{"id":1883,"date":"2025-11-18T15:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T15:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/11\/18\/afghan-consulate-mashhad-electronic-passports\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T15:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T15:30:12","slug":"afghan-consulate-mashhad-electronic-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/11\/18\/afghan-consulate-mashhad-electronic-passports\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan Consulate in Mashhad Outlines Procedure for Switching to Electronic Passports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Afghan Consulate in the Iranian city of Mashhad has issued a new notice detailing the process for Afghan migrants to replace their family passports with electronic ones.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, applicants must first obtain an electronic appointment through the &#8216;Kefalat&#8217; (sponsorship) offices in Mashhad before visiting the consulate in person. Bringing the appointment receipt and clearly indicating the appointment date during the visit is mandatory.<\/p>\n<p>The diplomatic mission warned that it will not admit or provide services to individuals who arrive without prior coordination and a scheduled appointment.<\/p>\n<p>These measures come amid ongoing difficulties faced by thousands of Afghan migrants in Iran, who often live under precarious legal conditions. Accessing official identification documents through formal channels remains a significant challenge for them. Meanwhile, the Taliban administration inside Afghanistan has severely weakened consular and public service infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan Consulate in Mashhad sets new rules for migrants to replace family passports with electronic ones, requiring online appointments via Kefalat offices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-migrant-news","category-secondary-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}