Fresh passport Ukrainians invalid in EU member States
Biometric passports, which the Ukrainian authorities began to give the citizens in January 2015, not take in all the EU countries. The reason for the refusal of a visa for citizens of Ukraine is the lack of samples of new documents in the European embassies, who was obliged to send to the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine, informs " ".
the head of the Board of the Ukrainian Institute of international policy, Rostislav Tomenchuk, at a press conference said that the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine gave the Embassy a sufficient number of documents to ascertain the authenticity of passports.
"today on biometric passports cannot open a Schengen visa. The problem is that each Consulate has an obligation to physically have the form of biometric passports. However, from the Foreign Ministry in the Ambassador's residence not given a sufficient number of passports to the Ambassador's residence to check and test whether or not it is a passport, " said Romanchuk.
the Consulate General of Poland confirmed data about that for a long time did not accept documents with biometrics.