In Singapore, a passport applicant has several options, including getting his or her passport from the nearest post office. The Villar bill on passport reforms does exactly this, limiting the grant of 10-year passports to adults and maintaining the five-year passports for minors. This week, the Senate foreign relations committee will hold its second hearing on passport reforms. It would have been more efficient to discuss such anomalous transactions in conjunction with passport reforms. Let’s hope that Congress will hold its own hearings on passport reforms to accelerate the passage of a law extending the life of our passports to 10 years.

Source: Manila Times October 09, 2016 17:03 UTC