The Passports, Nationality and Foreigners Affairs Department stops issuing passports except for humanitarian cases.
Benghazi, February 10, 2018 (LANA) – The Passports, Nationality, and Foreigners Affairs Authority called for stopping the issuance of electronic passports, and limiting the issuance to humanitarian cases. In a statement issued by the heads of offices in the branches and departments of the Authority in the Eastern Region, and the Director of the Administrative and Financial Affairs Department, the Passports, Nationality and Foreigners Affairs Department called for the issuance of a machine-readable passport for humanitarian and urgent cases and within the narrowest scope, in coordination with the head of the Department and the Administration, and the issuance of instructions from the President. The Authority regarding issuing a passport for the case that requires the issuance of a passport with the exception of the fingerprint capture requirement. The authority said in its statement, “In view of the completion of the capacity of the database tables allocated to the decimal fingerprint system of the national database, which is supervised by the National Number Project and which is technically connected with the Libyan machine-readable passport issuance system, in compliance with Law No. (8) of 2014 AD, regarding… The national number that requires the Passports Authority to feed the national database with the decimal fingerprint of every citizen who wishes to obtain a passport, and the passport issuance system was designed to rely on the fingerprint in the process of verifying that the passport is not issued repeatedly to the same citizen.
