So everything we’ve been hearing about the renewed passport by hand and the Biometric passports being rolled out is wrong. I traveled with a renewed by hand passport without anyone stopping me and I just got a new passport for 5 years without anyone warning me about the new Biometric passport.
I thought we were only allowed to renew the passport for 1 year but apparently that’s not the case. Now we have to wait and see if the authorities are going to force us to switch to biometric passports once they are out.
I don’t agree with you Najib, starting June 1st you can’t use anymore the renewed passport by hand in any airport, i don’t know about Lebanon but i asked here in Dubai and it will not be allowed anymore, you cannot travel with it, and even now we have problems here while checking in if our passport is renewed by hand and it happened with me, i think also in US and Europe it will not be allowed too.
Charbel,
I got a new passport just to be on the safe side cause mich mafhoum chi ba2a
Are you sure of what you’re saying ? Am travelling in May to the US and I do not want to have any problems, coming back in May too.
But if someone is currently abroad, they can go back to Lebanon using a manually renewed passport, no?
Biometric passports are not going to become mandatory anytime soon, there is no treaty setting the date yet.
Charbel,
I’ve been flying in and out of Dubai on a weekly basis to Beirut and Cairo no one ever mentioned anything about my handwritten renewal. I was about to get a new passport but the amn 3am at the Beirut airport told me they are no longer forcing us to change… not sure what kind of issues you’re having in Dubai, I haven’t faced any…