Originally Posted by
GUWonder
If they boost the speed of a full transition to only NGP type passports, the costs would skyrocket even faster for us applicants — both financially and in terms of time to get a valid passport back.
Given the long set “user fee” mentality — set in by quasi/faux”-budget hawks” — that is had when it comes to providing services such as US passports, this is the result. “Starve the (federal government) beast” this way has its consequences. And personally, I don’t see any downside to still getting the legacy generation version of the US passport.
Don’t agree. DoS has witnessed large budget increases of late. And consular services in particular got rather large increases. It is taking nearly ten years to roll this program out where less developed countries are taking a few short years to launch. There has been massive schedule slippage. Some European countries redesign their polycarbonate passports every 5 years. A far better explanation is just serial incompetence, lack of proper program oversight and accountability.
Last edited by Valerian; Aug 26, 2022 at 7:08 am