why US passport (and possibly others) mention which state or country passport holder was born in? Who needs that information?
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I work in immigration law. Most passports give the city of birth, and a couple give the country, some both. US passports are weird in giving the region of a country. (For foreign-born people, they list the country.)
Most of the documents I have to fill in require the city of birth. Having it on the passport is very convenient for me.
Most passports list the holder’s place of birth. The only passport I can think of that doesn’t is the Hong Kong passport, and it took a lawsuit to get them to stop in the 2000s. An HK citizen born in Pakistan kept facing discrimination and harassment at western airports because of his place of birth so he sued the government, and a judge ordered that HK passports could no longer have the holder’s place of birth on them.
While we’re on the subject when immigration forms ask for “nationality” how do you express it? As an Australian, I always wrote that but changed to “Australia” recently as people from New Zealand don’t write “New Zealandian” or whatever. Do people from the US write American or United States?
Just wondering, not sure it matters.
It is helpful when you are an immigrant. I am an immigrant to the UK, I was born in Canada, but I now live and travel on a UK passport. Having my country and city of birth being Canadian helps clear up the confusion when re-entering the UK, on a British passport having a Canadian accent 🙂
I have a totally blank passport here for reference. This is just a for show passport not a real passport.
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This is supposed to be personally identifying to just one person when the parameters are specified what use is using.
I went back to the UK using my US passport and therefore the entry point for foreigners. The immigration and customs officer made a point of saying “welcome home”with a tiny smirk … Since my birthplace is in a US passport. I am sure that’s the real purpose 😊
disambiguation information. in early times you had one name, ie john then they added paulson, ie son of paul, or baker, or carpenter, the city/state on your passport helps disambiguate two similar names.
the wikipedia has a disambiguation type of landing page, an example:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_(disambiguation)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_(disambiguation))
To add to what everyone else is saying, some people become naturalized citizens who were born in other countries. They don’t get a special different kind of passport, but that field allows them to specify they were born in a different country so it doesn’t raise any eyebrows that they have a US passport but a foreign accent.
If X country contacts the US and says ‘We have arrested John Smith’, your birth state makes it infinitely easier to track down which John Smith we’re talking about
There are some countries where you can essentially “buy” citizenship with an investment. Country A may allow Country B visa-free entry, but only if they are born there. I have heard of countries denying entry to, say someone born in Iraq, who bought citizenship in a Caribbean island nation, even if they normally allow those citizens entry.
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