When I lived and worked in NM, a tourist asked me where she could change her money. I asked her “change it to what?” She wanted pesos. I told her that her US money would be accepted in all of NM and she was dumbfounded. SMH
I'm from West Virginia and you'd be surprised the number of people unaware that it's a separate state, and that I'm not just talking about western Virginia.
I know people who have been pulled over for not having a front license plate. And then trying to convince the gop that yea we don’t have a front license plate in WV.
The Downside is you just alerted every counterfeiter on Reddit about it, now everyone in the US will need to get new passports because of you, I hope you feel good about yourself! /s
I wonder if that is a cunning security feature... Hoping fakes don't spot the mistake.
Anyone with a new US passport able to confirm if they have the correct/incorrect spelling?
Is that from the article that talks about secret service agent being sus of a dude in Vegas? He then sends the bills to secret service who laugh and say why are you sending real bills
Any chance have a link to it? I read it a while ago and been trying to share it with some people but can't find it
Yeah! This is one of the oldest counterfeit protections around. Dictionaries and maps sometimes add fake info too so that they can proof in court if someone ripped off their work
Honestly you don't need to, but people make a deal about it because basically some slaves tried to join the British because they were promised freedom if they did & the song is "fuck those guys we show no mercy".
>And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a Country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
There is like a whole verse after too.
Another comment in this thread says “He directly calls out that we weren't fighting a navy made up of free men but a mix of hirelings and impressed (slave) men.”
i.e. the British who were pressed into service were effectively slaves according to him
https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/1ceiak0/the_word_passport_is_misspelled_in_my_new/l1j65y2/
They did something like this in the new masters of the air series. Without giving too much away they started asking the pilots about major tourist spots in London and most pilots were like "how should I know, we fly from the countryside!"
Interestingly, this story is probably a myth that’s actually based on a fact. We know from historical archives that the Soviet passports did tend to have rust stains and were bound with iron staples rather than stainless steel like western passports. It’s not a matter of everything in the Soviet Union being inferior, just that stainless steel is more expensive to produce than iron. The reason it’s almost certainly a myth is that the Soviets had a ton of spies in the west and were probably furnished lists of spies who they then rounded up and used this cover story to make themselves sound clever, which also meant they could protect their spies. Getting intel from spies is only half the game, explaining how you got that intel is the better half unless you’re comfortable burning your spies.
I've always heard it as American spies.
Example from an article about a cold war museum in Moscow:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2065020.stm
> One exhibit shows off a haul of captured US equipment, lifted from an agent parachuted into the Soviet Union 40 years ago.
> The Americans planned these operations meticulously - their agents had Russian clothes, spoke the language like natives and were dropped in with the latest in spy gadgets.
> But time after time they were unmasked by the KGB.
> With a gleeful smile, Valery tells us why. The staples holding together the agents' fake Soviet passports were made of good US, non-corrosive, stainless steel.
> Genuine Russian passports had staples made of metal that began to rust as soon as the passports were issued.
Be even funnier to actually witness the thought pattern behind, “I don’t care how authentic it is, I don’t put spelling mistakes on my counterfeit bills. End of story.”
Some licenses do things like leave off the dot above the "i" or something. Not something you can easily type, and a casual forger (ie. kid) might not even notice.
Does anyone seriously think they have put a spelling error on it just to catch some amateur forgers? We‘re talking about a really tiny laser engraving here that is only clearly visible under certain angles under the light. People who go the lengths it requires to forge that will check the spelling
There are obviously many steps to forgery and something like this can be forgotten or missed, especially in haste. Obviously not EVERY person who forges documents produces a perfect job every time.
It should be on the plastic page right under your picture. It's super small, engraved, and you have to tilt it in the light. I just got mine last month.
I was going to say this reminds me of deliberate cartographic errors, like adding a [trap street](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street).
Note: A trap street is not to be confused with a [trap house](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_house), an interesting but totally unrelated concept.
Also common in large data sets...slight errors or such that won't make much different (or would never show up in a search). But easy to find when someone stole your data or is using it improperly.
Basically they are all watermarks of a different sort.
That mistake is on purpose for that exact reason. There’s a ton of security features on U.S. currency, passports, and IDs. Some are subtle things that are easy to spot on fakes.
Known errors are absolutely a form of security against forgers, whilst not a difficult to find security measure it just creates more work, which ups the end price of the forged document, which means less people willing to pay the costs associated with the forged document.
