In Russia have started to issue biometric passports for 10 years. Documents of the old model can also be obtained - a complete abandonment of them, contrary to earlier reports appeared, is not planned yet. Making an application for a passport through the Internet until you can not.
Somewhere month and a half ago, there were also debates about the new passports. In particular, it was reported that the State Duma approved the cost of new ...
Monday, March 1, the Federal Migration Service (FMS) of Russia began accepting applications for new biometric passports valid for 10 years instead of the current 5. This innovation provided by federal law "On procedure of exit and entry of the Russian Federation in the Russian Federation, signed by President Dmitry Medvedev in December last year. The new passport will be more pages - 46 instead of 38 - and an electronic microchip.
Chip with metric data owner will be located on the second page covered with a special lamination film with diffractive elements. Security element in the form of a circle with a diameter of 19 mm located in the upper right corner. Page will not fill in a print version, and the method of laser engraving. At the same time on the film, an additional image of the passport holder, which can be seen at different angles of view. In the FMS on the new document says that it speeds up the procedure for passport control. Data for the fingerprints of the owner of the document will not be made.
New biometric passport, valid for twice as long than usual, will cost two and a half times more expensive - 2500 rubles. Now biometric passport costs 1000 rubles.
The press service of the FMS to Gazeta.ru said they will continue to issue passports and normal forms (although the usual passport is also more expensive - from 400 to 1000 rubles). Previously reported that zagrandokumenty old model no longer make out, and those who are now in hand, will use them until they expire. "It's not that we do not deprive citizens the opportunity to choose, the old issue of a passport or a new biometric. Full transition to biometrics planned but exact dates have not been determined, "- said the representative office. Earlier in the MBF had planned to withdraw from circulation the usual passport and replace them with instruments with metric data, but because of the crisis in the office there was no money to complete retrofitting its regional offices by issuing only biometric passports. The time for a passport without the chip is renewed - it will operate as before, five years.
But it can be ordered via the Internet - with April 2010, with a month delay, the FMS will receive questionnaires for ordinary and passports for its website.
As part of the federal target program "Electronic Russia" agency should be given the opportunity to fill in an application for a passport in electronic form since March this year. "It is planned that the submission of applications via the Internet will begin April 1. But the site will be fill in only for old-style passports - to biometric must be photographed in a special booth, so the applicant must appear in person at the territorial office of the Migration Service ", - said on Monday in FMS. Fill out application of the special staff of the technical service department will e-mail forwarded to the territorial department. In the service promise that the movement of the chain of command statements can be traced on the site. This function will also play the role of electronic queue - the applicant will be notified what day and time it must appear in person to the territorial office of FMS. In total there will have to go two-fold: to bring the original documents and to obtain a passport.
And the online application, and twice the increased validity of the passport - innovations for the benefit of citizens, emphasize in FMS. Among other things, innovations should help alleviate queues at the territorial offices and the red tape for a passport, which, in turn, give rise to corruption. On Monday, representatives of the service were quick to report: for the new passport queues unavailable. "No waiting, night stands and fires - none of that", - told Interfax on Monday, deputy chief of management of FMS in Moscow, Vladimir Ivanov. He said that in the morning on March 1 124 units of FMS in Moscow, where you can hand over documents on the biometric passport, took only 200 people.