Germany has become the first EU member state to comply with tougher US passport regulations.
Dubbed 'ePass', the new German passport including biometric features became mandatory for travellers on Tuesday (1 November).
Biometric passports, which digitally store facial features unique to every single person, will become mandatory for all travellers to the US from European "visa-waiver" countries - states without a visa obligation - from October 2006.
The updated German passp...
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