Originally Posted by r22r44bell47

Interestingly my wife just got the ESTA status change mail, but we renewed her passport a couple of months back for just this reason and she has a shiny new chipped passport that was used to enter the US last week... one assumes that CBP are just sending shotgun-type e-mails out to anyone who has or used to have an ESTA in a non-chipped passport irrespective of whether it has been replaced and a new ESTA obtained. A simple filter on the database might have saved some temporary anxiety (in this household at least)