EP0409333A2 - Process for the production of highly safe visas on national passports - Google Patents
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- these visas can be easily falsified for two very important reasons: a) because said visas do not have safety elements which guarantee that which is essential in a visa, the personalization of such a visa of the holder of the passport in a univocal manner: b) because the visa permits, at the border or immigration station of the country of destination which issues the visa, the documentary demonstration and proof that said visa corresponds to the holder and that there has not been any fraudulent manipulation of the same or of the passport that contains it.
- the process in question is based on the filial data, validity and/or expiration, control sequential number and other data of the visa that each country considers pertinent, as well as the holder's photograph being integrated on special or safety paper provided with the corresponding frets, watermarks, iris, emblems, etc.
- This is all computerized so that in the central immigration data bank of the country issuing the visa, or in the group of countries with a sole foreign border, such as the case of the European Economic Community will be, as of 1992, there is a record thereof.
- Said process has the purpose of univocally relating the visa itself with the holder of the passport, by means of a photograph; in other words, the visa is personalized by integrating the photograph on the same.
- the visa can be attained either on an independent label which is adhered to the passport it strictlyself, or else directly on the passport. In the latter case, the support of the visa-label must be of special or safety paper.
- the photograph remains integrated on the visa, either by silver halide diffusion trasfer, or by the direct developed positive photoemulsion transfer method, or by a conventional photographic process, or by electrophotographic or photoelectrostatic printing (laser), or else by digitalization.
- the visa (1) either formed by a label or put directly on a page of a passport, includes the corresponding safety fets and watermarks (2), which are printed on the label itself or on the page of the passport, as well as the set texts which by way of example correspond to the reference areas (3), and the variable data of the visa, such as the filial data of the owner and of his passport; validity of the visa, controls, etc.; while area (5) corresponds to the holder's photograph, and area (4) to the control number.
- the core consists of a sheet of special or safety paper (6) with the respective designs, watermarks, frets, etc. already mentioned and referred to as (2.)
- Said core (6) can be provided with an adhesive (7) so that it be adhered to the passport, or else the adhesive (7′) is placed on the back between a pair of paraffin sheets (8), so that first of all one of the paraffin sheets (8) will be freed to fasten the adhesive (7′) to the passport, and afterwards the other paraffin sheet (8) will be freed and the core itself (6) forming the visa or label (1) will be fastened to the adhesive (7′.)
- the safety color printing (frets, watermarks, emblems, etc. (2), as well as the set texts, variable data (3), control number (4), etc.) is printed continuously on web in an individualized manner.
- the core (6) of the label is deposited by impregnation by hot extrusion of a very fine layer of polyethylene (9), following application of discharge by crown effect to anchor the fastening of the same on said paper core (6.)
- a photoemulsion layer (10) is continuously hot deposited and thus a special photographic paper which is cut to the size that it must have as the format of the visa (1) in label form is formed.
- the photosensitive paper thus produced can be converted into single-sheet paper if between the photosensitive emulsion (10) and the polyethylene layer (9) a transfer layer is deposited for the silver halides of layer (10), which may be a vehicle layer.
- the visa or label comprising the visa produced in accordance with the described process has the particular feature that the safety frets and watermarks (2), as well as the set texts (3) color preprinted on the paper support or core (6) remain in the open and visible after having transferred by diffusion the photo of the holder, and after the automatic developing the surface may remain peeled; in other words, lose the emulsion layer (10) in the points where there has been no transfer of halides.
- variable data of the visa such as the control number (4), filial data of the holder and of his passport, etc. are printed with a needle impact printer or laser printer connected to a terminal or computer issuing visas in the consulate/embassy, in such a way that said variable texts will personify the visa.
- the data (11) of the holder's passport and of the visa can be printed with optoelectronically legible OCR types.
- the signature of the consulate issuing the visa can be set with a pen or felt-tip pen with ink that is very difficult to erase with chemical reagents.
- the visa thus formed will be adhered to the holder's passport as has been commented above. It may be protected by a transparent sheet (12) of polyester (13) and polyethylene (14), which is hot rolled/laminated on the visa adhered to the passport.
- the polyester layer (13) of the transparent sheet (12) can have printed on its inner surface, frets, coats-of-arms, acronyms, etc. with one or two dyes visible only under ultraviolet light and with close wave lengths.
- the embassy/consulate which has issued the visa will previously consult, in the country of origin, the immigration data bank to determine whether the applicant has the requirements necessary for the granting of the visa.
