New, "More Secure" US NextGen Passport
Feb 4, 2015, 8:30 am
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You can easily read the chip yourself to verify it is working, the eMRTD standard including how to decrypt BAC is public knowledge. In the UK you can also stop by the Passport Office and they will verify that your chip works and let you see the data stored on it and how it works.
Feb 4, 2015, 8:44 am
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You can easily read the chip yourself to verify it is working, the eMRTD standard including how to decrypt BAC is public knowledge. In the UK you can also stop by the Passport Office and they will verify that your chip works and let you see the data stored on it and how it works.
Feb 4, 2015, 10:43 am
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No, per their site the stations are setup to only allow UK passports to read (it's a self-service affair). I've never tried them myself, but I guess they block them to UK passports (why would I try them? Your passport can easily be read with most modern phones except the iPhone).
Feb 4, 2015, 5:27 pm
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So there are still a very large number of non-RFID passports in circulation.
Feb 17, 2015, 1:39 pm
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The 52 page passport seems to me to be given to most of those who request it; but that said perhaps it's a product of my mostly seeing passports coming back from applications with a non-US address.
Feb 18, 2015, 1:08 am
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Mar 31, 2015, 9:02 pm
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http://www.jaunted.com/story/2015/3/...are+Going+Away has some interesting publicly-disseminated info from State about the page issue, including indication of how security worries have driven the change.
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Apr 1, 2015, 5:17 am
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Does anyone have an idea when the new passports might be seeing the light 
f day? All I've seen so far was "In 2016." I need either extra pages or a renewed passport within the next 9-12 months...
f day? All I've seen so far was "In 2016." I need either extra pages or a renewed passport within the next 9-12 months...
Apr 1, 2015, 5:57 am
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The new passport type won't be seeing the light of day until sometime in 2016, and the switch date is not yet close to being final. But renewing your passport now may not be a solution even if wanting additional page inserts -- I'm saying this because US passports issued since the fall of 2014 are no longer generally entitled to have additional page inserts.
Apr 18, 2015, 6:56 am
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If your passport was issued before October 2014 and you want extra pages inserted, the extra pages thing should be done sooner than later. The remaining page insert stock is limited, as is the use of that remaining insert stock; and once the remaining stock runs out, if not well before, the chances to get the inserts for even the current type of passport (issued pre-October 2014 and currently) will be further restricted so as to entirely remove the choice of "extra pages or a renewed passport".
The new passport type won't be seeing the light of day until sometime in 2016, and the switch date is not yet close to being final. But renewing your passport now may not be a solution even if wanting additional page inserts -- I'm saying this because US passports issued since the fall of 2014 are no longer generally entitled to have additional page inserts.
The new passport type won't be seeing the light of day until sometime in 2016, and the switch date is not yet close to being final. But renewing your passport now may not be a solution even if wanting additional page inserts -- I'm saying this because US passports issued since the fall of 2014 are no longer generally entitled to have additional page inserts.
Apr 19, 2015, 12:28 pm
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Apr 19, 2015, 1:04 pm
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It's no biggie if my US passport book expires. My US
passport card doesn't expire for a few more years.
I can also travel on my other two non-US passports.
To return to the US, I can just fly to Vancouver and
drive back to Seattle(or take the train), which only
requires a US passport card.
I just want to make sure that I receive the next-gen
US passport in 2016.
Apr 19, 2015, 7:37 pm
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As to pages, I do have the 52-page version (I do a lot of travelling), but with GE for the USA and SES for Korea, I am finding I am using fewer pages with the only problem of needing pages are with countries which issue full-page visas (China, Thailand, Sri Lanka, etc.). For China, thank goodness, I just got the 10-year visa so I don't need one each year.
Does anyone know (or guess) what the fee for the enhanced U.S. passport will be?
Does anyone know (or guess) what the fee for the enhanced U.S. passport will be?