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Banks, notary offices, domestic airports and a range of other institutions in Uzbekistan must now accept electronic versions of identity and status documents in place of physical copies, following amendments registered by the Ministry of Justice on 20 October 2026.
The changes, recorded under registration numbers 3958 and 3959, revise 33 departmental instruments and give citizens the right to present documents in digital form while obliging the relevant organisations to accept them. The ministry said the amendments stem from Government Resolution No. 897 of 27 December 2024, which introduced unified digital services for identity and certain other documents.
Which documents and which services
The electronic formats now accepted include the biometric passport, the national ID card, birth and marriage certificates, pension cards, disability certificates, war-veteran identity cards and student cards — all accessible through the my.gov.uz portal and the Ijtimoiy karta mobile application.
The practical scope is broad. Digital documents can be used to verify identity for banking services and certain financial transactions, to complete notarial acts, and to check in for domestic flights within Uzbekistan. The amendments also cover compensation payments to war veterans, contracts for telecommunications services, donor identity verification when giving blood or blood components, pawnshop agreements, paid services at medical and social institutions, and military registration of citizens.
What changes in practice
Until now, many of these transactions required a citizen to produce a physical document even when an electronic equivalent existed. The revision removes that obligation across the 33 instruments simultaneously, rather than amending each agency’s rules separately over time. By anchoring the change in a single pair of registered instruments, the Ministry of Justice creates a uniform legal basis that individual agencies can no longer override by insisting on paper.
The reform is narrow in one respect: it applies to the specific document types and service categories listed, not to all government interactions. Citizens dealing with procedures outside those categories will still need to check whether electronic submission is permitted under the relevant rules.