Passport Cost Witness Sharp Increase of FCFA 35,000 Difference
48 hours is the new deadline for everyone to get a Cameroonian passport. Disclosing the information on June 8, 2021, the delegate general for national security added that the identification and travel document will henceforth be processed online from application to availability notification.
Beginning July 1, 2021 one will have to disburse 110,000 FCFA francs as a stamp for a passport contrary to 75 000 FCFA which many have been paying to get the document within a three months deadline. This innovation is contained in an order modifying the 2021 finance law signed by President Paul Biya and applies to all those who want to renew, prolong or do an ordinary passport. The 3rd increase in 20 years.
Applications and payment of the biometric passport will be online and through MTN and ORANGE electronic payments. If an application is rejected, the applicant will be informed in 48 hours. This announcement is in line with an agreement signed between Cameroon and INCM AUGENTIC a German firm in December 2020 to produce express passports. This was after the contract with French company Thales security systems ended in 2019.
Passport stamp moved from thirty to fifty thousand francs, then seventy-five to one hundred and ten thousand a relative increase compared to Gabon, Chad and the USA with 55000, and 75000 respectively.
