The government has taken the initiative to extend the validity of passport and personal identity card to 10 years from the existing five years. The Ministry of the Interior prepared a draft proposal to bring amendments to the Passport Act and the Identity Card Act and sent out for comments on Tuesday, said the Ministry in a press release. The deadline for submitting comments is February 16, 2026. According to the draft proposal, passports and personal identity cards issued to minors, however, would continue to be issued for a maximum of 5 years. A minors passport would include information about their guardians. Electronic passport applications would still be possible. However, applicants would need to make an appointment with the authority to supplement the application. Barring exceptional circumstances, passport photos would be taken by parties whose registered line of business or purpose in the Trade Register is photography. The photographers information would be included in the passport register. The photographer must be known to be fit and proper. Anyone subject to imprisonment or a corporate fine in the last three years, declared bankrupt, or banned from operating a business, whether temporarily or permanently, would not be considered fit and proper. Passport photos should be colour photographs, and they must be delivered to the permit authority electronically by the photographer. To ensure the quality and authenticity of the passport photo, image editing would not be allowed. Regardless of the validity period of personal identity cards and to protect the security factors on the cards citizen certificate, the certificate would continue to be limited to five years of validity.