A year's extra time has been granted to all EU member states with visa waiver agreements with the US to start issuing passports with biometric measures such as fingerprints.
This year's deadline has been extended to 26 October 2005 after it became apparent that so many countries were not going to be able to have the new passports ready on time.
The issuing of biometric passports is part of a US law designed to tighten up border security after the 11 September (2001) terrorist atta...
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