New passport checking kiosks makes customs quicker at PDX
PORTLAND, Ore. — If you fly internationally into the Portland airport, you should find it’s more efficient getting through customs. That’s because of eight new automated passport control kiosks that went online Friday in the international arrivals hall at PDX. You simply put your passport up to machine, and it scans it and checks your […]
Technology reducing wait times at Customs
A mobile passport control app launched at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is expanding to other airports around the country, with the goal of reducing wait times at Customs. Cutting down on lines is a key priority for airport officials, with expectations for a “robust summer travel season,” said airport deputy general manager Michael Smith. Passenger counts […]
ID theft includes using a borrowed passport
There’s a federal crime, called “aggravated identity theft,” that carries a mandatory two-year prison term for anyone who commits it in the course of another felony. From the title, you might think it doesn’t apply to someone who used a passport that was borrowed from someone else. But a federal appeals court said Wednesday the […]
Iraqi held over fake passport on his way from Bankgkok to Qatar
An Iraqi traveller was arrested on Saturday at Suvarnabhumi airport on charges of holding a counterfeit passport and illegally entering the country. Police apprehended Saif Anbagi, 22, at an immigration counter at the airport as he was preparing to leave for Doha on a Qatar Airways flight QR831 after the authorities found that he held a […]
Police rebuked for returning ‘IS risk’ girl’s passport
Police who returned a passport to a Bristol teenager thought to be at risk of travelling to an Islamic State-held area have been rebuked by a judge. The passport was seized in April, when the girl was stopped at Bristol Airport with a one-way ticket to Turkey. But officers returned it a few days ago, […]
Man pleads guilty to helping Singapore match-fixer get second forged passport
SINGAPORE: He had been jailed for a year in 2011 for helping Wilson Raj Perumal flee Singapore with a forged passport. Now, 36-year-old Raja Morgan Chelliah has pleaded guilty to helping the notorious match-fixer get a second Singapore biometric passport. Investigations revealed that the 49-year-old Wilson Raj had used the second passport, which bore his […]
