In the Odessa region, the number of people wishing to obtain a biometric passport. In the State Administration they say: the figures beat all the records. So, recently for the day 1600 passports were issued, and earlier this figure did not exceed 500. For filing documents are recorded for the month. And according to Veronika Koroleva, a woman from Odessa who also wants to get a new passport, in one of the migration service offices, in order to sign up for filing in a month, we need to stand in line. "It is necessary to get a coupon, and there are a limited number of coupons for a day, so you have to come up in the morning and wait in line," Veronica explained, adding that sometimes there is one person standing in line, and taking coupons for the whole family. In the administration of the migration service they told that only in OVIR on the street. Preobrazhenskaya per day serves about 120 people, which is two and a half times more than before. "People are reinsured. They say that they are not going to go anywhere, but let the passport be, "- says the press-secretary of the department, Dmitri Domuschi. According to him, employees cope with the amount of work, but the technology is not enough: in the department at Preobrazhenskaya - only two computers with the required program. New passports can also be obtained at the centers of adminservices under the Malinovskaya and Kiev regional administrations, regardless of the place of registration. "We have already applied for the purchase of new equipment, so that in the offices on the streets of Kosovo and Dalnitskaya also issued documents," said the director of the city's department for the provision of adminservices Evgenia Abramova. According to experts, the excitement for obtaining passports will subside after the visa-free regime becomes real, that is, in the middle of June.

PASSPORT WILL DELIVER THE COMMISSION Passport is not the main problem of Odessa citizens. According to the heads of the migration service in the Odessa region, 14 000 Roma in the region can not obtain civil passports due to lack of money. Officials propose to create a commission that will issue passports and birth certificates for Roma without significant financial costs.

Original article: Queue to Europe: Ukrainians storm administrative centers in anticipation of biometric passports.