Contents tagged with biometric passport

  • Ukraine to include Russia in the list of countries with migration risk

    President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed a decree introducing biometric controls for foreign citizens’ entry and exit. The decree also added the Russian Federation onto a list of countries with the migration risk.

    According to the president’s decree, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine should work on this issue.

    "The government was instructed to take measures in improving legislation on the registration of foreigners’ residence/visitation in Ukraine, including citizens of the Russian …

  • Crimean authorities discourage residents from obtaining Ukrainian biometric passports by threatening them with arrest on the mainland of Ukraine

    The Deputy Prime Minister of the annexed Crimea, Georgy Muradov says that residents of the peninsula who wish to receive a Ukrainian biometric passport for traveling abroad can face arrests on the mainland of Ukraine.

    "I want to warn all people that this is not just an outright provocation, but also a great danger. Half will be arrested and then people will cry and say ‘What have I done?’ We should not succumb to these provocations," Muradov said on "Sputnik in the Crimea" radio, RIA Novosti …

  • Residents from the Donbas and the Crimea need to provide additional identification documents to obtain biometric passports in Ukraine

    Residents from Donbas and Crimea need to provide additional identification documents to obtain biometric passports, as stated by the Press Secretary for the State enterprise, Document, Volodymyr Polishchuk, on Espreso.TV.

    “To obtain biometric passports, citizens who register in the occupied territories of the Donbas and the Crimea need to provide additional documentation to support their identification”, he said.

    Polishchuk stressed that the additional check is due to the impossibility of …