CMC – The Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) in Jamaica has announced that it will begin issuing a new high-security electronic or e-passports document to the public on March 31.
According to PICA, it has been taking steps over the years to secure Jamaica’s passports as part of its efforts to safeguard the identity of Jamaicans and the Jamaican travel document, and the e-passport is the latest initiative in that regard.
An e-passport is an electronic machine-readable passport with an embedded microchip that stores a digital version of the holder’s biographical data.
The chip has a unique digital signature, specific to each issuing country and is activated once the chip is encoded.
The e-passports is a robust biometric document with added layers of security that can aid in the fight against new and emerging threats to identity theft and national security.
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