ICAO standard for machine-readable passports made mandatory

Machine-readable passports in the format specified by ICAO became the worldwide standard effective yesterday, the organization announced from Montreal. The 188 member nations of ICAO have agreed that all must begin issuing ICAO-standard MRPs no later than April 1, 2010. Some 110 nations already do...

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