{"id":78487,"date":"2025-06-24T14:48:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T09:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=78487"},"modified":"2025-06-24T14:48:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T09:48:28","slug":"passport-department-releases-annual-performance-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/passport-department-releases-annual-performance-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Passport department releases annual performance report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Directorate of Immigration and Passports has released its <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/government-announces-to-revoke-passports-of-deportees\/\">annual performance<\/a> report, highlighting significant improvements in passport services across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The report added that the department has provided round-the-clock services nationwide, with a total of 232 passport offices in Pakistan, eliminating the passport backlog and enhancing citizen convenience.<\/p>\n<p>The number of passports issued annually has doubled in the last two years, with 6.7 million passports issued out of a total of 13 million in the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, 3.4 million out of a total of 55 million passports were issued annually in the last 17 years.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the report added that the department provided online passport services to 130,318 overseas Pakistanis in the last year.<\/p>\n<p>The passport department deposited Rs. 295.7 billion in the government treasury over the last 16 years, with Rs. 40 billion deposited annually in the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>The department issued 53 Pakistan Citizenship Certificates in the last year, it added. &#8220;The institution issued 4,447 renunciation certificates and one naturalization certificate last year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the department upgraded its infrastructure, introduced modern security features, and established 32 new passport counters across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, passport counters were also provided in all provincial assemblies and bar councils, and 24\/7 passport supply was provided in all major cities of the country.<\/p>\n<p>An e-gate system linked to e-passports is being introduced nationwide to enhance security and efficiency, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to that, the department disposed of 73,700 complaints against the Prime Minister&#8217;s Performance Delivery Unit.<\/p>\n<p>DG Passports, Mustafa Jamal Qazi, said that the Passport Department is committed to providing convenient services to Pakistani citizens around the world to meet modern requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Directorate of Immigration and Passports has released its annual performance report, highlighting significant improvements in passport services across the country. The report added that the department has provided round-the-clock services nationwide, with a total of 232 passport offices in Pakistan, eliminating the passport backlog and enhancing citizen convenience. The number of passports issued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":78504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[29688,29689],"class_list":["post-78487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-directorate-of-immigration-and-passports","tag-passport-offices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78487","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78505,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78487\/revisions\/78505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}