New Fiji emergency passports approved only by some countries

By fijivillage.com

06/06/2011

The new Fiji emergency passports presently cannot be used as travel documents to Australia, New Zealand, USA, India, Germany and France.

A French Embassy official this morning confirmed that a special exception was made for a few members of the Fiji Under 20 Rugby World Cup team to use new emergency passports to travel to Italy.

Immigration officials of Australia, NZ, US and India are still looking at the specimen passports and no timeframe has been given on when the final decision will be made.

Japan has not approved the new emergency passports however it can be used only if accompanied with an official travel document produced by their Embassy.

Some countries that have approved the Fiji emergency passports are South Korea, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea.

Story by: William Waqavakatoga

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