Government planning to ease passport rules: report
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The U.S. government is expected to announce on Friday that it will ease rules for summer travel in the Western Hemisphere amid complaints of a huge backlog of passport applications, The New York Times reported.
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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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Visitors could face digital fingerprinting at airports under plans to beef up border security
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The State Department did not head off a massive backlog of passport applications before this summer's peak travel season, despite warnings as early as November that demand was running far higher than expected, congressional investigators said yesterday.
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US citizens should obtain Pakistani government permission for travel in rural areas of that country, the US State Department said in an updated travel advisory.
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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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Islamabad on Monday termed as &quot;discriminatory&quot; and &quot;not in sync with peace process&quot; the reported decision of Jammu and Kashmir officials to issue passports with explicit instructions that it is not valid for travel to Pakistan.
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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.
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Facing a backlog of millions of passport applications, the US government yesterday agreed to ease partially -- until Sept. 30 -- strict new requirements for citizens flying back into the country from Canada, Mexico, and Caribbean nations from which travel hasn't normally required a passport.
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The government will Tuesday unveil plans to cut the time non-EU tourists can remain in Britain -- from six months to three -- as part of a tougher visa regime aimed at curbing illegal immigration.
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The Bush administration yesterday postponed for at least six months a new security rule that Americans show a passport when crossing U.S. borders by land or by sea, requiring instead that citizens present an identity card and proof of citizenship upon entry for the first time, beginning Jan. 31.
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Italy's new immigration minister plans to ease the rules for becoming a legal immigrant.
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Visitors to the US from 27 countries now need machine-readable passports if they do not have visas.
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The US State Department relaxes some of its passport rules after a surge in demand creates long delays.
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The government is set to announce plans to ease the rules on the opening of new pharmacies.
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Tighter security measures designed to stop suspected terrorists, sexual predators and other types of criminals at the nation's borders will begin next month, federal officials announced Thursday.
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The State Department has acknowledged long delays from âunprecedented demandâ after new rules requiring passports for travelers returning from Mexico, Canada and the Caribbean.