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The number of applications processed annually in the U.S. has grown 148 per cent in the last 10 years, with over 16 million passports issued in the U.S. last year compared to 6.5 million in 1998. In 2008, the U.S. also began issuing a passport card, a cheaper alternative to the passport which Americans can use to get back into the U.S. by land or by sea. Over one million of them have been issued since July 2008. Use: Alternative to a passport for land and sea entry to the U.S. The U.S. actually prefers them at the border because their embedded chip technology allows the border guard to identify the occupants of a car even before the car has pulled up to the kiosk and it speeds up the processing.
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In a regulatory analysis of proposed rules that are slated to go into effect Jan. 8, 2007, government officials write that "there is not sufficient time" to properly develop and produce a new piece of identification the size of a credit card -- an "alternative passport" -- that could meet all the standards necessary to secure the U.S. border. Use of this alternative passport card was rejected for the air and sea environments for a number of reasons," reads the analysis of the new border requirements, first passed by the U.S. Congress in 2004.
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Overall it's a good time to apply for a passport," Passport Canada spokesman Sebastien Bois said. "It's quicker than it's ever been. We're one of the fastest systems in the world. Bois said in the anticipated rush by Canadians to apply for or renew their passport several steps have been streamlined. For instance, those renewing their passport no longer need a guarantor's signature. A renewal form is available on the Passport Canada's website www.ppt.gc.ca/. Bois added Canada's passport will introduce its own high-tech epassport in 2011 that, like the EIC, will contain a digital chip that holds the same information as the passport itself, but is virtually impossible to tamper with. Like the card, a passport will be scanned to verify the passport holder's identity. The new feature is be...
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The Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative requires all travellers, including U.S. residents, to have a passport, a NEXUS card (a pre-approved travel document for low-risk travellers) or a bio-metric driver's licence to enter the United States. [Linda Whitfield] said she has no hard data if the decline in American tourists translated into less revenue for Manitoba businesses but added she's heard many Manitoba attractions, like Folklorama, are seeing fewer American visitors this year. Folklorama reported a slight attendance decline for this year compared to last year, but noted there were fewer American tour buses than in the past. [Frances Kremarik] said about 10,000 more Manitobans went south by car in June 2008 than is normal for that month, an increase of about 25 per cent. Whitfield ...
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... of Permanent Residence or Permanent Resident Card;. (c) If your close relative is a Canadian citizen... as a photocopy of pages of a Canadian passport or Canadian citizenship card. [4] On an unspecifie...
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[Irene Hamilton]'s warning comes as the province is promoting the enhanced ID cards as a way to ensure Manitobans can easily enter the United States. Manitobans planning to travel south of the border by land or water this summer must have either the ID card, a passport or a NEXUS card. Hamilton says Manitobans with a passport don't need to get the security-enhanced ID cards. The plastic card, the size of a credit card but a little thicker, uses state-of-art technology that holds a person's citizenship and identity info. Besides a photo, it includes a machine-readable zone just like a passport that can be scanned at the border, as well as an embedded radio frequency identification (RFID) chip, required by the U.S. government to facilitate rapid identification checks.
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[Lewis Lukens] was speaking at the U.S. Consulate at a press conference called about coming passport and passport card requirements for U.S. citizens travelling abroad as part of the continuing fallout from the 9/11 terror attacks.
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Although the first line on the website states the Dominican Republic allows travellers from Canada to enter without a passport or visa by purchasing a US$10 tourist card, proof of citizenship -- an original birth certificate or certified copies with raised seal, an expired passport (if photograph still clearly resembles the bearer), U.S. naturalization certificate or a signed U.S. voter registration card -- needs to be presented at entry. Shortly thereafter, it suggests a passport is the preferred document for international travel to the Dominican Republic. In these days of enhanced security considerations, travellers are strongly advised to go abroad with passports as their identification document. You will need a passport to cash traveller's cheques, rent a car, make large creditcard...
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All we're doing is an educational phase," Turn said. "If they don't have the right documents, we tell them what they need and we give them a piece of paper explaining it all. S. and Canadian citizens entering the U.S. are no longer allowed to simply declare to immigration officers at border crossings that they are citizens. Instead, those 19 and older must show proof of citizenship, such as a passport or a "trusted traveller" card issued to frequent border crossers. Driver's licences must be accompanied by proof of citizenship, such as a birth certificate. "It's been a very smooth transition," said Assistant Commissioner Thomas Winkowski, of the Washington-based Office of Field Operations, Customs and Border Protection. "There have been no issues with wait times."
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Government biometric projects can be a target for criticism from several directions. Do biometrics actually work in large-scale applications? Will people's privacy be respected? On each of these points, Passport Canada may well avoid the "Great Biometric Controversy" of 2003, when Immigration Minister Denis Coderre called for a debate about a national ID card. He got one. At a Commons committee hearing, acting Privacy Commissioner Robert Marleau said the cost of equipment alone for a national ID card program would be somewhere between $3 and $5 billion, and the governments track record of cost overruns and delays with such programs as the firearms registry and other computer systems "should serve as an additional warning of the potentially exorbitant cost of issuing a national ID card t...
