Travel documents
Committed to crafting exceptional passports
Thales helps governments deliver unique travel documents that are works of art and symbols of pride for millions. In recent years, we have designed some of the most secure and attractive passports.
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Innovative passport solutions
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End-to-End ePassport Solution
A complete ePassport solution, covering biometric enrollment, personalization and border control; ensures compliance, security and trust. Secure, tailored systems are provided exactly when needed.
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Travel document components
Components for National Printers issuing machine-readable, electronic or biometric passports. These include polycarbonate data pages, electronic cover inlays and ICAO-compliant chips for operating system to ensure security and reliability.
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Thales passport: ICAO-compliant and secure
ICAO requires security levels sufficient to detect forgery while making verification easy. Thales offers a range of secure electronic passports compliant with ICAO specifications, featuring strong visual security elements that are easy to verify and hard to forge, such as see-through registration for paper and transparent windows for polycarbonate.
Thales passport: ICAO-compliant and secure
ICAO requires security levels sufficient to detect forgery while making verification easy. Thales offers a range of secure electronic passports compliant with ICAO specifications, featuring strong visual security elements that are easy to verify and hard to forge, such as see-through registration for paper and transparent windows for polycarbonate.
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Border control, travel document security and identification management are vital to combating terrorism and cross-border crime. Thales helps governments modernize passport schemes, stay ahead of fraud and strengthen security with highly secure and visually attractive travel documents, turnkey solutions and advanced services for reliable traveler identification.
Fighting document-related fraud
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