Visa-free travel between Ukraine and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was launched on Sunday, Dec 31, according to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin.
A large-scale Passport Application Center for the issuance of biometric passports and ID-cards was opened in Kyiv on Saturday, August 12, according to the state-owned enterprise Document.
The European Union does not support the initiative by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to issue non-biometric (old-type) passports to the residents of the occupied Crimea and the occupied areas of Donbas, Head of EU Delegation in Ukraine Hugues Mingarelli said at an opening of a caricature exhibit in Kyiv’s Taras Shevchenko City Park, titled “Ukraine’s path toward visa liberalization.
Ukraine's State Migration Service has reported that about 3.3 million citizens of Ukraine had received biometric passports by May 11, 2017, for travelling abroad, according to the Ukrainian-language service of Radio Svoboda.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (MFA) has noted that citizens of Ukraine who live in the territories of Russian-occupied Crimea and certain regions of Donetsk and Luhansk regions will be able to use the advantages of a visa-free regime with the European Union by obtaining Ukrainian biometric passports, the Department of Consular Service of MFA of Ukraine wrote on Facebook.