SEPANG: More than 2.5 million Malaysians were bitten by the travel bug last year following the easing of Covid-19 travel restrictions, says Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail.
The Home Minister said this was based on the Immigration Department having issued a total of 2,574,435 international passports last year, a 25% increase compared with 2,006,208 issued in 2019."For comparison, the department issued an average of 210,000 passports a month and an average of 10,000 passports each day," Saifuddin said when opening the department's passport issuing centre at KLIA Long Term Parking Terminal on Thursday .
On the passport issuing centre, he said, it was a pilot project representing a low-hanging fruit initiated by the current administration for the benefit of the rakyat. "This will help those facing problems of missing documents at KLIA to get it resolved faster as it is near the airport," he added.
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