The Services Being Offered Include Much More than for Passports

But if you have other immigration and nationality needs, you will also be able to access assistance through these onsite hubs. As the Head of IOM, Belize, Diana Locke explains, people who are looking to renew their permanent residency cards will also be able to do so.

 

Diana Locke, Head of International Organization of Migration, Belize

“You can get a replacement of a permanent resident card because now they’ve switched to cards. So all those really old, laminated cards from the 90s, we see a lot of them here today. You can get a replacement of a nationality certificate. You can make a new application for nationality by descent, nationality through marriage, nationality through registration. So basically every service that is offered by the department in Belmopan. Is being offered here today.  We also have social security providing. I think you’re taking pictures for new cards. They’re doing appointments if you just need an appointment, but all the services that they provide to lead you to get a card is here today. As I indicated, [the Department of] Labor is here sharing information about what’s available in terms of jobs for people who are interested. And then we also have Vital Stats that will be joining us that will be issuing late registrations or birth registration documents; deaths, marriages. A lot of people have really old married certificates – well, not in the official certificate, but the church from the church. Those have to be converted, so all of those services will be available at these hubs that we’re doing across the country.”