UNB, Dhaka :
Bangladesh is planning to start the distribution of digital passports, also known as ePassports, as early as June this year to ease immigration activities.
The ePassport has an embedded electronic microprocessor chip which contains biometric information used to authenticate the identity of the bearer.
Sources at the Department of Immigration and Passports (DIP) said ePassports will have 38 types of security features. Data currently available in the Machine Readable Passport (MRP) database will be transferred to ePassports.
Preparations to start ePassport distribution are almost complete, according to the sources.
Bangladesh and Germany signed an agreement on July 19 last year following Dhaka’s decision to issue electronic passports alongside the
machine readable ones. Implementation of the project – Introduction of e-Passport and Automated Border Control Management in Bangladesh – started from July 2018 and is expected to continue until June 2028 with the government’s own funding.
“We plan to issue ePassports by June,” Project director Brig Gen Saidur Rahman Khan told UNB.
ePassport distribution was scheduled to start in December last year but it was pushed back to March 2018. However, the authorities concerned failed to begin the work in the stipulated time.
Bangladesh is planning to start the distribution of digital passports, also known as ePassports, as early as June this year to ease immigration activities.
The ePassport has an embedded electronic microprocessor chip which contains biometric information used to authenticate the identity of the bearer.
Sources at the Department of Immigration and Passports (DIP) said ePassports will have 38 types of security features. Data currently available in the Machine Readable Passport (MRP) database will be transferred to ePassports.
Preparations to start ePassport distribution are almost complete, according to the sources.
Bangladesh and Germany signed an agreement on July 19 last year following Dhaka’s decision to issue electronic passports alongside the
machine readable ones. Implementation of the project – Introduction of e-Passport and Automated Border Control Management in Bangladesh – started from July 2018 and is expected to continue until June 2028 with the government’s own funding.
“We plan to issue ePassports by June,” Project director Brig Gen Saidur Rahman Khan told UNB.
ePassport distribution was scheduled to start in December last year but it was pushed back to March 2018. However, the authorities concerned failed to begin the work in the stipulated time.
