HAVANA (AP) — Two Cuban dissidents who applied for passports to go overseas under recently enacted travel reform reported mixed results Wednesday, as one former prisoner was turned down while a prominent blogger excitedly tweeted a photo of her brand new, bright blue travel document.

‘‘The called me at home to say my passport was ready! They just delivered it!’’ Yoani Sanchez wrote on Twitter. ‘‘Here it is, now the only thing left is to get on that plane.’’

By her own account Sanchez has on some 20 occasions been rejected for the much-detested exit visa that for decades was required of all islanders seeking to go abroad. Analysts have called such controls arbitrary and humiliating, though authorities long insisted they were necessary to prevent brain drain.

That requirement ended Jan. 14 when a new law took effect scrapping the permit known as the ‘‘white card,’’ which Cuba routinely denied to those it considers ‘‘counterrevolutionaries’’ in the pay of foreign interests and bent on undermining the communist government.

But the case of Angel Moya, who was locked up for years in connection with his political activities, indicates that Cuba intends to exercise a legal clause by which it retains the right to restrict some citizens’ right to travel.

Moya, one of 75 other anti-government activists imprisoned in a 2003 crackdown on dissent, said he went to file paperwork and the $50 application fee to request a passport, but a clerk turned him down.

‘‘She told me, after consulting a database, that I was restricted and it couldn’t be processed for reasons of public interest,’’ Moya told The Associated Press.

Moya said the office clerk showed him her computer screen and the file did not contain a specific reason why he was not allowed to apply for the travel document. But the travel law contains language reserving the right to withhold passports for reasons of national interest and for people with pending legal cases, and he’s sure that’s affecting his situation.

Moya’s release from prison was conditional and technically he’s still serving a 20-year sentence for treason that expires in 2023. The rest of the former prisoners from the 2003 crackdown, like a number of other dissidents with legal issues, presumably could be in the same boat.

‘‘Their release is very precarious,’’ said Elizardo Sanchez, who monitors and reports on human rights on the island.

Other government opponents including frequent hunger striker Guillermo Farinas have explicitly been told they will be allowed to get passports and come and go freely.

Moya’s wife Berta Soler, a leader of the Ladies in White protest group, said as far as she knows she’s still scheduled to pick up hers on Feb. 8.

‘‘I'm happy and sad: On one hand I have my document to travel, but several friends like (Angel Moya) will not be allowed,’’ Yoani Sanchez wrote.

Government officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Havana usually avoids mentioning the dissidents at all except to accuse them of being traitorous ‘‘mercenaries.’’