Monday, June 23, 2008

Kenya scraps visa application forms

BY IGNATIUS SSUUNA of The New Times

"Rwandans wishing to travel to Kenya will no longer be subjected to the usual tedious exercise of filling Visa application forms, Sunday Times has learnt. Kenyan ambassador to Rwanda Alex Keter said on Saturday the Visa application forms were no longer necessary after Rwanda joined the Eastern Africa Community bloc.

On June 18, 2007 Rwanda signed the Treaty of Accession into the East African Community. The enlarged regional economic bloc now has a combined population of 115 million.

“It’s no longer an obligation to fill these forms. We withdrew the Visa application forms early this month,” Keter said in a telephone interview."


Category: Rwanda + East African Community + Trade

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