Public sentiment is largely negative regarding the e-passport rollout, with many expressing frustration over the slow implementation, ongoing corruption, and inefficiencies in the process. While there is some enthusiasm for the technology itself, skepticism about its effectiveness and concerns over privacy and quality control dominate the discussions.

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Why is the design  not on the centre man and the quality of the front page design doesn't look great as the previous one.

x-ahmed

Sttoliver

Can’t wait to apply for the new biometric passport.

WestwardWave

Why material looks so cheap?no offense,just asking

zzettaaaa

Stitchings* not stockings my bad, also can you edit a post here on Reddit? If so please show me how!

Alldayproductive

did they remove details from last page or they still have address there?

Outside-Carrot3587

SG’s passport is also 64 pages and has the thick polycarbonate biopage. It’s really thick and holds like a book or a small journal.

poginmydog

Congrats. Now you can enter the United States by just waving the passport.

uniktek

Is the bio page polycarbonate made like a thick plastic?

bombosch

Like I said in the other sub the new one seems even lower quality; misaligned and smudged right outta the printer. No wonder this costs like 10 bucks.

lostdawnking

marshallre

I hope the binding of the pages us much stronger/better than before. Spines of my two previous jumbo passports became loose much before time and I had to replace those passports. It was a real loss of money/time for me.

Alone_Cod_577

Has anyone received e-passport from India's Hyderabad RPO ?

No-Wind-6235

I got mine today and the page quality and overall finish has taken a dive. The perforated passport number also has some color bleeding.

useoneoftheses

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kaizen1407

Are there any other differences in this one? Such as aesthetic or any security features or are the insides the exact same

Worldly-Basil-5687

Yes it rolled out ALL ACROSS India As well as at embassies and consulates

ScholarSolid1000

As an international airport check in human, Indian passports are of the worst quality of any I’ve seen so far, worse than Syria and Afghanistan’s IMO. The total lack of quality control can be an issue for us as sometimes passports won’t swipe (and I once had an Indian passport that had the MRZ ink smudged so that it wouldn’t swipe and had a ‘3rd line’ inbetween the 2 that are meant to be there)

Vectron383

Any other differences in the interior design between the new and old one?

Dangerous_Luck9510

Finally! But still the quality is extremely low.

After years the added it, the design of the passport is still bad.

AnshJP

which place did u apply from? I applied mine a week ago in London, England; hoping to get an e-passport 🥲

Deep_Many2226

Difficult_Point_1

The alignment seems to be fixed now, that's nice to see

Funny_Newspaper_377

KD_kedar

The pages are the same with the previous one ?

Please post some pictures from inside as well if you don't mind

Ok-Dentist6650

This looks good after they fixed the alignment!

peshgeek

Affectionate_Sock807

I know someone who had s really hard time entering the US on this new passport. The issue was that the passport number is now 2 letters + 6 digits compared to 1 letter + 7 digits. Most of the scanners at the airport did not recognize the passport at all. Also, it was impossible to fill in the passport number in the payroll/tax software for the same reason

OkContribution9835

Biometric passport or E passport, is the only option in most EU countries

thothasking

I was at tokyo with my non biometric passport so the staff asked me to go to a manual gate. Surprisingly that queue was much shorter and I was able to get it done much faster 😂😂

MoonPieVishal

It would be worthwhile and hassle-free if EU, Schengen, or UK/UAE, etc., countries agreed to allow the use of e-gates.

MrGadgetGuy

It will only make it faster when there are also e-passport gates. As we still have to go through human immigration gates, it makes no difference in the time taken

Commercial-carrot-7

There are 2 aspects. One is that the biometric passport may be allowed through e-gates for immigration in various countries. This can save some time compared to needing to speak with an immigration officer. However, note that in most places around the world, the list of which nationalities are allowed to use the e-gates keeps changing, is not consistent (often times it will only list 3-4 countries apart from Schengen, like Japan or Canada), and even if you go through the e-gates, in some places (AMS, etc.) you may need to stop by a kiosk on one side to get a rubber stamp in your passport and potentially answer a question or two  at random. So the total time saved - as average statistical expectation - may not be that great. If the e-gates are available to you, then great. Lots of times, they won't be. 

The other aspect then is when you use the biometric passport when speaking with an immigration official, or checking in with the airline staff. Reading the data from the chip is only marginally faster than scanning the pages or machine-readable codes on the passport data pages anyway, so it's not going to materially make things faster. 

The real utility to the authorities in having a biometric passport is a lowered risk of fraud, as the chip is supposed to be harder to fake than the data pages of a passport. "Speed" was never really the primary objective with which biometric passports were developed by any country, even though the PR emphasizes that.

GrumpyOldSophon

India initiates the rollout of next-generation e-passports, enhancing immigration security and efficiency.

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