By William Madouk<\/p>\n
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More pain as applicants who are processing passports are now stranded at the immigration office for weeks as passport booklets stock out.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n *John (not his real name) told No. 1 Citizen Daily Newspaper<\/em><\/strong> that he had spent three weeks waiting to receive his passport, but to no avail.<\/p>\n He added that he desired to travel to Kenya for schooling but feared that a delay would ruin his plan.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to travel to Kenya, but I have no passport at the moment. I have had three weeks now, and ever since they told me passports [booklets] have finished,\u201d said John.<\/p>\n \u201cThey told me that everyone except sick people must have it, but I told them I wanted to go to school because I am not sick, but\u00a0they did not allow me,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n With frustration, John stated that he was afraid of missing the admission or registration dateline as passport headaches remain.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s so difficult for me because school may be occupied or admission will be closed, and I will lose the opportunity,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n Another applicant who was supposed to travel to Egypt for an exam is likely to miss a chance as she doesn\u2019t fall under the prioritized categories of’sick\u2019 or \u2018assigned by the government for a workshop.’ he added.<\/p>\n Besides, one senior immigration officer whose name is concealed informed the client that only sick people are entitled to have passports at this time due to the inadequate number of booklets.<\/p>\n \u201cPassport [booklets] have finished, and those who now prioritize are the referral cases to the hospital (aboard) or those sent by the ministry to attend workshops outside the country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n But Col. Laura Paul Pidi, the director of moral orientation and spokeswoman at the Directorate of Civil Registry, Nationality, Passports, and Immigration (DCRNPI), confirmed that indeed the booklets are few.<\/p>\n \u201cThe passports are now few, and that is why we decided to keep them for emergency cases. If someone has a serious emergency case and is going for treatment, we can provide him\/her with the means with the means to go and seek treatment,\u201d Laura told this outlet.<\/p>\n \u201cFor other categories, it is still\u2014that is why now we only issue them to those who have special needs and are sick, and we hope if more booklets arrive, we will give them to anybody,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n Ms. Laura underscored that for students who are done with the admissions process and pending travel, they would stand a chance of getting a passport, but not for those who are still in the process.<\/p>\n \u201cFor those who are still waiting and the general public, I would like to inform you that be patient; always success follows patient people\u2014because the few we have, we kept for sick and emergency cases\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cSo, be patient, and when we bring more booklets, each and every one of you will get their passport, but now we say sorry\u201d she empathized.<\/p>\n Recently, the Director General of the DCRNPI promised to fix all the irregularities in the institution to enable systematic and smooth operation.<\/p>\n Maj. 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Simon Majur Pabek noted that there has not been timely processing of nationality and passport IDs for South Sudanese who are eager to travel for important missions.<\/p>\n He said the institution has severally run short of passport booklets, with serious logistical and procurement difficulties arising from unknown angles.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By William Madouk More pain as applicants who are processing passports are now stranded at the immigration office for weeks as passport booklets stock out. *John (not his real name) told No. 1 Citizen Daily Newspaper that he had spent three weeks waiting to receive his passport, but to[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/A-copy-of-the-South-Sudan-Passport.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23094,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23092\/revisions\/23094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}