Starting this week, Peruvians will be able to initiate the required procedures to obtain the new biometric passport, Interior Minister Jose Luis Perez Guadalupe announced.
"We don't have to face long queues. Citizens can register online and set the date and hour, when they will go apply for it," Guadalupe affirmed.
Peru's Migrations Agency will start to issue 250 documents per days and 350 afterwards. Subsequently, 40,000 units will be granted every month, until reaching 1.2 million passports.
Interested citizens must pay a S/98.36 (about US$28.10) fee at the State-run Bank of the Nation.
Thanks to this initiative, Peruvian citizens will benefit from visa-free entry to the Schengen territory for up-to-90-day stays.
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