Ukraine is now the world’s first country where a digital passport has the same power internally, as a paper or plastic one, make its digital and physical passports interchangeable.
The Ukrainian parliament in the second reading on March 30 passed the bill on digital passports. Starting on Aug. 23, Ukrainian citizens can use digital passports in the Diia mobile app to confirm their identity and citizenship.
Many other countries, including Poland and South Korea, use digital documents too, but Ukraine will become the first country where they are considered legally equivalent to ordinary ones.
The Diia app will automatically show all the documents a citizen has, including ID cards, biometric foreign passports, driver’s licenses, and student cards.
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