Passport to choose

In the Jewish autonomy was allowed to choose forms for identity cards
Now the old passports in the ARU will issue only in special cases. for example, businessmen, who need as soon as possible to travel abroad.
As assured the correspondent of "WP" Head of the Federal Migration Service in ARU Andrei Kuzmin, passports deficit - the so-called blank seventieth series - will not lead to a malfunction in the system of issuing documents inhabitants autonomy. Only increase the term of their issuance - the new "biometric" passports are not manufactured in Birobidzhane, and in Moscow. Usually between surrendering documents in the design and obtaining a passport is being held a month and a half.
Recall that since the beginning of next year in the country passports will be issued exclusively new model - with pledged their biometric indicators owner. And before the end of December 2008 Federal Migration Service and draws up new and old. Last stand in the half, and will be valid for five years. Therefore, the demand for them is huge.
By the way, in autonomy has never been particular problems with the issuance of passports. Moreover, every three months Migration Service staff to destroy 200 - 250 documents, which never reached their owners. Total unclaimed same documents in the ARU accumulated more than three thousand units.

Dmitry Dankov