Haiti - FLASH : production of new passport temporarily suspended
The Directorate of Immigration and Emigration (DIE) announces that from Monday August 19, 2024, it will stop the production of new Haitian passports. This decision was made due to the large number of passport files which remain blocked in the system (at control level).
This decision is made in order to allow the service to work better, the DIE can concentrate its forces and resources, on the 10,154 passports which are still inside the system and which have never been delivered. This is a provision which is also part of the vision of the DIE, which hopes that each passport is properly produced and established within a short time.
On the other hand, the DIE informs the population and all the institutions accustomed to collaborating with it, that the decision to stop the production of new passports, "for a short period" will help them to improve the quality of service in the coming days. This will also allow him, Once they have finished released blocked passports, starting to receive new requests and create new passports with more transparency and in less time.
The DIE announces that it has set up a team that will specifically work to end all the suffering passport files. It will thus use all the official channels of the Ministry of the Interior and Local Authorities and DIE digital portals to inform the public of the progress of the work.
