According to the Chief of the Passport and Visa Department of RA Police Norayr Muradkhanyan, the implementation of biometric/electronic passports will help avoid a number of problems at checkpoints.
The electronic passports include the same information as the current passports plus the fingerprints. ID cards will be used inside the country, while the biometric passports are necessary for leaving abroad.
Norayr Muradkhanyan reminds that citizens can continue using their old passports, and there is no deadline. ID cards will be compulsory for those citizens of the Republic of Armenia, who turn 16 this year.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Karen Ghazaryan
Quelle/Source: Public Radio of Armenia, 11.01.2011
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