Mexico Foreign Ministry Tender

At the Ministry of Foreign Relations a press conference was held in which the general directors of the Passport Offices Carlos Candelaria and of Consular Services Jaime Vazquez Bracho presented the progress to streamline the issuance processes of passports in national territory and in consular offices abroad. At the conference they highlighted the expansion of service capacities the fight against appointment managers and resellers and the announcement of the next implementation of electronic passports.To fulfill the task of bringing the services provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to all people in the national territory the General Directorate of Passport Offices has carried out extensive work to modernize facilities and extend hours. Since the beginning of the administration seven new passport issuing offices have been opened including the recent opening of an office that operates all week from 8 am to 8 pm at the AICM and 28 municipal liaison offices throughout the Republic.In addition the offices in Durango Tabasco Chihuahua and Jalisco are joined by the office in Coyoacn the first one opened under the turnkey concept that describes the collaboration between shopping centers and the Ministry of Foreign Relations. This successful alliance allows us to open offices with high quality service and at low cost. It is also the model that will be used for the next opening of the office in Puebla during the month of August and for the opening or expansion of another twelve offices in the coming months.The CEO Carlos Candelaria also announced the update of the passport appointment issuance system. In the near future the platform will provide greater accessibility and security to users. This update will also be especially useful against managers. As of January alone to date 21 thousand single-use temporary emails have been detected because these emails are used by managers to set aside appointments and subsequently abuse users with any need. This new platform allows us to block these accounts ... with this we generate greater availability in the service expressed the general director Candelaria.It is important to emphasize that entry to the new platform will be through the validation of the Certified CURP which means that the applicant when making their appointment obtains an early validation of the existence of their CURP which will allow them to have greater security in the origin of your request and therefore it is avoided that you return several times to the Passport Office for having errors in your CURP or duplication of it.Likewise citizens are informed that any applicant who has an account to generate appointments through the page httpscitas.sre.gob.mx will have to register again as a recommendation because the existing accounts in the current Public Portal.These actions together with the training of staff in matters of gender equality prevention of discrimination protection of personal data and quality of service allow progress towards the implementation of the electronic passport in all offices in the national territory by January 2022. This passport will have a chip and a polycarbonate sheet as well as an icon on the cover that identifies it as an electronic passport. Its implementation strengthens security measures increases confidence in Mexican documents facilitates migratory transit and reduces the need to impose visas to Mexico.For his part the general director of Consular Services Jaime Vzquez Bracho shared that even with the sanitary restrictions that persist in several consular offices between January and May 2021 50 more procedures were attended than in the same period from the previous year. The implementation of extended days Saturdays and Sundays as well as the search for greater efficiency in the processes have allowed that this year the historical record of passports issued per month has been broken between occasions in May of this year 140 were issued thousand 845.95 of passports issued in 2021 were delivered in the United States. Especially noteworthy are the consulates in Chicago Dallas Los Angeles Houston and New York which each exceed 120000 passports in 6 months. In addition to the optimization of processes in the United States recently thirteen new Mexican representations outside that country began to print passports and deliver them in less than an hour bringing services to the Mexican population in the rest of the world.