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New Belgian passport wins Interpol prize
Thought this looks promising...Belgiumâs new passports have been awarded a prize for excellence by Interpol â not one has been forged since the new passport was launched in 2001. Before the introduction of digital passports, Belgium had a reputation for fake passports, due in part to several blank passports being stolen from municipal services in the 1990s. But since 2001 the distribution of passports has come under the auspices of the federal government â municipal services being permitted only to physically had out the documents. Thanks to cutting-edge technology it has become much more difficult to forge a Belgian passport. Apart from an ordinary picture, there is also a micro-perforated version of the image complete with personal data. Posted by: Seafarious 2003-10-02 |
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