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Canadians & Aussies Conducts, Document Training Sessions At Male' Maldives Print E-mail
Saturday, 26 December 2009 13:29

CANADIANS & AUSSIES CONDUCTS, DOCUMENT TRAINING SESSIONS AT MALE’ MALDIVESDepartment of Immigration and Emigration had conducted a series of fraudulent document training programs with some of their foreign partners starting from 30 of Sep to 03 of Dec 2009.   

The training sessions were lectured by first secretary of Canadian Immigration in Colombo Mr. James Martin (Migration Integrity Officer) and first secretary of Australian Immigration in Colombo Mr. Nigel Muir (Principle Migration Officer). Both these gentleman’s are professionals in their field. The training programs were carried out at the Island Aviation training facility at Male’ International airport.

These basic fraudulent document classes were mainly targeted to the newly recruited staffs of Immigration but they were joined by staffs from Island Aviation and Cyprea Maldives. A more advanced training program was also conducted for the senior staffs of Immigration.

The training programs were very fruitful and all the participants enjoyed the classes since most cases were discussed with real examples. We hope to see the end results of these trainings in the very near future.

The Controller of Immigration and Emigration Mr. Ilyas Hussain has always put great emphasis in training staffs. He believed that thriving excellence service could only be achieved with a well trained team of professionals.
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Asst. Controller Ibrahim Ashraf Takes Part In Fourth Bali Process Print E-mail
Saturday, 12 December 2009 17:36

Assistant Controller Ibrahim AshrafAssistant Controller Mr.Ibrahim Asharf is to be taking part in the fourth Bali process ad hoc group meetings held in Perth Australia from the 14th to the 16th of December 2009.

The Bali Process brings participants together to work on practical measures to help combat people smuggling, trafficking in persons and related transnational crimes in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.  Initiated at the "Regional Ministerial Conference on People Smuggling, Trafficking in Persons and Related Transnational Crime" held in Bali in February 2002, the Bali Process follow-up is a collaborative effort participated in by over 50 countries and numerous international agencies. The Bali Process follow-up is supported by financial contributions from Australia, New Zealand, Japan, United States, as well as in-kind contributions from numerous participating countries.

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Expatriate Monitoring & Repatriation Division Print E-mail
Wednesday, 04 November 2009 20:49

Upon establishment on the 1st of July 2009, the process of Issuing the Work Visa and entirely related work had been done under the supervision of the Expatriate Monitoring and Repatriation Division of Department of Immigration and Emigration which was formerly handled by the Ministry of Human Resources, Youth and Sports.

A specified ‘‘employment approval’’ which is given by the Ministry is compulsory in order to attain the work visa and shall only be issued to such bearers. For foreigners currently working under the work permit card, the time interval for validity of the work visa would be based on the validity duration left on the foreigners work permit card.

As stated in the name, the monitoring of emigrants and repatriation, as well as the processing of work visa for foreigners and handling employees deposit collection is maintained and supervised by the Expatriate Monitoring and Repatriation Division of Department of Immigration and Emigration.
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Workshop On Fraudulent Documents And Illegal Passenger Movements Print E-mail
Tuesday, 10 March 2009 08:04

Improving and protecting our borders from imposters and fraudulent document, is one of our duty. The Training Unit of the Department of Immigration and Emigration, a workshop on fraudulent documents and illegal passenger movements with the assistance from the official from Canadian High Commission in Colombo and official from British High Commission starts today until 12th March 2009. The workshop focuses on verifying genuine documents, Visas and understanding passenger assessments and imposters. It also covers:
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As part of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Department of Immigration and Emigration is responsible for the Immigration control throughout the Maldives.

Did You Know?


Do I need a visa before I arrive in Maldives, if I am visiting as a Tourist?
No, you will be granted a free entry visa on arrival. Depending on your financial status, you can apply for maximum thirty days.

Travel Tips

It is always a good idea to have a few passports photos with you. You never know when you will need them.

Leave a copy of your itinerary and a photocopy of your passport at home or with your family, to let them know your travel plan. It would be better, if the hotels you are going to stay are also known.

One of the best ways to stay in contact with the people at home, while you are traveling, is to have a web based email. Something like hotmail or avasmail. If you do not have a web based email account, you can setup an email account for free from these two sites.

If you loose your passport while abroad, do not start making unnecessary calls home. As this mishap could prolong your stay and you need to save as much as you can. Follow the steps below:

    * Go to the nearest police station and report the incident, and get a police report.
    * Write the name of the hotel, phone number, fax number, room number, your national identity card number (or passport number) on a piece of paper
    * Now call home and get your most reliable person on the phone
    * Give all these details you wrote down to this person and get his/hers identity card number and full name.
    * Ask this person to contact the Immigration on your behalf
    * Fax a letter (with the police report) to the immigration explaining the situation and giving details of your contact person (make sure you write his/hers identity card number).Fax number is (960) 320011 (Head Office) and (960) 320451 (Airport)


IF YOU ARE IN SRI LANKA, INDIA OR UNITED KINGDOM, CONTACT THE DIPLOMATIC MISSION

 

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A person entering Maldives with the intention to work in Maldives should have a copy of the Work Permit issued from the Ministry of Human Resources Youth & Sports at the time of arrival.

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