Then the system asked me to insert my passport so it could optically scan the special set of letters to identify me with the system and transmit the data to the Department of Homeland Security.

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Then on Wednesday, Switzerland, not a member of the EU but part of its passport-free travel zone, invoked a special safeguard clause that allows it to cap the number of workers from 28 European countries.

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People without a passport or driving licence are required to get a special identification card.

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The passport would then have to be swiped through a special reader in order to unlock the chip so that it could be read.

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Flintoff and Neil Fairbrother (23) added 96 for the fourth wicket, followed by a useful 42 from Australian all-rounder Joe Scuderi, who has been granted a special English Cricket Board (ECB) registration as a non-overseas player because he holds an Italian passport.

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