Originally Posted by
Valerian
Agreed. Am not surprised you got the ePassport and not the NextGen passport. They have just announced it and have contracts to produce equipment through about March of 2022. In addition, BoE&P and DoS planning and budget documents state that they were planning to complete the rollout in FY 2022 (October 2021 to September 2022). I think by next summer the NextGen passport will be the solely issued version. It will be predominantly the old version now, with a very gradual shift over a year.
I'm actually glad I got the ePassport. I don't much care for the look of the NextGen one. Also, my other passport (Norwegian) has a polycarbonate biodata page. Not only did that cause me problems back in the day (early polycarbonate pages got brittle with age and would come loose from the passport,) it also makes the passport bulkier. It may be more secure, though.