Machine readable passport

[aquagemini]

Hi Guys

I recently went to the US (from Canada) and I have Indian Passport. The immigration officer told me that from this fall machine readable passports will be required! As we all have hand written passports I wonder if anybody has any information about this and/or has the MEA in good old Mother India have started issuing machine readable passports?


thanks

 

[nkm-oct23]

Hi Guys

I recently went to the US (from Canada) and I have Indian Passport. The immigration officer told me that from this fall machine readable passports will be required! As we all have hand written passports I wonder if anybody has any information about this and/or has the MEA in good old Mother India have started issuing machine readable passports?


thanks

Only for visa waiver countries. India is not one of them. If you have a recently issued US visa then you are OK.
The idea is to have at least one machine readable document, either a US visa (which is machine readable) or, if your country is under US visa waiver, a passport with that capability.
India has started issuing MR passports since last year. However I think the passports issued by Indian consulates have not yet transitioned to machine readable types.