MONTREAL - The federal government rolled out some details of its new 10-year electronic passport on Tuesday, saying the Canadians who know about the new document seem to like it.
"Generally Canadians are not aware of the project by the government of Canada to adopt the new passport, nor do they know exactly what the passport consists of," a survey released by Passport Canada indicated.
But the idea of the microchip-equipped passport, which offers a choice of validity of five or 10 years, "experienced significant support," the survey said.
The new passport will contain a photograph but not biometric data such as fingerprints or iris scans.
Adults will be able to choose between a five-year passport and one valid for 10 years but children will only be able to get the five-year document.
"The goal of the validity period of 10 years is not to reduce costs but to be more convenient for Canadians, to get Canada to the same level as a growing number of countries such as the United States, France, the United Kingdom and Australia," said Monique Boivin, a Passport Canada spokeswoman.
She said about 80 countries issue e-passports and "Canada is the only G8 country not to issue electronic passports to the general public."
Boivin said Canada chose not to include fingerprints and iris scans in the passport to comply with the standards of the International Civil Aviation Organization.
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http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/101026/national/electronic_passport
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Posted on: 28-10-10 16:03:08
A ten year passport is a great thing and matches up with lot of other countries.
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Dimple2001
Back in 1993 India issued 20 yr validity PP for a very short time . That was best and I was lucky to get one in those days .
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A ten year passport is a great thing and matches up with lot of other countries.
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Growing Old Is Mandatory ..Growing UP is Optional
A passport valid for 20 years is good from renewal and fees point of view.
But it may have lot of negative issues like wearing-out, poor quality, too much change in the person's face etc. Most of the old Indian passports are hand written and some times not legible and do not reflect the upgrades in technology. An old passport particularly from countries like India, can some times create problems in international travel mainly due to poor quality of document. I know at least two cases who got trouble because their passports issued in India are of poor quality. One got trouble in Frankfurt airport because the lamination on the photo came out due to poor quality and one got trouble because the hand written name with some over writing.
