[Jhsto]

I have this weird thing about a birthday -- for some reason, I was assigned a different birth date in NHS records in the UK compared to the one I have in my native Finland. I want to believe it has something to do with electronic systems transacting with different countries' systems (I noticed this difference soon after I exchanged my driver license) -- and I would have indeed born on a different day if it'd been the UK. But, I would assume this to be such a well-known issue with people who migrate, that it must just been just a typo. Doesn't stop me from believing though.

[nicbou]

My German residence permit cut 10 centimeters off my height. Typos on the address registration form (which is printed by the resident, then typed back into a computer by a civil servant) frequently has typos too.

[TacticalCoder]

There are plenty of older Polish people living in countries like Belgium who are born in a city that's can be translated to "Blue".

How comes? For the color of the eyes used to be present on Polish ID cards / official documents (maybe still is, dunno).

And a great many people in non-polish speaking countries read the wrong line for "place of birth".

[netsharc]

Did they really take the time of birth into consideration? I suppose that could be an issue with poorly made electronic data exchange, passing along the time and timezone for a field which should be just for the date.