As many as 80,000 British travellers planning to visit the US possess “the wrong kind of passport” - and face being turned away from their transatlantic flight.
A rule change, quietly introduced last month, obliges anyone seeking to visit America without a visa to have a biometric passport.
But not all airlines and holiday firms have warned their customers, leading to passengers being denied boarding at check-in - causing family trips to be split up, and triggering costs of hundreds of pounds.
If it was issued from 2007 onwards, it is biometric - i.e. with an embedded chip that contains your personal details including your face geometry (scanned from your passport photo).
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