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Did anyone get new E-Passport?
- Thread starter MJA
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Al Southner
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E-Passport Info.
Guys,
It seems as you will be issued a new E-passport as per this memo to the public.
Congratulations....
Media Note
Office of the Spokesman
Washington, DC
August 14, 2006
Department of State Begins Issuing Electronic Passports to the Public
To enhance border security and to facilitate travel, the Department of State began issuing Electronic Passports (e-passports) to the public today. Production has started at the Colorado Passport Agency and will be expanded to other production facilities over the next few months.
Consistent with globally interoperable specifications adopted by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), this next generation of the U.S. passport includes biometric technology. A contactless chip in the rear cover of the passport will contain the same data as that found on the biographic data page of the passport (name, date of birth, gender, place of birth, dates of passport issuance and expiration, passport number), and will also include a digital image of the bearer’s photograph.
The Department of State has employed a multi-layered approach to protect the privacy of the information and to mitigate the chances of the electronic data being skimmed (unauthorized reading) or eavesdropped (intercepting communication of the transmission of data between the chip and the reader by unintended recipients). Metallic anti-skimming material incorporated into the front cover and spine of the e-passport book prevents the chip from being skimmed, or read, when the book is fully closed; Basic Access Control (BAC) technology, which requires that the data page be read electronically to generate a key that unlocks the chip, will prevent skimming and eavesdropping; and a randomized unique identification (RUID) feature will mitigate the risk that an e-passport holder could be tracked. To prevent alteration or modification of the data on the chip, and to allow authorities to validate and authenticate the data, the information on the chip will include an electronic signature (PKI).
The Department of State is confident that the new e-passport, including biometrics and other improvements, will take security and travel facilitation to a new level.
For more information about the Electronic Passport, please visit the Bureau of Consular Affairs’ website at http://travel.state.gov.
2006/752
Released on August 14, 2006
Guys,
It seems as you will be issued a new E-passport as per this memo to the public.
Congratulations....
Media Note
Office of the Spokesman
Washington, DC
August 14, 2006
Department of State Begins Issuing Electronic Passports to the Public
To enhance border security and to facilitate travel, the Department of State began issuing Electronic Passports (e-passports) to the public today. Production has started at the Colorado Passport Agency and will be expanded to other production facilities over the next few months.
Consistent with globally interoperable specifications adopted by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), this next generation of the U.S. passport includes biometric technology. A contactless chip in the rear cover of the passport will contain the same data as that found on the biographic data page of the passport (name, date of birth, gender, place of birth, dates of passport issuance and expiration, passport number), and will also include a digital image of the bearer’s photograph.
The Department of State has employed a multi-layered approach to protect the privacy of the information and to mitigate the chances of the electronic data being skimmed (unauthorized reading) or eavesdropped (intercepting communication of the transmission of data between the chip and the reader by unintended recipients). Metallic anti-skimming material incorporated into the front cover and spine of the e-passport book prevents the chip from being skimmed, or read, when the book is fully closed; Basic Access Control (BAC) technology, which requires that the data page be read electronically to generate a key that unlocks the chip, will prevent skimming and eavesdropping; and a randomized unique identification (RUID) feature will mitigate the risk that an e-passport holder could be tracked. To prevent alteration or modification of the data on the chip, and to allow authorities to validate and authenticate the data, the information on the chip will include an electronic signature (PKI).
The Department of State is confident that the new e-passport, including biometrics and other improvements, will take security and travel facilitation to a new level.
For more information about the Electronic Passport, please visit the Bureau of Consular Affairs’ website at http://travel.state.gov.
2006/752
Released on August 14, 2006
Most of the passports are still regular. The only agency that issues them is Colorado Agency. I heard that Boston, Washington DC and Philadephia also started issuing e-passports couple of weeks ago. Three weeks ago I got my sons passport, and it was regular, not the e-passport. I am awaiting for mine in a couple of weeks, I strongly doubt it will be an e-passport.
So far, about 40 000 (ONLY) e-passports have been issued. I think only e-passports will be possible from mid 2007.
So far, about 40 000 (ONLY) e-passports have been issued. I think only e-passports will be possible from mid 2007.
jimmy777777
Registered Users (C)
E-Passport
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Did anyone get e-passport ever ?
Thanks/ J7
itc said:Most of the passports are still regular. The only agency that issues them is Colorado Agency. I heard that Boston, Washington DC and Philadephia also started issuing e-passports couple of weeks ago. Three weeks ago I got my sons passport, and it was regular, not the e-passport. I am awaiting for mine in a couple of weeks, I strongly doubt it will be an e-passport.
So far, about 40 000 (ONLY) e-passports have been issued. I think only e-passports will be possible from mid 2007.
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Did anyone get e-passport ever ?
Thanks/ J7
jimmy777777 said:==========================================
Did anyone get e-passport ever ?
Thanks/ J7
I think you can arrive yourself at the answer. If you look at the US goverment official statistics
http://travel.state.gov/passport/services/stats/stats_890.html
For the year of 2006 more than 12 million passport are issued. If in a three to four month period , since august only 40 000 e-passport have been issued we can assume that is about 1% of the total number of passports issued.
At any given time, on the US citizenship forum there is about 100 to 200 members. You can estimate that from the highest numbers of views a specific topic generates. Especially if the topic is new, without answers and had been there for few days.
If the average wait time to become a citizen is 6 months, it follows, that on this board, 1 or maybe 2 persons have gotten the e-passport. However, once US citizen, minority continue to come to this forum and inform the others so it is probably very hard to hear from somebody.
If by the end of the year 10% of all the passports are e-passport, maybe we can hear from somebody soon.
All the best.