More than 3 million Ukrainians already have biometric passports for which they will be able to travel to the EU after the entry into force of the decision on visa-free travel, First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Irina Gerashchenko.
"Now more than 3 million Ukrainians already have biometric passports, and in 2016 more than 1.3 million Ukrainians received Schengen visas (more Ukrainians only Russians and Chinese received). Now all these collections of papers and visa centers behind.
It is obvious that the number of traveling Ukrainians will grow many times in summer, "wrote Gerashchenko on her Facebook page.
On the eve in Strasbourg, the President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani and the head of the Ministry of the Interior of the presidency of the Council of the European Union, Malta, Carmelo Abela, signed a document on amending the EU legislation to grant visa-free regime to Ukrainian citizens. Kiev expects that the document will enter into force on the night of June 11.