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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Overseas relatives' visits could require bonds while tighter immigration rules would cut tourist visas
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - The governments of 10 South American countries signed an agreement on Friday to allow their citizens to travel within the region without passports.
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Home Secretary John Reid is to publish detailed plans for the controversial national identity card scheme.
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Despite ongoing privacy concerns and legal disputes involving companies bidding on the project, the U.S. State Department plans to begin issuing smart chip-embedded passports to Americans as planned Monday.
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Messages reminding people not to overstay their visas are part of a government drive to clamp down on immigration.
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China will allow foreign journalists to travel and report more freely across most of the country in the run-up to the 2008 Olympics, but the relaxed rules would expire when the Games are over, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
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Gordon Brown asks Daily Mail editor to look into relaxing rules on access to government documents.
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The Bush administration will delay for at least six months a rule that Americans present passports when crossing the U.S. border by land or sea, officials said Wednesday.
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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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Islamabad, Dec. 27: India appears to have given up its insistence on passports being the only valid document for passengers boarding the proposed Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus.
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The European Commission unveiled on  Wednesday a plan to fingerprint all foreigners visiting  Europe's 24-nation border-free area, as part of a series of  border-security proposals.
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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 UK government will store electronic records of people entering and leaving the UK in effort to tighten border control.
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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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SINGAPORE: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore yesterday announced a partial relaxation of rules on political expression but warned that race and religion will remain sensitive issues subject to restrictions.
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In a bid to improve security, ministers from five European countries said Monday they hoped to start digital fingerprinting for passports in 2006, but they split over