The Passports and Immigration Authority branch office in Marib has issued 35,268 passpots during 2017, official statistics showed.

A census the Authority submitted to Marib'sGovernorship office showed that the Authority's issued passports were 26,268 for males and 8,396 for females. Marib, in Yemen's east, is a government-held city that offers a safe haven to hundreds of thousands of Yemenis forced to displacement by the Houthi insurgents.