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The passport number will also be laser cut as perforated holes that get progressively smaller through pages—just one of several components of the "Next Generation" passport, including artwork upgrade, new security features such as a watermark, "tactile features," and more "optically variable" inks. [35]
The fixed format allows specification of document type, name, document number, nationality, date of birth, sex, and document expiration date. All these fields are required on a passport. There is room for optional, often country-dependent, supplementary information. There are also two sizes of machine-readable visas similarly defined.
The passport contains further 32 pages suitable for visas and border stamps. They feature a range of light colours, predominantly red, green, yellow and blue, and have the Serbian lesser coat of arms in the center. They are perforated with the passport's serial number on the bottom, and have watermarks with page numbers.
Passport numbers vary with each type of passport. Brown passports have a letter followed by six numbers, while green passports issued before 2005 have two letters followed by six numbers. Passports issued after 2005 (including machine-readable and biometric passports issued prior to August 15, 2016) have two letters followed by seven numbers.
State Department expands passport phone center hours, and U.S. senator calls for more hiring amid flood of applications Rob Wile Updated July 18, 2023 at 4:24 PM
The department processed 45 million passport claims in the 2023 fiscal year, as the number of Americans who have a passport grew from 5% in 1990 to more than 48% in 2024.