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Old Jun 27, 2017 | 5:41 pm
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Originally Posted by rhivolution
Can anyone shed any light on the RFID chips, and whether they need to be functioning to gain entry to the US? I've been told several times by UK border staff that I cannot go to the US with a broken chip.
Don't worry about it. I'd say a solid 5% of chip passports worldwide probably don't work. In fact within the five eyes group (Canada, US, Australia, NZ and the UK), passports can verified electronically anyway just with the machine readable zone. Passport/document scanners will automatically fall back if no chip is read.
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