The updated internal passport, according to officials, will simplify the life of citizens, allowing them to go through many different procedures faster than before. This will help, for example, when buying travel documents. It will be enough only to bring the document to the reader.
The main thing that distinguishes the new product from the old-style passport is a machine-readable inscription. It is located on the third page in a blank line and duplicates information about the owner: last name, first name, middle name, gender, date of birth, series and passport number, date of issue, type of unit and state that issued citizenship and passport.
Recognition of information of such a record will be carried out by special scanners. Cashiers and transaction officers will not need to retype passport data, the machine will quickly do it for them.
The paper passport of a Russian citizen may also change soon. The Ministry of Communications and the Federal Migration Service plan to replace the usual document with an electronic one, which is already being developed.
The head of the Ministry of Communications, Nikolai Nikiforov, believes that technologically the country will sooner or later come to the point of having to abandon an identity document in paper format. He will be replaced by a plastic certificate with personal data and a photo of the owner.
The minister said that the new document will contain an electronic chip. It will allow you to use the certificate to receive public services in electronic form and will replace a large number of other documents: a pension certificate, medical insurance policy, driver's license.
The new passport will look like a modern universal electronic card. However, this idea is not new. For the first time, such a proposal was submitted for consideration in 2010 by the Federal Migration Service, which considers that it makes no sense to use an internal passport as a separate document. Director of the Federal Migration Service Konstantin Romodanovsky believes that for ordinary citizens of Russia, a paper passport has already lost its meaning, and now a new identity document is needed inside the country. As such, it was proposed to use plastic or an electronic chip.
