Biometric Passports

alooparatha · February 28, 2005, 9:41pm

Re: Biometric Passports

mAd_ScIeNtIsT:

That’s wrong. It’s only if you have a passport issued AFTER October 2005 that it must be Biometric.

My British passport was Issued in early October 2004 and can travel to the USA on it until October 2009.

http://www.ukpa.gov.uk/news/news.asp?intElement=808

US law originally required that travellers under the Visa Waiver Programme carrying passports issued after 26 October 2004 would need to hold biometric passports. The President has agreed a one-year deferral of this requirement, to October 2005.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and UK Passport Service (UKPS) welcome this decision, which will now enable British travellers with valid machine-readable passports issued before the new deadline to travel to the US under the Visa Waiver Programme up to, and beyond, October 2005

Therefore if I get a new passport tomorrow, I can travel to USA without a visa under the visa waiver programme, until its expiry date? Do I still need to give my fingerprints.