(September 14-18, 2009)
To improve the system on eliminating the long lines of passport applicants in far-flung places and island provinces, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) brought its Mobile Passport Services in Masbate last September 17-18, 2009.
In coordination with the Masbate Provincial Government, the DFA team heeded its request, making it more convenient to the applying public.
Jose Jacob, officer in charge of the DFA V, said that with the implementation of the Machine-readable Passports and Visas Project (MRP/V), this will ensure the efficient and timely delivery of the Philippine travel documents.
It aims to fully automate the processing and issuance of Philippine passports and visas in accordance with international standards.
The DFA will also start with the production of machine-processed passports.
This will be operationalized within 30-45 days, and is expected to shorten passport application queues, speed up processing, and significantly increase the passport production rate from 3,500 to 10,000 passports a day, thus reducing processing backlog.
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