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KABUL: The General Department of Passport announced it would reopen the section based in the capital city of Kabul.
The department would be issuing at least 300 visas per day.
“In the past, the process of distributing passports in Kabul was such that we were distributing passports to people who urgently needed to travel for medical care, and 300 applicants who registered online, and this process will start again,” said Shafiullah Tassal, press director of the General Directorate of Passports.
The General Department meanwhile said that the activities of the passport department in the provinces have been suspended due to the processing backlog of applications.
During the past six months, the activities of the passport department have been on and off several times in many provinces including the capital Kabul.
Earlier, many passport applicants complained over the poor activities of the passport department.
The General Department has also denied reports which suggested that the department is facing a shortage of passports, saying there is not a shortage of passport notebooks in the country.
