Jurassic passport

A passport crisis looms in the Philippines following an admission by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) that the country’s supply of passports will last only up to June this year.

No problem. Use Filipino ingenuity. Get those Xerox photocopy machines ready!

Next time you get a new passport, check if the paper is plain bond paper.

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Still on passports, the Philippines has found itself in the not so enviable company of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cyprus, Mauritania, Nepal, Chad, Togo, Tunisia and Guinea-Bissau.

These are the countries that still do not have modern machine-readable passports.

As such, Filipinos may soon find it hard to enter the United States, European and other countries using modern passport-checking machines.

The Philippines has again made a name for itself as the only country in Asia with a “Jurassic” passport, one senator commented.

Oh yes, it’s still the Jurassic age in the Philippines. Some of the crocodiles are just pretending to be politicians.