>MY DAUGHTER will be visiting Silicon Valley and other places in the United States with her teachers and classmates for about two weeks in November.
We have recently been advised by an officer from the Singapore Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) that my daughter is required to change her current passport in order to enter the US.
This is because her passport, though machine-readable with a digital photograph, was issued in late April 2006 and is not a biometric passport.
If she did not change her passport, she would have to get a visa from the US Embassy to travel to the US, we were told.
However, according to the website of the US Embassy in Singapore, my daughter would be able to enter the US without a visa as she has a machine-readable (non-biometric) passport.
Similar advice was also found on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Singapore.
In view of the contradicting advice, could the relevant authorities clarify the situation?
Mr Teo Hui Kian
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