The Minister noted that all International Civil Aviation  member states are expected to have complied with the issuance of machine readable documents by 2010..

• The document will be issued out next year in January, to regional, district and Botswana missions and embassies. 
• The passport is to be machine readable and should be a secure document.
• Giesecke and Devriet Company was  engaged to develop the e-passport and  border control system.