For more than a year, citizens of Ukraine who have biometric passport documents enjoy the right to travel to the EU countries through a simplified system.
As noted in the State Border Service, only for the summer period of this year, the department employees at checkpoints issued more than 760 thousand. Our compatriots who traveled to EU countries with biometric passports without a visa.
And this is almost 60% of the total number of citizens of Ukraine who have used this right for the entire period of validity of Visa-free.
The rapid growth of the aforementioned indicators was facilitated by the tourist season and the expiration of the validity period of old-style passports, the validity of visas that had to be registered before. On average, from 9000 to 12000 people crossed the border on a simplified system.
Since the beginning of the Visaless operation, its advantages were taken by 1 million 290 thousand. Ukrainians.