the use of foreign passports to obtain government services is being studied – Kommersant

The authorities are exploring the possibility of using foreign passports to obtain government services. Deputy Head of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev announced this at a meeting of the commission on migration policy.

“The issue of Russian citizens using foreign, and not just internal, passports to perform legally significant actions and receive government services will be thoroughly studied,” he wrote on his page “In contact with”.

At the meeting, Mr. Medvedev also said that migrants are “important labor resources.” However, according to the deputy head of the Security Council, their stay in Russia gives rise to crime and conflicts between foreigners and local residents, which “should not be allowed.”

On September 18, President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on a “digital passport.” In some cases, the decree equated the presentation of identification documents in electronic form using the Gosuslugi mobile application to the provision of a paper version of a passport.

More details in the text “Kommersant” “Passports are being converted to digital”.

Petr Buzlaev