Originally Posted by
Scubatooth
rally
My passport got a mallet taken to it the day it arrived, and i can tell you that the chip inside doesnt work(no visable damage) because most customs personel mutter under there breath that the chip doesnt work and how much of a pain it is to do there job manually.
I went through IAD a couple of weeks ago and they did not use the chip. All they did was to read the machine readable part and when I asked I got the impression that they are not set up to read the chip yet.