Only seven EU countries met a 28 August deadline to issue new high security biometric passports needed for travel into the US without a visa from this autumn.
Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands have informed the European Commission that they are ready to issue the new e-Passports with an integrated electronic chip storing information from the data page and a digital photograph.
Those EU states which do not issue biometric passports by 20 Septemb...
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