A hi-tech weapon in the fight against passport fraud has arrived at the UK’s smaller and island communities.
The secure videolink allowing first time passport applicants to be interviewed by trained staff hundreds of miles away is being rolled out in smaller communities and islands in Scotland, England and Wales.
It is one of a range of [...]
Passport anti-fraud measure comes to UK’s smaller communities
April 9th, 2009Contracts bring ID cards and more secure passports closer
April 9th, 2009ID cards and enhanced passports will be introduced under new contracts announced today. The award of contracts for core elements of the National Identity Service and the modernisation of the passport application process brings large scale deployment of ID cards a step closer.
The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) is replacing and upgrading its contracts for [...]