State Migration Service predicts liquidation of queue for registration of biometric passports before April. This was said by the head of the Migration Service Maxim Sokolyuk at the collegium of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, according to the Main with reference to "Ukrainian News".

At the moment, according to him, more than 700 thousand people are on the queue for issuing passports. of citizens. "The queue for the production of foreign passports should be liquidated by early April 2018," said Sokolyuk.

At the moment, about 4 million biometric passports are issued.

At the same time, as Vasily Severov, the deputy head of the SBSU, said during the meeting, 400 thousand people have already entered the countries of the European Union within the framework of the visa-free regime. citizens of Ukraine.

At the beginning of the month, the migration service stated that they intend to return to the scheduled issue of foreign passports within the next few months within 7 or 20 days. The schedule of issuance should be restored after the Ukraina set up an additional line of personalization of documents. The launch of this line, as reported, is scheduled for January.