Jamaica’s passport company to start out issuing E-passports
The Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Company (PICA) has introduced that it’ll start issuing a brand new high-security digital or E-passports doc to the general public on March 31.
In line with PICA, it has been taking steps through the years to safe Jamaica’s passports as a part of its efforts to safeguard the identification of Jamaicans and the Jamaican journey doc, and the E-passport is the newest initiative in that regard.
“Because the company goes via its technique of upgrading its passport system by offering a greater high quality product, it needs to reassure the general public that the passports which have been beforehand issued are nonetheless legitimate till the date of expiration and there’s no want to alter them. Please notice that there might be no enhance in charges,” PICA mentioned in a press release on Friday.
An E-passport is an digital machine-readable passport with an embedded microchip that shops a digital model of the holder’s biographical information.
The chip has a novel digital signature, particular to every issuing nation and is activated as soon as the chip is encoded.
The E-passports is a sturdy biometric doc with added layers of safety that may assist within the combat in opposition to new and rising threats to identification theft and nationwide safety.
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