When will the passport crisis end?

The Director General of General Security revealed, “There is no passport crisis, but rather a crisis of increasing requests for passports, with our assertion that every Lebanese has the right to obtain a passport.” He said: As of the year 2023, we will receive 100,000 biometric passports, leading to the receipt of The entire quantity, that is, one million passports within 6 months, noting that we have in the directorate’s coffers about 22 thousand passports that were not received by their owners, and that 69% of those who completed the passports did not use them. The Lebanese are rushing to obtain a passport, even though they do not want to use it. We hope that things will return to normal in the first months of next year.