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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
No passport machines in 1992.
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"In 1986, the United States announced the US Visa Waiver Program. The UK was the first country to join the scheme in 1988; however, a requirement was that the traveller hold a machine-readable passport. On 15 August 1988, the Glasgow passport office became the first to issue burgundy-coloured machine-readable passports."