A new mobile e-passport system is being used by the Department of Immigration to help persons with disabilities with their passport applications.
This is part of the Department of Immigration’s e-Passport Project and the government’s digital transformation initiative.
To date, the Department has issued 34,000 e-passports since its rollout in September 2019.
Ratu Drugucava Manoa Bosevakaturaga, who is currently admitted at the CWM Hospital and is scheduled to undertake further medical treatment in New Zealand is the first person in Fiji to be registered through the mobile e-passport system.
Through the assistance of the Department, Ratu Drugucava was able to register his biometrics for his e-passport application at the CWM Hospital. His mother Salanieta Adilele says the new system has saved us them the extra cost of running around for his son’s passport.
She says their son s due for further medical treatment overseas and they have been trying their very best to finalise his travel arrangements.
