Across Russia, they stopped issuing a ten-year passport. In Moscow, they say that they issue documents “according to the usual protocol”
In different cities of Russia, the issuance of biometric foreign passports valid for 10 years is temporarily applied. This information about the media is confirmed by the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. Tverskoy and Orenburg to report. The production of new generation foreign passports was suspended on January 20, informed Sota, referring to the response of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Amur Region, which contains one relative from the journalists of the publication.
“In connection with the information received from JSC Goznak, the production of a passport, the placement of an electronic storage medium, by and large withdrawn until March 2023,” said the police of the Tver region, which quotes agency TIA.
The fact that the issuance of biometric passports may be resumed in mid-March, the publication “Ural56.ru” allocated in the Orsk security department. At the same time, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chuvashia said that the process of manufacturing passports was increased “for an indefinite period”, from the answer of the republican department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs it follows that published “Siren”.
In the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Kamchatka Territory allocatedthat new generation passports are not issued in the bilateral departments of internal affairs, while other departments and the MFC continue to accept documents (whether passports are issued in them, statements from the Ministry of Internal Affairs are not clear).
In the design of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for individual Russians “in case of an urgent need to travel outside the Russian Federation”, the issuance of an old-style international passport for a period of five years.
An unnamed resident of Moscow informed TASS that the center of public services “My Documents” in Kryukov refused to accept his application for a ten-year passport “due to the foundation of the chips.” “Applications for such passports are not accepted until at least March 31, the nearest date for obtaining a passport with a validity of 10 years is in May,” the agency provided the words of the representative office of the My Documents center.
The press service of the public services center “My Documents” in Moscow refute this. In the organisation announced TASS that “in the usual manner” documents are accepted for issuing biometric passports through, and employees continue to issue ready-made documents. Since the beginning of the year, the centers of public services have issued more than a thousand and two passports issued with the help of a cryptobiocabin marked in the center.
In August 2022, Russian consulates abroad temporarily wide documents for biometric passports due to the need to “reformat the right of ownership”, the right to the Russian Foreign Ministry. “It happens in connection with technological progress, in connection with the trends of the time, that it is necessary to restart the system,” explained there was an official representation of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. At the end of September, the issuance of a new generation passport resumed.
From January to October 2022 (no later data available), according to statistics from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, almost 4.35 million foreign passports were issued in Russia, which is a third more than in the same period in 2021, report RBC. This is also more than for the same periods in 2020 and pre-pandemic 2019.