ʻO ka hoʻopuka ʻana i nā passport hou no nā kamaʻāina o ka Ke Kaiāulu o ʻApelika Hikina ua hoʻokuʻu ʻia no ka ʻae ʻana i nā hiʻohiʻona hou e hoʻokomo ʻia i loko o ka puke e hiki mai ana. I kēia manawa, ʻaʻole hiki ke heluhelu ʻia nā palapala passport a ʻaʻole e lawe i ka ʻikepili biometric i loko o nā pahu kamepiula i hoʻokomo ʻia, a i mea e ʻae ʻia ai ia mau mea, pono e hoʻokaʻawale mua ʻia kēia mau mea hou.
Ua kaulana nā passports ma Uganda a me Kenya, kahi e pono ai ka poʻe huakaʻi e hoʻopaʻa i kā lākou passport i hoʻokahi manawa i kēlā me kēia ʻeono mahina inā e neʻe ana i nā palena ʻāina i kekahi o nā mokuʻāina o ka EAC, akā ua puka mai nā ʻōlelo hoʻopiʻi e pili ana nā luna hoʻokele ma nā palena ʻāina a me nā mokulele. ʻAʻole i nānā wale i kēia mau lula a hoʻopaʻa mau iā lākou e like me nā palapala passport aupuni. ʻAʻole i hoʻokō ʻo Burundi a me Rwanda, ma hope o ke komo ʻana i ka EAC i ka makahiki i hala, i ka hoʻopuka ʻana i kēia mau palapala huakaʻi.
ʻAʻole i ʻae ʻia nā palapala palapala EAC ma waho o ka ʻāina, no ka nui o nā huakaʻi hele maʻamau e lawe i nā palapala palapala ʻāina a me ka EAC, kahi kūlana i hoʻohiki ai ka secretariat o ka East African Community ma Arusha e kamaʻilio i ka manawa no ka hoʻomaka ʻana o ka hoʻopuka ʻana i nā palapala palapala EAC e hiki mai ana. . Eia nō naʻe, e hoʻohana nā kamaʻāina o nā mokuʻāina ʻelima i kā lākou mau palapala ʻāina no ka huakaʻi a puni ka ʻāina.
He aha e lawe ʻia mai kēia ʻatikala:
- The EAC passports were also not commonly accepted beyond the region, having many regular travelers carry both national and EAC passports, a situation the secretariat of the East African Community in Arusha also promised to address in time for the start of issuing the next generation EAC passports.
- The passports were popular in Uganda and Kenya, where travelers only needed to have their passports stamped once in every six months if moving across the national borders to one of the EAC member states, but allegations have also emerged that immigration officials at land borders and airports just ignored these rules and kept stamping them anyway like national passports.
- The issue of new passports for citizens of the East African Community has been temporarily suspended to allow new state-of-the-art features to be incorporated in the next edition.
