Comparative Analysis of Security Features of Passports of Different Countries

Passport is considered as the first line of security in any country from external affairs. It marks out a person citizenship and also plays an important role in economic as well as security advancement of a country. However, these days many terrorist activities are taking place with the help of forged passport by manipulating one’s identity due to which it is not only pointing out flaws in one’s country security capabilities but also creating antisocial relationships with other countries. In this review security feature of passports of different countries were compared with the security features of Indian passport and examined how strong or weak it is from them. As we know in today’s world producing a forged passport is easier than before so study of the security features plays an important role among the forensic document experts. Passports of countries such as Sri Lanka, Maldives and Tanzania were taken and their security features were studied.