You’ve got to hand it to Home Office in the UK or whoever it is that looks after passports – a two year warranty on the new passport chips isn’t exactly great going now is it, considering that most people hold a ten year passport? Think the government are going to start shelling out for new passports if the chips start to go faulty? Unlikely…

They are so new, no-one knows how long they will last, or how the scanners reading them will work

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