The Uganda ministry of foreign affairs yesterday came out to clear allegations about the recent visa application rejection that has recently been disseminated on various social media platforms where a Ugandan applied to the Danish Embassy in Kenya using the new passport and received rejection claiming the new Ugandan East African Community Passport is not yet recognized by their government in Denmark.
A screenshot from the Ugandan applicant to the Danish Embassy read: ’’The Danish Embassy has received your visa application. You have applied using the new Ugandan East African Community passport that was launched in December 2018. Unfortunately this passport is not yet approved by the Danish authorities; therefore we cannot issue a visa for this passport. We can keep an application open in our visa system for 15 days. Would you like us to keep it open until then, and if we have not received an approval in that time, then withdraw the application? Kindly let us know, if you wish to do that or withdraw your application now. We will inform VFS in Kampala not accept applications with the new passport for the time being.’’ from Anne Ostman – Consular Officer at the Danish Embassy in Nairobi.
In response to the above rejection statement, the Uganda ministry of foreign affairs clarified on the same issue saying, ‘’The Danish Embassy just like all other Diplomatic and Consular missions and International Organisations accredited to Uganda were earlier informed and issued samples of the new passports in December 2018.’’
It should be recalled that the Danish Embassy forwarded the same samples to the Danish Ministry of foreign Affairs last month, January 2019.
The ministry added that details of the new Ugandan East African Community passport are currently being updated into the Danish foreign affairs system and shall be soon complete.
Currently, two Ugandan visa applicants who are meant to travel to Copenhagen this year in April have been assured that their applications will be processed as soon as the registration process is completed.
The ministry asked the general public to be patient as immigration authorities of the foreign governments update their systems.
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