Mayhem at Passport Office Following Fee Increases
The Passport Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) recently announced several passport fee increases that take effect May 26.
Following this announcement, many Jamaicans have been flooding passport offices across the island to submit their applications to avoid paying the new fees.
According to RJR, there were chaotic scenes at the Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency, (PICA) head office on Constant Spring Road in St. Andrew on Wednesday as officials stopped accepting passport applications.
The agency introduced a daily quota of one thousand applications on Tuesday ahead of an expected surge of applicants.
This quota was reached at 8am.
Scores of applicants also bombarded PICA’s office in Montego Bay.
The daily quota for all PICA locations are as follows:
PICA will process 1000 applications at its St Andrew head office, 150 at its Mandeville office, 250 in Montego Bay, 100 each in St Ann’s Bay and May Pen and 90 in Portmore.
Quotas will be in place for the rest of the week.
