E-passports in 2012..

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At last, Canada's much awaited e-passports will be a reality in 2012.


Canada has plans to begin issuing e-passports by the end of 2012. This was revealed by Christine Desloges, CEO of Passport Canada.

Canada's biometric passports by 2012--Canada will roll out full-scale delivery of e-passports by next year, Desloges stated while addressing a conference at the United Nations International Civil Aviation Organization at the Montreal HQ.

The new move will include Canada among other G8 nations having increased high-tech security measures on Canada immigration documents.

Also known as biometric passport, e-passport is a part of the National Security Policy of the federal government announced in 2004.

What is an e-Passport –An electronic passport or e-passport is similar to the traditional Canada passport with the inclusion of an electronic chip having name, date & place of birth, sex and the digital photo of the person encoded on it. This will facilitate border guards to easily identify any screen threats and verify fraudulent passports.

Why Canada e-passport was delayed--Canada's e-passports were long awaited by many but the nation has been quite late in initiating this biometric document. It may be mentioned that around 350 million e-passports have already been issued by around 95 nations the world over.

The reason for delays in implementation of e-passports by Canada has been due to redesigning of the application process for Canada passports, informed Beatrice Fenelon, an official spokeswoman of Passport Canada.

This included late completion of printing of overseas passport, she stated while adding that the process was underway since 2004.

Moreover, new technologies pertaining to facial recognition had to be implemented for launching e-passports in Canada, she added.

It may be worth mentioned here that since the year 2009, around 40,000 diplomatic as well as special Canada e-passports have already been issued successfully by Passport Canada through its pilot project. There have been no reports of any difficulties encountered with regard to such passports.

The agency was flooded with a large number of applications for Canada passports between the years 2007 and 2009 after the US Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative made it mandatory for all Canadians to have passports for traveling to the US.



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[Ismael5]

good Info

Ismael

[Pk09]

At last, Canada's much awaited e-passports will be a reality in 2012.


Canada has plans to begin issuing e-passports by the end of 2012. This was revealed by Christine Desloges, CEO of Passport Canada.

Canada's biometric passports by 2012--Canada will roll out full-scale delivery of e-passports by next year, Desloges stated while addressing a conference at the United Nations International Civil Aviation Organization at the Montreal HQ.

The new move will include Canada among other G8 nations having increased high-tech security measures on Canada immigration documents.

Also known as biometric passport, e-passport is a part of the National Security Policy of the federal government announced in 2004.

What is an e-Passport –An electronic passport or e-passport is similar to the traditional Canada passport with the inclusion of an electronic chip having name, date & place of birth, sex and the digital photo of the person encoded on it. This will facilitate border guards to easily identify any screen threats and verify fraudulent passports.

Why Canada e-passport was delayed--Canada's e-passports were long awaited by many but the nation has been quite late in initiating this biometric document. It may be mentioned that around 350 million e-passports have already been issued by around 95 nations the world over.

The reason for delays in implementation of e-passports by Canada has been due to redesigning of the application process for Canada passports, informed Beatrice Fenelon, an official spokeswoman of Passport Canada.

This included late completion of printing of overseas passport, she stated while adding that the process was underway since 2004.

Moreover, new technologies pertaining to facial recognition had to be implemented for launching e-passports in Canada, she added.

It may be worth mentioned here that since the year 2009, around 40,000 diplomatic as well as special Canada e-passports have already been issued successfully by Passport Canada through its pilot project. There have been no reports of any difficulties encountered with regard to such passports.

The agency was flooded with a large number of applications for Canada passports between the years 2007 and 2009 after the US Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative made it mandatory for all Canadians to have passports for traveling to the US.



Jibs084.

Its about time they should do it