According to the national director of Identification, Registries and Notaries, Carlos Cavuquila, financial conditions are being created to set up stations in these countries later this year, as well as to reinforce these services in Namibia (Rundo) and Zambia.
The equipment (computers, scanner, photo camera, printer, digitizer, cross match - for the collection of fingerprints) at the São Paulo, Kinshasa and Lubumbashi stations, of Chinese manufacture, have already been purchased, with only the assembly required.
The installation of process reception posts for processing and assigning BI appears within the framework of the Program for the Massification of Registration and the Attribution of the Identity Card, which started in March last year in the diaspora and in November 2019 in Angola.
With the new posts in the six countries, Carlos Cavuquila said that the massification program will gain a new impetus among Angolans living outside Angola. "We are going to cover a larger number of citizens and they stop going to our country to deal with BI," he explained, in a statement to which VerAngola had access.
Asked about the reasons for choosing these countries to install the new posts, the national director of Identification, Registries and Notaries explained that, in the scope of the partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the statistics reveal a greater concentration of Angolans in these places.
The official assured that the massification work, which runs until 2022, will continue to be taken to other parts of the world. For now, the program works at the consulates of the Angolan embassies in Lisbon and Porto (Portugal), Paris (France), Windhoek and Oshakati (Namibia), Johannesburg and Cape Town (South Africa), and Lusaka and Mongu (Zambia) .
From March to December 2020, the BI reception and assignment posts at these consulates served 2184 Angolans, of whom 353 obtained the document for the first time, 71 for the second time and 1760 applied for renewal.
Portugal tops the list with 1,178 treated tickets, followed by France with 253, Namibia and South Africa, both with 61, and Zambia, with just 31.
To join the program, those who live abroad and have their BI expired must present this document. If the ID has been stolen, lost or poorly maintained, it is recommended that this be communicated to the identification post to deal with the duplicate.
Those who intend to handle the document for the first time are required to have a birth certificate. In the absence of this document, a baptism certificate, issued until June 1, 1963, or a full narrative certificate, is requested. "It is the same procedure that is verified here inside the country", stressed the official.
As for fees or charges, the national director said that the values are the same as those charged in Angola, although it becomes the currency of the country that welcomes the Angolan citizen, based on the exchange rate of the day. "The first copy is not paid for. It is free here, as abroad," he said.
