US PASSPORT RULES, due to come in on 1 October, may been postponed 12 months as it seems that nobody in the State Department bothered to check and see if all the countries concerned issued machine-readable passports. They don”t. However if you are from Belgium you must show your machine readable passport. Somehow the Yanks have fingered Brussels! A final decision from the Department of Transportation is expected shortly.
http://unitedstatesvisas.gov