{"id":56948,"date":"2022-03-03T13:30:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.akbartravels.com\/?p=56948"},"modified":"2022-03-03T13:30:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T08:00:19","slug":"all-you-need-to-know-about-the-indian-e-passport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akbartravels.com\/in\/blogs\/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-indian-e-passport\/","title":{"rendered":"All you need to know about the Indian E-Passport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the Budget speech on 1st<\/sup> February 2022, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman announced, the country will soon introduce e-Passport for its citizens. However, the concept of e-Passports is not new to our country. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) initiated the first phase of e-Passports in India in 2008 by issuing e-Passports to the then President – Pratibha Patil, Prime Minister – Dr. Manmohan Singh and Vice President – Mohammad Hamid Ansari, along with 20,000 officials and bureaucrats. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With this facility soon to be available to Indians, lets figure out what the difference between an e-Passport and a traditional passport<\/a> is, and what the benefits of having an e-Passport over a traditional passport are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is an e-Passport?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In theory, an e-Passport is a traditional passport with a RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) chip installed in it. All the data displayed at the information page of the passport is stored electronically on this chip. This includes the date of issue and expiration of passport, passport holder\u2019s name, age, gender, date of birth, place of birth, etc. It is also called a Biometric passport as the chip also includes biometrics such as fingerprints, iris scan and digital photograph. Apart from these, the chip also has a unique identification number and a digital signature to avoid tampering of information. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Indian E-passport<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Apart from a chip and the international biometric symbol at the bottom of the cover, it is in no way different than any traditional passport in terms of application, information and verification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are the Features of the Indian e-Passport?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n