{"id":175,"date":"2016-09-06T07:57:22","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T07:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mohca.gov.bt\/mohca\/?page_id=175"},"modified":"2023-02-16T11:01:19","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T05:01:19","slug":"about-department-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.moha.gov.bt\/?page_id=175","title":{"rendered":"About Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content clearfix\">\n<p><strong>VISION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">To be the organization which will encompass professionalism in immigration service delivery while ensuring that the nation remains free of illegal immigrants<\/p>\n<p><strong>MISSION<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To strengthen the Regional Immigration Offices;<\/li>\n<li>To professionalize immigration service delivery;<\/li>\n<li>To strengthen immigration inspection management; and<\/li>\n<li>To improve and simplify immigration procedures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>ROLES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Check and control the entry of all foreigners into Bhutan;<\/li>\n<li>Study, categorize and process the applications for naturalization for Bhutanese citizenship;<\/li>\n<li>Management of Regional Immigration Offices, check posts, outpost and Airport effectively;<\/li>\n<li>Issuance of all types of Immigration permits to foreigners visiting Bhutan;<\/li>\n<li>Issue work permits to foreigners working in Government, international agencies and private sectors;<\/li>\n<li>Issue of non-Bhutanese identity cards to foreigner legally married to Bhutanese and their legitimate children;<\/li>\n<li>Vigilance and inspection of illegal immigrants;<\/li>\n<li>Detection, detention and deportation of illegal immigrants;<\/li>\n<li>Accord punitive action against the employers in breach or non-compliance of immigration rules and regulations through a Court of Law;<\/li>\n<li>Maintain computerized database of all foreign nationals in the country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VISION To be the organization which will encompass professionalism in immigration service delivery while ensuring that the nation remains free of illegal immigrants MISSION To strengthen the Regional Immigration Offices;&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moha.gov.bt\/?page_id=175\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2374,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moha.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moha.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moha.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moha.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moha.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.moha.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4965,"href":"https:\/\/www.moha.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175\/revisions\/4965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moha.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}