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Number of passports issued in 2007, an all-time high, due in part to new rules requiring a passport for travel to Canada and Mexico; 30% of Americans now hold passports...
...Granada, which ruled in a 2-1 split decision to absolve him of all charges, while upholding the sentence against Chamorro. Yet before Volz's release papers could be signed, his voluminous case file was mysteriously "lost," prompting his lawyers to cry foul. In the meantime, even though his passport has been ordered returned to him, he has not been allowed out of jail and cannot leave Nicaragua because the judge at his original trial has not signed off on the release order...
...They might have carried off the scam, but Darwin, an avid outdoorsman, was, "going stir crazy" trapped in the house, she said. In 2004, the Mirror reported, the couple decided to move abroad. Darwin obtained a passport under the name of John Jones, and traveled to Cyprus and Gibraltar before the couple settled on an apartment in Panama...
...Police believe Darwin, 57, staged his death to collect a life insurance policy that would erase mounting debts accrued through his failing apartment rental business. On Saturday, he was charged with life insurance fraud and making false statements to procure a passport. He will appear Monday before a magistrate's court in Hartlepool, near the couple's home in Seaton Carew, in northeastern England. Darwin could face up to 10 years for the fraud charge, a spokesman for the Crown Prosecution service told TIME...
...Governor Spitzer’s plan involves the issuance of three different licenses. The first, for residents, would be sufficient ID for domestic flights, the second would allow New Yorkers to cross into Canada without a passport, and the third, for illegal immigrants—or, in Democratic parlance, “undocumented workers” —could only be used for identification, driving, and obtaining auto insurance...