Existing passports remain valid until their date of expiry and will continue to be accepted both in India and abroad.

The e-Passport is a hybrid passport that a combines both paper and electronic passport with a Radio Frequency Identification ...

India has launched ePassports, featuring embedded RFID chips for enhanced security and faster global identity verification.

Here we go again with the BBC reporting the same myth that electronic passports have been “cloned” which got a lot of readers from digg and slashdot. This grossly misinformed myth has been repeated so ...

ICAO and NXP have some pretty major plans for the future of the passport and it goes well beyond border crossings. With 730 million of the chip-enabled ePassports already in circulation, they see it ...

The People’s Republic of Bangladesh has announced the enrollment and issuance service for the new ePassport in all its foreign missions worldwide. The ePassport has been designed to be forgery-proof ...

As physical electronic passports reach their tipping point, it appears that the mobile ePassport is among the next suite of innovations. Solid evidence of these and other advancements comes from ...

Yesterday’s news that United Kingdom ePassport gates will open to travelers from outside Europe for the first time will be welcomed by regular visitors to the country, including nearly four million ...

Travel to the UK just got a bit easier: the destination is now allowing citizens of the United States and Canada to use its ePassport gates. Previously, the gates had only been open to people from the ...