The National Agency for Secured Documents (ANTS) has decided to deploy additional resources to reduce the delays in obtaining passports and identity cards with the aim of achieving a return to normal by summer and holidays.
The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, announced these additional means on Tuesday on Twitter, the agency depending on his ministry.
In the prefectures, the staff dedicated to identity documents will thus be "increased by 30%" and "400 devices for collecting requests will be deployed in the voluntary town halls", wrote Darmanin, adding that "the objective" was "to return to a normal situation in the summer".
Two months to get ID
Currently, the delays to obtain an identity document are approximately two months, compared to two to three weeks before the pandemic.
Since the summer of 2021, the ANTS has seen an increase in requests linked to the lifting of health restrictions on travel and the catching up of requests not made in 2020 and 2021.
In 2020 and early 2021, one million national identity cards (CNI) would not have been renewed in France compared to normal, the demand for passports falling by 38% and that for identity cards by 18%, according to data from the ANTS.
In Paris, nearly 100,000 fewer files were registered in 2020 compared to 2018 or 2019.
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