Guidance

Biometric passports and passport readers

Information about e-passport design and how to view the data stored on the passport microchip.

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Biometric passports and passport readers

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This guidance includes information about e-passport design and how to view the data stored on the passport microchip.

It also explains what you should do if the e-passport reader fails to read your chip.

• Published: 13 January 2012
• Updated: 8 August 2016

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• 8 August 2016 10:50am: Updated guidance published.
• 13 January 2012 12:00am: First published.

• From: HM Passport Office
• Part of: HM Passport Office: passports policy