Tag: Passports

• Tuesday, December 20th 2022 - 08:59 UTC

  Uruguayan Deputy Foreign Minister resigns over passport issuance scandal

  

  Carolina Ache Batlle Monday turned in her resignation as Uruguay's Deputy Foreign Minister following her involvement in the scandalous granting of a passport to well-known drug trafficker Sebastián Marset. On accepting her resignation, President Luis Lacalle Pou insisted he trusted the departing official.

• Tuesday, March 19th 2019 - 08:32 UTC

  Brazil waives visa requirements for US, Canada, Australia and Japan visitors

  

  The Brazilian government on Monday waived visa requirements for visitors from the United States, Canada, Australia and Japan, a measure to boost tourism that was first temporarily adopted before the Rio Olympics in 2016.

• Saturday, February 23rd 2019 - 10:59 UTC

  Argentine lawmakers wish to travel to Falklands but with no migration passport stamping

  

  A group of Argentine lawmakers from president Mauricio Macri's coalition is willing to travel to the Falkland Islands in the near future, but, a big but is that their passports are not to be stamped by migration when they land in the Islands.