What are the new regulations for travellers to the USA?
Answer 4 – If your flights require you to travel to or transit via the United States, please ensure you check with the US Embassy in advance of travel to ensure you comply with their new requirements. If you do not have the correct documents, your airline will not permit you to travel. Since the 26th October 2004, all British passport holders, including children, travelling to the USA under the VWP (Visa Waiver Programme) need their own machine-readable passports (MRP). This means that anyone without a MRP, including children who are currently on a parent s passport, will need a visa to travel to the USA. A British Passport is machine-readable when the white strip at the foot of the personal data page (at the back of the passport) bears two lines of print. If there’s no white strip, or the white strip is blank, then the passport is not machine-readable. All British Passports currently issued in the UK, and the vast majority of those issued at British Missions overseas, are machine-read
