Tag: Passports
Fiji’s Immigration Minister steps down temporarily over ‘unauthorised’ passports for cult...
RNZ Pacific
Fiji's Home Affairs and Immigration Minister Pio Tikoduadua has ordered an inquiry into the "possible unauthorised issuance of passports" by immigration staff and...
Korean doomsday sect Grace Road saga deepens with leader in...
By Henry Pope
Fiji's government has taken the local leader of an influential South Korean doomsday sect into immigration custody after he and several other...
Arrested ship crew deny ‘bunkering’, other marine charges in PNG court
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Three crew members of an unnamed foreign ship intercepted by a Papua New Guinea Navy vessel near Kavieng, New...
Former Tongan PM guilty on false statement, perjury charges
By Philip Cass
Former Prime Minister Lord Tu’ivakano will be sentenced at the end of next month after being found guilty in the Supreme Court...
Sale of Vanuatu passports ‘degrading’, says Sokomanu
By Godwin Ligo in Port Vila
Vanuatu’s first President and one of the founding fathers of political Independence, Ati George Sokomanu, is calling on the...
Tongan police charge Lord Tu’ivakanō with bribery in passport saga probe
By Kalino Latu, editor of Kaniva News
The king’s noble and former Prime Minister, Lord Tu’ivakanō has been charged with passport offences, money laundering and...
Keith Locke: Israel’s anti-nuclear whistleblower more deserving of NZ citizenship
OPINION: By Keith Locke
No self-respecting country sells its passports to rich people who don’t even live there, which is why it was so bad...
PNG Immigration Office in Moresby risks closure over lack of funds
By Peter S. Kinjap in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's Immigration and Citizenship Service Authority in Port Moresby is risking closure due to a constant...