This article reviews briefly the work ICAO has been doing over the past nine years to specify how to make use of biometric technology to enhance the security of travel documents and to facilitate ...

Nowadays, traveling to foreign countries around the globe has been made easier due to numerous modes of transportation. But one barrier which every citizen endeavor is border control. In principle, a ...

Most travellers focus on keeping their passport safe, tracking visa validity, and storing photocopies for backup. What often gets overlooked is the machine-readable barcode printed on the passport. It ...

The Irish Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Passport Service has issued an urgent recall for 12,904 newly issued passports ...

On Tuesday the U.S. Department of State published its plans in the Federal Register to issue electronic passports (e-passports) with RFID tags in them. The Department of State says it is developing an ...