| I can only imagine the lightning speed with which our government will address the same potential security hazard for Canadian machine-readable passports. |
| New machine-readable passports are expected to be issued to the travelling public by January 2006, acting Chief Immigration Officer Keith Ameerali said yesterday. |
| The machine-readable passports, which now have a standardized presentation worldwide, are being printed in a manner suitable for optical character recognition. |
| The biometrics will be included in all new passports issued but those holding the existing machine-readable document will still be able to travel on it until it expires. |
| Starting Oct. 26, those countries will also be required to have passports with coding that is machine-readable, including children's passports. |
| You send in your favorite digital photo, pick a border and in a couple of days you're turned into a usable, actual stamp with a machine-readable bar code. |
