{"id":556010,"date":"2026-07-01T16:37:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=556010"},"modified":"2026-07-01T18:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:13:07","slug":"more-than-340-problematic-travel-documents-detected-at-belarusian-border-since-start-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/more-than-340-problematic-travel-documents-detected-at-belarusian-border-since-start-of-year","title":{"rendered":"More Than 340 Problematic Travel Documents Detected at Belarusian Border Since Start of Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Since the beginning of 2026, Belarusian border guards have detected more than 340 document-related violations at the border. In the second quarter, the number of invalid travel documents increased by 12%, from 160 to 180.<\/p>\n<p>The most common violation was the absence of a Belarusian visa, accounting for 157 cases. Another 89 people attempted to cross the border using expired passports, including passports that had not been renewed after a change of surname. Sixty-one travellers presented documents with damaged photographs, worn condition or illegible stamps. Twenty-two people arrived at border checkpoints without documents entitling them to cross the border. Fifteen Belarusian citizens presented passports listed in the database of invalid documents.<\/p>\n<p>As the State Border Committee of Belarus <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/gpkgovby\/9336\">noted<\/a>, in addition to unintentional violations, deliberate attempts are also being recorded. Since the beginning of the year, five people have been detained for using forged passports.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1920px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-556010-1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/newsgpk01_07.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/newsgpk01_07.mp4\">https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/newsgpk01_07.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the beginning of 2026, Belarusian border guards have detected more than 340 document-related violations at the border. In the second quarter, the number of invalid travel documents increased by 12%, from 160 to 180. The most common violation was the absence of a Belarusian visa, accounting for 157 cases. Another 89 people attempted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":556009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a452e868292a.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"More Than 340 Problematic Travel Documents Detected at Belarusian Border Since Start of Year"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}