Ukrainian passport

According to law amendments made by the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) on 14 July 2016, each citizen who reached the age of 14 must get a passport.

[2] Since then, the Ukrainian internal passports (in booklet form) are also no longer marked with a civil status (i.e. married or divorced), thus abolishing a century-long tradition from the times of the USSR.

[2] The law of Ukraine on a unified state demographic register and identity documents, which envisages the introduction of electronic passports for Ukrainians, came into force on 6 December 2012.

On 10 July 2015, the Ukrainian government announced that internal passports would be abolished, and replaced with ID cards, starting from 1 January 2016.

On 25 January 2016, the first new Ukrainian ID cards were issued to young citizens who achieved 16 years of age.

[citation needed] Prior to that age, Ukrainian citizens could get a Travel Document of a Child (PR type) similar in appearance to the passport valid for 3 years, and has only 8 pages.

In some rare case Ukrainian citizens were allowed to have International Passport before the age of 18 or 16, but it also is valid for only 3 years.

[citation needed] The Ukrainian passport includes the following data:[6] The information page ends with the Machine Readable Zone starting with P