DOHA: Al Rayyan Service Centre hopes to soon begin an evening shift since its workload has gone up immensely. The service centre issues and renews all types of visas and residence permits besides providing passport services to nationals.
The head of the service centre said workload had gone up so much in the past few months that the number of transactions had jumped from 8,000 in September 2012 to more than 44,000 last March.
“In October of 2012 we handled some 29,000 transactions of different types, up over 21,000 in just a month,” the centre’s head, Colonel Abdullah Al Libdah, told local Arabic daily Al Raya in an interview published yesterday.
The only service not available at the centre is granting approval to expatriates for family visas, “Although we issue family visas to those who have the approval,” said Al Libdah.
