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In order to serve people from outlying islands, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs provides mobile consular services to facilitate people in the Kinmen area to handle passport-related matters.
Chen Yijun, deputy spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. (Provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
In order to serve people from outlying islands, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced today (13th) that the Consular Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is scheduled to handle mobile consular affairs at the Household Registration Office in Jinhu Town, Kinmen County from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm on October 15th and 9:00am to 12:00am on October 16th. It mainly accepts the renewal and reissue of passports, as well as various passport affixations and transfers.
Chen Yijun, deputy spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, explained at a regular press conference today that expedited passport applications and first-time passport applications are not included in this service; people who want to apply for a passport for the first time can go directly to the household registration office to use the one-stop service. The relevant passport application form can be obtained from the household registration office.
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Chen Yijun called on the folks in the Kinmen area to make more use of the convenient consular services provided by this operation, and remember to bring the relevant documents to the home office to apply for passports. If the public wants to know more about the required documents, they can go to the official website of the Consular Affairs Bureau to check.

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