The Minister of the Interior Ângelo Veiga Tavares, defended this Friday the implementation of a platform that allows the granting of an online visa, and an advanced passenger identification system, at a time when the country starts to implement agreements with the South Africa e Mozambique for exemption from visas in ordinary passports.
The government official made this statement during his opening speech of “XVI Extended Consultative Council of the Migration and Foreigners Service ” (SME), which takes place precisely on the day the reciprocal visa exemption regime for South African and Mozambican citizens begins to apply.
According to Ângelo Veiga Tavares, the creation of a platform that allows the granting of an online visa is a mechanism that must be dealt with quickly. He considered it important to urgently implement the advanced passenger identification system, which involves the sending of passenger lists to the authorities by air carriers, so that these openings that are now being made can also have due control.
It is important that the country begins to implement the tools of the new information and communication technologies because they are tools that help and create facilities for the population. The online visa grant platform will be very advantageous for the country.
Today it is possible to carry out various activities through digital platforms, and with the opening of the telecommunications market in the country, the number of poplution that will be connected to digital platforms will increase.
