Travelling with a weak passport requires more effort, time and money.
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Citizenship as reparation must not translate into citizenship as entitlement.
The European Union must review and reform its visa policies.
Primary identities are foundational and serve as the core part of an individual’s identity.
Precautions taken in response to COVID-19 explain some but not all of the recent long delays in getting a passport.
A passport from the United Arab Emirates will get you into far more destinations than one from Afghanistan. Gaps like this have big implications for people’s ability to travel, reside and work.
The cost of the Australian biometric passport and the rigour involved in obtaining one can be traced to our participation in an international passport system that evolved over the last century.
When it comes to civil registrations, some states are using exclusionary mechanisms to block anyone it considers undesirable, as happened to Dominicans of Haitian descent.
To make sure the COVID rollout is accessible to all people living in Australia, the government should consider a migrant amnesty.
When the standard evidence of identity isn’t enough to justify an Australian citizenship, DNA tests are requested.
Even the world’s best available training – used to train police, border control agents and other security personnel – does not compensate for natural talent in face recognition.
How did governments get the power to limit people’s movements in the first place? A historian explains.
It’s not as simple as just hiring more immigration officers.
Researchers are looking for ways to improve our ability to recognise and match faces.
Big brother is not watching you … yet.
In the 20th century, governments considered the “total abolition” of passports as an important goal and discussed the issue in several international conferences.
International reporting of the Caribbean country’s migrant crisis is in danger of missing the point of what the authorities have actually done.
Staff responsible for issuing passports are no better than the average person at identifying if someone is holding a fake passport photo, my colleagues and I report in a study published in PLOS ONE today…
The search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared close to a week ago, is yet to find any conclusive trace of the missing aircaft. But the revelation that two Iranian passengers on the flight…
It has emerged that two of the passengers on the missing flight MH370 were travelling on stolen passports. Initially this was thought to suggest that terrorism might be involved in the disappearance, but…
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