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Zimbabwe suspends passport issuing
(SomaliNet) Zimbabwe’s economic crisis has left no office affected. Amongst these is Zimbabwe’s registrar general office that has suspended issuance of passports and other identification documents. The suspension is because the office can no longer afford the required goods for the making and printing of passports.
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All it can do now is to give out temporary travel permits in cases of emergency. Zimbabwe’s registrar office can only make 20 passports on any given day and yet it has a work load of 300,000 passports already.

The office is also suffering with a debt of about $1.7 million, a report presented before Zimbabwe’s parliament revealed. The office is complaining of gross underfunding by Zimbabwe’s government. Processing a passport in Zimbabwe now takes a record 19 months. While Zimbabwe’s 2007 budget accorded ZIM$27-billion to the office, the money is only enough for the period between now and March.
Posted by: Fred 2006-12-13
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=174897