EPassport chip broken?

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I've had a UK passport with a broken RFID chip for over nine years, and I've gone in and out of the US something like 20 times during that period. I have not had any problems whatsoever.

I suspect it would be a problem if you wanted to use the automated entry kiosks in the US, but as long as you're queueing to see an immigration officer, they'll just use the machine-readable text in your passport.

As an aside, I also use the ePassport kiosks when returning to the UK, because I satisfy the requirements (right age, have ePassport; the regulations don't say it has to work). I used to go through the theatre of trying to use the kiosk and failing, but now I just go straight to the "I got rejected" queue at the ePassport line, and tell them the RFID's been broken since day one. I get some funny looks, but it doesn't half cut down on the queueing time.

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