ID cards replace Estonian passports
Sep 03, 1998
By Urmas Maranik
TALLINN - The Estonian government decided that every Estonian citizen will have an ID card by 2001 when the first Estonian passports, issued in 1991, expire."The pilot project will hopefully start early in the 21st century," said Kaja Kuivjogi, ID cards project manager and deputy director of the Estonian Citizenship and Migration Department.At the moment Estonian passports serve three purposes. They are used to prove identity, citizenship and to cross state borders. Elsewhere in the world, passp ...
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