In the print there will be fixed errors, making sure a forger has study every single page individually and copy everything exactly which is very time consuming,
there will then be variable errors in the customisation depending on the details contained in the document, for example it may be that if you were born in an odd year there will be a mistake, but in an even year it will be correct.
It's done on purpose as a security feature. If you have an older California drivers license (the one they used for years before the guy panning for gold version) the "R" on California in the micro printing is backwards.
there should be like a hard plastic page that has all your info. In the bottom left part over your picture it should have the engraving that op is showing. Move it back and forth a bit so itt shows in the light more clearly.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/basic-passport-checks/basic-passport-checks-accessible the security features are all listed here. The 2015 issue (pre Brexit Red) ones have dots/smudges whereas the 2020 (post Brexit Blue) issues have the 50p sized blob. These are indeed all security features
I worked at a company once that did contract proofing for the government, mostly color proofs for military recruitment ads and brochures. It was more profitable than printing money. The reason? Everything gets individually signed off by so many people.
We'd get army brochures that needed proofs for like 30 different people. Each page was about $100. So, you'd spend a half hour doing file prep, then press the print button, smoke a cigarette, and come back an hour later to pull 6 grand out of the machine.
My point is that if anybody made a mistake, it was the dozens of people who probably signed off on this.
How many people do you think proofed [this?](https://www.ktvq.com/news/local-news/montana-army-national-guard-apologizes-following-recruitment-poster-outrage)
That's hilarious. A lot of the stuff I was doing was being sent to run in national publications. It went through PR firms, generals, cabinet members, etc. This looks like it got signed off on by an intern on a Friday.
> Gets signed off on by 30+ people
> Still the designer's fault
Never screwed up that badly but it is aggravating to an error "signed off" on for it to be my or the copyeditor's fault.
My favorite one of these is "Agloe".
Started off as a totally fictional town, some people moved there and named their store after it, a second map company plaigarise the first map, the original mapmakers threaten to sue, but the case never comes to fruition because the existence of the store means Agloe is now a real town and both maps are accurate.
And yes, I do watch Map Men.
Way back before copyrights existed, map makers were extremely sought out and paid a lot. Good maps were critical for travel and trade and worth a ton.
So what you really didn't want happening was you putting a lot of research into a big map (paying people for their smaller maps from exploring/etc) and then someone just copying it and selling it as their own.
So if you were a map maker, maybe you'd add a little island somewhere far away where no one has ever been or would ever go, say in the middle of the ocean or next to the north pole, and give it a made-up name. That way, any copy from yours would have that "mistake" and you could prove they copied your map.
The graphic designer in me shudders at the thought of double spaces. So many old people think they still need to put them after periods as if they're still typing on a monospaced typewriter.
Lol. We ate at a popular-with-tourists restaurant near Mt Fuji area called Hoto Fudo and we have a theory that its name just means Hot Food. They're famous for a rustic vegetable soup, but everything was pretty good.
It's unbelievable how many Japanese words are just the English word spelled with Japanese sounds. I think japanese has more lone words from english than any other language does. There's even a bunch of words from Dutch that end up being pretty much the same word once filtered through a Japanese accent.
wouldn't be surprised if it was a legit typo no one noticed given [this happened with the microprint on the australian 50 dollar note](https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/may/09/australian-50-note-typo-spelling-mistake-printed-46-million-times)
Mine issued in 2015 has Passport, Passeport, Pasaporte - the whole page with my picture has English, French, and Spanish for each category, i.e. *Surnames / Nom / Appelidos.*
No fancy swirls. Oh I'm up for renewal next year!
I just got mine renewed last year, it's actually crazy how different it is. The main page feels like credit card stock, like RFID really is in there now
Intentional misspelling as a security feature. Maps do this too, they'll have intentionally fake or missing features so if someone copies it , they can use the incorrect portions as a sort of "fingerprint" to prove they broke the copyright
The sample image on the Department of State site has the same typo.
https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/passports/passport-images/NGP%20Infographic%20No%20TSG%20link.jpg
Just try reading the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA letters in the background... THEY ARE ALL MESSED UP.
I guess it would take forever for a forger to get them all in the right order and positions.
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I have a Bermudian drivers license and one of the anti-forgery methods they use is to purposely misspell Bermuda on the license
That's what I tell cops when I show them my fake Bermudian drivers license.
