On Thursday in a press conference, Max Rodolph Saint-Albin, Minister of the Interior and Local Government, presented the immediate impact of the production system of identity documents of the Directorate of Immigration and Emigration (DIE) and expressed satisfaction with the effectiveness of the measures adopted through the Identity Documents Reception and Delivery Centers (CRLDI).

The Minister said that the average daily production has risen to 4,000 passports and also underlines, at the level of the CRLDI, a steady increase in efforts to achieve the target of 5 working days for the production of a passport following a request. Regarding passports waiting for their claimant, the number that was nearly 26,000 booklets in early July was reduced by 43%.

While promising to identify the bottlenecks and isolate the constraints in order to permanently cancel these passports that people do not come to seek, Minister Saint-Albin proposes to develop new tools and to put in place a Plan of campaign.

He said various measures had already been taken, including the opening of the passport delivery service in Lalue on Saturday, 15 July, allowing more than 3,000 claimants to retrieve their documents. This measure that was taken to relieve congestion, will be repeated Saturday, July 22, 2017.

In addition, the list of passport codes to be retrieved will be published in order to allow citizens to easily retrieve their valuable document. Several other communication tools will also be made available to taxpayers to inform them of the follow-up and progress of their files, the Minister added.

HL/ S/ HaitiLibre