A brief review of the launch of Pakistan’s ePassport in August’s edition of ID & Secure Document News™ is followed up here with a more detailed examination of the new document.

Since winning the contract to manufacture the entire Australian passport in 2002, the R-Series is now the fifth series that Note Printing Australia (NPA) has developed for the Australian Passports Office..

The 2022 Belize ePassport series, the first ever from a from a Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country to be nominated for an HSP Regional Passport of the Year award, represents one of the most modern and secure travel documents within the Caribbean region.

In 2021, as Costa Rica reached the 200-year anniversary of independence from Spain and at a time when countries around the world were struggling with the effects of COVID, the country took the bold move to upgrade its travel document from machine-readable to a fully compliant biometric passport.

The Kurdistan Region of Iraq’s new ePassport was issued on 16 July at a ceremony in the regional capital of Erbil.

In this, the first major redesign of the country’s travel document for over two decades, the Casa da Moeda do Brasil has pulled out all the stops to make the new Brazilian passport a real showstopper!

The new Pakistan ePassport includes 29 new and modern security features. Here, we open the passport and take a look at some of them.

In this opinion piece, Lic Mónica Peralta (Forensic Document Expert) looks at the current state of physical document security printing and gives her thoughts on how it might be improved in the age of physical/digital co-existence.

One new document issue to report on this month, the Canadian Passport.

A contract to provide the US State Department with passport electronics and software has been awarded to Thales and Infineon.