In the third quarter of 2016 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia handed passports to 321 Armenians from Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq. The compensation of duties in the amount of 19.7 million drams (about 41 thousand dollars) was approved at the governmental meeting on May 19.

The main  consulate in Aleppo handed 134 passports , the embassy in Damascus -129, the embassy in Beirut -54,the embassy Baghdad - 4.