The European Parliament signed up to a plan Wednesday to introduce computerized biometric passports including people’s fingerprints as well as their photographs, despite criticism from civil liberties ...

Comoros has selected GenKey to produce its biometric passports and national ID cards. GenKey replaces Semlex, which had held ...

You’re running out of time if you want to get a European stamp in your passport. The European Union’s commissioner for home affairs announced in a speech Friday the E.U. would switch on its new ...

The European Union has called on the United States to delay the deadline for the introduction of biometric passports for visitors without visas. The United States has set a deadline of October 2005 ...

Sweden and Norway began deploying biometric passports in October but privacy and security issues may limit the potential of the new systems. Both Norway and Sweden will store digital facial images on ...

India has started issuing biometric e-passports under Passport Seva Programme 2.0 to improve travel security and speed up immigration checks. Here’s how e-passports work, what data they store and how ...

PanARMENIAN.Net - Mass printing of new biometric passports will soon be approved, while the printing of new identification cards has already begun, according to statements made during a meeting ...

The outgoing U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary, Tom Ridge, called for a new international standard for putting biometric data such as fingerprints on passports. In a speech Friday at the ...

Ministers for European Union member states agreed on Tuesday to adopt biometric passports. The first biometric passports are set to arrive in 18 months. Initially, they will record the facial ...

Second, Finland will still accept a non-biometric passport belonging to someone granted a residence permit to the passport holder before 1 June 2026. "Therefore, it will still be possible to apply for ...

Fijians will soon save themselves from the hassle of travelling to an immigration office to apply for a passport as Government upgrades the country’s passport system to allow online applications.