Man borrows passport to attend funeral
An Asian man is on trial in Abu Dhabi after he was arrested at the airport trying to travel on a forged passport to attend his daughter’s funeral in his home country. The man confessed to paying Dh800 to another man to borrow his passport to travel to his home country after he could not […]
Travel chaos warnings over passport checks
Cross-channel operators have warned travellers to prepare for long delays from this week following the introduction of passport checks for people leaving the country. Ferry companies, along with Euro Tunnel, have warned the checks, introduced by the Government in order to monitor more closely the movement of people across our borders, raise the prospect of […]
CBP Tests Passport Facial Recognition Air Entry Pilot Program
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has begun to conduct its “1:1 Facial Recognition Air Entry Pilot” program to allow CBP officers (CBPOs) stationed at air ports of entry to use facial recognition technology as a tool to assist them in determining whether an individual presenting themselves with a valid US electronic passport is the same […]
Sweden eyes fingerprint scans to stop passport fraud
Stockholm (AFP) – Sweden needs to beef up its border security to stop passport fraud, a government inquiry argued Monday as the country grapples with unprecedented levels of immigration. The inquiry proposed fingerprint scans for all nationalities entering Sweden from outside the passport-free Schengen Area in a move that pre-empts the European Union, which has […]
Missing London girl used sister’s passport
LONDON — One of the three teenage girls who are believed to be trying to travel into Syria to join the Islamic State flew to Turkey using her older sister’s passport, the BBC reported Monday. Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Amira Abase, 15, left London Feb. 17 on a flight to Istanbul and […]
Passport mixup leaves woman in the lurch while traveling
KATY, TX (KTRK) — A Katy woman was planning on spending three weeks with her elderly mother in the Philippines. But passport problems cut the trip short. In January, Elizabeth Lacap went to the Philippines to see her mother. “She is going to be 90 years old in 2016,” said Lacap. Unfortunately Lacap mistakenly took […]
