{"id":30427,"date":"2026-06-15T20:04:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T00:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=30427"},"modified":"2026-06-15T20:04:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T00:04:21","slug":"immigration-department-highlights-faster-passport-services-and-digital-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/immigration-department-highlights-faster-passport-services-and-digital-upgrades\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration Department highlights faster passport services and digital upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-by Kristin Josiah<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deputy Chief Immigration Officer Stephen Telford says Guyanese can now receive passports within three working days, with expedited applications processed in as little as 24 hours under special circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking on the Sunday airing of <em>Police Roundup<\/em>, Telford said citizens can now choose between five and ten-year passports, while children under ten years old continue to receive five-year documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He noted that decentralised passport services have expanded to communities including Lenora, Lethem, Linden, New Amsterdam, Anna Regina and Port Morant, reducing the need for lengthy travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Telford also highlighted the department&#8217;s mobile passport service, which caters to bedridden persons, hospital patients and individuals living with disabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, June has been designated Passport Collection Month, with passport offices opening every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. to facilitate the collection of thousands of unclaimed passports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Deputy Chief Immigration Officer further urged citizens to utilize the online embarkation and disembarkation form and announced that Guyana&#8217;s new e-appointment and online passport application system will be launched on June 15, further modernizing immigration services across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-by Kristin Josiah Deputy Chief Immigration Officer Stephen Telford says Guyanese can now receive passports within three working days, with expedited applications processed in as little as 24 hours under&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,350],"tags":[488,370,982,412,405],"class_list":["post-30427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-economy","category-news","tag-488","tag-guyana","tag-immigration","tag-ncn-guyana","tag-ncn-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30429,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30427\/revisions\/30429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}