Once upon a time, babies and children traveling abroad could simply be listed in their parents’ passports, and women often shared the husband’s passport. Such “family passports” were meant to make it easier for families traveling together to pass through border control. However, as technology developed, the concept of machine readable passports promised to speed up the flow of border control. Such passports, especially with the introduction of biometrics stored on a chip, could best be implemented with the “one passport, one person” concept.
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