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US Visas for Passports - What's the Score??

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The State department's website has some information on it. See http://travel.state.gov/vwp.html#2

If you are traveling to the U.S. and have a passport from Australia, Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom you do not need a visa IF your passport is machine readable. If you don't have a machine radable passport, you'll need a visa after October 26, 2004.(A side note: having a machine readable passport program in place is a requirement for a country to be nominated for visa waiver.)

If you're coming from Belgian, Andorra, Brunei, Liechtenstein, or Slovenia you already need a machine radable passport or a visa. And if you're Canadian, you don't need a visa to enter the U.S.

If you are the citizen of some other country, the visa waiver program does not apply and you need a visa yo enter the U.S.

Note also that each traveler, even infants, are required to have their own passport.

Best wishes,

Michael
 
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Peter K,

Ireland has been a member of the EU for many years. And most Irish and UK passports are machine readable.

To see if your passport works (from an Irish government site): "A machine-readable passport is a passport with two typeface lines printed at the bottom of the biographical page, which can be read by machine. When read, these lines electronically provide identical information to that provided on the biographical page. (The biographical page is the page on your passport that illustrates your photograph and carries information about your name, date of birth, address, nationality, etc.)."

Best wishes,

Michael
 
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