Any File wrote:
It may be useful to add, on all revelant page like
travel, visa, etc.
a big notice to remeber to check the validity of the passport and to
advise to request it, if needed, as soon as possible.
On 5/23/06, Florence Devouard <anthere(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
The biometric passport is finally available in
Are you speking of the passport whit the digital photo? (actually the
photo is actually a paper photo that is digitalized and printed as
digital photo, not a photo directly taken in digital).
This is what is required to enter in U.S. (who has a visa can use a
passport without the digital photo. Passport iussed before October 26,
2005 may still have not the digital photo, but if the passpart was
renewed after that date, it can not be used without the digital
photo).
Biometric passport is a different thing. A passport with a chip inside
in which many personal informations (not only hight, colour of eyes,
but also a photograph and fingerstamps, etc) will be registered.
I finally figured all that stuff.
My passport if from 2003, so is valid to enter the USA.
What is not valid, is my son. I will come with him. He does not have a
passport of course.
A passport offers only two slots for kids; Then, the children area is
covered by plastic and no more kids may be added.
So, I thought that to add my son, I had to have a *new* passport.
What I did not realise at all, is that biometric passport are per
individual.
So, the kids can not be added on passports any more, they have their own
passport.
Consequently, I can keep my old one, but need a biometric one for my son.
An invitation letter for a baby is probably not gonna be very
convincing, so I do not need that anymore (we'll add a letter to the
request to try to explain the urgency).
What I find funny are the identity picture recommandation.
The background should be neutral (no hands should be visible).
The person head must be a certain size. The person must have eyes
looking in the front (not up, not down, not on the sides). The person
must not be sagging. Not smiling. Eyes should be open, and mouth closed.
Now, just TRY to do that on a baby who is not yet really able to keep
his head straight and sucks two fingers all day long !
/me wondering
over US government paranoia
/me wondering over French government absolute disability to handle tough
issues within decent deadlines, whilst all other european countries manage.
Alas, French is not the only country to have such problem. In Italy
the situation is similar or worse. And I belive that in many other
countries the situation is similar, and it is surely going worse and
worse as summer is approaching.
At least you have not to pay a 40.29 eur stamp every year on the
passport (which is lost if you have to change the passoprt because
someoneelse choose that you have to change the type of you passport)
(well, I have never undestood why all the countries should change
their passport because of the willing of just one country. This is the
reason why the other countries are not ready: because they were not
the one who choose to have the passports in this way).
I urge anyone neededing a new passport, to request it as soon as possible.
AnyFile
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Sigh.
Ant