State Dept. Promises Passport Solutions
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Facing an unexpected backlash from angry travelers and lawmakers, the Bush administration said yesterday it would be flexible in enforcing new passport requirements beginning next January for Americans who return by land or sea from Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean.
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A plan to tighten U.S. borders by requiring passports or tamper-resistant identification cards from everyone entering the country has been delayed.
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The State Department on Monday established a toll-free telephone number for inquiries about U.S. citizens affected by the Asian earthquake and tsunamis.
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Americans' fingerprints should be added to their passports, outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Wednesday, hoping to include the United States in a growing global security standard but risking a privacy fight at home.
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The government will temporarily relax rules requiring passports for U.S. citizens traveling by air to Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean because of a huge processing backlog, officials said on Friday.
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The UK government will store electronic records of people entering the UK in effort to tighten border control.
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The confusion and delays in passport processing are a warning to plan far ahead to renew or obtain a passport.
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Swiss passports with digital biometric data will be made available on an experimental basis from the end of 2005, largely as a result of demands from the United States, the Swiss government said.
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The United States said on Friday it will temporarily relax new rules requiring passports for U.S. citizens flying to Canada, Mexico, Bermuda and the Caribbean because of a huge passport application backlog.
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Faced with long delays in issuing passports, the government today postponed an impending requirement that most Americans returning to the United States by land or sea show a U.S. passport.
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The US homeland security department is announcing an expedited-access program for certain foreign travelers.
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The UK government will store electronic records of people entering and leaving the UK in effort to tighten border control.
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The US is rushing to address security risks posed by airline hand luggage in the wake of the London arrests.
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Looking to break a passport  bottleneck that has upset Americans&#39; travel plans and jammed  congressional phone lines with calls from anxious constituents,  the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday passed legislation  allowing the State Department to hire experienced help.
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Â· Clean record and ability to speak English required Â· Spokesman admits proposal is contentious
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Microsoft is recasting ambitions for its .Net Passport identification system, saying the service now will be limited to its own online offerings and those of close partners. Microsoft no longer sees Passport as a single sign-on system for the Web at large, a spokeswoman said.
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The U.S. State Department ordered about 200 recent hires on Tuesday to report to Louisiana and New Hampshire for two months to help work off a huge backlog of passport applications, officials said.