Re: New regulations for US Visa Waiver Programme (was RE: french crypto regulations relating to personal encryption usageby visitors? )

[Brian E Carpenter <brc at zurich.ibm.com>]

The key change that people from visa waiver countries need to
understand is this (from the official site that Elwyn kindly mentioned):

> BIOMETRIC PASSPORT REQUIREMENT:
>
> October 26, 2005 also marks the deadline by which VWP travelers
> will be required to present passports incorporating biometric
> identifiers, if their passports were issued on or after October 26, 2005.

Since the next two IETFs are outside the US, this will only
affect IETF travellers by March 2006 (location TBD, but probably US).

However, for Vancouver in November, avoid transit through the US if you
will have a passport that doesn't meet the above rule and you don't
plan to get a visa.

   Brian

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Brian E Carpenter
IETF Chair
Distinguished Engineer, Internet Standards & Technology, IBM




Elwyn davies wrote:
...
> This depends on whether your passport issuing authority is getting it
> together with some new requirements for machine readability.
>  
> See (e.g.) http://stockholm.usembassy.gov/Consulate/mr_passports.html
...


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