Passports: helping expats
From the Newspaper | 9th June, 2012
BOTH the government and the opposition admire overseas Pakistanis for sending remittances but no one cares to solve their problems, one of which is about issuance/renewal of their machine-readable passports.
I suggest the government arrange an evening service at embassies for the convenience of working Pakistanis and students.
In return, charges can be nominally increased for evening service to meet additional payments to be made to the staff who will perform their duties.
SHAHZADA RIAZ
Salalah, Oman
I had submitted my comments on June 9,praising the Pakistan Consulate in Houston Texas, USA, for promptly renewing mine and my wife's manual passports but they were not published. It was simply a praise and there was nothing objectionable. The praise should have been published . Thank you.
Akbar Hirani, MBA.
Dallas, Texas, USA.
Thank you.
May I suggest if Government can employ atleast 50% of the staff from the country where embassy is located. Atleast they can speak and offer help in local language. Most of them cant even speak Urdu forget English in USA. I had a expericne of attending three-way call between me, embassy staff and some American, it WAS one enbarrasing experience .
Saudi Arabia has got only two passport offices one in Jaddah and another in Riyadh. In Saudi Arabia the population of expat Pakistanis are 1.3 millions and according to the area it is three time bigger than Pakistan. We expat Pakistanis living in Saudi Arabia have been desperately demanding for few more offices to renewal of machine readable passports but no body cares in govt…..
What a great idea.
In my experience, very FEW Pakistanis embassy employees WORK in the day time,let alone expecting them to do any work in the evening is pure hallucination.