Freeport, Grand Bahama Island Friday, September 11th, 2009 Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs The Hon. Brent Symonette met with the media on Grand Bahama Island at the passport office to announce positive changes slated to occur at the passport office that will facilitate a faster turnaround time for the delivery passports.
The passport office on Grand Bahama Island has come under tremendous fire by members of the Grand Bahama community due to what has been described as poor service, long lines, slow turnaround time and the inconvenience of having to reacquire previously submitted documents. In some instances passport turnaround times have been greater than eight months.
To address the aforementioned mentioned issues, Minister Symonette announced that The Freeport Passport office has: relocated to a larger space, hired additional staff, increased the number of phone lines, returned most of the old passports from storage back to the Freeport office, purchased two more machines to speed up the production of passports; one of which will be dedicated solely to the production of passports for Grand Bahamians. Further, The minister went on to say that the Freeport office is now able to do enrollment, data entry, third level and final level approval in Freeport without having to go through Nassau, all within a week and a half. Production of the actual passports themselves according to the minister should take approximately a week.
Also announced by Minister Symonette was the coming online of the Miami passport office September 1st, which will also have the same abilities as the Grand Bahama office.
The Bahamas Weekly invites you to view the video to get the full details of Hon Symonette remarks.
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