Interior Minister Anas Khattab announced that more than 150,000 travel-ban and movement-restriction records were removed from the Immigration and Passports Department database, most of them linked to security-service procedures from the era of the former regime, as part of efforts to ease citizens’ transactions and facilitate travel.
In a post published on the X platform on Wednesday, the minister said the removal was carried out “with the follow-up of a specialized committee from the Information Directorate, the Criminal Investigation Department and the Immigration and Passports Department, and in collaboration with the Ministries of Defense and Justice.”
The minister added that the step completes implementation of Resolution No. 20, issued last March, under which nearly 4,700,000 procedures had already been removed, most of them linked to defection cases, failure to perform compulsory military service or various alleged security-based travel bans, bringing the total removed so far to 4,850,719 procedures.
Khattab stressed that the committee continues working to eliminate all unfair procedures that impede citizens’ transactions, in coordination with the Ministries of Justice, Defense and Finance. He noted that complaint offices receive urgent travel-ban removal requests, which are handled by a specialized team.
