The Design of Your Passport is About to Change
Submitted by Wanderlust Andi
U.S. passports are going to be different soon. The exact appearance is not yet known, but the purpose is known. They will be harder for people to forge, copy, or alter.
There will be special ink that seems to be green from some angles and gold from other angles. Some of the printing of designs will be tactile, that is, raised above the surface of the paper.
The biographical information and picture will be laser engraved on a polycarbonate page. The passport number itself will be laser-drilled in a conical shape through the entire document. Because of the cone shape, each page will have holes of a slightly different diameter. This should make it more difficult to substitute false pages.
So - interesting indeed. Will you be the first person to get this brand new passport?
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