Dushanbe, February 21, Asia-Plus - More than 557,000 Tajiks have to date received passports for travel, which has become the main document for those who want to travel outside Tajikistan . 

Deputy head of the department for visas and registration of the Interior Ministry, Jamshed Sangov, has told Asia-Plus that since January 1 2005 , Tajikistan ’s residents have lodged 577,780 passport applications at the department and its branches in the regions and up to now, more than 557,000 people in Tajik have receives foreign passports.  

Besides, 12,000 other passports applications have been lodged by our fellow-countrymen at offices for issuing Tajik foreign passports opened in a number of Russian cities, according to Sangov.  “Of them, 1,874 people have already received the valid foreign passports,” deputy head of Tajikistan ’s department for visas and registration said.   

As it had been reported earlier, offices for issuing Tajik foreign passports had been opened in five cities of the Russian Federation – Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yelaterinburg and Irkuts.