UK passport set to drop with one major change

There is one significant change!

According to the government this is the first ‘wholly new design’ in five years.

And the aim of this new look is to bring about a ‘new era’ for those who travel.

What do you need to know about the new UK passport?

What you will notice as the first change on the new passports is that the Coat of Arms of the late Queen Elizabeth II on the front cover has now been replaced.

His Majesty King Charles III’s Coat of Arms is what the first wave of new passports will bear now.

And inside the passport you will see four nations of the UK in images that are natural landscapes protected by UNESCO.

Ben Nevis, the Lake District, Three Cliffs Bay and the Giant’s Causeway are the four places pictured.

Cutting-edge holographic and translucent features will make the passports easier to verify and even harder to forge or tamper with.

The Home Office has said that this is the ‘most secure British passport ever produced’, as a result of this anti-forgery technology.

‘The introduction of His Majesty’s Arms, iconic landscapes, and enhanced security features marks a new era in the history of the British passport’, according to Minister for Migration and Citizenship, Mike Tapp.

The new passports are going to be rolled out from Monday December 1.

Red passports are going to be completely out of circulation by the end of the decade, as the UK switched to dark blue from the burgundy cover post-Brexit, five years ago.

It must be said that you can still use your current passport, as it is still valid.

This new design will not impact how or where you can use your current one, but you will receive the new design when time comes for a renew.