Kosovo residents get passports in Niš

In order to travel abroad, all Serbian citizens, including Albanians from Kosovo, must first be issued with passports.

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Thursday, 16.08.2007.

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Kosovo residents get passports in Niš

Birth registers for Priština and five other Kosovo municipalities have been transferred to Niš since the attacks on Serb clerks in the province grew in frequency following the end of the 1999 war.

Personal documents issued by the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) are mostly valid only in Kosovo, which is why ethnic Albanians often visit Niš.

For the past eight years the Serbian Interior Ministry (MUP) office in Niš has issued around 220,000 passports to Kosovo Albanians.

Goran Đorđević from the Niš Administration for Civic Affairs says that, the number of Albanians coming to Niš to procure personal documents has been rising along with the alleviation of political tensions in the province.

“Our office received more than 10,000 applications in July only, or 500 each day,” he said.

Since all Kosovo residents, including those displaced and those living abroad, have to travel to Serbia proper to get their documents, an office has been set up in Kosovo, at a point between Kosovo Polje and Priština, so as to speed up the procedure.

Administrative officers from Niš collect the application forms twice a week at the Kosovo office.

Even though birth certificates can be obtained by mail or phone, many people opt for getting them in person.

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