GREEN PASSPORT HOLDER

[frostysoftyeaton 6]

When i had my CFO seminar,we had discussed about the passport. The counselor said that, green passport is until 2010 only because they will be using the new one,the machine readable passport. I am a green passport holder and it will expire in 2011 but I wont wait for the expiration date to occur because it will be no longer honored,so I have to renew it in 2010..Just an info guys

[Yiyi and Chris 0]

[Otto 83]

FYI

DFA Issues New Machine Readable Passports

The Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs started issuing new Philippine Passports beginning 18 July 2007. T

he new Philippine Passports are now machine readable and are designed with new security features to prevent tampering and enhance its integrity.

The new Regular Machine Readable Passport is maroon in color and incorporates security features such as microtexts,

invisible printing, optical variable device and holographic features on the laminate.

The new Philippine passports are being issued by the DFA and its Regional Consular Offices. Philippine embassies

and consulates will issue the new passports at a later time.

Non-machine readable passports issued before the full implementation will remain valid until their expiration.

SOURCE

[frostysoftyeaton 6]

FYI

DFA Issues New Machine Readable Passports

The Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs started issuing new Philippine Passports beginning 18 July 2007. T

he new Philippine Passports are now machine readable and are designed with new security features to prevent tampering and enhance its integrity.

The new Regular Machine Readable Passport is maroon in color and incorporates security features such as microtexts,

invisible printing, optical variable device and holographic features on the laminate.

The new Philippine passports are being issued by the DFA and its Regional Consular Offices. Philippine embassies

and consulates will issue the new passports at a later time.

Non-machine readable passports issued before the full implementation will remain valid until their expiration.

SOURCE

Filipino overseas travellers will soon travel with the latest state-of-the-art electronic passport equipped with a tamper-proof microchip bearing your identification and personal information.

The new so-called e-passports with electronic chips are set for release in October this year according to the Department of Foreign Affairs.

The move also gears up the Philippines for the full automation of the Filipino’s international ID, as the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has given the Philippines until April 2010 to phaseout manually processed passports.

The E-passports will use technology as secure and tamper-proof as identification cards used in the United States military and defense establishments.

The DFA said this move will make the Philippines become globally compliant, along with 61 countries that have E-passports.

The DFA has begun preparing the new maroon booklets with its longtime supplier Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), which recently contracted French card systems and identity products firm Oberthur Technologies for technical assistance in making the most advanced Philippine passport to be issued yet.

“It’s the top-level, state-of-the-art technology that we’re using here. It’s the best passport you can have. There’s no better technology in the world,” said Xavier Fricout, director for identity products and cards systems of Oberthur Technologies.

Besides advanced security features on its laminated information page and individual sheets, the E-passport will contain the bearer’s photo, fingerprints and personal information in one tiny chip embedded on the end cover page.

The laboratory-certified imbeds use computer software that is “a little better” than what Oberthur had used in passports of other nations it had worked on like that of Belgium, Taiwan, Thailand and Kuwait, Fricout said.

The DFA stressed the imbeds would provide “triple validation” of a traveler’s circumstances upon immigration check as a port officer may verify the bearer’s information on the passport against data to be retrieved from the chips and from the passport holder.

For this state-of-the-art passport, applicants need to have their ID picture and fingerprint taken at the DFA offices.

The DFA is still finalizing details on the price and processing time for the electronic booklets, but estimated that it may take “between five to 10 days” to process the E-passports.

The new passport will replace the manually processed green passport, where the bearer’s information is encoded long hand. The E-passport will also gradually take the place of the machine-readable passports (MRPs), maroon booklets embedded with computer-recognized biometrics and safety features for tamper-proofing.

The DFA said the two earlier passport versions would still be recognized in ports around the world until expiration.

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[o0pink0o 3]

thanks for this info

[rebelheart 0]

I just recently changed my green passport for married name in Washington DC, they still give me the greenpassport with my married name and they put expiring date on 2010, so the lifetime of my passport even just recently renewd for married name is only for 2 years. Most of my friends here in US, need to renew their expiring passport for upcoming bakasyon to Manila. And the Philippine Embassy in Washington DC said that, they need to show-up personally in Washington DC to renew their passport because of that new e-passport with electronic chips and its now like maroone in color and not green anymore.

I saw how it looks like, bcos my cousin is here with me in the US for vacation, he got his renew passport in Manila and he used it as soon as last March. It looks very nice... hopefully no-one will really really couldn't tampered once identity specially in passport ID.

[AllRightsReserved 0]

Me and my girls have the green passport...Thanks for sharing.