These documents were issued until 2006 when the biometric passport was introduced.

It is expected that the government will start issuing biometric passports by the end of 2009.

The biometric passport is not yet available as of 2013.

Later in 2006, biometric passports were issued to the public.

The biometric passport may also be included as travel technology in the broad sense.

In 2001, he was one of the first politicians to push for a biometric passport.

This policy is, however, done away with recently due to the limitation of the new biometric passport.

Since 15 December 2009, a biometric passport was available for all new applicants.

These are under scientific study, but not yet implemented in biometric passports.

Who is going to pay for the change to biometric passports: the state, the individual or a shared arrangement?