Prime Minister Andrew Holness Tuesday was the very first Jamaican to receive the long-awaited electronic passport from Passport Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA).
The introduction of the e-passports in Jamaica will see the nation joining more than 150 countries that use e-passports, including 11 of its Caricom neighbours. Head of the PICA Andrew Wynter was at the office of the Prime Minister Tuesday with a new electronic passport handed to Prime Minister Andrew Holness.
The 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. Wynter notes that Jamaica has now joined with other Caricom neighbours in this upgrade.
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