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Since January 12, 2009, visa waiver travelers are not allowed to board a flight or cruise to... Read more

5 April, 2012

'Operational issues' force back US biometric passport deadline

...the deadline they had experienced "technical challenges". The US has established a "visa waiver" scheme for nations whose citizens are considered unlikely to pose a... Read more

18 June, 2004 by Kable

Visitors to US must register online

...mandating that travellers from any of the 35 countries in the US Visa Waiver Program apply online for an Electronic System of Travel Authorization before... Read more

13 January, 2009 by Stephanie Condon

MPs praise e-passport rollout

...new e-passport, ahead of the deadline for staying within the US visa-waiver programme. The agency used an exemption from procurement rules to amend... Read more

11 October, 2007 by Kable

US immigration system: bordering on the ridiculous

...t clear. It's a bit like losing the counterfoil to your visa waiver form: in principle, you hand this back to the check-in... Read more

26 February, 2007

RFID passports go live

...started producing them itself. The deadline for all the countries in the Visa Waiver Program to start issuing passports with RFID chips was 26 October... Read more

27 October, 2006 by Joris Evers

Biometrics beyond borders

...DHS) announced that instead of issuing e-passports by 26 October 2005, Visa Waiver Programme (VWP) countries would only be required to produce passports with... Read more

25 October, 2005 by Karen Gomm

Full biometric ID scheme to reach the UK 'by 2009'

...has been spurred on by US demands for all countries within its visa-waiver programme to have a machine readable biometric passport by October 2005... Read more

20 October, 2005 by Karen Gomm

Biometrics: Where is the business case?

...a deadline of October 2005 for visitors entering the country under the visa waiver scheme to hold a passport with a recognised biometric identifier held... Read more

19 October, 2005 by Karen Gomm

EU calls for biometric passport delay

...deadline of October 2005 that requires visitors entering the country under the visa-waiver scheme to hold a passport with a recognised biometric identifier held... Read more

1 April, 2005 by Andy McCue

Biometric passports win EU approval

...influenced by a United States policy change for passports for people from "visa waiver" countries, which include the UK. American plans to introduce a biometric... Read more

28 October, 2004 by Lars Pasveer

Fitting passports with biometric data

...States, for instance, recently extended the deadline for 21 nations in a visa waiver program to begin to incorporate biometrics into passports. The cutoff was... Read more

18 August, 2004 by Michael Kanellos

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...jobbing journo popping over to the US could get by on a visa waiver, which is a bit of paper you fill in on the... Read more

12 September, 2003

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...jobbing journo popping over to the US could get by on a visa waiver, which is a bit of paper you fill in on the... Read more

12 September, 2003 by Rupert Goodwins

Singapore mulls biometric data in passports

...the island-state is one of 27 countries under the US's visa waiver programme. However, in the light of tighter of security policies after... Read more

29 July, 2003 by ZDNet UK

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