Sentence examples for an internal passport from inspiring English sources

The document acts as an internal passport.

His thin criminal history here, an internal passport violation and an infraction for being unemployed, dates from the Soviet era and is no longer on the books.

To manage the huge population flows — and its own fears — the government relies on an internal passport and registration system dating from the Mao years that ties access to education, health care and pensions to the birthplace of a person's parent.

All of these operations and many more require a valid internal passport, a peculiar document that may be the most significant vestige of the U.S.S.R. in modern Russian society.

Prior to a June 10 National Assembly ruling, travelers in France had to carry a "booklet of circulation" — a compulsory internal passport for all French or foreign individuals over the age of 16, living in France without a fixed abode.

The entire consular staff was recalled.Whereas visa-free travel to the EU remains a distant prospect, Ukrainians can enter Russia and Belarus without an international passport (an internal identity card is enough).

In Mainland China, "HuKou", something like internal passport, is an unavoidable formidable obstacle for those migrant workers and their children, without which people cannot enjoy the local public resources, including elementary education.

Standards and scanning, they say, are a dangerous combination that essentially creates a de facto national identity card or internal passport that can be registered in many databases.

Short distance displacement is one: people move from their destroyed home, but because they do not leave to a different administrative unit than the one specified in their internal passport, they cannot become IDPs.

One gets one's first internal passport at 14 and turns it in for a new one at 20 and then again, as a government Web site puts it, "in case one reaches the age of 45" — a simple reminder of the fact that a lot of Russians don't.

But the internal passport refused to die.