The Director General of Passports, Lorenzo Ramírez, confirmed that traditional passports will remain valid and can be used ...

Roughly 140 countries around the world, including the United States, issue electronic passports to citizens traveling and living abroad. An e-passport is a traditional passport with an electronic chip ...

The U.S. government plans to begin issuing electronic passports in December that feature a built-in chip that contains information about the passport holder and facial-recognition capabilities. In an ...

An e-passport is essentially a regular passport book but with an RFID (radio-frequency identification) chip and antenna ...

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eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. WASHINGTON—American travelers have begun receiving a new ...

As the U.S. government prepares to complete a conversion to the controversial RFID-based electronic passports, traditional paper-only IDs are still available for a few months to those listening to the ...

Google appears to be working on adding e-Passport support to Google Wallet, letting you create an ID pass that you can use at “select TSA checkpoints.” Once you created an ID pass, you will be able to ...

According to a release of the MEA, an e-Passport is a hybrid passport that combines both paper and electronic elements. It features an RFID chip and an antenna, which stores the data of the Passport ...