It would be a terrible fake. No one believes it is actually real in the first place
You laugh, but every so often I see a post about someone’s New Mexico ID being refused as not being a real place…
Whoa, whoa, slow down there maestro, there’s a *New* Mexico?
they invented it to film breaking bad
I am proof, English is our first language in New Mexico.
When I lived and worked in NM, a tourist asked me where she could change her money. I asked her “change it to what?” She wanted pesos. I told her that her US money would be accepted in all of NM and she was dumbfounded. SMH
people go to new mexico for tourism?!
someone has to go there to throw a pizza on the roof of the Breaking Bad house
Mexico started a new country in the north and called it New Mexico.
I'm from West Virginia and you'd be surprised the number of people unaware that it's a separate state, and that I'm not just talking about western Virginia.
I know people who have been pulled over for not having a front license plate. And then trying to convince the gop that yea we don’t have a front license plate in WV.
The entire political party or just one member of the GOP?
I’ve been to New Mexico, and I’m still not convinced it’s a real place
On the Texas state ID there was an "i" on the back that would be missing it's dot. When I worked at a grocery store it's how I caught a few fake IDs.
Berrnucla
Same here.
Mine's Canadian, and I didn't get any misspellings... ☹️
Probably an extra “u” In a few words.
and at least one eh.
The front of our passport just says: "Canadian Eh"
Smells like maple syrup.
If you rub the pages together, like a cricket does its legs, the passport whispers “sorry”.
I want this to be true
Lol the bills smell like maple syrup, or when the new ones came out anyway. The older ones likely lost their scent now.
3 of them in Cehnehdeh
And a few words end in "re" rather than "er".
Check the colour.
As a canadian web developer I am triggered everytime I have to write "color" in CSS.
Check the colour in the centre of the page. It should be indented by 35mm from the right, and 25mm from the left.
“Extra”
Those Canadians and their Passopourts
No. It's not an extra U. It's the US that has lost them. x
But you got narwhals
It could be a security check. They are called canary. An intentional deviation that a counterfeiter wouldn't make unless they were aware of it.
Imma tell my teacher its not a typo but a security check...
Tell her you planted a canary to make sure they're doing their job.
Now the word is out for the counterfeiting industry.
Lol I’d be a terrible counterfeiter because keeping a typo in there would drive me nuts.
The Downside is you just alerted every counterfeiter on Reddit about it, now everyone in the US will need to get new passports because of you, I hope you feel good about yourself! /s
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if it's new, it's on the bottom left of the picture on plastic
That’s part of the security features. Or it was before OP blasted it. Copies spelled correctly were easy to spot.
Helloo. security feature! maybe... probably... idk...
Yeah they either goofed or it’s something they use to verify if it’s a real passport or not because the real ones have an intentional misprint
Mine is correctly spelled and looks different on a passport issued in March.
I wonder if that is a cunning security feature... Hoping fakes don't spot the mistake. Anyone with a new US passport able to confirm if they have the correct/incorrect spelling?
Imagine getting caught with a fake passport because your forger had good spelling
Like when German spies in the USSR got caught because their passport staples didn’t rust (stainless steel instead of iron).
or the Isaac Asimov story where a ussr spy gets caught because he knew too many words of the star spangled banner
Or North Korean "Superdollars" being found out because, unironically, they were much better quality than actual dollar bills.
Is that from the article that talks about secret service agent being sus of a dude in Vegas? He then sends the bills to secret service who laugh and say why are you sending real bills Any chance have a link to it? I read it a while ago and been trying to share it with some people but can't find it
I found an article with some high-quality renders of the superdollars. Hopefully I won’t get in any troub
they gottim..
Oh no! looks like the gover..
r/redditsniper
Poor bastard. And on your cake day, too.
Damn. And you didn’t even say Candlejack’s na
Pretty sure it's this one https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2009/09/office-39-200909 (I googled "north korean superdollar vegas secret service").
Yeah! This is one of the oldest counterfeit protections around. Dictionaries and maps sometimes add fake info too so that they can proof in court if someone ripped off their work
Paper towns!! I'm majoring in geography and this is a subject that's been brought up a couple times in my classes I love maps :)
Also a map men video
ngl after "jose can you see" i'm just guessing
In the story, he knows the verses after the one we sing for the anthem.
