{"id":114363,"date":"2018-07-10T16:18:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T20:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=114363"},"modified":"2018-07-10T16:18:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T20:18:23","slug":"people-taking-better-care-of-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/07\/10\/people-taking-better-care-of-passports\/","title":{"rendered":"People taking better care of passports"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_114345\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114345\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-114345\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Ramon-Monchy-Rodriguez-Hoy-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-114345\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ram\u00f3n -Monchy- Rodr\u00edguez \/ Hoy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to Ram\u00f3n Rodr\u00edguez (Monchy), director general of the Passport Agency, during the first five months of this year, a total of 204,448 passports were issued. That is an average of 1,777 per day. He said that many of the requests for new passports were due to people not taking care of their previously issued passports, with 5.6% of the passports being issued due to loss, some 11,441, and 1,173 were issued due to damage.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that one of his main concerns when he took over the role was to reduce the numbers of lost and damaged passports. In his administration Monchy began applying a penalty for replacing a passport that was either damaged or lost. This new policy has resulted in a reduction of replacements for damage or loss passports down to 6.1% from 12.85%.<\/p>\n<p>The Passport Office has its head office in the National District and maintains eleven branch offices in Villa Mella and Megacentro, and Santiago, La Vega, Nagua, Montecristi, Puerto Plata, San Francisco de Macor\u00eds, Azua, Barahona and San Pedro de Macor\u00eds.<\/p>\n<p>However, given the increase in demand as the number of Dominicans travelling overseas increases, there have been a series of mobile operations to assist those who have difficulties commuting to the regional offices. Rodr\u00edguez said that the first was carried out in Loma de Cabrera, Dajab\u00f3n, where128 passports were issued followed by Cotu\u00ed, S\u00e1nchez Ram\u00edrez, where around 381 passports were issued and then Saman\u00e1, with 342. In addition requests can now be made online.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/hoy.com.do\/de-enero-a-mayo-pasaportes-emitio-204448-libretas-nuevas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hoy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>10 July 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Ram\u00f3n Rodr\u00edguez (Monchy), director general of the Passport Agency, during the first five months of this year, a total of 204,448 passports were issued. That is an average of 1,777 per day. He said that many of the requests for new passports were due to people not taking care of their previously issued &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/07\/10\/people-taking-better-care-of-passports\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}