100,000 new passports will be arriving by the end of next week or the first week of June - Naupoto

100,000 passports will be arriving by the end of next week or the first week of June.

While confirming this on fijivillage Straight Talk With Vijay Narayan, Minister for Immigration, Viliame Naupoto says he sympathizes with the people affected, and that was his first objective when he took office this year.

Naupoto says the Department of Immigration was getting 40,000 new Fijian passports every year.

He says he has decided that they will get 100,000 now, get another 100,000 passports in the next budget year, and 200,000 passports in the following budget year.

Naupoto says he also had to deal with a passport printer that was not working at the department.

He adds they have a system from Germany and the border management system is from Sri Lanka, and unfortunately the two systems are not talking to each other as efficiently as it should.

Naupoto says they are exploring some options to make things easier for people.