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UK: 10,000 passports issued to fraudsters

01 March 2007

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BBC (link)

Statement from Immigration and Nationality Department on: Interviews to target passport fraud begin (link)

These figures as the result of a "sampling exercise" and are therefore only indicative for a single year. It should be noted that it will take more than ten years, from 2008, for all passports to be replaced with biometric (fingerprints) documents.

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