The updated internal passport, according to the assurances of officials, will simplify the lives of citizens, allowing them to go through many different procedures faster than before. This will help, for example, when purchasing travel documents. It will be enough just to bring the document to the reader.
The main thing that distinguishes the new product from the old-style passport is the machine-readable inscription. It is located on the third page in an empty line and duplicates information about the owner: last name, first name, patronymic, gender, date of birth, series and number of the passport, date of issue, type of unit and the state that issued citizenship and passport.
Recognition of the information of such a record will be carried out by special scanners. Cashiers and tellers will not need to retype passport data, the machine will quickly do it for them.
The paper passport of a Russian citizen may also change soon. The Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications and the Federal Migration Service plan to replace the usual document with an electronic one, which is already being developed.
The head of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications Nikolai Nikiforov believes that technologically the country will sooner or later come to the point that it will be forced to abandon the identity document in paper format. It will be replaced by a plastic ID with personal data and a photograph of the owner.
The minister said that the new document will contain an electronic chip. It will allow you to use the certificate to receive public services in electronic form and will replace a large number of other documents: a pension certificate, a health insurance policy, a driver's license.
The new passport will look like a modern universal electronic card. However, this idea is not new. For the first time such a proposal was submitted for consideration in 2010 by the Federal Migration Service, which believes that it makes no sense to use an internal passport as a separate document. FMS director Konstantin Romodanovsky believes that for the usual citizens of Russia, a paper passport has already lost its meaning, and now a new identity document is needed inside the country. As such, it was proposed to use plastic or an electronic chip.
