东非立法议会议员再次敦促为东非地区引入普通旅游签证，这带来了新的希望，即在克服个别成员国的抵制的情况下，这种旅游签证可以实现。
这位记者最近在肯尼亚时，与乔莫·肯雅塔国际机场的移民工作人员就此举的优劣进行了讨论，但被大胆地告知这是一个不好的举动，正如那些移民工作人员所认为的那样。肯尼亚的签证费从50美元到25美元不等，而且一位直言不讳的人认为，“政客们应该停止捐出我们的钱。”
随后，旅游业利益相关者问道，这种恶意行为显然令人不快，并继续维持他们长期以来的立场，即普通签证将促进整个地区的旅游业发展，毫无疑问，移民工作人员的观点显然是错误的，需要“进行改组，引用乌干达一位高级旅游利益相关者的话。
据了解，私人成员的法案草案已在这方面提交给了EALA，目前尚待观察，该法案是否能够克服官僚主义的障碍，或者是否会被埋葬在委员会审议阶段并在委员会审议通过时失效。 EALA当前会话结束。
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- This correspondent, when recently in Kenya, engaged immigration staff at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in a discussion over the merits of such a move, only to be told boldly that this was a bad move, as was in the opinion of those immigration staff the reduction of visa fees for Kenya from US$50 to US$25, and that, in the opinion of an outspoken individual, “the politicians should stop giving our money away.
- It is understood that a private member's draft bill has been submitted in this respect to the EALA, and it now remains to be seen if the bill can, in fact, overcome the bureaucratic hurdles or will be buried in the committee stages and lapse when the current session of the EALA ends.
- Tourism stakeholders subsequently asked about such malfeasant comments were clearly upset and continued to maintain their long-taken stand that a common visa would boost tourism into the entire region and leaving no doubt that the immigration staff were patently wrong in their opinions and needed “retooling,”.
