The State Migration Service (SMS) will not invalidate international passports, the transliteration of surnames in which does not match the ID-card issued later.
Roman Babiy, a member of the parliamentary committee on legal policy, announced this on his Facebook page following a meeting with the head of the State Customs Service, Natalia Naumenko.
According to the head of the VHI, the cancellation process has been stopped, and the validity of those passports that have already been canceled in connection with this has been resumed (or will be resumed in the near future), Babiy noted.
According to the people’s deputy, currently about 34 thousand citizens of Ukraine have foreign passports with different transliterations.
Our European partners are unhappy because some Ukrainians are abusing this – bypassing restrictions on staying abroad and receiving assistance, using their passports for this, the spelling of the name or surname in which is different. And on paper (or in an electronic database), different spelling means not the same person, – Babiy notes.
According to him, this problem will be dealt with, but not in such a clumsy way as the cancellation of passports.
They will convince them to change the documents or simply change them after the expiration date, he noted.
It should be added that in a recent appeal to citizens published by the press service of the VMI, it was reported that through a software update in the system for issuing biometric passports in February, in the event of a different transliteration in the passport for traveling abroad and the ID card, the last issued document will be recognized as valid.
That is, if a person first issued a passport for traveling abroad, and then an ID card with a different spelling of the last name or first name in Latin letters, then the passport will be automatically invalidated, the department noted.
In this regard, the DMS urged citizens to check their passport documents and, in case of disagreement, contact the departments of the migration service, TsNAP or the Passport Service.
Source: Racurs
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