The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently reminded travelers from 27 Visa Waiver Program (VWP) countries that as of June 26, 2005, they must have a machine-readable passport to enter the ...

Despite security and privacy concerns, all but three of the countries required by the U.S. to issue passports with radio tags are now doing so, the Department of Homeland Security said Thursday.

A security expert has cracked one of the U.K.’s new biometric passports, which the British government hopes will cut down on cross-border crime and illegal immigration. The attack, which uses a common ...

Indian expats in the UAE are witnessing a first-of-its-kind change, as the Indian Embassy in Abu Dhabi confirmed on October 28, 2025, that three different Indian passport designs are now officially in ...

Documents obtained recently by the ACLU show that the United States government ignored warnings about privacy and security while successfully pushing for an international standard for new electronic ...

Several Asian and other countries have advised their nationals around the world to replace their handwritten passports with Machine Readable Passports (MRP) by Nov. 24, 2015. The International Civil ...

The U.S. is delaying by up to a year a deadline for 27 countries covered by its visa waiver program to begin issuing passports with biometric identification information, the U.S. Department of ...

A security expert has cracked one of the United Kingdom’s new biometric passports, which the British government hopes will cut down on cross-border crime and illegal immigration. The attack, which ...