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Bandar Seri Begawan - The Philippine Embassy has started issuing Philippine ePassports compliant with world standards in travel documents and use microchip technology to store information in a chip that can be read by chip readers at immigration counters.
The information stored includes an integrated photograph of the holder, a digitised secondary photo and an electronic imprint of the holder's signature, the embassy said.
The information stored includes an integrated photograph of the holder, a digitised secondary photo and an electronic imprint of the holder's signature, the embassy said.
Philippine Embassy Issues ePassports
Tony Alabastro
Tony Alabastro
Enrico isles Ayala, a teacher at Chung Hwa Middle School, was the first member of the Filipino community to file his application for an ePassport at the Philippine Embassy in Brunei.
The ePassport is highly secure, avoids passport reproduction and tampering, has an enhancement that guards against multiple passport issuances to the same person, and an enhanced impostor detection, the embassy said.
An IT team from the Philippines led by Lynette Ferranco set up the equipment at the Philippine Embassy for the processing of the ePassport, which shall cost $102, said Philippine Ambassador Alexander B Yano.
In his message to the Filipino community during a Philippine Independence Day thanksgiving mass, Ambassador Yano, who is leaving on June 30, announced his accomplishments during his 11-month tour of duty in Brunei.
1. Revised office hours effective December 2009, in line with the Philippine government's resource management measures.
The embassy is closed on Saturdays and has made available a duty officer on Saturdays to answer calls from the embassy's landlines.
2. A more systematic schedule for releasing documents, with cut-off times for accepting and releasing documents, and decongest people waiting in the Consular and Labour Sections.
3. A dress code for embassy visitors no different from the dress code for going to the church, Brunei government offices and public establishments.
4. A new set of consular fees for passports, travel documents, visas for foreigners and other miscellaneous services, following a directive from the Department of Foreign Affairs. The last fee increase was in June 2000 and previously in December 1992.
5. A new chancery by 2011 in the Diplomatic Enclave began in April 2010 by Bruneian contractor WSS Sdn Bhd and local architect Arkitect Ibrahim, which are committed to finish Phase 1 in less than a year's time.
The Embassy said it is continuing its skills training and livelihood programmes, a Filipino language and cultural enrichment programme for children in September, and outreach activities that bring Embassy services literally closes to overseas Filipino workers.
"I taker this opportunity to thank my countrymen for all your support and friendship during my relatively brief but very fruitful tour of duty as your ambassador," Ambassador Yano said. --- Source: Philippine Embassy
The ePassport is highly secure, avoids passport reproduction and tampering, has an enhancement that guards against multiple passport issuances to the same person, and an enhanced impostor detection, the embassy said.
An IT team from the Philippines led by Lynette Ferranco set up the equipment at the Philippine Embassy for the processing of the ePassport, which shall cost $102, said Philippine Ambassador Alexander B Yano.
In his message to the Filipino community during a Philippine Independence Day thanksgiving mass, Ambassador Yano, who is leaving on June 30, announced his accomplishments during his 11-month tour of duty in Brunei.
1. Revised office hours effective December 2009, in line with the Philippine government's resource management measures.
The embassy is closed on Saturdays and has made available a duty officer on Saturdays to answer calls from the embassy's landlines.
2. A more systematic schedule for releasing documents, with cut-off times for accepting and releasing documents, and decongest people waiting in the Consular and Labour Sections.
3. A dress code for embassy visitors no different from the dress code for going to the church, Brunei government offices and public establishments.
4. A new set of consular fees for passports, travel documents, visas for foreigners and other miscellaneous services, following a directive from the Department of Foreign Affairs. The last fee increase was in June 2000 and previously in December 1992.
5. A new chancery by 2011 in the Diplomatic Enclave began in April 2010 by Bruneian contractor WSS Sdn Bhd and local architect Arkitect Ibrahim, which are committed to finish Phase 1 in less than a year's time.
The Embassy said it is continuing its skills training and livelihood programmes, a Filipino language and cultural enrichment programme for children in September, and outreach activities that bring Embassy services literally closes to overseas Filipino workers.
"I taker this opportunity to thank my countrymen for all your support and friendship during my relatively brief but very fruitful tour of duty as your ambassador," Ambassador Yano said. --- Source: Philippine Embassy
Accomplishment: Philippine Embassy Issues ePassports