The Kingdom of Bahrain will implement a new passport solution. The solution will enable the Gulf nation to move from a machine-readable passport (MRP) to an electronic passport.
The ePassport will store biometric and biographic data of Bahraini citizens in the chip. With this deployment, Bahrain will be able to join the International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO) Public Key Directory (PKD) group of 180 countries that can access and exchange the passport data.