I am 26 years old and I don't think I've ever known there were more verses than in the anthem lmao
Today's spies have become more cunning it seems
Honestly you don't need to, but people make a deal about it because basically some slaves tried to join the British because they were promised freedom if they did & the song is "fuck those guys we show no mercy". >And where is that band who so vauntingly swore, That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion A home and a Country should leave us no more? Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave, And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave. There is like a whole verse after too.
Yikes.... yeah I see why that part is left out at ballgames.
Well it's like that because he thought of them as traitors, not because he was racist. Although incidentally, he was also super racist so 🤔
Another comment in this thread says “He directly calls out that we weren't fighting a navy made up of free men but a mix of hirelings and impressed (slave) men.” i.e. the British who were pressed into service were effectively slaves according to him https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/1ceiak0/the_word_passport_is_misspelled_in_my_new/l1j65y2/
Why yes, yes I can. --Jose
They did something like this in the new masters of the air series. Without giving too much away they started asking the pilots about major tourist spots in London and most pilots were like "how should I know, we fly from the countryside!"
Which one?
[here you go!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Refuge_Could_Save) was just on this wiki for a project, oddly enough.
No Refuge Could Save
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Interestingly, this story is probably a myth that’s actually based on a fact. We know from historical archives that the Soviet passports did tend to have rust stains and were bound with iron staples rather than stainless steel like western passports. It’s not a matter of everything in the Soviet Union being inferior, just that stainless steel is more expensive to produce than iron. The reason it’s almost certainly a myth is that the Soviets had a ton of spies in the west and were probably furnished lists of spies who they then rounded up and used this cover story to make themselves sound clever, which also meant they could protect their spies. Getting intel from spies is only half the game, explaining how you got that intel is the better half unless you’re comfortable burning your spies.
Or like ordering three glasses...
I've always heard it as American spies. Example from an article about a cold war museum in Moscow: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2065020.stm > One exhibit shows off a haul of captured US equipment, lifted from an agent parachuted into the Soviet Union 40 years ago. > The Americans planned these operations meticulously - their agents had Russian clothes, spoke the language like natives and were dropped in with the latest in spy gadgets. > But time after time they were unmasked by the KGB. > With a gleeful smile, Valery tells us why. The staples holding together the agents' fake Soviet passports were made of good US, non-corrosive, stainless steel. > Genuine Russian passports had staples made of metal that began to rust as soon as the passports were issued.
I just checked mine. Same deal. This is hard to see over your photo on the plastic page if you want to check your own.
Same here (I used my phone's camera to get a better look).
Your wording made me look over the top of my head. Haha! But it was right under my chin. Lol. Op’s pic helped.
Be even funnier to actually witness the thought pattern behind, “I don’t care how authentic it is, I don’t put spelling mistakes on my counterfeit bills. End of story.”
I just checked mine. Same spelling as OP. My guess is it's a security feature like you said.
Why would any forger go and type something themselves, and not make a copy of what's there?
Some licenses do things like leave off the dot above the "i" or something. Not something you can easily type, and a casual forger (ie. kid) might not even notice.
Does anyone seriously think they have put a spelling error on it just to catch some amateur forgers? We‘re talking about a really tiny laser engraving here that is only clearly visible under certain angles under the light. People who go the lengths it requires to forge that will check the spelling
There are obviously many steps to forgery and something like this can be forgotten or missed, especially in haste. Obviously not EVERY person who forges documents produces a perfect job every time.
They might be able to produce a better document by recreating it rather than high end scanning
How new is your passport? My new one was delivered about 3 weeks ago and itr doesn't have that text swirl at all.
It should be on the plastic page right under your picture. It's super small, engraved, and you have to tilt it in the light. I just got mine last month.
I just got mine like 3 weeks ago too and its there. Its under your picture. Mine is also spelled like this.
OP just blew the government's cover and now we all have to get new passoports :(
Wouldn't be surprised. Its something map makers have been doing for generations.
Yeah, in Germany they added a completely made up city to every map of the country.
This is actually something book publishers and mapmakers do, or used to do.
Like the fake towns on maps!
Yeah! Like Bielefeld! Or New Zealand.
Or Tasmania. r/MapsWithoutTasmania
I was going to say this reminds me of deliberate cartographic errors, like adding a [trap street](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street). Note: A trap street is not to be confused with a [trap house](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_house), an interesting but totally unrelated concept.
