Additional security measures are being established to avert the illegal acquiring of Dominican passports.
Roy Pascal, Sergeant of police, who made the disclosure on the state owned radio Thursday, said the measures follow concerns by Britain about illegal entry of Dominican passport holders into the territory.
Britain disclosed earlier this year it was considering the introduction of visa requirements for Dominica and St. Lucia because of what it described as a high level of immigration abuses among nationals of the two countries.
Pascal said the measures being set up here, will “among other things mitigate fraud and protect the integrity of our passport”.
“There are many security features already in our passport. It is machine readable and there are many security features, some are visible and others [are] not visible. Even among those that are visible, there are security features that are not visible among them, so it’s a very secure document,” Pascal expounded.
He added that there are methods in place to control how the Dominican passport is obtained.
IF THE GOVERMENT OF DOMINICA IS NOT PROTECKING ADDITIONAL SECURITY TO PROTECK THE ILLEGAL PASSPORTS WHICH IS TAKING PLACE INDOMINICA. THE U.S.A,AND ENGLAND, CANADA SHOULD DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. TO PROTECK OUR PASSPORT
very funny, for one to marry a haitian or spanish just to give dem passport, is really funny, well dat haitian or spainish have good misery to see before they get it kamem, u have to be married for three years, before u can even apply for it, and then, you have a whole time to wait before, the police call you in for an interview, and then u have to wait a next portion of time for it to go to cabinet, alas papa met, GOD BLESS DOMINICA, and then every where else, we can really run our mouth and say what we want, all dat misery,eh heh, ada oh, rubbish, nonsense.
hi i have one question i live in beligum and i coming to domninca soon and i will passing to london i know that i dont need a visa but when i will coming back to beligum do i need a visa to but i think its a good thing about the visa but nt only dominica its should all the rest of the caribbean coutries to.bye
Very comforting indeed. Should we all breathe a sigh of relief now? I sure hope so.
i am from dominca ,i applied for a pass port .all form was full, picture in hand .and everything was send to the office of pass port division. iwas told the picture is too dark. i take another one.this time i was told i need to put my mariage surname on my birth paper.i wonder how that could be possible.i send my birth paper,maraige certificate.babtism papers.old pass port.and i was told no i can renew my pass port.when every one is buying it by mariage.under the table etc. i could have one because some one already buy mine . iam still without a pass port from land of my birthwhere i was raise. what else is new.even the china man have pass port and i have non.
i agree with u and again 2 many hatian have our passport . for instance a child born in tortola cannot obtain passport not until he/she is 18yrs old. and this is rediculous where u born is where u from but not so in the bvi its backward where u born is not where u from so come on d/can get a little tougher on our passport pls
Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha What a silly nation! Roy the cop said: “There are security features that are not visible among them visiblethere are none visible features” Lol! is this a mind twister or what? Give me a break!
Our gov't is selling our passports to crooks obviously they have the authentic stuff Roy! This is the visible invisble part of the equation. We are doomed our 65% dotish, opportunists,infiltares, etc who voted these money hungry/deprived politians( from birth until becoming politicans and obtaining power as they did are responsible.The church goers rasta, etc should be held responsible also as they are interested in the afterlife rather than the earthly. The sad part is even the politicians all sides go to church also even every funeral. we have former carismatics/former DFP big boys & girls in the current administration getting the rest of the pie they did not secure between 80 -95..Eddie et Al remember the way it was.
Roy and the jokers who think naively about the extent of this corrupt practice the horses have long exsitted the barn and to add insult to injury the fence is porous.
if all you would let the C and S and V to be of good moral and character in the country befor making them citizen and doh sell the P maybe we will be ok no problem if you no what i mean
I DIDN'T HEARD THE NEW MEASURES SO DOMINICA COULD BENEFITED FROM ROY PASCAL, FIRST SHOULD START WITH A WORKING PERMIT ,THESE PEOPLE DOESN'T PAY TAXES ALEAST SHOULD PAY FIVE YEARS TAXES BEFORE ISSUING PASSPORT.THESE WILL BOOST THE COUNTRY ECONOMY.
Dominicans marrying Spanish and Haitians so that they can can get our passports, the problem is on us Dominicans, we should recognise whats going on on our Island.
but why england put rules on dominica and not st vincent if it so hard to get are passport from dominica that one of the problem, thinks about that??
i have news for you, fed up, dominica is one of the most difficult countries in the caribbean to obtain a passport. Take for instance in st vincent, you go there tommorow and marry are vincentian, you get a
passport as soon as you are issued a marriage certificate. In domiica nothing at all go so, we are not perfect but we are better than many other countries. I can give you many more instances but am not in the mood. Thank you
you all should not wait until this visa waiver stuff come around to secure dominica passport all dogs and cat can come to our lovely dominica and live with d.a passport unlike the other countrie's that have strick measures stups man
I am glad that something is being done about this passport fraud. excellent job
OK SO YOU ALL SAY, MY PROBLEM IS THAT THOSE OTHER CARIBBEAN PASSPORT ARE HAD TO GET ,TO ME DOMINICA IS DE ONLY CARIBBEAN ISLANDS I SEE IT EASY TO GET PASSPORT WHY WORK PERMIT CHEAP THAT WHY WE NAVER HAVE MONEY AND SO POOR ANTIGUA STKITTS ETC STEPING UP ON WORK PERMIT AND PASSPORT FEE ONLY DOMINCA THAT BACKWARD WAKE UP DOMINCA IS TIME TO CHANGE WE WILL ALWAYS HAVE IMMIGRATION PROBLEM, THANKS YOU