The government has created such a convoluted and confusing system that even those who are charged with managing it can’t keep up with it. This is a good indicator of just how useless the system is…serving no purpose and costing tax payers ‘beaucoup’ dollars.

I ccd you in my email to Ms. Anita and ICE

I emailed them September 19th about my lack of an identifier and my concern over an upcoming trip and never received a reply.

I’ve heard from several people that their passports were revoked shortly after reporting international travel.
They also have nowhere to designate that you are a registrant on the passport application OR to expressly request a “branded” passport. Many just want to get it over with and get a branded passport so they don’t make plans to travel and then have their passports revoked on them.
We are advising people to reach out to:
Anita Mody
Office of Legal Affairs
Passport Services
PassportRules@state.gov

If anyone does and has feedback, please share it.

That’s really interesting. I wonder if there is a difference on how this is handled. I put in the information for a pending international trip to the police department. It wasn’t too long after that I received a letter notifying me my passport was now expired and I had to re-submit for a new passport..

I suspect you may just be in a weird loophole at the moment and once they audit the passport the next time you submit for an international trip it will be flagged and you’ll get a similar letter.

I do wish you the best of luck if you don’t get such a letter.

That does not apply to every country and if we are limited to certain countries than so be it. I can work with that for now. My concern is having my passport without the identifier confiscated at the airport and losing money on my trip. I would rather just get the identifier and avoid that risk but there is no way of doing so until the State Department revokes my current one.

I agree with you. Just wanted to share what I was told. I was hoping more of us would call that number and make them aware of what is really happening and maybe they will change their policy.

As noted elsewhere in this thread, the main problem is not the inconvenience of getting a new passport with that identifier on it. The bigger worry is that as soon as officials in another country see it, they are going to assume that you are too dangerous to be permitted entry into their country.

Ask them for the authority on where it says it will be valid for 90 days. That’s completely incorrect.