Fwd: Machine Readable Passports (MRPs)

 HIGH COMMISSION FOR PAKISTAN

WELLINGTON

 

PRESS RELEASE

 

Machine Readable Passports (MRPs),

Mandatory for Visas of Some Countries.

 

                        Some Governments have made Machine Readable passports (MRPs), compulsory for issuance of visas of their countries. MRPs are a new version of electronic passports which replaces old manual (handwritten) passports.

 

2.                     The Mission at Wellington, at present, does not have the facility to issue MRPs. Pakistan passport holders, intending to go on visits to countries, which have made MRPs mandatory or for Umra/Hajj on their Pakistani manual passports, are advised to get their manual passports replaced by MRP passports, either from Pakistan itself or from the following Pakistan Mission having MRP facilities.

The MRP facility exists in Pakistan’s Mission in London, Frankfurt, Ottawa, Toronto, Rome, New York, Los Angeles, Oslo, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Riyadh, Jeddah, New Delhi, Muscat, Paris, Doha, Kuwait and Bahrain.

3.                     It is expected that MRP facility may also become available at Sydney and Canberra (Australia) in the near future.

4.                     Further information can be accessed from the web-link http://www.dgip.gov.pk/Files/Offices.html.

P.R.NO. 01/2012

Wellington

10 January, 2012.

 

High Commission for Pakistan
182 Onslow Road, Khandallah
Wellington, New Zealand
Tel. +64 4 4790026
Fax. +64 4 4794315

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Zubair Saleem (BillaG)