allAfrica.com: Namibia: Old Passports Phased Out:
Tanja Bause
"THE Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration has announced that the old, handwritten passports will be phased out from today. The old passports will not be renewed any more but replaced by machine-readable passports to curb fraud and forgery. The ministry has also invested in more computers and manpower, which it says will enable it to issue passports within 10 days after application from the beginning of April. People applying for passports should take note that they now have to bring along not only certified copies of the birth certificates, Namibian citizenship documents and identity documents, but also the originals. This is a further attempt to curb fraud and falsification of passports." [Snippet]
