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by bob778 1040 days ago
What standard allows multiple aliases on one passport?

AFAIK, the MRZ and chip don’t support alias fields?

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Russian passports contain a transliterated Latinized version, which also (usually?) omits the patronymic.
And now we need a "Falsehoods developers believe about passports" doc...
ICAO 9303, part 10, section 4.7.11, data group 11 allows for a list of other names.