Recently, the issue of electronic passport for its citizens will be pushed back to 2012 (see below for more details).

Germany's upper house of Parliament approved a plan to introduce new electronic passports with biometric data.

Soon, the State Department plans to issue electronic passports embedded with a computer chip containing a digital image and biographical information about the holder.

The new electronic passport was designed by Henrique Cayatte.

On 8 March 2010, the Department of Immigration and Citizenship started to issue electronic passports to the general public.

Germany has begun to issue new electronic passports with biometric data, the Interior Ministry said.

It also requires electronic readable passports containing this information.

The Republic of the Sudan started issuing electronic passports to citizens in May 2009.

The new electronic passport will be issued in three categories.

Starting from 2015, only electronic passports will be issued by immigration offices.