{"id":44836,"date":"2024-08-13T14:56:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T09:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=44836"},"modified":"2024-08-13T14:56:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T09:56:28","slug":"pakistan-set-to-revise-passport-rules-streamlines-application-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pakistan-set-to-revise-passport-rules-streamlines-application-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan set to revise passport rules, streamlines application process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/cm-maryam-presents-rs100-million-cheque-pak-92-97-number-car-to-arshad-nadeem\/\"> Pakistan government is set to amend passport rules<\/a> for both new issuances and renewals in a significant policy shift. The Interior Ministry has submitted a summary to the federal cabinet proposing these changes.<\/p>\n<p>If approved, the amendments will allow passports to be issued to citizens from any city nationwide and permit passport fees to be paid at any National Bank branch.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, sources from the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/aviation-ministry-initiates-investigation-against-corruption-in-caa\/\">Ministry of Interior<\/a> indicated that these changes will streamline the passport application process, aligning it more closely with the procedure for acquiring a national identity card.<\/p>\n<p>In response to delays in passport printing, authorities have also made key decisions to address the issue.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pakistan-to-offer-free-online-visa-for-turkish-nationals\/\">Directorate General of Immigration and Passports<\/a> plans to purchase 20 new laminators and printers, along with five modern ARPM and two E-passport printers.<\/p>\n<p>With these upgrades, the new equipment will enable the production of 1,000 passports per hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan government is set to amend passport rules for both new issuances and renewals in a significant policy shift. The Interior Ministry has submitted a summary to the federal cabinet proposing these changes. If approved, the amendments will allow passports to be issued to citizens from any city nationwide and permit passport fees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":16783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12251,13898,20395],"class_list":["post-44836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-directorate-general-of-immigration-and-passports","tag-interior-ministry-of-pakistan","tag-passport-rules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44836","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44839,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44836\/revisions\/44839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}