My 10-year-old granddaughter needed to have a new passport. My daughter produced a new passport photo of the child who was wearing a one centimetre-wide hairband and which by no means was covering any part of the child’s face.

The passport officer refused to accept the photo produced saying that the child’s face should not be in any way hindered. My daughter was left with no other choice but to turn back and leave. However, on her way out, a foreigner with most of her face covered, entered the office, a photo in hand which seemed to have been accepted.

One wonders whether we are being discriminated against in our own country.

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