Though 312,000 passports have been obtained within the final six months, solely 52,000 have been used to go overseas final month, the Division of Immigration and Emigration says.
The vast majority of the passports used had been to depart for migrant employment in Qatar, Dubai and Kuwait.
There’s a huge congestion lately to get passports below the at some point service with round 1,000 passports issued every day.
The Division of Immigration and Emigration is visited by 3,000 – 4,000 folks day by day to acquire passports and subsequently, the every day restrict of passports issued has wanted to be elevated as properly.
It was earlier revealed by ‘Sri Lanka Mirror’ that the explanations for the breakdowns within the one-day and regular passport issuance service had been on account of inadequate server house in addition to errors within the pc system and the printing division.
The errors had been prevalent for a while now, inner sources have revealed.
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