As First Deputy Prime Minister Stepan Kubiv noted, now the polygraph combine can produce twice as many foreign passports.

The equipment that the polygraph combine bought - the BookMaster One system # 351 from the company ІАІ industrial systems B. Its cost is 1,7 million euros. Similar equipment is used in more than 25 countries around the world. The productivity of the new system is 500 passports per hour - about 11 thousand passports per day and 3 million 960 thousand. passports per year.

The government reports that now in line for personalization is 775 thousand. sets of personal data.

By the season of summer holidays the polygraph combine will operate in the current mode 7 days a week around the clock.

As previously reported in URA-Inform, the Irish government in 2017 issued a record number of passports to foreigners of Irish origin. According to the agency, a fifth of 779,000 ID cards issued per year were received by applicants living in the UK and Northern Ireland.