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VFS Global is a visa and passport administration outsourcing company for governments and diplomatic missions. [2] Zubin Karkaria founded the company in 2001 while he was chief executive at Kuoni Travel . [ 3 ]
A South African passport (also colloquially referred to as the 'Green Mamba' [3] or the 'Biltong Book' [4] by South Africans) is a travel document issued to citizens of South Africa for the purpose of international travel.
Biometrics are used by the South African government to combat fraud and corruption and to increase the efficiency of service delivery to the public. [1]The South African government started biometric identification systems in the departments of agriculture, correctional services, home affairs, police services, and social assistance.
Australia introduced guidance on biometrics and privacy in 2006, which was developed by the Biometrics Institute. The Biometrics Institute [50] is a self-funded membership organisation that now operates at a global level providing thought leadership, information and an impartial platform for trusted and balanced discussions on biometrics.
This biometric symbol is usually printed on the cover of biometric (ICAO compliant) passports. A biometric passport (also known as an electronic passport, e-passport or a digital passport) is a passport that has an embedded electronic microprocessor chip, which contains biometric information that can be used to authenticate the identity of the passport holder.
A machine-readable passport (MRP) is a machine-readable travel document (MRTD) with the data on the identity page encoded in optical character recognition format. Many countries began to issue machine-readable travel documents in the 1980s.
Together with fingerprint and face recognition, iris scanning is one of three biometric identification technologies internationally standardised since 2006 by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) for use in e-passports [363] and the United Arab Emirates conducts iris scanning on visitors who need to apply for a visa. [364] [365]
The typical work-flow of an automatic border control system (eGate) [1] Automated border control systems (ABC) or eGates are automated self-service barriers which use data stored in a chip in biometric passports along with a photo or fingerprint taken at the time of entering the eGates to verify the passport holder's identity.