From August 26, Russians permanently living abroad will no longer be issued biometric passports valid for 10 years.
This is with reference to the Russian Foreign Ministry reports BBC.
The publication says that now, when applying outside of Russia, its citizens can only count on a five-year passport.
In addition, already existing entries for the provision of documents for biometric passports have been cancelled.
On the websites of the embassies in Latvia and Turkey, the new rules are explained by “technical reasons”, and the latter notes that they will remain in effect until the issue of manufacturing passports with an electronic storage medium is resolved.”
From this edition, it concludes that the new order may be associated with a shortage of chips for biometric passports.
On the websites of Russian embassies in some countries, it is noted that Muscovites can issue an old-style international passport that is valid for five years and does not contain a chip with biometric data.
In June, the Russian government froze the project for issuing digital internal Russian passports. One of the reasons for the freeze was the shortage of chips, which was experienced against the backdrop of sanctions due to the war in Ukraine.
The shortage of chips for plastic cards was also announced in the Russian bank Sberbank. Employees had to pick out chips from old cards and insert them into new ones.
Source: Racurs
