Dutch passport will be valid for 10 years
The Dutch passport will be valid for 18 years if the applicant is at least 10 years old. These new rules will probably come into effect from October 2013.
Fingerprints are no longer included in the application for the identity card. These are the most important amendments to the Passport Act, which the Kingdom Council of Ministers has approved on the proposal of Minister Spies of the Interior and Kingdom Relations.
The extension of the validity period of the passport from 5 to 10 years leads to a reduction of administrative burdens for citizens. The age limit of 18 years was chosen because of the diminishing resemblance of the holder of the document to their facial image, especially with children.
Identity card
The period of validity of the identity card will also be extended to 10 years. The identity card is no longer regarded as a travel document in the Passport Act. As a result, it is no longer necessary to comply with the European regulation that stipulates that fingerprints must be included in a travel document. Incidentally, it remains possible to use the identity card, as a document for border crossing, to go to the same countries journey as is the case now.
If someone loses their passport or identity card, no extra costs will be charged when applying for a new document.
The Council of Ministers has agreed to submit the proposal to amend the Passport Act and the advice of the Council of State to the House of Representatives.
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Nice that it will be valid for 10 years, but I still can't get a passport if I don't want to give my fingerprints. Never hurt a fly, but must already leave incriminating material at the embassy.
For those who think I'm exaggerating because the data would be 'safe' in government hands….firstly the government is incompetent to the 10th power and secondly the data we give through our passport (including the fingerprints) is controlled by an American company and not by our government. I have been an employee of the civil affairs department in a municipality in the Netherlands for years, I know what I am talking about.
Once, I deliberately didn't renew my ID card when it expired this spring because I don't want to give my fingerprints. Why? Because of the privacy and the risks if the government once again loses information or cheerfully passes it on to others (countries, authorities, etc.).
Unfortunately, my passport will also expire in over a year, so I have no choice but to give my fingerprints because I still want to be able to travel to Thailand, among others. The chance that the EU will go back on the fingerprint requirement (and thus also give the Netherlands the chance to reverse this) I think is very small, a pity.
Fluminis.
Can you then also explain as an expert why people still have to make the fingerprint available, while I read a long time ago that this is against the privacy law?
(I did just kill a mosquito though.)