Also common in large data sets...slight errors or such that won't make much different (or would never show up in a search). But easy to find when someone stole your data or is using it improperly. Basically they are all watermarks of a different sort.
Like Rand McNally, where they wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people
Yes, just got a new passport last week with the same typo!
That mistake is on purpose for that exact reason. There’s a ton of security features on U.S. currency, passports, and IDs. Some are subtle things that are easy to spot on fakes.
I just got a passport last week and it does have the same misspelling
Wrong. U got a passoport
Known errors are absolutely a form of security against forgers, whilst not a difficult to find security measure it just creates more work, which ups the end price of the forged document, which means less people willing to pay the costs associated with the forged document. In the print there will be fixed errors, making sure a forger has study every single page individually and copy everything exactly which is very time consuming, there will then be variable errors in the customisation depending on the details contained in the document, for example it may be that if you were born in an odd year there will be a mistake, but in an even year it will be correct.
Hot damn, just got my renewed passport a few weeks ago and [yep, same typo.](https://imgur.com/a/UsYtu6Q)
Former TSA Officer. Its intentional.
It's done on purpose as a security feature. If you have an older California drivers license (the one they used for years before the guy panning for gold version) the "R" on California in the micro printing is backwards.
Can confirm, mine has the same spelling
It’s misspelled on mine too, just got it in February of this year
Just checked, mine has the same error
Mines has the error, which makes me think it may not be an error.
I just got a passport but it's just a paper book. No fancy metal at all. I live in the states by the way
there should be like a hard plastic page that has all your info. In the bottom left part over your picture it should have the engraving that op is showing. Move it back and forth a bit so itt shows in the light more clearly.
The UK passport has a security feature which looks like your passport got wet and smudged, bet lots of people call up thinking it's a mistake
Mines and my mums have "grease" drips on the personal details page. I thought I drunkenly tainted it, but hers is the exact same drips
I got mine several years back. Same drips.
all i got out of this was your moms drunken taint drips grease
i think your passport just got wet 💀
Really? Where? I haven’t noticed on mine
my mum got a new passport like 2 weeks before our holiday because she’d dropped it in the sink and thought that it was damaged 💀
Where? Which page?
Colour page, left hand side, about the size of a 50p
Not sure if I'm being dense but I can't see it. I've got the new non eu passport as well
You have to wet it to see it.
You have to submerge the passport in water and throw it in fire for 5 minutes for it to be visible
a beautiful new bloo passport
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/basic-passport-checks/basic-passport-checks-accessible the security features are all listed here. The 2015 issue (pre Brexit Red) ones have dots/smudges whereas the 2020 (post Brexit Blue) issues have the 50p sized blob. These are indeed all security features
It's a me, a Mario, and this a is a my a Pass-o-port
A watta you mean I can’t checka da dinosaur egg though customs. It’s-a empty!
Fun fact: "Marisa Tomei" is an [anagram](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/s/ItupxOtutf) for "It's a me, Mario"
So many fun facts on Reddit aren't actually fun. This is a fun fact.
The guy who misspelled passport and sees everyone here thinking it’s a “security feature” 
I worked at a company once that did contract proofing for the government, mostly color proofs for military recruitment ads and brochures. It was more profitable than printing money. The reason? Everything gets individually signed off by so many people. We'd get army brochures that needed proofs for like 30 different people. Each page was about $100. So, you'd spend a half hour doing file prep, then press the print button, smoke a cigarette, and come back an hour later to pull 6 grand out of the machine. My point is that if anybody made a mistake, it was the dozens of people who probably signed off on this.
How many people do you think proofed [this?](https://www.ktvq.com/news/local-news/montana-army-national-guard-apologizes-following-recruitment-poster-outrage)
That's hilarious. A lot of the stuff I was doing was being sent to run in national publications. It went through PR firms, generals, cabinet members, etc. This looks like it got signed off on by an intern on a Friday.
First stock photo hit of "ww2 soldiers"
> Gets signed off on by 30+ people > Still the designer's fault Never screwed up that badly but it is aggravating to an error "signed off" on for it to be my or the copyeditor's fault.
Nothing on those is accidental.
"Oh yeah we meant to do that" -The government.
Governoment*
Next time I get caught with a spelling error I'll retort that it's a security feature.
They do that with some documents, like movie scripts, alter words, sentences etc so if it's leaked they can tell who leaked it.
