Draft Approval of Temporary Procedure for Collection, Storage, Processing and Exchange of Biographical and Biometric Data of Foreign Citizens and Stateless Persons Crossing the State Border of Uzbekistan Resolution has been published for public input.

As the grounds to adopt this resolution, it was indicated that foreign citizens and stateless persons arrive on the territory of Uzbekistan for the purpose of work, service, education, treatment, pilgrimage and recreation, while in practice, it is not uncommon for some persons to provide one document as a when passing through checkpoints across the state border, and while staying on the territory of Uzbekistan, they provide a document on citizenship of another state (or with other biographical data).

This leads to inconsistencies in information systems when registering at accommodation facilities of foreign citizens and stateless persons at their request, registering in medical institutions, when providing them with governmental services, and activities related to personal identification.

This draft approves a temporary procedure for the collection, storage, processing and exchange of biographical and biometric data of foreign citizens and stateless persons crossing the state border of Uzbekistan.

On the basis of the temporary regulation, automatic exchange of biographical and biometric data of foreign citizens and stateless persons between the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the State Security Service, the State Personalization Center under the Cabinet of Ministers via secure channels of information transfer will be ensured, the procedure for processing and storage of data in accordance with the current regulation, requirements interdepartmental electronic interaction interface will be defined and confirmed in separate bilateral Technology Instructions.

The period of validity of the temporary regulation in order to fully and effectively test modern methods of information technologies for biometric registration of foreign citizens and stateless persons at checkpoints, as well as until the relevant amendments and additions are made to the legislation in this area, is until December 31, 2024.