Kenyan passport ‘opens door’ for traders
Kenya’s passport has been ranked the most useful and influential travel document in East Africa in so far as ease of doing business across foreign territories is concerned. The Passport Index survey by Arton Capital—a financial advisory firm which specialises in procuring multiple citizenships for clients across the globe—ranked the Kenyan passport at position 50 […]
Aboriginal activist enters Australia without passport
Carrying a self-styled Aboriginal passport, Nganyaywana man Callum Clayton-Dixon has also recently entered and departed the Solomon Islands. Mr Clayton-Dixon, chair of the Aboriginal Provision Government (APG), told SBS that he arrived in Brisbane from Honiara on June 30. “They warned me if I made any false declaration that could involve some penalty under the law […]
Muslim woman who stole twin’s passport to travel to Syria spared jail
A Muslim woman who stole her twin sister’s passport in order to travel to Syria, has been spared jail. Jamila Henry, 22, pleaded guilty to stealing her twin sister’s passport “with improper intent.” The mother of one was described as “shy” and “quiet”, compared to her Westernised and “outspoken” twin Jalila. In January last year, […]
Cuba: Man fined $3000,00 for using woman’s passport
He Hanover farmer who tried to leave the island for Cuba using a missing female passport was slapped with a $300,000-fine when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court this week. Everton Clarke, 53, of Letiz district, was held at the Norman Manley International Airport on July 10 when he tendered the “doctored’ […]
Woman headed to prison for using fake passport to enter U.S.
A 36-year-old woman from the Dominican Republic living in New Jersey was sentenced on Tuesday to three years in prison for trying to re-enter the country with a fake passport, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Angela De Jesus-Concepcion of Bergenfield showed officials a phony passport that displayed her picture but listed the name of […]
Dark web vendors sell blank British passports and entry to passport database for just £2,000
Fake British passports convincing enough to pass through airport security are being sold on the dark web – and some vendors even claim they can add buyers to the passport database. The passports, which are claimed to include all the security features of the genuine article – such as biometric data and RFID chips to […]
