Australians trying to head abroad have been hit with main delays and queues because the passport workplace is inundated with functions.
Some folks waited in queues at Sydney Passport Workplace at the moment for greater than 4 hours as they search to resume their passports.
Joel Inexperienced is booked on a flight to Singapore on Sunday and he lined up for 5 hours on the workplace at the moment solely to be instructed to come back again tomorrow.
"They solely have one particular person on the counter, I have been lining up since 10am," Inexperienced mentioned.
"I made positive to get the woman on the counter's cellphone quantity so I might name her personally, ensure that I get it by Thursday, in any other case, I am out of cash."
Anas Shoushary is travelling to Jordan and paid for precedence processing for his passport renewal however nonetheless waited 4 and a half hours to select it up.
"I anticipated it to be one hour, half an hour go away rapidly however everybody complaining," Shoushary mentioned.
Over the previous few years of the pandemic, round 1.4 million passports expired and now folks want to escape the Australian winter.
There may be a minimum of a four-week lengthy backlog on the Australian Passport workplace.
Within the first three months of this yr, 400,000 passports had been issued which is greater than double the identical time final yr.
The Division of International Affairs is recommending travellers permit a minimum of six weeks to resume a passport.
Nevertheless, some passport candidates have instructed 9News they have been ready shut to 3 months.
It is understood new passport functions and kids's passports will take even longer to course of.
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