Iraq: E-passport is a great leap and will make progress in global ranking

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8-03-2023, 21:30

INA - BAGHDAD

Directorate of Civil Status, Passports and Residence detailed on Wednesday, the advantages of E-passport, specifying a single condition for obtaining it and the application mechanism.

"E-passport system has been opened in Mansour Passports Department, and will be opened successively in the departments of Baghdad and the provinces. In the second phase, the E-passport system will be available abroad," said the Director General of Civil Status, Passports and Residence, Riyadh Jundi Al-Kaabi, to the Iraqi News Agency - INA.

Al-Kaabi explained, "The E-passport was issued in accordance with the instructions and standards of the World Aviation Organization. It contains great security features, and the information sheet differs from the previous passport, in addition to the electronic chip in the passport, which includes information about the citizen and is read directly."

"Several meetings were held with the aim of facilitating the procedures for the citizen wishing to obtain E-passport," he noted, pointing out that "the application mechanism includes the citizen opening the website via the mobile device, filling out a form, and then receiving a text message containing a number, after which a visit is needed to the department with national card".

Al-Kaabi called on citizens who find it difficult to open the form to go to the department directly with the national card, and the employees undertake the task, stressing that "the condition for granting the e-passport is that the citizen hold a national card. Via the card reader, the information is transferred directly to the passport system and the validity of the data is verified to citizen."

He stressed, "The procedures are easy and simple, and the citizen will feel a great transformation. The flow of procedures, and receiving the passport will be on the same day. The price of issuing the passport is 25,000 dinars, an original fee."

"E-passport is a qualitative leap and it is hoped that it will make progress in the global classification because of the reliable and accurate information it contains. It can be adopted as an official document registered with the International ICAO Organization," he added.

For his part, Major Qaisar Sadiq INA that "the E-passport is a qualitative leap in the field of document issuance, because it possesses high security and technical specifications that will facilitate citizens' obtaining features of movement in airports of different countries of the world, as it carries an electronic chip that contains data to the citizen, vital identifiers, and its encryption code. This code is defined in all airports in the world within ICAO, and thus will facilitate the entry and leads the citizens in airports without problems or delays."