The State Registration Service of the Kyrgyz Republic has reduced the list of documents required for a national passport, marking an important milestone USAID’s efforts to simplify the issuance of passports in Kyrgyzstan.
The previous law prescribed a complex, expensive, and time-consuming process for acquiring a Kyrgyz passport. Kyrgyz citizens spent a significant amount of time gathering up to 13 mandatory supporting documents and then waited in slow moving lines to apply for and receive passports.