Millions of visitors from key U.S. allies may soon need visas for the United States because their countries will miss a second deadline to include high-tech security features in new passports, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday.
The expected failure by the majority of the 27 so-called visa waiver countries to embed a digital photograph in all new passports from Oct. 26 would cause consular nightmares, and travel industry sources say it could cost the U.S. economy billion of dollars in missed travel spending.
The majority of the visa waiver countries are not going to be producing (the biometric) passports by that deadline, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Janice Jacobs told Reuters in an interview.
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