President Irfaan Ali yesterday promised that in one week, the backlog of over 5,000 outstanding passports will be gone.
He made this announcement yesterday via social media when addressing several issues, including the passport backlog. The President stated that there are over 5,700 passports to be issued to persons in Guyana and in the diaspora and asserted that in a week’s time the issue will be dealt with.
“So, I have brought together the team and they are working in a concerted way. Twenty-four-hour shifts to have this entire backlog of 5,302 plus a backlog of about 400 for the diaspora. So, that is just about over 5700 passports in the backlog nationwide and in the diaspora. They are working to completely bring to nil this backlog by next Friday. So, all things being equal we don’t have any challenges with the machine.”