- the consulate/embassy will transmit to the computer that the immigration data bank of its country has the data of the granted visa, in such a way that at the border or immigration station at the destination the officer, with his terminal connected to said data bank, verifies the authenticity of the visa and of the identity of the holder or, failing this, any fraudulent manipulation of the visa or passport.
- the production of visas may be done by means of direct transfer by printing on special paper in the form of a visa-label the filial data, the holder's photo, data of the passport and of the visa itself, all in such a way that said special paper will contain luminescent fibrils, special granules that change colors withspecific reagents or with suds, etc.,as well as water marks.
- variable data of the visa in the consul/embassy which issues it is done either by scanning of the photograph furnished by the holder of the passport who applies for the visa, or else by digitalized shot with a video camara of the facial image of the applicant of the visa, directly through a personal or multistation computer, which has a non-impact, photoelectrostatic (laser) printing or electrophotographic print by thermotransfer printer, in color as well as in black and white with a range of grays, so that all the variable data of the visa will be printed, just as it is shown in figure 1.
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- the registers of the visa thus personalized with the holder s photograph printed by thermocomponent, as well as the identification control number itself, once digitalized, are transmitted by the consulate or embassy to the immigration data bank of the country of destination, so that when the holder of the passport with the visa passes through the border of the country of destination his personality can be univocally identified by the officer in the above described manner.
- this visa can be produced according to any of the cited processes but done directly on one of the pages of the passport.
- all the data are printed directly on the passport by means of a special color printer connected to a personal or multistation computer in the consulate/embassy that issues the visa.
- the frets, watermarks, etc. are color printed by said printer.
- the same visa format as the one represented in figure 1 can be obtained.
- the photograph furnished by the holder of the passport applying for the visa may or may not be adhered to the passport and the photo may be validated with a safety stamp.
- the photograph may also be printed, and in any case it is digitalized by a scanner connected to the computer of the consulate/embassy, compressing the register thereof by means of a special and original compression algorithm which reduces the content of significant information to 1 KByte or to 4 KBytes, depending on whether the photograph is larger, its quality in gray tones or its contrasts it is in color.
- Said scanner reads the codification of the visa and automatically interrogates the data bank, which transmits the complete register of the visa.
- the data of the complete visa including the photograph of the holder of the visa appear on the screen. This way the authenticity of the visa shwon at the border and the personality of the holder thereof are revealed.
- Said visa can also be coated with a protective transparent sheet (12) of polyester (13) and polyethylene (14), hot rolled.
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- Most of the visas which are issued today by embassies and consulates of countries which bilaterally require this requirement for the entry of citizens of another country are put on the passport by means of seals-stamps in one or two dyes which penetrate the paper of the page of the passport so that they cannot be erased. Now then, these visas can be easily falsified for two very important reasons: a) because said visas do not have safety elements which guarantee that which is essential in a visa, the personalization of such a visa of the holder of the passport in a univocal manner: b) because the visa permits, at the border or immigration station of the country of destination which issues the visa, the documentary demonstration and proof that said visa corresponds to the holder and that there has not been any fraudulent manipulation of the same or of the passport that contains it. In many existing passports the holder's photograph can be replaced once the visa, as they are issued today, has been deposited on one of the pages of said passport, whereby a legal identity on the passport is definitively covering the entry of one person with a false identity in the country of destination. It is known that there are all types of organizations that resort to these fraudulent manipulations and which operate on a world-wide level.
- By means of the visa which is obtained with the process of the invention, these problems are overcome. For this purpose, it has been foreseen that the visa which is proposed is univocally related with the holder of the passport, there being no greater guarantee for this purpose than the holder's photograph being integrated on the visa itself. Besides, the visa is highly safe in order to prevent the possibility of reproducing or altering the same.
- The fact that the identity itself of the holder of the visa, once the visa has been issued in a computerized manner, is transmitted in the form of data by the embassies or consulates themselves, must be added to this condition. The data are transmitted to an immigration data bank of the country issuing the visa so that by means of scanning at the border the authenticity of the visa and the identity of the holder of the passport are made evident.
- The process in question is based on the filial data, validity and/or expiration, control sequential number and other data of the visa that each country considers pertinent, as well as the holder's photograph being integrated on special or safety paper provided with the corresponding frets, watermarks, iris, emblems, etc. This is all computerized so that in the central immigration data bank of the country issuing the visa, or in the group of countries with a sole foreign border, such as the case of the European Economic Community will be, as of 1992, there is a record thereof.
