Liberia: Additional Passport Application Centers Outside Liberia To Ease Diaspora Liberians Passports Stressed

PRESS RELEASE

Monrovia – Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dee-Maxwell Kemayah, has disclosed that the Liberian government has opened six Liberian Passport Application Centers outside Liberia.

He made the disclosure on Thursday, January 19, 2023 at the Ministry of Information press briefing.

The new centers are situated in Chicago, Los Angeles, Pretoria in South Africa, Nairobi in Kenya, Melbourne in Australia, and New Delhi in India are the additional Passport Application Centers outside Liberia.

Minister Kemayah who appeared along with members of the Senior Management Team and other Officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the developments at the Ministry as regards reform initiatives being undertaken are to ensure efficiency and effectiveness at various levels.

He stressed: “One of the key reform measures is in connection with providing efficient and expeditious services to Liberians in the diaspora wanting to acquire passports.”

According to Amb. Kemayah, they at the Ministry reached a decision to expand consular-related services, including the issuance of passports to Liberians in other parts of the world who have been appealing for interventions in acquiring passports.

He added: “As you are fully aware, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has embarked on several reforms, some of which include the opening of additional Passport Application Centers (PACs) in places where the need exists.”

Kemayah further said: “The decision to accelerate the opening of passport application centers around the world is the vision of President George Weah to ensure accessible and affordable comprehensive services; including, but not limited to passport and other consular-related services to all Liberians; irrespective of geographic location, political, social, ethnic, religious and economic background.”

The Minister added that many Liberian citizens who need to legalize their residency requirements in their host countries are in possession of outdated or expired passports.

Kemayah said in the absence of passport application centers, it has been difficult and almost impossible to secure their national identity documents to be able to regularize their statuses in their host countries.