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The New U.S. Passport: Stars and Stripes, Wrapped in the Same Old Blue

Neil MacFarquhar writes in The New York Times:

When Americans do open their new passports, they’ll see a document strikingly different from the old booklet. By July, all applicants will get the new design, with the State Department expecting to issue a record 17 million passports this year, up from last year’s record of 12 million.

The new passport, in the works for about six years, incorporates the first complete redesign since 1993. Given new international standards for post-9/11 high-tech security features, which transform the document into an “E-passport,” the State Department decided it was time for something completely different.

posted by Fergie @ 4/28/2007 10:26:00 PM