The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) is making a case for the adoption of the new National e-ID card as a valid travel document, just like the passport. One of the 13 applets embedded in the JCOP chip on the card has similar content usually found in Nigeria’s e-passport and it is known as ICAO applet, so it could easily be used as a travel document subject to approval of the international community, it noted.
Known as Travel Applet, it could easily be used as travel document with the approval of the international community.
Tunji Durodola, Head, Card Management Services, NIMC, said that the back of the NIMC e-ID Card contains three lines called MRZ Lines, Machine Readable Zone, just like the Passport. “The NIMC e-ID Card has support for e-Visas when they become acceptable worldwide,” he said.
He further stated that the International Civil Aviation Organisation, ICAO, supports the use of electronic visas, e-Visas, as travel document. For this to work, Durodola, said NIMC and the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, must work things out in agreement.
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