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Indonesia | A Hajj Registration Queue Measured in 29 Years India | A Hajj Lottery Followed by a Numbered Waiting List Pakistan | A Hajj Draw Whose Vacancies Return to a City Waiting List Removing the Queue for an Overseas Work Permit Waiting Through the Night for Timkat's Blessed Water The Queue Made Entirely of Shoes Queue Marshals at South Africa’s Home Affairs Offices India | A Queue for the Token before the Darshan Queue When a Place in the Grant Queue Is Sold Rwanda's Coffee Farmers Wait for Weighing and Registration Eswatini’s Pension Queue Continues at the Bank An Order of Arrival at a Torajan Funeral Waiting for Hot Water at a Moroccan Hammam From Lottery to Waiting List in India's Hajj Allocation When the Mountain Path Becomes the Queue Three Hours in Line, Ten Minutes at the Licence Desk Gaza Province: A Father Joins the Mobile Birth-Registration Queue Spain's Regularisation Began with Street Queues How Data Cleaning Shortened Indonesia’s Hajj Queue One by One Up the Stairs to Mobile Registration “Number Fifteen”: Mobile Registration in Tikrit Queue Number 264 for a School-Placement Correction Waiting for a Classroom on the First Day of School Kwara Students Spend a School Day in the NIN Queue 65,000 Applicants for 900 Haj Places A Hajj Waiting List of 5.8 Million An Overnight Wait for a Chance, Not a Place Removed from the Line Before the Citizenship Oath Six in the Morning, No Power: Kanifing's National ID Queue Long Lines by Eight: The First Day of Uganda’s Mass National-ID Registration Waiting for Marriage Certificates on Thailand's First Day of Equality Seven Minutes for a Birth Record in a Vaccination Queue An Iris-Scan Queue Before the Relocation Truck The Admissions PIN Queue That Did Not Need to Be There A Queue for Biometric Refugee IDs in Cameroon Number Tickets and a Priority Lane for Civil Records When an ID Becomes a Gateway: The Shuklaphanta Application Queue Once a Month by Motorbike: Muebe's Vaccination Queue After the DNA Match, Families Still Waited Their Turn — Malindi, Kenya, 2024 The Visa Queue That Followed Myanmar's Conscription Order The Dental Queue That Registered 1,500 People in Two Days A Job Queue Leading into a War Zone The ID Line Kept Growing After Printing Stopped Shenzhen’s 520 Marriage Rush—and the Queue After Registration Peru's Attempt to Replace School-Place Queues with Allocation When Sandals Held a Place in the Government Queue Tour Souvenirs Under Rain and Sun — Singapore, 2024 The Card That Explains an Invisible Disability in a Priority Line Portugal | The Physical Line Before the Numbered Ticket China | The Divorce-Registration Queue after the Spring Festival Shanghai | A Marriage Date Whose Places Filled a Month Ahead The School Register That Organised a Birth-Registration Queue The Birth-Registration Office Under a Tree Registration Appointments for More Than Half a Million Sudanese in Egypt A Line to Be Counted After Crossing the Border — Dapaong, Togo, 2023 The Irish Funeral That Ends in a Line of Handshakes A 5 a.m. Number Still Uncalled at 11 Taking Turns at Livingstone’s Hand Pumps From Number Tags to Three Queues: Lagos Links NIN and SIM Ghana | Adding Registration Desks to Shorten the SIM Queue A Place in Line on the Way to Legal Status Warsaw | An 8 A.M. Arrival Too Late for the PESEL Queue Prague | Refugees Waiting for Registration, Shelter and Insurance in One Place The Long Queue for Temporary Protection After Flight, Waiting for a Place in the Registration System In Line for Documents After Displacement When Misinformation Swelled the Line: A Day at a Philippine National ID Center Dhaka | Waiting at the Gate for a University Exam Delayed by a Year Philippines | The Queue for Iris and Fingerprint Capture Thailand | The First Queue of the Vaccination Campaign A mass campaign, one arm at a time Lebanon | The ATM Queue for Access to One's Own Savings The ATM Line That Turned Bitcoin Back into Dollars A Test Queue Between Families and Home A Registration Desk Brought to Stateless Children at School The Day a Civil Registry Came to a Stateless Girl's School A Departure Number, Then Twenty-Nine Years: Indonesia's Hajj List The Year the Festival Banknote Queue Might Disappear A Momentary Injection, a Longer Wait Two Kinds of Distance in Guatemala's Vaccine Lines Queuing to Withdraw One's Own Savings — Kabul, 2021 Bogotá Queues for a Vaccine Thailand | An Unemployment-Benefit Line at Two-Metre Intervals Nigeria | The National-ID Queue Required to Keep a Phone Connected Tanzania | A SIM Deadline Fills the ID Queue from 4:30 A.M.Karachi | A National ID Queue That Can Consume the Day Philippines | Emergency Cash Queues Created by Paper Forms and In-Person Collection From Card-Validation Lines to Mobile Mutuelle Payments Where a Boundary Meets a Counter