Oberthur Technologies (OT) has been selected by the Nepalese government to provide 2.5 million machine-readable passports (MRP) and 50 enrolment stations (Live Enrolment Center – LEC) throughout the world as well as in the Department of Passports in Kathmandu.OT says it has been supporting the Nepalese government for identity solutions since 2010. Over that time, it has supplied 4.5 million MRPs. It will provide the next 2.5 million passports from a dedicated centre in Kathmandu.The LECs will be available in Nepal as well as countries with the highest concentration of Nepalese: Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, UAE, UK, Kuwait, Hong Kong and the US.OT says: "Nepalese citizens living abroad will now have access to the enrolment stations so their personal data, including biometrics, can be captured by the LECs. They will be directly sent through a secure connection to the Nepalese Department of Passport and the passport personalisation centre in Kathmandu, managed and maintained by OT. This will significantly shorten the passport application transit time and will allow a much faster passport delivery service for Nepalese who were used to submitting printed passport demands.""We are particularly proud that the Nepalese government has renewed its trust in OT's ability to supply both machine-readable passports and secure enrolment stations. This new contract further reinforces our long-term relationship with Nepal and proves our leadership in supplying secure and reliable identity management solutions globally," says Christophe Fontaine, managing director of the Citizen Access & Identity Business Unit at OT.Lok Bahadur Thapa, general director of the Department of Passport, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nepalese Government said: "We are delighted that the MRP project has been running smoothly ever since it started at the end of 2010. We trust that our continued partnership with OT will make the passport service even better and more efficient in the future for Nepalese citizens wherever they may be in the world."
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