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Passport theft in Schengen countries high

passport.jpg Dutch police estimate that since border controls were scrapped 15 years ago in so-called Schengen countries of Europe, more than 340,000 blank passports have been ... passport can fetch up to around 11,000 euros on the black market. Under the Schengen Agreement ...

More Dutch people have two passports

people with two passports originally come from these countries. Children Children who have one parent with both a Dutch and foreign passport automatically acquire dual citizenship, and this is another ... whose parents naturalise are also allowed to keep their original passports alongside their newly ...

Dutch biometric passports cause controversy

Fingerprint.jpg From today, anyone who applies for a passport ...   Biometric passports According to rules introduced by the European Commission, EU member states are required to introduce biometric passports with a chip containing the owner's digital information, including ...

EU introduces passports including fingerprints

2404217562_840e395181.jpg As of today, EU citizens applying for a passport ... the passport is actually its owner. The system is already in use in Germany and Sweden. The holder's fingerprints are recorded on a chip in the identity card or passport and are also registered in a central ...

New Dutch passport upsets expats

chip-Brtitish-passport.jpg The Dutch opposition Socialist Party (SP ... passport. That’s according to one of the SP’s members of parliament’s upper house, or Senate, who was interviewed by Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW). These new passports will include a chip which ...

Passport control at Schiphol under review

Schiphol-passports.jpg Dutch residents travelling on international flights from Amsterdam's Schiphol airport may in the future have to submit their passport details in advance, under a new procedure being considered by the border police. The objective is to speed up passport ...

New passport rules for US-bound flights in force

States will be barred from boarding their plane if they don't possess a passport with an electronic chip ... paper-only passports. Dutch passports issued after 26 August 2006 are fitted with a chip. Carriers of older passports need to apply in advance for a visa for the US. The military police emphasise ...

Kenyan police arrest Dutch passport-holders

passport-holders at the border with Somalia. Three of the four were born in Morocco. The fourth was born ... Wikimedia Commons   (Africa, al-Shabaab, Dutch passport holders, Kenya, Kiunga, Somalia, Somalia ...

Passport to World Band Radio 2009

Passport to World Band Radio 2009 ... of Passport to World Band Radio was published in October 2008. Passport describes itself as the World's #1 ... high ratings. Passport has always been willing to tell it like it is - words like ‘lousy' and phrases ...

“Al-Qaeda practises beating body scanners”

the plane without a passport. We know for a FACT that he pulled explosive out and tried to ignite them ... of that, they let him board the plan WITHOUT A PASSPORT!! Okay so now the airport "tightened" it ... without either a Passport or Visa, while we get this treatment: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091227 ...

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