Maldivian Passports

Country:  Malvides
City:  Male

Background

• Requirement to enhance the security of citizens through authentic identification documents
• Incompliance with internationally accepted standards for machine-readable travel documents

 

Scope

• Integration of innovative fingerprint biometrics into the key travel document of the Republic of the Maldives – the passport
• Fingerprint and face image templates are digitized and embedded into the microchip contained in the passport back cover

 

Implementation

• Delivery of a biometric development toolkit BioLink BSDK as the core of the identification component of the passport creation and issuance system
• BioLink algorithms’ compliance with major international and industry standards, namely, ISO/IEC 19794-4 Finger Image Data, ISO/IEC 19794-2 Finger Minutiae Data, WSQ, ANSI/NIST-ITL-1-2000 and ANSI INCITS 378-2004

 

Outcome

• Secure and streamlined immigration procedures for the country’s citizens
• Quick and fool-proof identification of citizens
• Compliance with the most innovative identification trends worldwide