Approximately 4.5 million passengers pass through Mongolian borders a year.
Thus, the government of Mongolia has created a legal environment for rendering internationally-accepted services to foreign citizens visiting and residing in Mongolia and for protecting Mongolians abroad by modifying the body of citizenship and migration.
In a scope of the reform policy, some functions of the border examination service at the Border Protection Agency have been transmitted into the Department of Citizenship and Migration (DCM) under the law on border checkpoint which came into force on April 1, 2014.
On April 3, the newly modernized body for both foreign and domestic citizenship and migration launched its activities under new functions.
Chairman of the DCM B.Purevdorj:
In conjunction with coming into force of the law on border checkpoint, the DCM took up responsibilities for checking passengers and vehicles passing through the borders and creating a general data. Moreover, we are doing works together with the diplomatic missions of Mongolia abroad to preventing violation of Mongolian citizens’ rights in foreign countries and to look up foreign citizens in Mongolia.
The DCM intends to finish the “E-immigration” project by 2016 with a purpose to establish a general data system of citizenship and migration registration and control. This project is expected to make conditions of letting passengers and vehicles pass the state borders, using the latest internationally-accepted technologies and techniques and accepting visa applications by online.