On March 30, 2021, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a bill "On the Unified State Demographic Register and documents confirming citizenship of Ukraine, identity or special status".
As a result, from the moment the Law becomes effective, an e-Passport and a Travel e-Passport (the same ones that are displayed in the application "Diia") gain legal force similar to paper passports and can be presented instead of and without additional presentation of paper versions. A1 Consulting team most appreciated the possibility of using electronic copies of documents by scanning a QR code in the Diia app, instead of the notorious scanned copies.
However, it is necessary to add that e-Passport does not allow you to:
📍 cross the state border of Ukraine, except cases when it is necessary to confirm the identity of a citizen of Ukraine while entering Ukraine;
📍 enter and exit the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine;
📍 enter, stay, reside or move within the border zone, exit to the territorial sea and inland waters of Ukraine.
Thus, if an e-Passport almost fully keeps the functionality of its paper "brother", then a Travel e-Passport is only an identity confirmation of a citizen of Ukraine, and does not perform a number of key functions of a paper one.
Dmytro Nosenko, Senior consultant at A1 Consulting
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