The Minister of Digital Transformation, Mikhail Fedorov, said that Ukraine will become the first country in the world where digital passports are legally equated to regular ones. This is reported on the website of the Cabinet of Ministers.
"After the adoption of the necessary law, the brand of Ukraine as a "digital state" will be formed in the world - we will become the first country to allow digital passports. This will also simplify internal processes for launching new digital products," the minister said.
We remind you that digital passports (ID card and biometric passport) are already available in the "Action" application.
In April 2020, the Cabinet of Ministers approved a resolution recognizing passports in smartphones as digital analogues of paper documents. They can be used to provide police and postal services, but they do not provide for the possibility of presenting an e-passport for traveling abroad.
At the beginning of February 2021, the Verkhovna Rada adopted in the first reading bill No. 4355, which allows the use of digital passports on an equal footing with paper ones.
