Talk:Passport/Archive

restrictions for non-biometric passports

Are there any restrictions known/planned with exact dates for non-biometric passports? E.g. some countries may plan to restict entry of foreigners having only non-biometric passports, etc. --(WT-en) DenisYurkin 15:09, 13 May 2009 (EDT)

For the Visa Waiver Program in the US, passport requirements (for citizens of VWP pre-2008 members only) depend on the date the passport was issued or renewed:

• Passports issued or renewed before 26 October 2005 must be machine readable.
• Passports issued or renewed after 26 October 2005 must be machine readable and contain a digitized photograph, or must be biometric passports.
• Passports issued or renewed after 26 October 2006 must be biometric (citizens of VWP post-2008 members must present a biometric passport).

(WT-en) AHeneen 20:10, 13 May 2009 (EDT)

Thanks for the info. Maybe any other restrictions? --(WT-en) DenisYurkin 10:50, 14 May 2009 (EDT)

To Schengen (much of Europe), citizens of some countries are allowed visa free entry only if their passports have biometric, machine readable information. --LPfi (talk) 14:37, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

multiple copies

> Experienced travellers often carry multiple copies of their passport when abroad

So why multiple copies? Why having a single copy for a case of lost is not enough?

> if you don't want to trust hotel staff with your passport

What risks can be in allowing hotel staff to make a photocopy of a passport? And how does the staff feels about proposal to take a traveler's photocopy? Don't they read lack of trust from a client in such an action? --(WT-en) DenisYurkin 17:23, 27 September 2009 (EDT)

1) one in the luggage, and one folded together in your wallet, purse, money belt, handbag etc,

2) that is not meant for a clerk going into the hotel office and take a copy, but places where a copy involves a clerk running across the town to reach the only xerox in town, with a passport worth more on the black market, than they make in a year.

Feel free to change it around though, but I think it's valuable advice, if you need information about what a passport is in the first place. --(WT-en) Stefan (sertmann) ^Talk 17:55, 27 September 2009 (EDT)

I've attempted to rewrite it, including most of the clarifying pieces previously menioned only in Talk:. My English is not perfect, and I admit that there may be too much of words that I could omit. Please edit further if you feel like it. --(WT-en) DenisYurkin 17:56, 29 September 2009 (EDT)

Hope the latest edits help. (WT-en) hennejohn 1305 EST 30 Jan 2011