Every year, almost 800,000 Ukrainian citizen passports for travel abroad are issued in our country. From now on, the mechanism for processing and issuing such passports will be simplified, as stipulated by Resolution No. 580 of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated April 27 of this year.
In particular, those wishing to obtain a Ukrainian citizen passport for travel abroad will no longer need to submit a birth certificate among other documents required for processing it at the service for citizenship, immigration and registration of individuals. A birth certificate is submitted only when processing a foreign passport for persons under 16 years of age.
The Government resolution also establishes that citizens who, due to their religious or other beliefs, refuse to accept an identification number and officially notify the relevant state bodies of this, will not be required to provide a copy of the tax authorities' certificate on the assignment of an identification number.
The abolition of the requirement to submit a birth certificate when processing a Ukrainian citizen passport for travel abroad creates conveniences primarily for older people, who for various reasons do not always have such certificates. After all, the main document in this case will be the Ukrainian citizen passport, which contains the necessary data.