- Said process has the purpose of univocally relating the visa itself with the holder of the passport, by means of a photograph; in other words, the visa is personalized by integrating the photograph on the same.
- Depending on the process, the visa can be attained either on an independent label which is adhered to the passport itself, or else directly on the passport. In the latter case, the support of the visa-label must be of special or safety paper.
- The photograph remains integrated on the visa, either by silver halide diffusion trasfer, or by the direct developed positive photoemulsion transfer method, or by a conventional photographic process, or by electrophotographic or photoelectrostatic printing (laser), or else by digitalization.
- In order to complement the description which is going to be made hereinafter and for the purpose of providing a better understanding of the features of the invention, some drawings on the basis of which the process and each one of the types of visa will be described in detail are attached hereto.
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- Figure 1.- It shows a general view of a visa in the form of a label, on which the possible arrangement and configuration of the filial data of the holder and the photograph transferred by silver halide diffusion, or the direct developed positive photoemulsion transfer method or by a conventional photographic process, as well as the data that are printed and that will be optoelectronically legible, and the highly safe validation and printings, can be seen. This figure is likewise valid when the visa is made directly on one of the pages of the passport itself, although in this case without the holder s photograph.
- Figure 2.- It shows a section of the structure of the visa when it is comprised of a label. In this figure the adhesive for adhering the label or visa to the passport, as well as a protective cover which can be optionally placed on the visa are shown independently. The cover is applicable indistinctly to the visa in label form or to the visa put directly on a page of the passport.
- As one can see in said figures, and more specifically in figure 1, the visa (1) either formed by a label or put directly on a page of a passport, includes the corresponding safety fets and watermarks (2), which are printed on the label itself or on the page of the passport, as well as the set texts which by way of example correspond to the reference areas (3), and the variable data of the visa, such as the filial data of the owner and of his passport; validity of the visa, controls, etc.; while area (5) corresponds to the holder's photograph, and area (4) to the control number.
- When the visa is comprised of a label, as is shown in figure 2, the core consists of a sheet of special or safety paper (6) with the respective designs, watermarks, frets, etc. already mentioned and referred to as (2.)
- Said core (6) can be provided with an adhesive (7) so that it be adhered to the passport, or else the adhesive (7′) is placed on the back between a pair of paraffin sheets (8), so that first of all one of the paraffin sheets (8) will be freed to fasten the adhesive (7′) to the passport, and afterwards the other paraffin sheet (8) will be freed and the core itself (6) forming the visa or label (1) will be fastened to the adhesive (7′.)
- The safety color printing (frets, watermarks, emblems, etc. (2), as well as the set texts, variable data (3), control number (4), etc.) is printed continuously on web in an individualized manner.
- According to a preferred form of the process for the production of the visa, on the cited printed surface of the web of special or safety paper, in other words, the core (6) of the label, is deposited by impregnation by hot extrusion of a very fine layer of polyethylene (9), following application of discharge by crown effect to anchor the fastening of the same on said paper core (6.) Upon said layer of polyethylene (9), which is transparent, a photoemulsion layer (10) is continuously hot deposited and thus a special photographic paper which is cut to the size that it must have as the format of the visa (1) in label form is formed. The photosensitive paper thus produced can be converted into single-sheet paper if between the photosensitive emulsion (10) and the polyethylene layer (9) a transfer layer is deposited for the silver halides of layer (10), which may be a vehicle layer.
- Either using the single-sheet photosensitive paper cut into labels for visas, or using the negative-positive process, the corresponding photograph furnished by the holder requesting the visa is exposed in chamber, printing a negative paper which introduced with positive paper in the automatic developing bath with pressure contact, produces the transfer by diffusion of the silver halides of the negative paper to the positive paper, forming the photo of the holder on area (5) of the visa.
- As is shown in figure 1, the visa or label comprising the visa produced in accordance with the described process has the particular feature that the safety frets and watermarks (2), as well as the set texts (3) color preprinted on the paper support or core (6) remain in the open and visible after having transferred by diffusion the photo of the holder, and after the automatic developing the surface may remain peeled; in other words, lose the emulsion layer (10) in the points where there has been no transfer of halides.
- The variable data of the visa, such as the control number (4), filial data of the holder and of his passport, etc. are printed with a needle impact printer or laser printer connected to a terminal or computer issuing visas in the consulate/embassy, in such a way that said variable texts will personify the visa.
