Children travelling to US will require their own passport

PARENTS of toddlers travelling to the United States later this year will have to buy individual passports for their children under new regulations being introduced by Washington.

From October 1 next, all Irish passport holders visiting the US will require an individual machine readable passport to avail of the US visa waiver programme. Otherwise they must obtain a visa, in advance, from their nearest US Diplomatic or Consular Mission.

Children, including infants, who are endorsed on a parent's passport must have an individual machine readable passport or else obtain a visa in the parent's passport.