British Ambassador to the United States, Sir David Manning, ...

3rd Nov 2005, 13:02 GMT

(AP) - British Ambassador to the United States, Sir David Manning, shows, his new high-tech passport, the first of the United Kingdom's new-style, biometric European Union passports, embedded with a microchip, at the British Consulate, Monday, Oct. 24, 2005 in Washington. The occasion was the first U.S. pilot of the U.K.'s biometric passport program. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)