Passports in Cagliari, chaos at the Police Headquarters Open Day: hundreds of people in line
Crowd in front of the office in via Tuveri even before the opening. The first 300 requests will be accepted, all the others at home
Chaos at the Open day of the Cagliari Police Headquarters for the issuance of passports.
The extraordinary opening of the office in via Tuveri had been organized "to meet the considerable request for expatriation documents" and was aimed at "users without an appointment" or who needed to "obtain the expatriation document before the appointment available even if already obtained online".
The scheduled time was from 10 to 18, but dozens of people crowded in front of the entrance long before the doors opened.
"Any queue will follow the chronological order of arrival", read a note from the State Police, today forced to communicate that the requests of 300 people will be accepted . All the others, at home.
In Cagliari to obtain a passport you have to wait more than six months just to submit the application . But the times for issuing documents have become biblical throughout Italy, not just in Sardinia.
Up until a few months ago, to apply for a passport, it was enough simply to go to the nearest police station or police station, fill in a form, hand in a passport photo with a paid slip and cash on delivery, then wait fifteen days to have the document in your hands. Now to get it you have to go through a platform through which to make an appointment at the police station. But the telematics system is proving to be a flop.
This is why various Police Headquarters, not just the one in Cagliari, have organized themselves by activating Open Days. But that's not enough: according to a survey by Assoviaggi, the Confesercenti organized tourism association, the passport bottleneck has blown up around 80,000 organized trips to date , with around 150 million in lost sales for the travel agency system.
(Unioneonline/D)
