Malaysia International Passport / Model G Version 3 Variety 2
Proprietary Biometric Passport / Generation 2 / Datapage Type 2 / 2-Year Validity
This passport was issued by Immigration Office in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah for resident from West Malaysia.
It was issued on 5 March 2010 despite
Model H (ICAO Biometric Passport) has been introduced on 2 February 2010.
On page 3, there is an observations related to the passport holder's other name,
BEARER IS ALSO KNOWN AS:
XXXXXXXX HAFIZ XXX OMAR |
It has a number of entries into Philippines (2010), Phuket, Thailand (2010), Bangkok, Thailand (2010, 2011), Brunei (2010), Indonesia (2010, 2011) and Sarawak (2010).
Model G : Proprietary Biometric Passport 1998 — 2010Malaysia was the first country in the world to develop and deploy electronic passport en masse in 1998. It was launched at
Iris Smart Complex, Technology Park Malaysia by the Prime Minister who also was the Home Minister, Dr Mahathir Mohamed on 23 March 1998 and made available for the public the day after at the immigration offices across Klang Valley before being expanded nationwide in stages.
The technology, including chip and mechanism, was developed by Iris Technologies (M) Sdn Bhd, pioneering into the world's first electronic passport. The chip, part of the high-security features of the passport, stores personal biometric identifiers of the holder including digitized two fingerprints images and digitized photograph. Due to the technology being developed as proprietary, the passports were only being able to be read by Malaysian immigrations or countries which have permission. Proprietary chip, only computers at Malaysian Immigration can read the chip's content.
With the new technology, it was meant to deter forgery and tampering of the document, with these ensuring the integrity, authenticity and reliability of document as well as to speed up information retrieval.
The chip in an electronic passport was the use of another composite form to store information through contactless reading/writing on the document as well as providing verification of information and with the advancement of technology, allowing verification against a centralized database. It also helps to provide a tamper-proof document, combat terrorism, forgeries and fraud as the chip provides authenticity, integrity and reliability. The chip is believed to have a lifespan of 10 years.
The major difference with the previous booklet format is the addition of security features including a chip with the holder's facial biometric, contact-less smart card technology as well as a microprocessor and antenna to power the chip and allow communication between the passport and the passport readers.
With the introduction of this new biometric passport which has a write-once only chip, the document can no longer be renewed or extended beyond its 5-year validity.
PROPRIETARY TECHNOLOGY
Malaysia's earliest generation of biometric passports was based on proprietary technology and the information on it is not universally readable by other countries. Malaysian immigration checkpoints were the only ones with the technology to read and authenticate the data from the RFID chip using a fingerprint scanner and facial recognition technology. The biometric passport was designed to be read-only if the receiving country has authorization from the Malaysian Immigration Department.
Despite the chip has a write-once design, an upgrade was made in 2003 to add a module to record the last 10 travels record. Entering and leaving Malaysia were longer needed to be endorsed by mean of rubber-stamping as the information will be automatic recorded and time stamping on the passport chip.
Chip From First Generation Malaysia Electronic Passport
>> photo first generation chip
https://www.icao.int/Meetings/FAL12/Documents/Malaysia.pdf page 7
Passport booklets were printed by National Security Printer and passport inlay made of PVC and PET material by IRIS Corporation Bhd. The Inlay for the E-MRP is located on the cover of the last page of the EPP. Material for inlay is a combination of PET and PVC
Contactless Silicon Substrate
It uses contactless smart card technology, including a microprocessor chip (computer chip) and antenna (for both power to the chip and communication) embedded in the back cover of the passport.
Inserted between the layers of the document
RFID 8kb chip card
on the last page, but non-ICAO is compliant because of proprietary technology. Proprietary tech, using Secured Access Module. The difference between ICAO compliance and Malaysia's proprietary biometrics lies in the storage of fingerprint template instead of fingerprint image in the chip, the rest of the technologies are the same.
