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Online Passport Renewal by NADRA

Federal Government of Pakistan is to launch an electronic solution for receiving applications for Online Passport Renewal. the passport holders can easily submit requests for passport extensions and renewals with the new system.

Online Passport Renewal Handle by NADRA Electronic Solution

According to sources within the Interior Ministry, a software is under development. National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has been delegated with the development of the system. The system is in its final stage of development and will be launched very soon.

This online system will be launched in phases. In the initial stages it will be used for only renewal of expired passports and limited to certain cities in the country.

Why the need for such a system

There are only 95 passport offices across the country in Pakistan. This has always been a problem for people have to travel and endure the long queues at these offices. The federal government is also planning to increase the regional offices by 73 in the following months which makes the total number of regional offices to be 168 by end of 2016.

These projects reduce load on passport offices and an online system will be useful to citizens who can apply for passport renewal from their homes easily. The increase of regional passport offices will greatly help people residing in remote areas of the country.

When is the Online Passport Renewal System Expected to Start?

In the early last month home delivery of passports was launched. The new passport renewal system will be launched by March 2016. Though the online issuance and renewal services were expected to be launched this April, it appears as if only the renewal service might be launched by that time. Such delays also occurred with the online CNIC application in its development phase.

 

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Online Registration & Issuance of Passports Begins From Next Year in April

The National Assembly of Pakistan has been educated that an online registration and issuance administration for machine readable passports will start begin from April 2016. This information was uncovered by Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar on Monday while tending to an inquiry from another member from the parliament.

The Minister said that the new online framework will at first be propelled inside the country while it will be extended to foreign Pakistan passport headquarters at a later stage. He expressed that, right now, there are 83 Pakistani missions abroad which are permitted to issue machine readable passports (MRPs). The previously stated missions will have the capacity to offer the new online administration by the center of one year from now.

Chaudhary Nisar additionally uncovered that, before, standards for authority Blue Passports had been casual by the optional force of the Interior Minister’s office. He said that the present government crossed out around 2,000 passports under the faulty reason of public interest.

Online application and issuance of National Identity Cards (NIC) has as of now begun while the procedure still requires a couple of more months for the service to be merged, said the Interior Minister. He said that a huge number of fake Identity cards had been disavowed and firm move has been made against a few NADRA officials.

Minster Chaudhary Nisar expressed that a board of members speaking to diverse parliamentary parties will be framed to work with NADRA and illuminate the issue on the best way to piece identity cards under distinctive situations.

The Interior Ministry had been attempting to advance the procedure of getting authority reports for about a year. The Ministry reported in June that an Online CNIC issuance service will be propelled. The service was introduced by NADRA on the fourth of August. The Home Ministry was additionally expected to launch an international ID home delivery service in June however it got postponed and got to be accessible a month ago. The service was made official as TCS Passport Express Service and can be benefited by residents dwelling in real urban communities around the country.

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