The Guyana Police Force (GPF) yesterday urged members of the public to desist from the pre-dawn practice of queuing up outside the Central Immigration and Passport Office as it causes “large unnecessary” build-ups.
In a statement, the GPF said the office is operating on a full eleven hour shift— from 7 am to 6 pm on any working day— to facilitate members of the public. The department has been restructured to ensure that all applications for passports are accepted on the same day; no one will be turned away. As a result, it said “there is no need for persons to go to the immigration office as early as 0400h as is currently done.”
The GPF emphasized that all passport applications will be accepted once they are presented during the normal working hours at the Immigration Office.
Further, it noted that there is a total of nine hundred and ninety-seven (997) prepared, but uncollected, new machine readable passports at the Central and Immigration Passport Office for the period July 17, 2007 to August 13, 2010 and it called on members of the public who have not yet done so to uplift their passports.
