Saudia to introduce e-passport
Saudi Arabia’s assistant minister of interior for technical affairs Prince Bandar Bin Abdullah Al Mashari has announced that the Kingdom planned to replace current passports e-passports and National IDs can be renewed from anywhere in the world. He was speaking during the WorldExpo at Dubai where he added that visa granting government agencies would also start collecting biometrics to enable remote visa processing.
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