but when they are going to renew your residence visa, it will inconvenience you a little bit. That's maybe at one or the other. So let us try to share together what I'm saying is that the East African countries for Kenya, for the survey I've taken with Kenya, their passports, they can apply for passports in the embassies in these countries. I'll give an example of Qatar, I was at the Kenyan Embassy and most days we are applying for passports and they can still get the passports. But the problem is that we still have, is the problem we have with the Kenyan embassies are not going to get off, but I'll talk what is existing. For you to renew your passport, your old passport to convert it to a new, especially if you are in Qatar and you want to do that, one of the steps that you are going to do, you are going to go to the embassy of Doha in Qatar. You go to the art embassy, right through that embassy. You may be in Kuwait and you cannot access that. I know the embassy is now not so much equipped with processing the passports. You go to that embassy if you are in Qatar, if you are in Saudi Arabia, if you are in Kuwait, you are in Oman, go to that embassy that presents your country, write an application to them, requesting or write an application to them, showing, confirming your residence in that country. You know what I'm trying to mean, you write a letter, I'm so and so and I'm a residence in this country, I've been here for this quite period, I'm requesting for your help as to renew or confirming my residence, so that I can renew my old passport, so renew passport. So when you write a letter, you forward it to the embassy. The embassy would write to you what you call a confirmation letter, what you call a recommendation, sorry a recommendation letter that is going to prove, that is going to state that you are a true residence of that country. So if you are in Qatar that is what you have to do. So when that government or when that embassy prints for you that recommendation letter, the start of the passport processing starts from there. Yes, well and good, in these countries we have an opportunity of what you call internet. I'm just giving an advice to some that can still use up that opportunity of the internet in this country. What you do, go to your PC or go to your mobile, fill in the application details of yourself in case of that matter. Remember, if you are going to change the old passport to a new passport, you are only renewing, you are not going to chase a new passport, because already you have the passport with you at hand. So what are you going to do? Fill out that application, fill in your details, submit the details. They'll give you what you call that application number. For when it comes to payment because before you make a booking, any booking appointment to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to process or to get your finger prints at the rest, you need to first make the payment. So you can make the payment in any way, either you have someone in Uganda who can make that payment to that responsible bank. Once that payment is made to that bank, that person can send you the receipt number or that receipt number will be captured in your application process. The next time you go to load in your application process, they will tell you, book what you call that, book your interview date, you can book that day that you feel you'll be there. Remember, this time you are not in the country. What are you going to do, the easiest procedure? You are going to have what you call an Anthony, you are going to have what you call, you are going to give what you call Anthony of Power to someone. Remember, that Anthony of Power you are going to give, it's someone who is living in Uganda. A person who is on the ground who can move to the passport office. You're going to write a letter of an Anthony of Power to the person you include his name, his national ID number. If he has a passport, you can also include it. You give the powers to that person to go to the ministry or internal affairs to process that passport for you, to take the documents for you, sent in the PDF form. Also, in case your passport is out for that person to sign out your passport, that is what you call an Anthony of Power. For people who do not know, you attach your command issue later, attach your cut ID, attach your old passport. Some of them you can even put them in an envelope because they will need your old passports. Put them in an envelope for what it is to that person that you've given what you call an Anthony of Power. So it's that Anthony of Power or that person with the Anthony of Power is going to be that person who will sign up, who will sign out your passport in case it is printed out. That letter should, the Anthony of Power letter should be addressed to the ministry of internal affairs and the printing in Uganda or in your country. Instructing them that that person will be able to is going to sign out on your behalf for that person. Then after all the process is done, if once all the passport printed, then you can look at an option of having that passport back to you. You can either use what you call the Korea services, you can use DHL or FedEx, but try to use those means that you think are the safest to deliver your document to you. This is the simplest procedure that you can follow or you can do, not to get into what you call haswa and having what you call costly payments to people to print for you passports. Because you never have to trust out anyone that's going to print for you that passport. That is a document for you that is going to help you in one or the other. I think I've tried to share something. Thank you so much for coming back to this channel. So remember, the old passports are phrasing out and the deadline is 1 April. All you got done is old kinyans or Tanzanians, just know the old deadline for the old passport is 1 April. So you need to do it as soon as possible to avoid delays wherever you are at your place of work with the change over your residence and changing of your details. Thank you so much for coming back to this channel. It's always mechs from the mechs equation giving you the updates giving you all that you require. By the way, don't forget to give us a thumbs up. It will be the only way that I'll look, I'll be motivated to make and look for more content for you. 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