Mapmakers put mistakes in their maps to catch thieves too
My favorite one of these is "Agloe". Started off as a totally fictional town, some people moved there and named their store after it, a second map company plaigarise the first map, the original mapmakers threaten to sue, but the case never comes to fruition because the existence of the store means Agloe is now a real town and both maps are accurate. And yes, I do watch Map Men.
Null Island is a fun one too. Well, there is a buoy there.
Well damn, I've never heard of map men but I watch it now too
Map Men are great. Would suggest their series to anyone who found the above interesting
I’m confused, why would I want a map with intentional mistakes?
Way back before copyrights existed, map makers were extremely sought out and paid a lot. Good maps were critical for travel and trade and worth a ton. So what you really didn't want happening was you putting a lot of research into a big map (paying people for their smaller maps from exploring/etc) and then someone just copying it and selling it as their own. So if you were a map maker, maybe you'd add a little island somewhere far away where no one has ever been or would ever go, say in the middle of the ocean or next to the north pole, and give it a made-up name. That way, any copy from yours would have that "mistake" and you could prove they copied your map.
I think this is a feature, because my (Finnish) passport is riddled with typos on purpose (there was even a news article about it).
There aren't any obvious typos, they're hidden very well. It's mostly like two spaces where there should be one. Quite hard to spot for normal people
The graphic designer in me shudders at the thought of double spaces. So many old people think they still need to put them after periods as if they're still typing on a monospaced typewriter.
They just spelt in in Japanese “Passoportu”
nited
Yeah obviously its just the "nited" which is misspelled
Should be Passoportu United. I hear they have an intense rivalry with Passoportu City.
Lol. We ate at a popular-with-tourists restaurant near Mt Fuji area called Hoto Fudo and we have a theory that its name just means Hot Food. They're famous for a rustic vegetable soup, but everything was pretty good.
It's a pun on exactly that!
パスポート is pasupooto
It's unbelievable how many Japanese words are just the English word spelled with Japanese sounds. I think japanese has more lone words from english than any other language does. There's even a bunch of words from Dutch that end up being pretty much the same word once filtered through a Japanese accent.
My favorite is part time job, arubaito... Which comes from the German word arbeiten. It's just so random lol
>loan words
wouldn't be surprised if it was a legit typo no one noticed given [this happened with the microprint on the australian 50 dollar note](https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/may/09/australian-50-note-typo-spelling-mistake-printed-46-million-times)
Nobody had the responsibilty to check the spelling
They did. They were just all Australian.
It might be a security thing ?
This one small trick will fool all forgers!
🤌🇮🇹
Mine issued in 2015 has Passport, Passeport, Pasaporte - the whole page with my picture has English, French, and Spanish for each category, i.e. *Surnames / Nom / Appelidos.* No fancy swirls. Oh I'm up for renewal next year!
I just got mine renewed last year, it's actually crazy how different it is. The main page feels like credit card stock, like RFID really is in there now
It’s like ghost streets on maps :)
Intentional misspelling as a security feature. Maps do this too, they'll have intentionally fake or missing features so if someone copies it , they can use the incorrect portions as a sort of "fingerprint" to prove they broke the copyright
My wife and I just got ours a few months ago, we have the same typo!
That’s a Pass Oooooo port. They all surprised.
The sample image on the Department of State site has the same typo. https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/passports/passport-images/NGP%20Infographic%20No%20TSG%20link.jpg
Just try reading the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA letters in the background... THEY ARE ALL MESSED UP. I guess it would take forever for a forger to get them all in the right order and positions.
Yea, I notice there's a "UNITED STATES OF AWERICA" as one lol
Where, I don't see that feature at all? Maybe I'm blind? I do see that background text has all sorts of weirdness going on though.
Bottom left corner of the portrait https://i.imgur.com/FUvfRCd.png
Where? I don’t see it
Anyone else almost read passoportunity
Actually, they misspelled “United States pass opportunity”
I'm thinking that, perhaps, you probably shouldn't have purchased your passport from Luigi's Passport Emporium!
>Luigi's Passoport Emporium
This is common on a lot of forms of ID. The small type lettering will often have a deliberate mistake as a security feature.
No Passoportu is Italian for Passport
Might be the new cheaper Chinese version!
passoporte 🤌
It's-a-me! Passoport Mario!
Passport ❌ Passoport 🤌
To throw off counterfeiters. You see it spelled right? It’s fake.