{"id":380,"date":"2024-11-12T13:34:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T13:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=380"},"modified":"2024-11-12T13:44:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T13:44:32","slug":"the-transitional-national-legislative-council-decides-to-increase-passport-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=380","title":{"rendered":"The Transitional National Legislative Council decides to increase passport fees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"381\" src=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/africhat-1024x576-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/africhat-1024x576-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/africhat-1024x576-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/africhat-1024x576-1-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Juba: Al-Naeim Mubarak Kuol <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Transitional National Legislative Council decides to increase passport fees<br>National Interior Minister Angelina Teny stated that the proposed increase was initially set at 20%, to make the cost $120, but the council decided on a 50% increase, setting the price at $150 during the deliberation of the 2024\/2025 general budget.<br>The Specialized Committee on Finance and Economic Planning raised the fee for a regular adult passport by 50%, from $100 to $150, while the regular passport for minors would cost $100. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The committee also approved increasing the fee for business passports to $300 and the fee for special, diplomatic, and official passports to $250. Identity cards and national certificates would each cost $5.<br>Meanwhile, individuals seeking to obtain South Sudanese nationality through naturalization by marriage will pay $400, naturalization by residency certificate will cost $1,000, and naturalization for foreigners will be $1,500.<br>Angelina mentioned that her ministry initially recommended a 20% increase, but this recommendation was not considered, saying, \u201cThese prices are not set by the Ministry of Interior; they are actually determined through the non-oil revenue agencies and in consultation with them.\u201d<br>She added, \u201cIn fact, we were proposing perhaps to raise the price of the passport not by 50% to become $150, but by 20% to make it $120. However, of course, it is not up to us, we are just a collecting agency.\u201d<br>Nyayang Johnson, a member of parliament from the SPLM Party List, requested that the council reconsider the decision to increase civil registration and passport fees.<br>Ms. Johnson called for a reduction in costs, emphasizing that such high fees for essential documentation would be unaffordable for many South Sudanese citizens<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juba: Al-Naeim Mubarak Kuol The Transitional National Legislative Council decides to increase passport feesNational Interior Minister Angelina Teny stated that the proposed increase was initially set at 20%, to make&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}