Afghanistan: 3 Million Passport Booklets to Arrive in 2 Weeks, Officials

KABUL, 24 May 2022, (TON): Officials said “in two weeks, three million five-year passports will arrive in Kabul.”

The General Directorate of Passports says that talks have taken place with the UN mission in Kabul about transferring the passports to the country.

Shafiullah Tassal, press director of the General Directorate of Passports said “three million passports have been printed and we have paid the money too. Talks have finished in this regard. They have been printed in Lithuania and they are supposed to be transferred, and there has been talk of their transferring them, and in the coming days they will arrive in the country and this problem will be completely solved.”

The Passport Authority confirmed there is a lack of five-year passports and said the problem will be resolved in two weeks.

He said “passport administrations in the country will be reopened when new passports arrive.”

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