People’s Assembly approves amendments on some articles of a law that regulates the entry and residence of Arab and foreign nationals

Damascus-SANA-The People’s Assembly held Tuesday its session headed by Speaker Hamouda Sabbagh, approving the draft law that includes amending some articles of Law No. 2 of 2014.

The draft law includes regulating the entry, exit and residence of Arabs and foreigners, and it has become a law after been approved.

According to the draft, Arabs and foreigners who are on Syrian territory are exempted from holding a passport in specific cases, including “a person holds an expired passport and there is no diplomatic representation for his country in Syria”, or “whose passport is issued late or has been refused to be renewed by his country’s embassy,” or those who “have refugee cards in Syria and do not hold a passport, along with those who have an expired passport that could not be renewed.

ALI,Baraa