One of Ours

Today, my brother in law and I went to the passports office to get an interim travel document, cause he wants to travel to Syria for some work, so I decided to get a document for me , who knows, probably I might travel oneday.

I was shocked by the new behavior of the officials and the new procedures there, I thought that I were in another country!

There was an organized queues...the boss got out of the building and took the application forms from the elderly people...he said: ‘ anyone has a problem in getting the document or any obstacle just tell me’ !!

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Nearly more than 200 application form were applied in 20 minutes only, which is something impossible in Iraq ! Or was impossible...You might see this as something absurd ‘ getting a passport’ but it was something hard.. Very hard to get..

There is one problem here, which is: this document is ‘interim’ and a ‘document’, so most of the countries don’t accept it, we can travel I think to Syria, Jordan, Yemen and Iran only...