The ePassport system comprises 2 main parts:
- Passport Production System - It consists of the IRIS Main Capture System and IRIS Personalization System. This system incorporates the use of both software and hardware to process, compress and encode data passed from the database into the silicon substrate embedded within the passport.
- Data Retrieval System - It provides both software and hardware to retrieve the compressed data in a silicon substrate and decompressed it for display for authentication.
Patented - Washington DC August 29, 2000
Iris, based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, was assigned U.S. Patent No. 6,111,506 entitled “method of making an improved security identification document including contactless communication insert unit,” in August 2000 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The patent covers a method for manufacturing a secure electronic passport, which consists of a computer chip containing biographical and biometric information of the passport holder.
Inventors Chas Hock Eng Yap, Foong Mei Chua
IMMIGRATION AUTOGATE
At Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysian citizens present their e-passports to an
Autogate and authenticate themselves via a fingerprint scanner, without any direct human contact. If the fingerprint matches the e-passport data, the gate opens and the e-passport
iris scans and fingerprints are secondary biometrics specified in the ICAO document, and fingerprints are the primary biometric for Malaysian e-passports
ISSUES
A number of issues related to foreign immigration offices not accepting Malaysian passports because the booklet was missing exit stampings from Malaysian immigrations led to entry being denied or documents being suspected as forgeries.
FEES STRUCTURE
Passport Application Form IM.42 was available for a fee of RM1 before later given for free around 2007 (tbc).
| PASSPORT |
FEE (RM) |
REMARKS |
| 5-year Validity with 32-page |
300.00 |
|
| 5-year Validity with 64-page |
600.00 |
|
| 2-year Validity with 32-page |
100.00 |
Introduced on 1 October 2009. |
Since being increased in 1997, the fees remain the same throughout this model's lifetime.
These new issues are no longer permitted for renewal and only made valid for five years. However, in 2009, the government introduced passports with 2-year validity and cost only RM100.
Malaysian Passport for Children and Students
For children and students who intend to study overseas will have the privilege of paying the passport half of the normal price with conditions:-
For children, must be below 12 years old on the date of submission.
For students below 21 years old on the date of submission with the offer letter from the overseas institution or letter from the respective sponsor.
Passport issuance normally takes around 3 days but in July 2006, it was announced that Malaysians will receive their passports within two hours upon payment being made
and later upgraded to be hand over within one hour.
PHYSICAL STRUCTURES
| Predominant Colour |
Cover: Red
Pages: Pink and vanilla |
| Watermark |
Coat-of-arms of the Federation of Malaysia |
| Perforations |
Needle Perforations on the Right-hand Side
From Page 17 to Page 31 (32-page)
From Page 33 to Page 63 (64-page) |
| Dimension |
ISO/IEC 7810 or ID-3 or B7
ICAO Standard Passport Booklet Size
88 × 125 mm |
| Total of Pages |
32 / 64 |
| PAGE |
DESCRIPTION |
| Front Cover |
Document's Name
PASPORT
Country's Name
MALAYSIA
Coat-of-Arms of
the Federation of Malaysia |
| Front Cover - Interior Side |
Datapage (Laminated) |
| Page 1 |
Diplomatic Request Page |
| Page 2 |
Document's & Country's Name
PASPORT MALAYSIA
MALAYSIA PASSPORT
Document's Number
(Without Residency Prefix)
Country's Restriction
Total Page in the Booklet |
| Page 3 |
Observations |
| Page 4 until Page 31 |
Visas |
| Page 32 |
Holder's Signature at Bottom of Page |
| Back Cover - Interior Side |
Notes & Regulations |
The cover was printed using the
gold foil debossing technique where the print is pressed into the material to leave a permanent cavity.
The adjectival form used on page 1 is somehow vague as the country adjective for
Malaysia is
Malaysian, therefore in English, it should have been written as
MALAYSIAN PASSPORT.
Document's number which was repeated as either using laser perforation or printed as a barcode is of eight digits without the prefix of holder's residency status alphabet within the Federation of Malaysia.
