Chief Executive Officer, Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA), Andrew Wynter (left), presents Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (centre) with an E-Passport during a courtesy call at the Office of the Prime Minister on April 3. Looking on is Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Security, the Hon. Dr. Horace Chang. On Friday, March 31, PICA went live with its new high-security e-passport to the public, as part of steps to safeguard the identity of Jamaicans and the Jamaican travel document. The machine-readable passport has 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-passport 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.
Photo: Adrian Walker
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (centre), speaks with Chief Executive Officer, Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA), Andrew Wynter (left), after receiving his E-Passport, during a courtesy call at the Office of the Prime Minister on April 3. Looking on is Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Security, the Hon. Dr. Horace Chang. 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-passport 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. PICA went live with its new high-security e-passport to the public on March 31, as part of steps to safeguard the identity of Jamaicans and the Jamaican travel document.
Photo: Adrian Walker
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (centre), looks at his new E-Passport, while Chief Executive Officer, Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA), Andrew Wynter (left), makes a presentation to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Security, the Hon. Dr. Horace Chang, at the Office of the Prime Minister on April 3. 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-passport 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.
