TASHKENT -- Uzbekistani President Shavkat Mirziyoyev Tuesday (July 11) signed an executive order that might revamp his country's passports, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported Thursday (July 13), quoting state-owned media.
Mirziyoyev ordered the government to create, within one month, a plan to introduce new passports. The plan might mean the abolition of exit visas, a Soviet holdover, that Uzbekistani citizens must obtain from their own government before travelling abroad.
The exit visa system has become a lucrative source of bribery for passport officials.
