Veridos and GSI Sertracen Provide Costa Rica with ePassport Solution

Veridos and the Latin American systems integrator GSI Sertracen have announced the signing of a major contract with Costa Rica.

The General Department of Migration and Immigration of the Republic of Costa Rica has entrusted Veridos and GSI Sertracen with the supply, installation, and implementation of next- generation electronic passports and the personalisation system. Veridos will also supply its CLIP ID solution for improved colour image performance.

The contract between the Costa Rican government and Veridos along with GSI Sertracen will allow the country to update its ID technology with the delivery of ePassports with a polycarbonate data page, as well as the software and hardware for personalisation.

The ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) compliant passports include Veridos’ CLIP ID high-tech colour personalisation technology to ensure the ultimate colour brilliance of each ePassport holder’s image, improving visual verification. CLIP ID creates vibrant colour photos using both laser engraving and ink-jet printing.

Sertracen is a regional company that is part of the GSI-Sertracen Corporate Group, with more than 20 years of experience. Currently, Sertracen has its main offices in El Salvador and Panama, and centres of operations in Guatemala, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Ecuador and the Dominican Republic.

The company specialises in providing services for issuing secure documents such as driving licences, electronic identification documents, passports, ePassports and vehicle identification cards.

Marc-Julian Siewert, CEO of Veridos, says: ‘we are very honoured to have been chosen by the General Department of Migration and Immigration to be part of the modernisation of their ID landscape. Together with GSI Sertracen, we will successfully transform the current machine-readable passport system to a fully-fledged biometric travel document solution.

‘Costa Rica is one of the most advanced countries in Latin America and their passports with our cutting- edge CLIP ID colour picture solution will soon reflect that, too.’