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1b) A Machine Readable Passport. Passports issued between 26 October 2005 and 26 October 2006 to passengers wishing to use the Visa Waiver Programme must contain a digitally printed photograph. A photograph which is glued or laminated will not be acceptable for travel. ... UK Passport Service...
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www.britishairways.com/travel/usawaiver/public/en_gb
www.britishairways.com/travel/usawaiver/public/en_gb
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Machine-readable passport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A Machine Readable Passport (MRP) is a travel document where the data on the identity page is encoded in optical character recognition format. Many countries began to issue machine readable travel d...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-readable_passport
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Reading the Visa Waiver program notes, the passport does have to be a machine readable and it shows an image of what one could look like. To me it looks like any other passport, and my UK passport looks familiar ... Yet again a case of the USA not being ready for it own rules. Which is why Travelers still have to complete...
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www.travel-rants.com/2009/05/17/uk-passport-confusion-a...
www.travel-rants.com/2009/05/17/uk-passport-confusion-advice-travel-us/
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(circled in red in the image of a U.S. machine-readable passport shown below) If you are in any doubt as to whether or not your passport is machine-readable, you should check with the passport issuing authority of your country.
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www.usembassy.org.uk/cons_new/visa/niv/mrp_bio.html
www.usembassy.org.uk/cons_new/visa/niv/mrp_bio.html
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My friend does not have a machine readable passport and has only just found out she needs one, what are the conserquences of this when we arrive at the airport as no time to get a visa or a new passport as it is a ... Are you sure? - My 9 year old UK passport isn't machine readable but I was in the USA with it last year.
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uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090503013019A...
uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090503013019AAwmCtn
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Children included on a parent's passport also now require their own machine-readable passport. Travellers not in possession of machine-readable passports will require a valid USA entry visa. ... A passport which states holder has right of abode or indefinite leave to remain in the UK does not qualify for visa free travel.
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www.worldtravelguide.net/country/292/passport_visa/Nort...
www.worldtravelguide.net/country/292/passport_visa/North-America/United-States-of-America.html
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However, some older passports may not be machine-readable. Before travelling to the US and seeking entry under the VWP, you should check that your current passport is machine-readable. If it is not, the likelihood is that you will not qualify for entry to the USA under the VWP on that passport after 26 October 2004.
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www.natives.co.uk/news/2004/09/21pass.htm
www.natives.co.uk/news/2004/09/21pass.htm
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Great news then, we thought, that the UK had just begun to issue new, ... Because his chip is cloned, with the necessary digital signatures, and because you have not reported your passport stolen - you still have it! - his machine-readable travel document will get him wherever he wants to go, using your identity.
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www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2006/nov/17/news.homeaffa...
www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2006/nov/17/news.homeaffairs
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I have just called the US Consulate in Barcelona who told me that since October 2004 one requires a machine readable passport to gain entry to the US. Unfortunately the UK Consulate in Las Palmas is unable to describe a machine readable version and the line to the consulate in Madrid is permanently occupied.
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www.pprune.org/forums/printthread.php?threadid=166443
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