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Monday 24th July 2006
Fees for the biometric ePassport, the most secure passport ever produced
by the UK, were published today, as the Identity and Passport Service
(IPS) announced that over a million ePassports have now been issued.
The new fees will come into effect from 5 October 2006. This completes
a two-stage fee...
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Friday 10th March 2006
To combat the increased sophistication of identity fraud, the UK Passport Service as part of the strengthening of its identity authentication arrangements, from 10 March will check the information provided by adult first-time applicants against data held by public and private sector organisations...
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Monday 17th October 2005
The ´Civil Partnership Act´ came into force on 5 December 2005. The Act allows for adults of the same sex to enter into a legally binding civil partnership. Couples who form a civil partnership will have a new legal status, that of ´civil partner´. The UKPS will accept civil partnership certificates...
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Monday 12th September 2005
A roadshow to raise awareness amongst current and future passport holders about the introduction of biometrics and how they are recorded was launched in Manchester today.
Members of the public will be able to have their irises and fingerprints recorded as part of the UK Passport Service (UKPS) awareness...
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Thursday 16th June 2005
For the second year in succession, UK Passport Service (UKPS) received the best rating for overall customer satisfaction in our CompariSat® benchmark which was extended in 2005 to cover over 35 major private and public sector organisations.
To find out more visit the FDS website...
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Thursday 26th May 2005
The Government has announced plans for a compulsory national identity cards scheme. The scheme is to be phased in over a number of years and will include basic personal information and biometric identifiers. These unique biometric identifiers (such as iris pattern or fingerprints) will help prevent...
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Tuesday 8th February 2005
The UK Passport Service is including Welsh and Scottish Gaelic in passports for the first time when the new biometric passports are introduced from autumn this year. This means that the languages will appear in the newly designed passport alongside other EU member state languages. They will not however...
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Tuesday 21st December 2004
Since 1 January 2005, the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2000 now gives you the right to request any information held by the UKPS, or any other public body. We will respond to your request within 20 working days. Most documented information will be eligible for release, expect that which falls under...
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Wednesday 13th October 2004
Britain´s wartime generation are set to receive free passports from next week, the Home Secretary, David Blunkett, announced today.
In recognition of the sacrifices made by World War II veterans and civilians, every British Citizen born on or before 2 September 1929 will, from this Monday, no longer...
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Thursday 7th October 2004
From 26 October 2004, if you are planning a trip to the US, make sure that you and your children each have your own machine-readable passport.
From this date British visitors travelling to the USA under the Visa Waiver Programme (VWP) must have their own machine-readable passport. Anyone without their...
