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> What is your legally recognised name i.e. what's on your passport and official documents. 1) People can have multiple passports with different names. 2) a s
by Aaargh20318 3y ago
> What is your legally recognised name i.e. what's on your passport and official documents.
1) People can have multiple passports with different names.
2) a single passport can contain multiple names for the same person.
- bob778 3y agoWhat standard allows multiple aliases on one passport? AFAIK, the MRZ and chip don’t support alias fields?
- torstenvl 3y agoRussian passports contain a transliterated Latinized version, which also (usually?) omits the patronymic.
- jasonpeacock 3y agoAnd now we need a "Falsehoods developers believe about passports" doc...
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- Aaargh20318 3y agoICAO 9303, part 10, section 4.7.11, data group 11 allows for a list of other names.
- AndrewOMartin 3y agoYou're making the parent's point. Why bother trying to model the entire concept of a "name"? Just have something to display on the screen (get the user to type it in and they can't complain when you display it back) and something to put on legal documents.