For Some, a Long Wait to Leave Haiti

EARTHQUAKE -- February 1, 2010 at 3:04 PM EDT

For Some, a Long Wait to Leave Haiti

Long lines form outside the immigration and emigration office in Port-au-Prince each day as Haitians wait hours, or even days, to apply for new passports or to replace old ones destroyed or lost in the Jan. 12 earthquake.

Many of those people intend to leave the country, if they can ever get to the front of the line, Ray Suarez reports. He spoke with several people waiting for that chance on Friday:

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