The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently reminded travelers from 27 Visa Waiver Program (VWP) countries that as of June 26, 2005, they must have a machine-readable passport to enter the ...

Machine-readable passports have a sequence of lines that can be swiped by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers to confirm the passport holder's identity quickly and to obtain other ...

If you have friends or family from overseas who are accustomed to visiting the United States without visas, better alert them to a new requirement that their passports be machine-readable. Citizens of ...

The US Embassy announced here yesterday that travellers from 27 countries included in the Visa Waiver Programme will be affected by several changes concerning passports valid for travel to the United ...

This article reviews briefly the work ICAO has been doing over the past nine years to specify how to make use of biometric technology to enhance the security of travel documents and to facilitate ...

“I wouldn’t want to cancel my trips due to the the failure of the government to issue passport,” says Xnepali while discussing whether the Nepali government will be able to meet the deadline of ...