The Lebanese Basic Safety (SG) introduced on Friday that passport purposes will not require appointments made prematurely as of March 6.
Purposes shall be made straight on the SG premises.
The GS had carried out an digital appointment system to handle the excessive demand for journey paperwork because the onset of the financial disaster in 2019. However with ready occasions stretching as much as a 12 months or extra, the SG made the choice to discontinue the appointment system.
“The brand new passports shall be issued inside 25 days,” the SG mentioned in a press release, following the receipt of a “specific amount of biometric passports.”
From March 1, the digital platform shall be out there just for people needing an pressing passport. Candidates should register for an appointment inside 5 days, though the GS has not specified how quickly these pressing passports shall be issued.
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In late January, GS director Abbas Ibrahim introduced that the net appointment course of can be discontinued “inside a month.” The SG’s assertion on Friday confirmed this, enabling Lebanese residents to extra simply get hold of journey paperwork.
A number of months in the past, costs for Lebanese passports elevated by nearly double.
