Issuing Biometric Passports Begins
Baku’s Regional General Directorate of passports, registration and migration, of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has started issuing biometric passports to citizens.
The press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that the ceremony devoted to the event, was held with the participation of Minister of Internal Affairs, Ramil Usubov.
In order to manufacture this new generation of passports Based on an agreement with the Swiss company “Trüb AG”, appropriate technical equipment and software was delivered to Azerbaijan, and installed.
Depending on the amount of state duty, passports will be issued in one, 5 or 10 days.
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