The Passports Department has extended working hours at its two new offices at Al-Sairafi and Tahliya shopping malls in the north of Jeddah to cope with demand from the public for visas. According to Abdul Aziz Saeed Al-Ghamdi of the Passports Department for Operation Affairs in Makkah the offices are now open until 10 P.M. to issue and renew residency documents for domestic labor and exit and re-entry visas. The two new branches, each handling up to 1000 operations a day, mean that the public no longer needs to go to the Passports Department headquarters in Jeddah, Al