U.S. Delays Biometric Passport Plan
According to this report, (My Way News - U.S. to Delay Stricter Passport Standards), "The Bush administration is putting off plans that could have required visitors from friendly nations to show passports with fingerprint and iris scan information by this fall. Instead, foreigners from 27 counties currently not required to apply for U.S. visas will only need to carry passports with tamperproof digitized photos by Oct. 26, administration and congressional officials said Tuesday." The technology is here, they just got ahead of both the infrastructure and the political will on the part of other governments to make it happen.