Migration Assistant does not find My Passport

I have a new macbook Air that I used at work. I would like to have it synchronized with my personal macbook pro. If it is not possible to have them constantly synchronized, I would like at least to migrate to the macbook air the latest backup of my macbook pro that is in my time machine (my passport).
Migration Assistant does not recognize the time machine even if it is plugged in. How can I let migration assistant find it?
Thank you for any information you may provide me!

I'm having this exact problem myself. I click on the option in Migration Assistant that says I want to transfer data from an external source. After clicking "continue," it just hangs forever. I can see the external drive on my desktop. Any suggestions?

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