Contents tagged with biometric control
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First 3300 visitors passed biometric checks at Ukrainian border
On January 1st 3,300 foreigners passed the through the biometric control system upon entering Ukraine; about 1,900 of them were citizens of the Russian Federation, as indicated by the spokesperson of the State Border Guard Service, Oleh Slobodyan, on 112 Ukraine.
"During the first 24 hours of operation of the biometric control system, more than 3,300 foreigners who are subject to this system crossed the border, almost 1,900 of them were Russian citizens." The system worked without failures and …
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Ukraine introduces biometric control at border
As of January 1, 2018, Ukraine has launched a system of recording biometric data of foreigners.
From now on, citizens of 71 different countries, including Russia, will have to be fingerprinted – all five fingers – for identification at the Ukraine border, and they will have to give advance notice about the purpose of their stay.
“We will cover all the stationary checkpoints, and then later, small checkpoints of local significance. These databases allow us to enter the ten countries with the …
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Biometric control system begins operation at Ukrainian airports
The biometric control system has begun operation at Ukrainian airports, as reported by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine on its Facebook page.
"The project involves the collection of personal biometric data and the storage of [this data] in the databases of the State Tax Service of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Security Service of Ukraine, as well as the capture of the biometric data of foreigners and stateless persons during border control," …
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Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs: We need control over all who enter from Russia
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin said during his visit to Ivano-Frankivsk that biometric controls must be introduced at the border with Russia, reports Radio Liberty.
"We need, first, biometric control at the border, and second, control over all who enter from Russia, as it is in other countries - for example, in Israel," the Ukrainian Foreign Minister stressed.
According to Klimkin, if this is not sufficient, individuals will need "not just [to enter on] a visa, but on a …
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Ukraine to introduce biometric control at the border beginning January 1
The system for recording of biometric data of citizens on the Ukrainian border will take effect beginning January 1, 2018, as announced by President Petro Poroshenko announced in Kharkiv during the opening of a regional administrative services center.
"The system for recording biometric data is being created at an accelerated pace. I want to emphasize that, according to the decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC), which was announced a few days ago, the system …