Bank charges on passport fees dropped
The bank processing charge for new passports has been dropped with fees now a flat US$100 for an ordinary passport and US$200 for an emergency one.
These fees were gazetted by Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Kazembe Kazembe in Statutory Instrument 3 of 2022 cited as Citizenship (Passport Fees) Regulations of 2022.
The new SI repeals SI273 of 2022 that required payment of an additional US$20 processing fee through CBZ Bank.
Last year Government launched the new electronic passport in partnership with Lithuanian company, Garsu Pasaulis.
The development will see the eradication of the passport backlog and production of other primary identity documents.-The Herald
