Haiti - FLASH : Towards the end of the shortage of Haitian passport booklets ?
While the issuance of passports in the diaspora has become a real ordeal, delays of up to 4 months and more, https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-24635-haiti-flash-shortage-of-passports-for-the-diaspora-delays-are-growing.html and that in Haiti, despite all the equipment and a production capacity of 4,000 passports per day, the issuance of passports is done drop by drop and that demands continue to increase and accumulate, Fednel Monchéry, the Director General of the Ministry of the Interior reassures the applicants of passport and promises that a stock of booklets will be delivered shortly in Haiti and that the situation will return to normal.
Let us recall that already in mid June of this year, Joseph F. Cianciulli, the Director General of Immigration and Emigration assured that the situation was to be solved before end of June https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-24651-haiti-flash-production-of-passports-drop-by-drop-in-haiti.html putting the fault on the late bill payments to the German supplier who manufactures Haitian secured passports to international standards.
Fednel Monchéry, without going into details, explains that this situation, which has been going on for several months, was caused by "administrative and state problems..." as well as employees who demanded the payment of several months of wages arrears, disrupting the activities of the annexes and the issuing centers, a situation which should also be solved, Monchéry assured.
