Travel Document Questionnaire

Name of the State:______

Name and Contact Information of the Person Completing the Questionnaire:

Name of the National Agency
Name of Contact Person
Position/Title
Postal Address
Telephone Number
Fax Number
Email Address

Instructions: Please respond to all questions with “yes”, “no” or “other”. If you respond with “no” or “other” please provide comments in the space provided. If additional space is required please use a separate sheet of paper.

Please submit completed questionnaires to:

Erik Slavenas

International Civil Aviation Organization

999 Rue University

Montreal, QC H3C 5H7 Canada

Fax: +1 (514)954 5061

A. Document Security
  1. 1. Does your country issue Machine Readable Passports (MRPs)?
/ Yes □ / No□ / Other□
Comments:
  1. Does your country’s MRP comply with ICAO Document 9303 specifications?
/ Yes □ / No□ / Other□
Comments:
  1. Does your country’s MRP employ 1st line security features?
/ Yes □ / No□ / Other□
Comments:
  1. Does your country’s MRP employ 2nd line security features?
/ Yes □ / No□ / Other□
Comments:
  1. Does your country’s MRP employ 3rd line security features?
/ Yes □ / No□ / Other□
Comments:
  1. 2. Does your country issue ePassports? (If no, please skip to Question 3.)
/ Yes □ / No□ / Other□
  1. Comments:

An ePassport is a machine readable passport (MRP) containing a contactless integrated circuit (IC) chip within which is stored data from the MRP data page, a biometric measure of the passport holder and a security object to protect the data with Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) cryptographic technology, and which conforms to the specifications of Doc 9303, Part 1. (Source: ICAO Doc 9303 Part 1 Volume 2)
  1. Does your country use Basic Access Control in ePassports?
/ Yes □ / No□ / Other□
Comments:
  1. Does your country use secondary biometrics in ePassports?
/ Yes □ / No□ / Other□
Comments:
  1. Does your country use Extended Access Control (EAC) in ePassports?
/ Yes □ / No□ / Other□
Comments:
  1. Does your country exchange PKI certificates bilaterally with other countries?
/ Yes □ / No□ / Other□
Comments:
  1. Does your country’s passport have a digitized photo printed on the data page?
/ Yes □ / No□ / Other□
Comments:
  1. Does your country entitle travel documents at missions overseas?
/ Yes □ / No□ / Other□
Comments:
  1. Does your country print and issue travel documents at missions overseas?
/ Yes □ / No□ / Other□
Comments:
If “Yes” do these documents contain similar security features to domestically issued documents? / Yes □ / No□ / Other□
Comments:
If “Yes”, are travel documents personalized overseas machine readable as per ICAO 9303 Part 1? / Yes □ / No□ / Other□
Comments:
  1. Are blank booklets produced by a trusted security printer?
/ Yes □ / No□ / Other□
Comments:
  1. Are blank booklets delivered in a secure manner?
/ Yes □ / No□ / Other□
Comments:
  1. Is the validity period of your country’s national passport 10 years or less?
/ Yes □ / No□ / Other□
Comments:
  1. Does your country issue a separate passport to each person regardless of age?
/ Yes □ / No□ / Other□
Comments:
B. Issuance Process
  1. Is access to facilities controlled?
/ Yes □ / No□ / Other□
Comments:
  1. Are blank booklets stored in a highly secure repository?
/ Yes □ / No□ / Other□
Comments:
  1. Are individual blanks booklets, including spoiled booklets, accounted for throughout the issuance process?
/ Yes □ / No□ / Other□
Comments:
  1. Is access to the personalization area restricted?
/ Yes □ / No□ / Other□
Comments:
  1. Are citizenship documents required in the entitlement process?
/ Yes □ / No□ / Other□
Comments:
  1. Are the required citizenship and identity documents official government documents?
/ Yes □ / No□ / Other□
Comments:
  1. Is staff trained in the detection of fraudulent documents?
/ Yes □ / No□ / Other□
Comments:
  1. Does your country’s Travel Document Issuing Authority (TDIA) have access to databases to verify citizenship, identity and/or death records?
/ Yes □ / No□ / Other□
Comments:
  1. Does your country’s TDIA have access to databases to verify travel restrictions?
/ Yes □ / No□ / Other□
Comments:
  1. Does your country investigate cases of frequent lost or stolen passports?
/ Yes □ / No□ / Other□
Comments:
  1. Does your country use biometrics as part of the entitlement process?
/ Yes □ / No□ / Other□
Comments:
If yes, does it use:
  1. Facial Recognition
/ Yes □ / No□
  1. Fingerprint
/ Yes □ / No□
  1. Iris
/ Yes □ / No□
  1. Other
/ Yes □ / No□
  1. Is there segregation of tasks throughout the issuance process, requiring at least two people to issue a passport?
/ Yes □ / No□ / Other□
Comments:
  1. Does your TDIA conduct security screening of personnel?
/ Yes □ / No□ / Other□
Comments:
  1. Is access to the issuing software and database restricted?
/ Yes □ / No□ / Other□
Comments:
  1. Is access to the issuing software tracked and logged?
/ Yes □ / No□ / Other□
Comments:
  1. In your country, is wrongful access subject to a penalty?
/ Yes □ / No□ / Other□
Comments:
C. Other
  1. In your country, is information on lost and stolen travel documents sent to INTERPOL’s Lost and Stolen Travel Document (SLTD) database?
/ Yes □ / No□ / Other□
Comments:
  1. In your country, is information on lost and stolen travel documents sent to the national border authority?
/ Yes □ / No□ / Other□
Comments:
  1. In your country, is information on lost and stolen travel documents sent to regional watch list databases, such as the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Regional Movement Alert System? If so, please name them.
/ Yes □ / No□ / Other□
Comments:

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