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Steve Casey

2 Oct. 2023

5 min read

Australia’s R-Series Passport Moves into New Security and Design Paradigm

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..

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Francis Tuffy

29 Aug. 2023

2 min read

Belize – A Modern Passport to Make Citizens Proud

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.

Passports

Francis Tuffy

1 Aug. 2023

4 min read

Costa Rica Passport Makes Journey from MRP to ePassport

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.

Passports

Francis Tuffy

1 Aug. 2023

2 min read

New Document Issues

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

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Francis Tuffy

2 July 2023

4 min read

Brazil Reboots its Travel Documents

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!

Passports

Francis Tuffy

7 June 2023

2 min read

Update on the Pakistan ePassport Project

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

Government Passports

Lic Mónica Peralta

31 May 2023

5 min read

Thoughts on Producing Travel Documents

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.

Passports Travel

Francis Tuffy

31 May 2023

2 min read

New Document Issues

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

Passports

Francis Tuffy

4 May 2023

2 min read

Thales and Infineon Win Passport Security Contract in the US

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

Passports

Alan Hodgson

4 April 2023

5 min read

Opportunities From the SPRITE+ Network

There are a number of networks and research groups that exist outside of our community that could bring value to our work. The aim of this article is to illustrate this with reference to a personal case study undertaken over the past nine months.

Digital Identity Passports

Francis Tuffy

31 March 2023

2 min read

Bahrain Joins ICAO Public Key Directory

HID, a leader in trusted identity solutions, has been awarded with a contract to supply Bahrain with an end-to-end ePassport solution.

Company Passports

Francis Tuffy

31 March 2023

3 min read

New Document Issues

In this round up of recent new secure document issues, we record the new Australian R Series passport and the new Finnish passport and ID card.

ID Cards Passports

Francis Tuffy

3 Jan. 2023

2 min read

Demonstration of Passport Security for Post Quantum Cryptography

Infineon Technologies, the German Federal Printing Office and the Fraunhofer AISEC gave a demonstration at Trustech of an electronic passport that meets the security requirements of the quantum computing era.

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Francis Tuffy

24 Nov. 2022

2 min read

Belize Launches New ePassport

After a year and a half of planning with a team of designers and technology experts from various Belizean government departments, the administration has introduced a new passport.

Passports

Francis Tuffy

3 Oct. 2022

3 min read

Nepal’s First ePassport from IDEMIA

As a long-term partner of Nepal, IDEMIA has already provided national ID cards, an Automated Fingerprint Identification System and Machine-Readable Passports, and is now implementing an ePassport solution for the country.

Passports

Francis Tuffy

3 Oct. 2022

2 min read

New Design Swiss Passports to be Issued

The Federal Office of the Swiss Police has announced that citizens of Switzerland will have a new passport with a new design from the end of October.

Passports

Francis Tuffy

3 Oct. 2022

2 min read

Durasafe® Travel for Secure Data Pages

Last month, IDN reported on Landqart’s partnership with Tech5 to provide a combined solution for a certificate-based document that is durable, secure and biometrically-verifiable.

Passports

Francis Tuffy

5 July 2022

2 min read

Brazil Unveils New Passport and Identity Card

On 27 June, the Brazilian federal government unveiled a new passport design and issued the first new national identity card (CIN).

Passports

Francis Tuffy

8 June 2022

3 min read

China Refutes Rumours of Passport Suspension

In the aftermath (for some, though not for all) of a global health crisis like COVID, it is inevitable that the media engages in some ‘who did what and when’ style of journalism.

Government Passports

Lic Mónica R. Peralta

3 May 2022

3 min read

Argentina Says Goodbye to Physical Entry and Exit Stamps in Passports

Earlier this month, the Argentine Minister of the Interior, Eduardo Wado de Pedro, announced that the process of physically stamping passports will stop and that the process of registering entry and exit from the country will be digitised.

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Latest News

Australia’s R-Series Passport Moves into New Security and Design Paradigm

Belize – A Modern Passport to Make Citizens Proud

Costa Rica Passport Makes Journey from MRP to ePassport

New Document Issues

Brazil Reboots its Travel Documents

Update on the Pakistan ePassport Project

Thoughts on Producing Travel Documents

New Document Issues

Thales and Infineon Win Passport Security Contract in the US

Opportunities From the SPRITE+ Network

Bahrain Joins ICAO Public Key Directory

New Document Issues

Demonstration of Passport Security for Post Quantum Cryptography

Belize Launches New ePassport

Nepal’s First ePassport from IDEMIA

New Design Swiss Passports to be Issued

Durasafe® Travel for Secure Data Pages

Brazil Unveils New Passport and Identity Card

China Refutes Rumours of Passport Suspension

Argentina Says Goodbye to Physical Entry and Exit Stamps in Passports

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