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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Â· Clean record and ability to speak English required Â· Spokesman admits proposal is contentious
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Hand baggage restrictions imposed on flights from the UK are to be eased, the government is expected to announce.
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Tougher rules over travel insurance are needed to protect holidaymakers, an MPs' report says.
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Â· Leaked documents show starting date of 2012  Â· Pilot plan for foreign nationals to start this year
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The Home Office is urged to ease restrictions on migrants from Bangladesh, to ease shortages in curry houses.
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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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U.S. homeland security officials are preparing to abandon plans to develop a system to track the departure of foreign visitors at land borders, citing cost and technical obstacles in scaling back a major post-Sept. 11 domestic security initiative, officials said.
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U.S. and Canadian children will be exempt from new rules that will require travelers to show passports when entering the U.S. at land or sea borders, a move the Bush administration said Thursday is aimed at helping families and school groups.
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Passengers travelling through 19 British airports will be allowed to carry two pieces of cabin luggage through security checks starting on Monday, the government said. via Hindustan Times
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FLORENCE Interior ministers from the five largest West European countries have agreed to adopt digital fingerprinting on passports, officials here said, but a second day of talks on Monday found them still deadlocked on a plan to create migrant holding
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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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LILLE, France  - The creation of a biological passport for all professional riders is taking shape, the International Cycling Union (UCI) said on Wednesday.
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The United States plans to issue passports with personal data stored on radio frequency identification chips. The documents would be harder to forge, but might leave holders vulnerable to identity theft. By Ryan Singel.
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Gordon Brown asks Daily Mail editor to look into relaxing rules on access to government documents.
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A U.S. Senate committee on Thursday voted to put off until mid-2009 passport requirements for U.S. travelers entering the United States by land or sea from Canada and other neighboring countries.
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Voters will decide on September 26 whether to make it easier for young foreigners to obtain a Swiss passport.