Belarus May Introduce a Digital Citizen Passport

The state programme “Digital Belarus” for 2026–2030 provides for reducing paper document flow through the use of digital versions of documents in various personal and business situations. Today, the National Legal Internet Portal published Council of Ministers Resolution No. 793 of 30 December, which approved the programme.

The document states that during the next five-year period the authorities plan to develop and begin using digital versions of several documents, including the citizen’s passport. In addition, the following may be digitised:

• driver’s licence;
• state social insurance certificate;
• data from the individual personal account;
• temporary residence permit;
• vehicle registration certificate;
• military ID;
• pension certificate;
• civil status certificates (birth, marriage, divorce, paternity, maternity, name change);
• disability certificate;
• certificate of state registration of real estate and property rights;
• conclusion of the medical rehabilitation expert commission;
• certificate for operating a motorised small vessel.

The exact list of such documents will be determined by state bodies. In 2026, the programme must be supplemented with measures to create or upgrade information resources and systems for forming these digital documents.

“As a result, citizens should be provided with the possibility to receive and use their personal data through mobile and web applications for the prompt resolution of personal and business situations in electronic form,” the programme text states.

The government also plans to enable the use of an ID card (identification, authentication, generation of an electronic digital signature) via mobile devices, as well as the possibility of identification and authentication using the user’s biometric data and a unique identifier.