In more efforts to keep the process honest, CAAs have to meet new requirements, including formal forensic training (very CSI of them) and stronger due diligence standards.

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Tim Connors served as an Army officer in Afghanistan and now works for CAAS LLC, a New York-based consulting company that, among other things, trains police officers.

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This includes Certifying Acceptance Agents (CAAs) who can certify to the IRS that they have verified the authenticity of the documents, like passports, so those original documents will not have to be mailed.

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The US is one of the last places to not allow transmitting electronics in-flight. (And only recently the FAA is coming under pressure by the airlines themselves so they can turn a higher profit with these additional systems) But it has been happening for awhile now with the other authorities, ie- EASA, CAAS, so on.

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