What a $130 passport is
A booklet with a cover in your chosen country's colour and foil, sewn or glued binding to spec, a polycarbonate data page printed with your details, the correct page count for that issuing country, and a machine-readable zone at the foot of the data page formatted to ICAO 9303 line widths and check digits.
Production is 4–5 business days. That is longer than an ID because the data page cures before the booklet is bound. Dispatch photos and tracking arrive on ship day.
The limits table — read this before ordering
Every vendor sells a passport as if it were a passport. Here is exactly what ours does and does not do.
| Thing | Does it work? |
|---|---|
| Looks right in the hand | Yes. Cover, foil, binding, page count. |
| Data page reads visually | Yes. Guilloche, ghost image, MRZ. |
| MRZ parses in a checker app | Yes. Check digits are computed, not typed. |
| Answers an RFID reader | Only with the +$45 inlay. Base booklet has no chip. |
| Crosses a border desk unquestioned | Not reliably. A border officer queries a database, and the number is not a live record. |
| Boards a domestic flight | Usually, as photo ID. A Real ID is the safer card for that. |
| Passes a bank KYC upload | Often, because KYC is a document scan, not a database hit. Depends on the bank. |
| Gets you a visa stamp | No. Stamps are wet-ink and issued in person. |
Countries
US, UK, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and the EU bloc. Each has its own cover colour, foil, page count and page ornament set. Say the country in the DM and you get the correct blank — not a generic navy booklet with your flag on it.
If you need the passport to match a card, order both in the same DM so the name spelling, DOB format and address convention line up. Mismatched detail between two documents is the second most common giveaway after a wrong expiry year.
What to send in the DM
- Country and, if applicable, the issuing office or place of birth you want printed
- Full name exactly as it should appear, including middle names
- Date of birth and place of birth
- Sex marker as that country prints it
- A straight-on photo, plain background, no hat, no filter
- Issue and expiry years, or let us set them from that country's validity rule
Full etiquette and photo spec is in the ordering guide. Send all six lines in one message and the proof comes back in the same reply as the quote.
Order flow
- DM @donjuanjodyy with the six lines above.
- Firm quote and data page proof in under 30 minutes. Check the MRZ spelling against the printed name — they must match character for character.
- Pay 50%. Binding starts the same working day.
- Dispatch photos plus tracking on ship day.
- Pay the balance, then 2–4 business days in the US or 4–6 to Europe.
Reprints
Free inside 14 days for a misprint, a binding fault, a delaminating data page, or an MRZ that will not parse. Free reprint does not cover a wrong DOB you supplied or a country swap after binding.
Reviews
"Used it for a UK bank's online ID upload. Went through first try. The MRZ detail is what sold me and it was clean."
"Booklet quality is genuinely good. Take the chip if you want to be able to show a reader — base one is print only, which they told me plainly."
Questions
Do you print stamps?
No. Wet-ink stamps are a separate service and only make sense if you know which borders you want in the book.
Can the name have an accent?
Yes where the country prints one. Send it in the DM exactly as you want it.
Is a passport enough on its own?
For appearance and form-filling, yes. For a stack of KYC checks, add the utility bill — proof of address is what most forms actually want next.