26 Aug 2022, 17:17

Russian foreign ministry suspends issuance of biometric passports dur to technical reasons

Resumption of application receipt will be announced on the department’s website and on the sites of Russian diplomatic missions abroad

© Stanislav Krasilnikov/TASS

MOSCOW, August 26. /TASS/. Russia’s foreign ministry said on Friday it suspends issuing ten-year biometric foreign passports due to technical reasons.

"Due to technical reasons, no applications for foreign passports with an embedded electronic microprocessor chip (for a term of ten years) will be temporarily received from August 26, 2022," the ministry’s consular department said in press statement.

According to the ministry, resumption of application receipt will be announced on the department’s website and on the sites of Russian diplomatic missions abroad.

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