Cloud Passport: Australia To Trial Passport-Free Travel
I hate my passport. Hate it. I leave it everywhere, my photo is stupid (mostly because of my stupid face), and they cost a boatload to replace every few years. Australia has signalled that it might be time to leave the humble passport behind, however, with a new passport-free travel trial it’s calling Cloud Passport. […]
Dawood Ibrahim aide Riyaz Bhati arrested with fake passport
After Chhota Rajan’s arrest in Bali on Sunday, the Intelligence Bureau and the police are keeping a close watch on every person who was and is associated with the underworld. The first arrest in this regard was seen yesterday when Riyaz Bhati, a close aide of Dawood Ibrahim, was arrested from the Sahar airport with […]
Lesotho: Alleged passport forgery lands Kenyan in court
A Kenyan, Luiz Rihmat Alvez, 22, who is in custody in Lesotho for allegedly forging a Lesotho passport appeared before a magistrate’s court in Maseru for contravening the provisions of section 15 (e) of the Lesotho Passports and Travel Documents Act No. 15 of 1998, APA learns here Thursday. According to the charge sheet, upon […]
Chhota Rajan’s arrest: Many questions about his passport, no answers
While Interpol Indonesia has said it was tipped off by Interpol Australia about gangster Chhota Rajan flying from Sydney to Denpasar Bali airport on Garuda Indonesia flight GA715 for a period of 15 days, there is no clarity on how Rajan secured the Indian passport he was using. When Rajan was arrested by a single […]
Alleged visa scammer ordered to surrender passport
A woman charged over a visa scam that’s alleged to have potentially caught out hundreds of Filipino dairy workers has been ordered to surrender her passport. The Te Aroha-based 35-year-old, who has joint Filipino and New Zealand citizenship, appeared in Hamilton District Court on Tuesday on three fraud-related charges. She was granted interim name suppression, […]
Soaring passport demand nets Syria more than $500 mn
A Syrian man holds Syrian passports as he waits to board a passenger ferry heading to Turkey at Lebanon’s north Damascus (AFP) – Syria has netted more than $500 million from passport fees this year, after raising charges for those obtained abroad to bolster foreign exchange reserves, the government said in a report Monday. […]
