The German Consulate in Karachi has announced revised passport collection hours for the Holy Month Ramadan.
According to the consulate’s review, the new schedule will be in force for a month offering passport collection services from Monday to Thursday between 7 p.m. 14:30 and 15:30.
The consulate urged applicants to comply with the updated timings and bring the necessary documents when collecting passports.
Germany remains a popular travel destination for Pakistani citizens who are obliged to have a Schengen short -term visa before visiting.
The German Embassy handles visa applications for Pakistani and Afghan citizens residing in Pakistan.
In another development, a new travel ban by President Donald Trump could also prevent people from Afghanistan and Pakistan from entering the United States as soon as next week based on a government review of countries’ security and vetting risk, said three sources familiar with the case.
The three sources requested anonymity said that other countries could also be on the list, but did not know which ones.
The move returns to the Republican President’s first period ban on travelers from seven majority Muslim nations, a policy that went through several iterations before it was maintained by the Supreme Court in 2018.
Former President Joe Biden, a Democrat who succeeded Trump, abolished the ban in 2021 and called it “a spot on our national conscience.”
The new ban could affect tens of thousands of Afghans who have been cleared for resettlement in the United States as refugees or on special immigrant visas because they are in danger of Taliban Renovation to work for the United States during a 20-year war in their homeland.
Trump issued an executive order on January 20, which required intensified security survey by any foreigners seeking admission to the United States to detect national security threats.
This order ordered several cabinet members to submit before March 12 a list of countries from which travel partially or fully suspended because their “vetting and screening information are so deficient.”
