USA
NEWS
USA
Biometric Passports:
From the Embassy of the United States of America. www.usembassy.org.uk
Homeland Security www.dhs.gov/us-visit
In
Brief: BIOMETRIC PASSPORTS NOW DELAYED by new law UNTIL OCTOBER
26 2005
- September 30, 2004
- Under the US-Visit Program - Visitors with
a Visa Waiver Program (VWP ) will be finger scanned &
photographed. (aged 14 - 79)
- October 26 2004
- All travellers entering the
United States via the VWP - will require INDIVIDUAL machine readable
passports (Adults & Children)
- October 26 2005
- Passports issued on or after
October 2005 must have a biometric identifier in order to
travel on the VWP
- Machine readable passports issued before October
2005 will continue to be able to use them to travel to the U.S. on the VWP.
- If you do not have a biometric
passport after October 2005 - A nonimmigrant visa for U.S. travel
will have to be obtained.
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