- Likewise, the data (11) of the holder's passport and of the visa can be printed with optoelectronically legible OCR types. The signature of the consulate issuing the visa can be set with a pen or felt-tip pen with ink that is very difficult to erase with chemical reagents.
- The visa thus formed, as a label, will be adhered to the holder's passport as has been commented above. It may be protected by a transparent sheet (12) of polyester (13) and polyethylene (14), which is hot rolled/laminated on the visa adhered to the passport.
- As a safety measure, the polyester layer (13) of the transparent sheet (12) can have printed on its inner surface, frets, coats-of-arms, acronyms, etc. with one or two dyes visible only under ultraviolet light and with close wave lengths.
- On the other hand, the embassy/consulate which has issued the visa will previously consult, in the country of origin, the immigration data bank to determine whether the applicant has the requirements necessary for the granting of the visa. Once the visa has been issued, with the visa issuing terminal or computer, the consulate/embassy will transmit to the computer that the immigration data bank of its country has the data of the granted visa, in such a way that at the border or immigration station at the destination the officer, with his terminal connected to said data bank, verifies the authenticity of the visa and of the identity of the holder or, failing this, any fraudulent manipulation of the visa or passport.
- As an alternative of the proposed process, the production of visas may be done by means of direct transfer by printing on special paper in the form of a visa-label the filial data, the holder's photo, data of the passport and of the visa itself, all in such a way that said special paper will contain luminescent fibrils, special granules that change colors withspecific reagents or with suds, etc.,as well as water marks.
- Starting with this special paper, with these features, the frets, emblems, watermarks, etc. will be color printed on the front surface of the same either in sheets, or webs, as safety and validation elements. Original visas which have not been personalized and in label form are placed in sheets or webs of a personal computer printer, either by perforations to separate the label-visa once it has been personalized, or because the label-visa already has its self-adhesive.
- The transfer of the variable data of the visa in the consul/embassy which issues it, is done either by scanning of the photograph furnished by the holder of the passport who applies for the visa, or else by digitalized shot with a video camara of the facial image of the applicant of the visa, directly through a personal or multistation computer, which has a non-impact, photoelectrostatic (laser) printing or electrophotographic print by thermotransfer printer, in color as well as in black and white with a range of grays, so that all the variable data of the visa will be printed, just as it is shown in figure 1. The registers of the visa thus personalized with the holder s photograph printed by thermocomponent, as well as the identification control number itself, once digitalized, are transmitted by the consulate or embassy to the immigration data bank of the country of destination, so that when the holder of the passport with the visa passes through the border of the country of destination his personality can be univocally identified by the officer in the above described manner.
- In another alternative or type of visa, this visa can be produced according to any of the cited processes but done directly on one of the pages of the passport. In other words, in this case, instead of a label-visa that is adhered to the passport, all the data are printed directly on the passport by means of a special color printer connected to a personal or multistation computer in the consulate/embassy that issues the visa. The frets, watermarks, etc. are color printed by said printer. The same visa format as the one represented in figure 1 can be obtained. Optionally the photograph furnished by the holder of the passport applying for the visa may or may not be adhered to the passport and the photo may be validated with a safety stamp. However, the photograph may also be printed, and in any case it is digitalized by a scanner connected to the computer of the consulate/embassy, compressing the register thereof by means of a special and original compression algorithm which reduces the content of significant information to 1 KByte or to 4 KBytes, depending on whether the photograph is larger, its quality in gray tones or its contrasts it is in color.
- In the computer of the consulate/embassy which has issued this type of visa all the data of the same have remained stored in a digitalized manner in the memory thereof. They are preceded by the visa control or identification number, including the digitalized photo of the holder of the visa. All this register is transmitted to the computer of the country of destination that contains the immigration data bank, by the embassy/consulate of said country which issues the visa. When the person crosses the border the immigration officer introduces the visa in a scanner connected to the border graphic terminal which in turn is connected to the immigration data bank.
- Said scanner reads the codification of the visa and automatically interrogates the data bank, which transmits the complete register of the visa. The data of the complete visa including the photograph of the holder of the visa appear on the screen. This way the authenticity of the visa shwon at the border and the personality of the holder thereof are revealed.
- Said visa can also be coated with a protective transparent sheet (12) of polyester (13) and polyethylene (14), hot rolled.
- The described alternative can be changed in the production of the visas, in order to attain different types within the same general concept established in accordance with the cited personification process.
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