Some UK passports also have a chip. [0] I think they just hold the same information as is written in the passport, in which case it does little but to avoid th

Some UK passports also have a chip. [0] I think they just hold the same information as is written in the passport, in which case it does little but to avoid the need to use OCR for entering passport data into a computer system. (Well, ignoring that bad actors might find a way to read your passport's data at a distance.) [0] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/biometric-passports-and-passport-readers/biometric-passports-and-passport-readers https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/biometric-passpor...