Your title said "GOP ready for next gen us passport production" -- it's GPO, not GOP. Government Publishing Office (fka Government Printing Office), as opposed to GOP (Grand Old Party, aka Republican Party).

Fixed.

TWA884
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Does that imply anything new? They won't be available for a while anyway, right?

The consulate here is not accepting routine applications either way, so we will see when a renewal is in the books.

Passports issued last week in the US are from the same passport blank stock as that used last year too.

That report does publicly indicate that State has not yet ordered (from GPO) the next generation passport blanks for common use.

I expect to see passport costs to be hiked up as a result of the next generation passport, whether at the same time as the change or some time after that.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/govtrib...mma17d0163/amp

So this contract is now fully obligated. All orders should be complete by about September of next year. Looks like they may have pushed everything out by a year because of Covid (may have had an intro of the next gen passport this year). Assuming no more extensions, I would guess the next gen passport is unveiled next year and in full circulation in 2022. But with the way this program is going, who can say when it will ever actually happen.

https://www.oversight.gov/sites/defa...o.%2020-06.pdf

This may have been posted already, but GPO seems to be ready to go. Just waiting on Dept. of State to be ready and place an order. Have to imagine this will be in issue in the next two years.

Well, renewing my and my daughter's passports in two weeks. Better get it over with. I just wish I could get a thin one, especially since we're unlikely to travel... at all... and need basically zero passport pages, but people applying abroad are given the fat ones by default now it seems.

Just curious, did you wind up getting the new secure passport?

As of April 2020, the plan was to issue next generation Official and Diplomatic passports in 1Q 21

https://www.gpo.gov/docs/default-sou...nce-report.pdf

Hah, nope. I got a fat 52 page monstrosity.

That's pretty much standard issue for passport applications submitted outside of the US.

Yeah I know and I hate it. We don't need so many pages and we have 6 passports to carry so the thinner the better. But alas there are no exceptions. Kinda dumb. Keep the large book as standard abroad but if an applicant requests a small one, it should be an option.

Government efficiency at its best!

6 years later and we are still in the same situation as post #1.

I will be shock if they introduce the new passport this year.

Efficiency at its best when it comes to this kind of thing. I am expecting the "more secure" US passports to driver forward higher passport prices somewhat sooner than would be the case if we were to stick to what is already common.