{"id":31195,"date":"2024-03-30T18:06:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T13:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=31195"},"modified":"2024-03-30T18:06:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T13:06:16","slug":"long-delay-in-issuance-of-passports-citizens-facing-difficulties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/long-delay-in-issuance-of-passports-citizens-facing-difficulties\/","title":{"rendered":"Long delay in issuance of passports, citizens facing difficulties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE \u2013 Thousands of Pakistanis have been facing difficulties for several months due to the delay in the issuance of more than five and a half lakh passports since the last few months.<\/p>\n<p>The Passport and Immigration Department was unable to deliver passports on time due to machine readability issues and passport delivery issues.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of Pakistani passport holders residing in other countries like USA, UK and Canada have been facing delays for the past several months.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the delay in the issuance of passports, the aspirants of Hajj and Umrah are also suffering from mental agony.<\/p>\n<p>Victims complain that the Passport and Immigration Department is giving priority to only urgent and expedited applicants, leaving others to wait for months.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/passport-office-jobs-2024-directorate-general-immigration-announce-150-vacancies\/\">Passport Office Jobs 2024: Directorate General Immigration announce 150+ vacancies<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the passport authorities attribute the delay to a shortage of ink and lamination paper stock.<\/p>\n<p>He assured clearance by June after replenishment of supplies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE \u2013 Thousands of Pakistanis have been facing difficulties for several months due to the delay in the issuance of more than five and a half lakh passports since the last few months. The Passport and Immigration Department was unable to deliver passports on time due to machine readability issues and passport delivery issues. Hundreds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":26762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2007,875,14111,14110],"class_list":["post-31195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-canada","tag-usa","tag-hajj-and-umrah","tag-passport-and-immigration-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}