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To: Michael81Dus
Excellent. See? It isn't that hard.
26 posted on 01/06/2004 1:31:53 PM PST by Citizen of the Savage Nation
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To: Citizen of the Savage Nation
Excellent. See? It isn't that hard.

LOL. I often explained here that we stand on the right side in the war on terrorism, and that it was "just" the Iraq war my government (and people) couldn´t agree with.

Another question is the following: The US government requires all visa-waiver-program-states (such like Japan, all EU member states except Greece) to issue passports with biometric datas from Oct 26 2004 on.

BUT: there´s no agreement which datas and how these should be included in the passports. Old passports will be valid for access to the US until they expire, but the Washington threatens to exclude countries from the Visa-waiver-program if they don´t issue passports with biometric datas from that date on. How can countries do - the way it should be isn´t published nor negotiated with the visa-waiver-member-states yet!?

And I can´t imagine that the US government would want that US citizens needs visa for trips up to 90 days to the EU, Japan, etc... but that would be the result if the visa-waiver-program will be stopped.

There´s will to cooperate and to fulfill the US security demands, but nobody´s perfect. My prediction: it´s likely that the requirement for biometric datas in passports will be delayed.

27 posted on 01/06/2004 1:42:17 PM PST by Michael81Dus
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