Ministry of Internal Affairs: Current `blue passports` of Armenian  citizens to remain valid until their expiration date

ArmInfo.  Current "blue passports" of citizens of the Republic of Armenia will remain valid until their expiration date. This was announced on her Facebook page by Nelly Davtyan, Head of the Migration and Citizenship Service of  the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Armenia.

She also noted that citizens can apply for a new biometric passport  at any time. Upon receipt of the new passport, the citizen's previous  passports will be invalidated, as a person cannot hold more than one  passport at a time.

As Nelly Davtyan noted, a biometric passport will not simply mean  that the document will be on an electronic device (chip). The  Republic of Armenia has already begun the process of signing the  document in the ICAO Special Purpose Toolkit, which facilitates the  exchange of security data on digital passports between countries.  This "trust network" allows other countries to quickly verify the  authenticity of documents crossing borders, improves the security and  speed of border control, and facilitates the international movement  of citizens.

As a reminder, the design of the new biometric passport has already  been presented, and its implementation will begin in the fall of  2026. A red biometric passport will replace the blue one.