What is a machine-readable passport?
A machine-readable passport has biographical data entered on the data page according to international specifications. The size of the passport and photograph, and arrangement of data fields, especially the two lines of printed OCR-B machine readable data, meet the standards of the International Civil Aviation Organization, Doc 9303, Part 1 Machine Readable Passports. OCR-B means the type is Optical Character Reader, style B. If there are questions about your passport after carefully reviewing this information, and any information, which may be available to you from your country, contact the passport issuing agency or authority in your country of citizenship. Left a data page example of a Machine-Readable Passport. Biometric Passport Requirements By October 26, 2005 Visa Waiver Program (VWP) countries will be required to produce passports with digital photographs. Valid passports issued by VWP countries before October 26, 2005, that do not contain a digital photograph will still be acce
A machine-readable passport has certain biographical data entered on the data page in accordance with standards set by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Doc 9303, Part 1 Machine-Readable Passports. In its current form, machine- readable passports generally have two lines of text that can be read using Optical Character Recognition (OCR). The strips of text contain the holder’s basic personal details, e.g. name, date of birth, nationality and the passport number.
