Uganda, May 8 -- The Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration Control (DCIC) has revised its guidelines on replacing passports for Ugandans living in the diaspora.

Under the new guidelines, whoever loses his or her passport must return to Uganda to have it processed and replaced.

Previously, Ugandans have been applying for passport replacement at 38 different embassies worldwide.

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This implies that Ugandans residing in the diaspora will now have to incur additional travel expenses to return to Uganda for passport replacement.

According to Immigration, some Ugandans in the diaspora had allegedly made it a habit of lying to immigration that their passports got lost and would s...