Smiling for your passport photo makes Big Brother sad

[Danzig]

Imagine being denied a passport for, of all things, your teeth. It could happen, but not because they're crooked. Under new rules for visa photographs that began this summer, the State Department doesn't want to see them at all

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/V/VISAS_NO_SMILES?SITE=MTGRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

 

[ylexot]

I thought that was always the rule.

 

[Toxick]

Imagine being denied a passport for, of all things, your teeth. It could happen, but not because they're crooked. Under new rules for visa photographs that began this summer, the State Department doesn't want to see them at all

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/V/VISAS_NO_SMILES?SITE=MTGRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

This... THIS is what happens when you're a toothpaste industry CEO and you piss off the Bush Administration!!