Chipped passport needed for USA

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DaveW
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Chipped passport needed for USA

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If Brits (and other foreign nationals?) want to go to the USA make sure you have the latest type chipped biometric passport, since though the older ones are valid elsewhere America no longer accepts them:-

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ne ... ng-7900303" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Most people will now have biometric passports unless they are nearing their renewal date. No doubt other countries will soon reciprocate and also require American travellers to all have E-Passports too. Here's how to check:-

https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-tell-if ... e-readable" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Yeah I got one of those already I was not impressed especially as I have only even been to cypress another eu country. Anyway if the brexit crew get their way a chipped passport will be the least of our worries, if you got a passport at least you have the option to leave.
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Re: Chipped passport needed for USA

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I also had only been to Spain, another EU country, before I went to Chile. But with a British passport in Chile there was no problem and I did not even have to apply for a visa in advance, just given one for free on entry. I think the EU would also be the same after a Brexit. Maybe different if you want to go and work or live on the Continent rather than just holiday there, but I do not.

In fact in Chile a man saw us walking down the street in Vicuna, stopped his car in the middle of the road and asked if we were English and then welcomed us to Chile. Why the English look different from American's I don't know, perhaps the Americans always wear Stetsons and never walk? A goat herder saw us looking for plants in the middle of nowhere and showed us where some others were then invited all seven of us home for a meal. We found the Chileans very friendly. Even a chap driving one of the ore lorries from the mines saw us on a hillside stopped and told us where there were some more plants.

Without wanting to be overtly political I would not worry Ade, at the moment it's all anti Brexit posturing on the parts of the Continental governments and the "Remainers" since the UK being the worlds fifth or ninth largest economy, depending who you believe, it is too big a market for the EU or any other trading country to ignore. Certainly for the EU to start erecting tariff barriers against us since we import more from them than they buy from us so would be counter productive since they would be "cutting off their noses to spite their face" because we would obviously reciprocate and therefore they have far more to loose.

What the EU bureaucrats and politicians are really worried about is they may not be able to "keep their snouts in the trough" if Britain leaves since all the other countries my call for radical reforms too, which may mean the end of their jobs and the "gravy train" for them..

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/201 ... ts-record/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

https://fullfact.org/economy/uk-worlds- ... t-economy/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Personally I don't think we have to worry either way, Brexit or no Brexit, since after the financial market runs around like "headless chickens" for a while it will be back to normal again within a short time. In fact it may affect the EU more than the UK long term. As to a trade agreement with America, neither we or the EU now has one and we are still trading and have been for centuries. The America/EU Free Trade Agreement is pretty well dead in the water anyway. A free trade agreement with Britain outside the EU is more likely for America since too many German and French voters are now against it for their politicians to ignore and still expect to get re-elected:-

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-trade ... L720151010" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 11986.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/04/news/ec ... tip-trump/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Rather than the UK being at the back of the queue for a US Trade agreement it looks like it will be America at the back of the queue with an EU one. But these agreements are redundant anyway as trade between the UK, America and the EU will continue as at present, Brexit or no Brexit.
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