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 ...

Passports, like any physical ID, can be altered and forged. That's partly why for the last 11 years the United States has put RFID chips in the back panel of its passports, creating so-called ...

More than 100 million electronic passports have been issued in the two plus years since governments initiated production of the new travel credentials. The U.S. State Department alone has issued ...

There have been several reports of counterfeit passports. But what does a document verification for passport reveal? A passport is regarded as one of the most reliable sources of personal information.

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 ...

For international travelers, the Mobile Verify system from Airside Mobile means that passport identification steps can be bypassed, reducing the number of queues in the airport before a flight. To ...