Almost 10 per cent of Irish passport-holders wishing to travel to the US will require a new "machine-readable" passport from October 1st to avail of the US Visa Waiver Programme. Under the programme, ...

The US Department of Homeland Security has announced that from the end of next month, travellers from Visa Waiver Programme countries, including Ireland, must have a machine-readable passport. New ...

From October 1st, travellers entering the United States under the Visa Waiver Programme must have a machine-readable passport, according to the US State Department. "Any traveller without a ...

The machine-readable passport requirements do not affect the separate deadline requiring Visa Waiver Program country passports issued on or after October 26, 2005, to contain biometrics in order to be ...

The introduction of machine readable passports (MRP) has helped eliminate fraudulent practices, an official of National Database Registration Authority (Nadra) said on Thursday. The ...

The Indian Embassy on Sunday issued an advisory regrading phasing out of handwritten passports. Those Indians holding handwritten passports are advised to urgently replace them with machine-readable ...

Machine readable passports (MRPs) will replace ordinary passports in the country by the year 2010, while the number of passport-issuing offices will be increased to 46 by end of the year, to ...

At this end, a one-day MRP Regional Training Programme was conducted at the Philippine General Consulate in Al Qusais yesterday, where 17 diplomats from the Philippine embassies in the UAE, Bahrain, ...

The Saudi Arabia government has announced that all expats should have machine-readable passports in use by November 24, 2012. Saudi officials have warned that expatriates living in the kingdom may ...

12 February 2005 DUBAI -- Pakistanis in the UAE will now be issued National Identity Cards for Overseas Pakistanis (Nicop) and machine-readable passports locally as the machines to process the same ...