The ten-year passport is being used by other G-8 countries. Our approach is that the ten-year passport becomes possible as technology becomes available. The ten-year passport will be an electronic passport. It will have a chip in it. On top of that, we are introducing other security measures that were not available to us in the past but are now available. For instance, within twelve months we're going to have facial recognition software that allows us to compare photographs so we can confirm whether the same person is applying.
On April 29th, 2008. See this statement in context.