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Article: Sudan: Sudanese Electronic Passport.
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- August 6, 2009
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Byline: datta003
The Republic of the Sudan started issuing electronic passports to citizens in May 2009. The new electronic passport will be issued in three categories. The citizen's passport (ordinary passport) will be issued to ordinary citizens and will contain 48 pages. Business men/women who need to travel often will have a commercial passport that will contain 64 pages. Smaller passports that contain 32 pages only will be issued to children. The microprocessor chip will contain the holder's information in addition to fingerprints. Cost to obtain a new passport is SDG 400, and the validity of the citizen's passport will be 5 years, and 7 years for the ...