(Xinhua/TBI africa.com) Tanzanian Minister for Home Affairs, Kangi Lugola, says the government is planning to establish e-border management control system in July to improve security at border points and to boost revenue generation.
Lugola said this while representing the 2019/2020 ministerial budget estimates in the ongoing parliamentary sessions in the country’s capital, Dodoma.
Lugola said that the new system would be operational in July 2019.
He added that the government would in the 2019/2020 start using e-passport-permit and e-visa in all the Tanzanian embassies outside the country.
Lugola said the electronic immigration services had shown great success both locally and internationally.
On the number of visitors to the country, the minister said some 957,977 people entered the country between July 2018 and March 2019 compared to 1,021,071 who visited the country in 2017/18.
Some 950,507 foreigners left the country compared to 954,926 who left the country in 2017/18.
“During this period some 293 foreigners were denied entry into the country for failure to meet immigration department requirements,” he said.
On the same note, some 1,015 Tanzanians who went to foreign countries without following the rightful immigration procedures were returned into the country.
He said that a total of 5,604 illegal immigrants were repatriated outside the country.
The minister also said following regular operations in the country, a total of 9,610 illegal migrants were realised in the country and handed over to various law-enforcing agencies.
