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5/06/08

Full steam ahead with ESTA


The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced the interim results for the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA).

5/06/08

Gemalto provides foreign resident cards in Taiwan


Gemalto is to supply electronic Alien Resident Certificate (ARC) cards to Taiwan

4/06/08

Turkey implements SAFE ID personalization system


SAFE ID Solutions to supply its personalization system for use in the roll out of Turkey’s ePassport system

23/05/08

Five suppliers win UK ID card contracts


Five suppliers to deliver the UK’s National Identity Scheme (NIS)

23/05/08

3M-SPSL wins critical worker ID card deal


3M-SPSL has been appointed to manufacture and supply UK ID cards for critical workers

19/05/08

ePassports get LED video display


Samsung SDI and Bundesdruckerei demonstrate slimline LED video display in ePassport

19/05/08

Atos and Sagem win French ePassorts contract


Atos Origin and Sagem win contract worth 80 million euros to produce France’s biometric ePassports

15/05/08

Entrust confirms Taiwan ePassport role


Entrust has confirmed it will provide its PKI to the Taiwanese government to help authenticate biometric information stored on ePassports

15/05/08

IRIS project passes million milestone


The UK’s IRIS automated biometric border crossing system has successfully identified more than one million passengers since January 2006.

8/05/08

UK ID card set up costs to rise


IPS says overall UK ID card scheme costs will fall but set up costs will rise

5/05/08

Brunei launches biometric passport


Bruneians will soon be able to take advantage of new biometric passports

18/04/08

HJP Consulting inks UAE ePassport deal


HJP Consulting has been awarded a long term ePassport consultancy project from the Ministry of the Interior of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

15/04/08

Cote d’Ivoire adopts ePassports


Cote d’Ivoire is set to become the latest African country to adopt ePassports

8/04/08

Taiwan selects HP to enable ePassports


Taiwan selects HP to roll out ePassports to 23 million Taiwanese citizens

8/04/08

Bulgaria cancels ePassport tender process


Bulgaria’s biometric ePassport procurement has been cancelled

1/04/08

Photo-Me moves into biometric data capture space


Photo-Me Group has announced it will turn its focus onto biometric image capture

31/03/08

USA rules on land and sea travel documentation


DHS and DOS announce final rule for WHTI land and sea

31/03/08

DHS signs more Visa Waiver agreements


The USA has signed Visa Waiver Program Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) with Slovaka, Hungary and Lithuania

27/03/08

UK-France talks turn their attention to migration


UK-France talks call upon Member States to issue biometric visas by 2011

26/03/08

New passports for Egyptian citizens


Egyptian citizens can now apply for an updated machine readable travel document following the government’s announcement that it has started rolling out the new national passport document.


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