BioLink Fingerprint Biometrics in Maldivian Passports - BioLink announces integration of its biometrics into the passport of the Republic of the Maldives – the passport. The immigration department of the country selected BioLink to enhance the citizens’ security following the globally accepted standards, in particular, the standard for machine-readable travel documents introduced ICAO. The new passport implements fingerprint and face image templates digitized and embedded into the microchip contained in its back cover and provides for quick and fool-proof identification of the citizens. In cooperation with IRIS Corporation Berhad, our key strategic partner for civil identification projects, BioLink supplied its advanced development toolkit (BSDK) being the core of the identification component of the passport creation and issuance system. BioLink SDK, which is a smart way of building state-of-the-art security subsystems, is mostly advantageous for its compliance with major international and industry standards, namely, ISO/IEC 19794-4 Finger Image Data, ISO/IEC 19794-2 Finger Minutiae Data, WSQ, ANSI/NIST-ITL-1-2000 and ANSI INCITS 378-2004.