LAHORE: Due to insufficient printing capacity of the Directorate General of Immigration and Passports, applicants of normal and urgent categories are facing delay in issuance of passports for months.
Applicants in normal categories have to wait more than four months while applicants in urgent category are getting their passports after two months.
According to the official website, normal fee passport is issued after 21 working days while urgent fee passport will be issued in 05 working days.
However, the situation on the ground is quite different as applicants are facing inordinate delays in getting their passports.
A positive development was reported a day ago that the government has decided to purchase new printing machines for passports to deal with the ongoing passport crisis.
The Directorate General of Passports and Immigration is reportedly preparing a requisition for the purchase of the machines and will send it to the Home Ministry. The new machines are expected to be imported by September.
The new machines will be able to print 1000 passports per hour.
If the machines are imported, it will definitely reduce the time taken to issue passports in the country.
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