After the General Passport Authority in Irbil decided to dedicate Saturdays for refugees and the evicted from the province of Nineveh, thousands of refugee Iraqi Christians came with their paperwork and IDs before the Passport Authority, hoping to obtain passports. The crowding was immense as though they were in a rally, which compelled the Passport Authority Chief to receive the papers from citizens and promise them to announce names of those who obtain passports via the media at a later date, which caused everybody to return disappointed.