With 34 security features, the strongest passport to the Maldivians

The new Maldivian biometric passport has been introduced with 34 security features including fingerprint and biological information.

The new passport introduced tonight by President Abdulla Yamin Abdul Gayoom has 34 security features at 54 places on the passport.

With traditional and historical artwork decorating the pages, the new Maldivian passport is similar to the ones used by the citizens of Singapore and Malaysia.

Department of Immigration and Emigration said that the new Maldivian passport introduced tonight is the strongest passport in the region.

The E-passport currently in use was introduced on 26 July 2007 as the first electronic passport in the region.

Immigration introduced the biometric passport and e-gates in the country with the help of the German company, Dharmalog.

The cultural artwork on the biometric passport was designed by Hussain Ali Manik.

In the presentation at the passport launching tonight, Immigration said that some of the security features on the passport are visible. Those security measures are hidden in the passport picture and artwork.

The new passport is designed so that water damage would bleed the picture to the data page. Immigration said that it was a big ease to the people using the passport. And since the passport would have a black and white picture, it would be easier to take the picture to the specifications required by Immigration.

Germany’s Dharmalog Company designed the country’s passport, ID cards and introduced some of the Police technologies. The company’s technology is being used in the border control systems of Switzerland, Ukraine, Brunei, Kuwait, Malaysia and Cambodia.