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Chaos continues at main passport office
By Chaminda Silva
A large number of people who arrived at the Department of Immigration and Emigration Head Office, at Battaramulla, yesterday (28) to obtain passports, protested against inconveniences they had to face.
The Department officials said that passports would be issued on a first-come-first-served basis from Wednesday (28).
The Department said it had imposed restrictions on the issuance of passports, due to a limited supply of blank passports.
The Police intervened and commenced registering people to obtain passports.
Long queues have been seen in front of the Department of Immigration and Emigration in the past few days with people eager to obtain passports.
People complained that they had been waiting in queues for days, with some staying in front of the passport office overnight.