Published on 28/07/2025
Claire Ollama, Registrar | Championing comms of Uganda’s MEMR National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) has cautioned Ugandans If you are living in the diaspora and you have obtained citizenship of another country, by default, you have relinquished Ugandan citizenship.
Ollama says ”if you are a Ugandan who’s living in America and you have chosen to obtain American citizenship, please when we come, this is not your service because we whereas you have an ID you might have acquired before you traveled, It means that you gave up your Ugandan citizenship”.
Ollama adds on ”We will only work on people who are living there and therefore still identify as Ugandans and are traveling purely on Ugandan passports and those who have dual citizenship. So people who are living abroad and you don’t have Dual citizenship It means that you relinquished UgandanNess“.
CONFIRMED DATED FOR DIASPORA DRIVE
So, NIRA will begin with United Arab Emirates Between 18th -30th August, particularly. On 18th-24th August, will be at the Uganda Embassy in Abu Dhabi Between 25th – 27th August, will be in Sharjah Between 28th – 30th August will be in Ras Al-Khaimah, so if you’re living United Arab Emirates (UAE) please do not Panic.
Why is NIRA spreading out? To avoid congestion, but also as much as possible, to reach you where you are. The people of Qatar, will be between 14th – 17th August at the embassy in Doha.
In the United Kingdom will be between 14th -21st September and the process will be at the Uganda High Commission in London. In the United States will be in New York between 25th – 25th September, Washington DC 26th -28th September, and be in New Orleans from 29th-31st September. So those are the confirmed dates, and we want to implore the Uganda’s living there to begin to have their paperwork ready by pre-applying. The link is available now on our portal. So, when we come to you, the process takes a shorter time.
