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OVER THREE MLN UKRAINIANS ALREADY RECEIVE BIOMETRIC PASSPORTS – STATE MIGRATION SERVICE HEAD

10 April , 2017  

KYIV. April 10 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Over three million of Ukrainian citizens have already received biometric passports for traveling abroad, the head of the State Migration Service of Ukraine Maksym Sokoliuk has said.
“As of 9:00 a.m., today already 3.025 million citizens have received biometric documents for traveling abroad,” Sokoliuk said during an hour of questions to the government in the Verkhovna Rada on Friday.
As reported, at a meeting of the European Parliament on April 6, 521 European deputies voted “for” granting a visa-free regime for Ukrainians by the EU, 75 were “against” and 36 abstained.