UK unveils 'iconic,' blue post-Brexit passports, made by a French-Dutch company in Poland

CNN ^ | 24 Feb 2020 | Rob Picheta

[Cronos]

Delicious irony :)

[teeman8r]

good for them... i am still betting on exitPOL to be the next one out.

[SkyDancer]

I wonder how many will disappear?

[P.O.E.]

[null and void]

Blue?

[Yo-Yo]

The first dark blue passports, which ditch the burgundy covers used by EU member states, will be issued in early March,

Is that the old EU version?

[NativeSon]

I didn’t know Gallifrey was part of Great Britain.

[Cronos]

why would they disappear??

[SkyDancer]

People in the printing plant may steal some blank passports to sell on the black market.

[CIB-173RDABN]

People in the printing plant may steal some blank passports to sell on the black market.
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Don’t know about the rest of the world but US passports have bar codes that provide information. Someone may be able to steal or make a fake passport but they would not be able to enter the US with one.

I would assume the UK passports would have something similar for security.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-readable_passport

[sheana]

In September we went to Scotland and Amsterdam. They both use the digital passport scanners just like we do. I’m sure most of the countries that are not third world hellholes do the same.

[null and void]

Hmmmm. I guess the British passport I remember seeing way back when was after the EU was formed?

[SkyDancer]

I don’t think it’d be used for entry into any country but used for ID only - there are people who know how to forge bar codes and stuff and also there’s a chip in the cover (which is why there are instructions not to bend the pp).

[Rebelbase]

exitPOL

???

[Don W]

When were you there? They got the burgundy passports in 1988.

[xp38]

Usually passports in that shade are diplomatic ones.

[teeman8r]

poland leaving EU... exitPOL

[null and void]

Ah! Thanks!

[xp38]

YW....I don’t think its a hard and fast rule just that I’ve seen a bunch like that.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

Nobody said that Brexit would lead to Britain not buying anything from abroad and dropping an imperial Chinese/shogan Japan bamboo curtain on buying foreign goods.