A is for the resident of the peninsular (known as Malaya or the Malay States),
K is for Sarawak and
H is for Sabah.
Upon renewal, additional observations regarding previous passport information will be printed on page 31.
VARIETIES
Three different versions are observed for this model.
| Version I |
Proprietary Biometric Passport / Generation 1 / Datapage Type 1 |
24/03/1998
2002
|
Variety i
64-page |
| Version II |
Proprietary Biometric Passport / Generation 2 / Datapage Type 1 |
17/12/2002
30/06/2006 |
Variety i
64-page |
| Version III |
Proprietary Biometric Passport / Generation 2 / Datapage Type 2 |
01/07/2006
31/01/2010 |
Variety i
64-page |
Variety ii
2-Year Validity |
01/10/2009
31/01/2010 |
The electronic passport or ePassport was launched on 24 March 1998 and featured a microchip embedded in the back cover of the passport. The microchip, with a write-once format, was encoded with fingerprint and facial images and textual data.
First-generation Malaysian e-passports contain an image of the passport holder’s thumbprint as the biometric instead of a photograph.
8Kbytes chip embedded in the back cover of the passport.
Textual data, photo image and thumbprint image encoded in the chip as one data file
Datapage laminated / Retroreflective lamination.
5,000,000 first generation
| RFID Type |
Deployment |
Security |
Biometric |
| Unknown Standard |
1998 |
Passive Authentication + Unknown |
Face, Fingerprint |
Published information suggests that it employs digital signatures (“passive authentication”). There appears to be no reliable public information on other security mechanisms, although the US patent filed on the technology suggests a “proprietary and secret” encryption algorithm is used for mutual authentication between e-passport and reader
Version II : Proprietary Biometric Passport Generation 2 / Model 1 (2002 - 2006)
On 17 December 2002, an upgraded biometric passport was introduced, replacing the fingerprint image with a fingerprint biometric template. The microchip was designed to
write-many.
Second generation ICAO e-passports may also store a thumbprint template, as well as a small amount of writable memory for storing recent travel locations.
In 2003, Passport with thumbprint biometric was launched, Maintain 8Kbytes size
Replacing the thumbprint image with a thumbprint biometric template
The chip was segmented to add a write many areas for recording a specified number of movement information
In addition to biometric data and the personal information stored on the information page, the chip also records the bearer's travel history of the last ten entry and exits at Malaysia border control points.
Malaysian e-passports record the travel history (time, date, and place) of entries and exits from the country.
Variety changes of the chip, Dec-2002
From December 2002, added thumbprint data to the biometric data set on the passport chip.
Datapage laminated / Retroreflective lamination.
implemented with a thumbprint biometric template replacing thumbprint image
extracted fingerprint information
| RFID Type |
Deployment |
Security |
Biometric |
| 14443 |
2003 |
Passive Authentication + Unknown |
Face & Two Thumbprints |
New datapage format - MYS-AO-01001 (01/07/2006) Change of identity page
Datapage laminated / New lamination tech: Toppan
From 01/10/2009 Validity: 2-year and only available as 32-pages.
BIOMETRIC
There is facial recognition software used in the ePassport deployment. The facial characteristics in an applicant’s new passport photo are compared against facial images in the Dept of Immigration Malaysia’s database.
The biometric data included on the Malaysian passport is a digital photograph of the bearer's face, and images of their two thumbprints.
It is the first proper biometric identification based human-to-computer authentication meant for the general masses.
LANGUAGES
The document was printed in Malay and English on the datapage (front endpaper), diplomatic request (page 1), page 3 (document's name, validity exception, total pages information), page 4 (observations) and page 32 (holder's signature).
Printed observations on page 31 are in English.
Frontpage and notes on the back cover were printed in Malay.
