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How to Apply for a New Zealand Passport Preventing Children Being Taken from New Zealand |
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New Style ePassport
New Style ePassportThe Department of Internal Affairs has released a new style ePassport containing new security features and new artwork.The new security features help future-proof the New Zealand passport against fraudsters and maintain visa-free entry for New Zealanders into more than 50 countries. The New Zealand passport has an outstanding reputation around the world and the security features in the new style ePassport can only enhance that reputation. As a country we always need to take advantage of the latest advances in technology to maintain international confidence in the New Zealand passport. New artwork in the new style ePassport makes the document much more difficult to counterfeit. It depicts themes of navigation and travel. The new style ePassport is in English and Te Reo Māori throughout. The Department of Internal Affairs will gradually introduce the new style ePassport into circulation over the next few months as it uses up stock of the existing traditional style ePassport. The price of a new passport is unchanged. Both the traditional style ePassport that the Department currently issues and the new style passport are ePassports. All ePassport holders (aged 18 and over) will be able to use Smartgate, the automated passenger clearance system for holders of New Zealand and Australian ePassports. New Zealand passport holders who do not have an ePassport will not be able to use Smartgate. The New Zealand Customs Service will introduce Smartgate in Auckland in December 2009 for arriving New Zealand and Australian ePassport holders. Artwork StoryThe “Navigation” ThemeIt is accepted that New Zealanders are prolific travellers, sometimes even referred to as “the World’s Greatest Travellers”. New Zealand is framed by water so travel to another country is never as simple as a drive over a border. For New Zealanders, international travel means a “Journey” must be undertaken. Looking back in time, all New Zealanders either journeyed here from somewhere else, or their ancestors did. The new design for the New Zealand passport evolved from the concept of navigation and New Zealand’s evolution from a place of discovery to a place of destination. Throughout the passport themes of arrival and departure, navigation and time are represented figuratively and metaphorically. Featured in the artwork are navigation tools used by explorers of New Zealand throughout the ages with early features highlighted at the start to modern techniques portrayed at the end of the book. These tools are set against a backdrop of New Zealand locations which provide a sense of a journey from the ocean to the coast and up into the mountains, and from north to south representing the general geographic pattern of exploration and settlement. |
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