The Ministry of Internal Affairs commented on reports of widespread errors in international passports
“The migration departments of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs have not recorded a sharp increase in the number of citizens’ requests to replace foreign passports,” Irina Volk wrote in her Telegram channel. She stated that if errors are found in the international passport, citizens should report to the “Acceptance of Applications” service on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The department will consider all requests as soon as possible, she added.
Earlier today, February 21, the Shot Telegram channel reported, citing travel agents, that Russians who are trying to travel abroad are massively finding errors in their international passports. According to Shot, holders of old-style international passports (without biometric data), issued for five years in 2023-2024, are complaining about the problem. Interlocutors of the Telegram channel stated that when processing some international passports, a technical glitch occurred and the numbers at the bottom of the document were printed in the wrong font.
The head of the legal committee of the Russian Union of Travel Industry, Georgy Mokhov, told Interfax Tourism that there are no mass refusals to travel abroad due to errors in passports, such cases are isolated. At the same time, the general director of the Pink Elephant travel agency network, Alexan Mkrtchyan, told Interfax that Russians are losing hundreds of thousands of rubles due to errors in their passports, which are found by border guards while flying out on vacation. According to him, “Pink Elephant” records dozens of such cases.
Erdni Kagaltynov.
