Milli Gazete brought up the headline yesterday, by saying, "Citizens who do not want to be affected by the 123 percent fee increase after the New Year want to renew their passports, but cannot get an appointment. Citizens who apply for a new passport and encounter the 'one hundred percent full' screen of the Population and Citizenship Affairs Office have not been able to get a passport appointment for days in big cities, especially in Istanbul." Upon the news, the General Directorate of Population and Citizenship Affairs made a statement yesterday.
"That the daily applications increased from 8,000 to 48,000, and that no citizen was victimized by producing different solutions," it was stated from the General Directorate of Population and Citizenship Affairs.
The General Directorate of Population and Citizenship Affairs stated that despite the demand for passports reaching the level of 48,000 per day, and the disruptions in the production and supply chain, no citizen was aggrieved.
The General Directorate made a statement regarding the news in some media organs that "There was no passport appointment in December".
Emphasizing that the annual passport demand, which was around 2 million for many years, exceeded 3 million 650 thousand as of December 10 this year, it was stated that the demand is expected to double by the end of the year.
"Despite the increasing intensity after the pandemic, the approaching the end of the year, the concern of the chip crisis in the world, and the fact that the daily passport demand, which was 8 thousand in the previous years, reached 48,000 per day, and the disruptions in the production and supply chain, none of our citizens are aggrieved. In addition, in order to create an additional appointment capacity, it is possible to make an appointment on the same day instead of our citizens who cannot attend to their appointments," the statement said.
As stated in the statement of the General Directorate of Population and Citizenship Affairs, the applications of citizens who do not want to be affected by the price hikes have increased 6-7 times.
Citizens who do not want to be affected by the 123 percent fee increase that will come after the New Year, want to renew their passports, but have great difficulties in getting an appointment, and many of them head to the surrounding districts.
Citizens who apply for a new passport and encounter the "one hundred percent full" screen of the Population and Citizenship Affairs Office have not been able to get a passport appointment for days in big cities, especially in Istanbul.
Citizens, who did not want to be affected by the 123 percent increase in passport fees after the New Year, applied to the Population and Citizenship Affairs Office to obtain a passport, but faced the "one hundred percent full" appointment screen.
While passport appointments cannot be made for days in big cities, especially in Istanbul, Population and Citizenship Affairs does not give an appointment for December.