UK PASSPORT HOLDERS be warned. Travelling to the United States is not likely to be getting any easier especially if your little wine coloured book has to be renewed from the end of October through 2005. Business travel experts Advanced Travel Partners International (ATPI) tells ABTN that whilst the UK Passport Office has confirmed its intention that biometric passports (which can contain fingerprint information, amongst other things) will be issued from the middle of 2005 the US authorities are demanding this information on passports issued from November. Otherwise a full visa is required! ATPI says that the best arrangement is to get your passport renewed now if you fall into the window.
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