REQUEST PAGE
Bahawasanya atas nama Yang di-Pertuan Agong Malaysia diminta semua yang berkenaan supaya membenarkan pembawa pasport ini lalu dengan bebas tanpa halangan atau sekatan dan memberi apa-apa jua pertolongan dan perlindungan yang perlu kepadanya.
These are to request and require in the name of the Supreme Head of Malaysia all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely without let or hindrance, and to afford the bearer such assistance and protection as may be necessary. |
PASSPORT INI SAH DIGUNAKAN UNTUK SEMUA NEGARA KECUALI:
THIS PASSPORT IS VALID FOR ALL COUNTRIES EXCEPT:
ISRAEL |
The real reason that the document is invalid for visiting Israel is that there is no diplomatic relations between Malaysia and Israel. Malaysia is one of 36 countries that do not recognize the statehood of Israel.
NOTES & REGULATIONS
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PERHATIAN
1. Pasport ini dikeluarkan oleh Jabatan Imigresen Malaysia atau Perwakilan Malaysia Luar Negeri. Jika tidak terdapat Perwakilan Malaysia di luar negeri permohonan boleh dibuat kepada Kedutaan British atau Wakil-wakilnya di negara-negara berkenaan.
2. Pasport ini sah digunakan mengikut tempoh sah laku yang diluluskan. Pasport baru hendaklah dipohon jika baki tempoh sah lakunya kurang daripada 6 bulan atau jika ruangan muka surat yang ada telah dipenuhi.
3. Pembawa pasport yang melanggar syarat atau peraturan dalam mana-mana undang-undang yang berkaitan tidak akan mendapat perlindungan atau kemudahan daripada mana-mana Perwakilan Malaysia semasa berada di luar negeri. Pembawa pasport hendaklah mematuhi peraturan-peraturan Imigresen negara dilawati serta mengambil visa jika diperlukan.
4. Pasport ini adalah "Hak Milik Kerajaan Malaysia" yang amat berharga dan oleh itu ia perlu dijaga dengan rapi. Ia boleh ditarik balik bila-bila masa sahaja. Pasport ini tidak boleh dikirim melalui pos dari sesebuah negeri ke sesebuah negeri yang lain, atau dari suatu tempat ke tempat yang lain.
5. Pasport tidak boleh dipinda atau diserah kepada orang lain atau agen yang tidak berhak memilikinya. Kesalahan-kesalahan sedemikian atau sebarang kecuaian lain yang menyebabkan kehilangan atau kerosakan boleh menyebabkan penangguhan pengeluaran Pasport baru bagi tempoh-tempoh tertentu.
6. Jika berlaku kehilangan, laporan hendaklah dibuat segera di Pejabat Jabatan Imigresen yang berhampiran atau ke Pejabat Perwakilan Malaysia di luar negeri dan kepada pihak polis tempatan. Di negara-negara yang tidak mempunyai Perwakilan Malaysia, laporan bolehlah dibuat di Kedutaan British atau Wakil-wakilnya di negara-negara berkenaan.
7. Warganegara Malaysia yang tinggal atau menetap di luar negeri hendaklah juga mendaftarkan nama dan alamatnya dengan Pejabat Perwakilan Malaysia. Kegagalan sedemikian boleh menyebabkan kesulitan mendapat pertolongan dan perlindungan semasa berlaku kecemasan. Kegagalan ini juga boleh menyebabkan perlucutan taraf kewarganegaraan Malaysia di bawah Perkara 25 (2) Perlembagaan Persekutuan. Warganegara Malaysia yang memperolehi atau menggunakan hak kewarganegaraan negara asing juga boleh menyebabkan perlucutan taraf kewarganegaraan Malaysia di bawah mana-mana seksyen kecil Perkara 24 Perlembagaan Malaysia yang berkaitan.
8. Gambar pemegang hendaklah diperbaharui sekiranya berlaku perubahan wajah dengan mengemukakan permohonan di mana-mana Pejabat Jabatan imigresen atau Perwakilan Malaysia Luar Negeri yang berhampiran.
PKNSB, KL |