Points mean passports: Citizenship Smith unveils 'like us' plan
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Inclusive 'cohere or scram' scheme for migrants Home Secretary Jacqui Smith today put forward a scaled-down version of a 'points for passports' citizenship scheme floated last summer. Under plans announced to Parliament today, non-EU immigrants would be faced with a pre-citizenship probationary period involving a deal of conspicuous joining in, and they may not have a lot of choice if they want to stay in the UK after their visa expires.â¦
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A controversial scheme for national identity cards has been approved by the British House of Commons.
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The Conservatives have promised to give parents greater choice of schools. Their "pupil passport" idea is similar to a scheme in Sweden, as BBC education correspondent Mike Baker reports.
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A government proposal to define the countryâs national identity has been met with shrugs, scorn and British humor.
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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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Serious doubts are raised on the accuracy of a new identity system being introduced on all new UK passports next year.
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Britons visiting the US without visas will need their own machine-readable passports from Tuesday.
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Immigrants who want to become British citizens will need to pass tests to "prove their worth", under new plans.
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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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European Commission to propose foreign travelers into and out of Europe, including U.S. citizens, should be fingerprinted.
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Not compulsion - sign here to end the pain... "Various forms of coercion" could be used to accelerate the rollout of ID cards, the idea being that ID cards will remain 'voluntary' for as long as possible, while not having an ID card will become more and more uncomfortable. This, precisely what the government has intended to do all along, is stated baldly in an Identity &amp; Passport Service leak cited by the Sunday People.â¦
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Lengthy passport renewal times may be great for stateside travel.
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U.S. citizens living abroad who want to participate in the 2008 primary elections have a number of options.
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Nearly all air travelers entering the U.S. will be required to show passports beginning Jan. 23, including returning Americans and people from Canada and other nations in the Western Hemisphere.
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Britain said on Tuesday it plans to force non-European foreign nationals to register identity details such as fingerprints and iris scans from 2008.
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Count them in, count them out, count them all about... Immigration Minister Liam Byrne this week unveiled - to a certain amount of derision - his vision of the ID Card scheme as some sort of 21st Century equivalent of the 19th Century railway network or the 20th Century national electricity grid. It will be pervasive, and in 20 years time it will be a great British institution, "part of the fabric of British life."â¦
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Controversial plans to introduce identity cards are being debated in the Commons on Thursday.