Waiting to Prove Who You Are Jordan | Refugee Families Waiting for an Iris-Enabled ATM United States | Waiting Outside for Help with an Unemployment Claim Chile | The Queue to Turn Retirement Savings into Emergency Cash Waiting Outside the Wall for a Family Visit Waiting Since 4 a.m. to Register for Seasonal Work Abroad Taking a Number and Waiting to Be Called When the Queue Returned to Almaty's Public-Service Centres A Line of University Hopefuls in Lahore A Line Toward a Miracle, or Toward Contagion One Queue Instead of Two in Rural Kenya's HIV Care Kisumu | A Stadium Queue Before the Huduma Namba Deadline Before the Visa Rules Change Malaysia | A Hajj Turn Once Estimated at Up to a Century Harare Queues for Zimbabwe's New Notes When Every Checkout Becomes the Priority Line Waiting Outside Migration for an Appointment Costa Rica | After Crossing the Border, a Queue for an Asylum Appointment Five Tonnes of Wheat and a Two-Day Wait Delhi | From Midnight, for One of About 100 Aadhaar Places Five Hundred and Twenty-Four Doors to Legal Recognition A Residency Queue Before the Deadline Ninety Days to Regularise a Life Lesotho | Moving the ID Queue Out of the Post Office The Migration-Office Line at Paraguachón Hong Kong | A Visa-Centre Queue Against the University Clock The Question of Nationality Before a Birth Certificate Twenty Minutes in Line to Register a Fingerprint Before the Cage, a Queue for the Scales Waiting to Be Registered at the Uganda Border in 2016 Recalibrating 200,000 ATMs, One Machine at a Time Until Cash Came Out: A Harare Bank Queue When Banknotes Change Overnight Karachi: Queuing for Identity Documents on a Women-Only Day Five Days for a Turn: The Dominican Republic's Regularization Queue Post-Office Queues as Lithuania Changed Currency Freetown | Waiting Twice—for an Ebola Test and a Treatment Bed Preševo | An Overnight Wait for Papers to Continue West South Africa | A Housing Queue Reordered by Lottery The Civil-Registration Queue as an Entrance to Rights Athens' Weekly Asylum Queue for Twenty Places Four Days in Line for a Form Filed in Minutes Camping from Monday for a South African School Place The Most Common Birth-Registration Wait Was 16 to 30 Minutes Measuring the Birth-Registration Wait in Lao Cai Lima: Waiting Before Dawn for a Hospital Appointment When a Nairobi Hospital Put the Pharmacy Queue on a Ticket Queuing for a Kindergarten Lottery in Hanoi Ulaanbaatar: Taking Shifts for Three Days for a Kindergarten Place Waiting for Your Own Money The Registration Office and a Single Tap A Daily Place in Line for Water at Dadaab Harare's Cash Queue While Money Lost Value Five Thousand People Outside One UNHCR Office The Week the Banks Closed but the ATMs Did Not The Montevideo Queue When the Banks Reopened Waiting to Help Argentina | The Bank Queue for Deposits That Could Not Be Withdrawn Two Lines at Dawn for Refugee Registration in Sanaa The Philippine Queue for Overseas Employment Certificates From Dawn Tickets to Multiple Booking Channels When Rings Became National Reserves Answering the 1997 Crisis with Household Gold Waiting at the CIPS Counter for One National Identity Card At Rome’s Employment Office: A Registry and a Physical Line Brazil: A Bank Queue After the Second Collor Plan Money in the Bank, People on the Pavement Families in Line at the University Application Window The Registration Queue Before the Office Opened Waiting for Deutsche Marks on 1 July 1990 The Currency-Exchange Queue on East Germany's First D-Mark Day A 200-Metre Queue to Convert East German Accounts The Bank Queues Before the D-Mark Arrived The ATM Queues of Argentina's Currency Shortage South Korea | Lining Up to Submit a University Application Melbourne | A Queue to Inspect New Public Housing, and One Protester Two Ticket Lines Around the Block for Elvis in 1956 Bombay's Serpentine Cinema-Ticket Queue Ten Thousand Applicants for Thirty-Two Homes Nine Betting Windows for a Twelve-Foot Racecourse Booking an Easter Holiday in Wartime Melbourne Queuing to Send Words to Prisoners of War The Long Line at a Pawnshop: Japan Depicted in a 1943 Leaflet The Registration Line Before Forced Removal Registration at Santa Anita Assembly Center in 1942 Detroit Youths Line Up for the Salvage Drive The Woman Waiting for a Family Number The Refugee Queue That Filled Two Corridors and a Staircase Registering for America’s New Unemployment Benefit A Winter Queue at Stepney Labour Exchange When Savings Became a Line Outside the Bank The Line to Berlin's Dole Office The Registration Queue at Ellis Island Ellis Island's Inspection Began in the Line The Registration Queue Before the 1893 Land Run The Licence Queue Before Mining in 1850s Victoria Waiting to Hand Over a Petition: The Ottoman Palace Courtyard in the Seventeenth Century Waiting for Passbooks in 1950 South Africa