BANGALORE: Are you holding a 20-year passport and planning a quick US trip?


Then apply for a fresh passport, instead of the US visa, and be ready to shell out the fee. Puzzled?

The US government has announced that any citizen travelling to the US needs to hold a passport which has a maximum tenure of 10 years.

Though the Indian government has been issuing 10-year-validity passports, it issued some passports with 20-year validity for frequent travellers.

Now many techies who travel frequently to the US on work have been forced to postpone their trip.

Says an employee at iFlex Solutions, "I was supposed to be in the US for an assignment.

"Now I'm forced to apply for a fresh passport though I was issued one with a 20-year validity in 2000."
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1079683.cms

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