The United States Homeland Security Secretary, Michael Chertoff, has expressed disappointment with moves in Congress to postpone new passport requirements for Americans until June 2009. He said a delay would create a window of vulnerability for the US. The House of Representatives voted on Friday to put back the rules by 17 months, while a Senate committee also supports a postponement. The rules requiring Americans to carry passports when returning from the Caribbean and other destinations in the Americas, is part of a broader package of immigration reforms enacted after the September 11, 2001 attacks. However, its implementation has got off to a rocky start as a large number of passport requests created a backlog in the sytem. Reprinted from bbccaribbean.com