Lahore: The machine-readable passport crisis has once again become serious, due to which citizens are once again facing problems.
According to the sources, the stock of lamination paper with the Department of Passports and Immigration is very low due to which only 5 to 7 thousand passports are being made every day instead of 25 thousand.
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It may be noted that the department imports passport lamination paper from France, which is again delayed due to lack of dollars, due to which normal fee passports are being received after 2 months instead of 15 to 20 days. . Currently, the department has more than one and a half lakh passports pending.
The passport department is issuing passports on time only to urgent and fast track fee holders. The Passport and Immigration Agency earns an annual revenue of 120 to 150 billion rupees, yet could not buy lamination paper in time.
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Lamination paper for passport and immigration is sourced from France while ink and printers are sourced from Germany. Passport and Immigration can produce 25,000 passports per day while the number of applications received on a daily basis is more than 40,000.
Every day 20 to 25 thousand people from Punjab including Lahore go to the offices to make passports, where they are not getting passports even after queuing for hours, while passport and immigration authorities say that only the data of passport makers from Lahore was fed. Is. Printing of machine readable passports is done from the headquarters. Passports are provided to people as soon as they arrive.
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