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 ...

Senior U.S. officials urged lawmakers Tuesday to further delay the October deadline for 27 U.S. allies to introduce machine-readable passports with a computer chip containing a digital photograph. Top ...

One of four teams will be chosen to produce the electronics for machine-readable passports. Four teams will provide computer chips for testing electronic passports, Government Printing Office ...

The Bush administration wants to put off for two years requiring 27 visa-waiver countries to use machine-readable passports because few will be able to meet this fall's deadline. The machine-readable ...

OFF THE HOOK Following up on its decision to consider a delay in the requirement that visa-waiver travelers to the U.S. carry machine-readable passports (AW&ST Sept. 15, p. 36), the State Dept.

A passport official has been handed only a minor penalty after unlawfully helping a man get an e-passport using the ...