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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>The Registrar-General\u2019s (RG) Office says it has issued over 350 000 e-passports to date, clearing the national backlog that stood at 200 000 in January.<\/p>\n

In an interview with State media, Registrar-General Henry Machiri also said plans to decentralise the service are now at an advanced stage. He said:<\/p>\n

Since we started the e-passport programme on January 18, I can confirm that we have issued over 350 000 passports.<\/p>\n

We successfully cleared the passport backlog in September this year.<\/p>\n

We asked all those who had applied for passports to go and collect their documents.<\/p>\n

We are happy with the progress we have made so far, and we are looking forward to expanding the e-passport enrolment programme to all the districts countrywide.<\/p>\n

We have plans to expand to Chinhoyi, Marondera, and Mutare, going down to all the districts.<\/p>\n

Besides expanding offices in the country, Government will also be establishing passport enrolment centres at selected embassies across the world.<\/p>\n

Garsu Pasaulis, a security printing company that was engaged by the government to set up modern national biometric infrastructure for the production of the new e-passport, national identity cards, resident permits, and visas, reportedly has the capacity to print more than 5 000 passports a day.<\/p>\n

An official report detailing the e-passport programme obtained by The Sunday Mail states:<\/p>\n

We are delighted to report that, since the inception of the e-passports project, Garsu Pasaulis has managed to cumulatively produce a total of 352 156 ordinary and express e-passports as of December 3, 2022.<\/p>\n

In addition to the above, the company has also produced several diplomatic and service passports on behalf of the Government of Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n

The company invested in high-end, state-of-the-art passport personalisation machines which are capable of printing over 500 passports per hour.<\/p>\n

Depending on the number of applications received, the company has a production capacity that can enable the printing of more than 5 000 passports per day.<\/p>\n

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