New passports to be issued within two working days

KATHMANDU: The Department of Passports will now issue passports within two working days. The department has received 396,000 new passport booklets to be distributed to those who need them urgently.

The department is now supplying passports at full capacity. With the supply of the passport booklets, it will personalise passports at full capacity and provide them to applicants who applied through district and area administration offices and Nepali missions abroad. Those who applied by December 1 will be provided with new passports by December 30, and the rest will be provided gradually thereafter, the department has stated.

The department has clarified that the distribution of new passports will now be smooth, as the new passport booklets have been available during the interim period. The government had decided to procure 700,000 booklets for the interim period.

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