"The internal passport has no future as a legal document," he said.

They took away his internal passport so that he could never leave Siberia.

By the year 2015 they are to fully replace old internal passports.

Everyone must carry an internal passport, and we were always conscious of security everywhere.

Internal passport is issued as an identification document within the country.

The new code prohibited travel between towns without an internal passport.

In France, in the past, one had to show an internal passport to change city.

Russia: Married women were allowed their own internal passport.

Internal passports were used to control the population, being necessary, for example, to obtain a medical prescription.

Jews were identified as a separate nationality in internal passports.

Where are you from, and where is your internal passport?"

But in new internal passports, not yet issued, citizens will no longer be required to list their nationality.

They examined his internal passport and called for a van to transport the five volunteers to jail.

There is anger and frustration with the hukou, China's "internal passport."

In the late Soviet Union citizens of age sixteen or older had to have an internal passport.

Every citizen over 14 residing in Russia is required to have a valid internal passport.

The Soviet Union began requiring every citizen over the age of 16 to carry an internal passport.

Sometimes alien's passports are issued as internal passport to non-residents.

When they arrived at the mine, their internal passports would be taken away so that there could be no second thoughts.

Collectivization relied on a system of internal passports to keep farmers tied to the land.

On 8 July 1997, the currently-used design of the Russian internal passport was introduced.

Internal passports were used in the Confederate States of America.

Internal passports so far don't have biometric information.

For a long period of Soviet history, peasants did not have internal passports, and could not move into towns without permission.

Since Jews were not permitted into the city without an internal passport, he managed to get a temporary passport from a friend.