{"id":298026,"date":"2023-02-02T07:00:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=298026"},"modified":"2023-02-01T21:03:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T01:03:37","slug":"pm-weighs-in-on-talk-of-fraudulent-activities-influencing-epassport-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/pm-weighs-in-on-talk-of-fraudulent-activities-influencing-epassport-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"PM weighs in on talk of fraudulent activities influencing ePassport deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_298027\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-298027\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-298027\" src=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ePassports-1-642x428.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-298027\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dominican ePassports<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has rubbished statements made by members of the public through some local talk shows and via Facebook posts on \u201crushing\u201d the issuance of the new ePassport due to fraudulent activities.<\/p>\n<p>He was delivering remarks at a press conference held on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis notion I am hearing in the public domain that we are advancing the ePassport because of fraudulent activities and we are rushing, there is no rush,\u201d he argued.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister continued, \u201cThe issue of the ePassport I don\u2019t think there is any urgency. We all know of our articulated position on moving towards ePassport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a matter of fact, he said this is an international requirement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEuropean countries and the United States, they have delayed the mandating of citizens coming to their countries only with ePassports, because they recognize some of the challenges countries are having in transitioning from what they currently have, the machine-readable passports to ePassports,\u201d Prime Minister Skerrit explained. \u201cWe invested in the ePassports and we had the system in place [for] more than a year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the uptake was slow because people could still use their machine-readable passport to travel, so they didn\u2019t feel the need to have it replaced, \u201cand that was setting us behind in terms of our timetable to get it going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd therefore we felt as a government that we need to bring the guillotine down,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister further explained that the government recognized that the six-month period was too short, \u201cand we had to run a 24-hour shift system to get the backlog going and we\u2019ve tried to make the application process accessible, so we went to some countries, St Thomas, St Croix, etc. to get this going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe went to different villages in Dominica to allow people to apply rather than come to town to get it going and we extended by another six months,\u201d he stated. \u201cAnd we felt that if we keep extending this then people will not move to get it going, and so we had to say look, as of this day you can maybe come into Dominica as a citizen with your machine-readable passport, but for you to leave you will need to get your passport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Prime Minister Skerrit made it clear to the public that it is very difficult to fraudulently manipulate the ePassport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you have a Dominican passport you have to ensure as far as possible it has as many security features as possible, so there is a dramatic increase in the security features from the machine-readable passport to the ePassports and to have it fraudulently manipulated is very difficult,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Effective January 31, 2023 Dominicans will not be allowed to travel out of the country using their machine-readable passport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has rubbished statements made by members of the public through some local talk shows and via Facebook posts on \u201crushing\u201d the issuance of the new ePassport due to fraudulent activities. 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