How to avoid post-Brexit passport chaos: Simon Calder answers your questions

Get Simon Calder’s travel emails SecondPost-Brexit, British travelers to the EU will face stricter passport validity rules that could ruin your holiday if caught. Gone are the days when you could travel to the EU at any time before your travel document expired; the UK is now a “third country” with rules in place. EU … Read more

Banned from Europe: 2.4 million Britons caught in post-Brexit passport chaos

Sign up to our Brexit emails for the latest insights Post-Brexit passport rules, which ban millions of Britons from entering the EU, will cause chaos over the Easter holidays. As the holidays officially begin on Thursday, an estimated 2.4 million travelers have documents that cannot be used to travel to the EU due to changes … Read more

Banned from Europe: 2.4 million Britons caught in post-Brexit passport chaos

Sign up to our Brexit emails for the latest insights Post-Brexit passport rules, which ban millions of Britons from entering the EU, will cause chaos over the Easter holidays. As the holidays officially begin on Thursday, an estimated 2.4 million travelers have documents that cannot be used to travel to the EU due to changes … Read more

How to avoid passport chaos caused by post-Brexit rule changes

Get Simon Calder’s travel emails timeSince Brexit, UK rules on the validity of passports for EU tourists have tightened. Now, data from the Ministry of Interior obtained by the British Broadcasting Corporation suggests as many as 32 million people could be trapped. After the UK leaves the EU, British travelers become “third country nationals”, along … Read more

Fake passport case: Three among four policemen detained by Telangana CID

Passport and immigration authorities have been informed to take necessary action Hyderabad: The Telangana Crime Investigation Department (CID) on Monday said it has arrested four more people, including three assistant sub-inspectors (ASI), in connection with the fake passport case, taking the total number of arrests to 22. In addition to the 18 accused arrested earlier, … Read more

Indian American pleads guilty to naturalization and passport fraud

The man faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison. Washington: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says an Indian-American man has pleaded guilty to obtaining U.S. citizenship through fraudulent documents and lying. Following an investigation by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Jaiprakash Gulvady, 51, now living in Florida, pleaded guilty to unlawfully obtaining citizenship … Read more

This passport is the rarest in the world, only 500 people on earth own it

The Knights of Malta issued the first passports in the 1300s It is generally accepted that some passports carry more clout than others. Take the Japanese passport, for example, which is known as one of the most powerful global entry tools on the planet. Japanese passport holders can travel to 194 countries around the world … Read more

Russian man who flew to US without passport or ticket convicted of federal crime

The date of hearing on the sentence has been fixed for February 5. A Russian man who flew to the United States without a visa, passport or ticket has been found guilty of aircraft theft in a United States federal court. BBC, Sergei Ochigawa, 46, was convicted by a jury in a California court on … Read more