Rijksdienst voor identiteitsgegevens

Background
ICAO FALP/13 has approved an amendment to Annex 9 regarding the migration to ISO/IEC 39794 for biometric data encoding. Document readers and mobile apps used to scan travel documents at the border will require a software update to read both the new and current encodings.

The Kingdom of the Netherlands intends to implement the new biometric encoding in a new passport model and would like to verify that inspection systems at the border can read biometric data (face image and fingerprints). This online questionnaire supports that verification.

Test certificate chain for verifying signed data: https://www.npkd.nl/ (see “Downloads - Download Specimen Test Certificates 2025”)
General information: https://www.rvig.nl/traveldocuments

Changes in the provided test passport (compared with Dutch model 2024)

Data Group 2: Face biometric encoded according to ISO/IEC 39794
Data Group 3: Fingerprint biometric encoded according to ISO/IEC 39794
Data Group 11: Given names of the holder (including partner’s name), place of birth, date of birth
Data Group 12: Name of issuing authority, date of issue
Document Security Object signing algorithm: RSASSA-PSS

Name *

Organization *

Email address *

Questions

Face image extraction (DG2)

Can you extract the face image from the chip (Data Group 2)? *

Yes
No

If No, please describe the error/failure (include error codes, stack traces, and screenshots/logs if possible)

Passive Authentication

Can you successfully perform and verify Passive Authentication? *

Yes
No

Email

If No, please describe the error/failure (include error codes, stack traces, and screenshots/logs if possible)

Additional data (DG11 & DG12)

The chip contains additional information in Data Groups 11 and 12. Can you read/extract these data groups? *

Yes, both DG11 and DG12
Only DG11
Only DG12
No

9 + 3 = *

If not both, please describe the error/failure

Fingerprint extraction (DG3)

Can you extract the fingerprint data from the chip (Data Group 3)? *

Yes
No

If No, please describe the error/failure

Comments & Questions

Please use the space below for any additional comments, implementation notes, software/firmware versions, or questions.

If you have additional questions, please email info@rvig.nl with the subject line:
SPECIMEN Test Passport 2025.

Notes

Passive Authentication: Authentication of the digital signature to confirm the chip data were written by the competent issuing authority and have not been altered.
Fingerprint access: In practice, EU Member States are permitted to inspect fingerprints in Dutch passports; this question is included for test purposes only.